In cases where a disaster has occurred or is imminent, when the mayor of a municipality finds it particularly necessary for preventing danger to people's lives or bodies, the mayor may establish a restricted area and restrict or prohibit any persons other than those engaged in emergency disaster control measures from entering that area, or may order them to leave that area.
災害が発生し、又はまさに発生しようとしている場合において、人の生命又は身体に対する危険を防止するため特に必要があると認めるときは、市町村長は、警戒区域を設定し、災害応急対策に従事する者以外の者に対して当該区域への立入りを制限し、若しくは禁止し、又は当該区域からの退去を命ずることができる。
In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the mayor of a municipality or officials of the municipality exercising the authority of the mayor prescribed in the same paragraph delegated to them are not on the site, or if a request is made by them, police or coast guard officers may exercise the authority of the mayor prescribed in the same paragraph. In this case, when the police or coast guard officers have exercised the authority of the mayor of a municipality prescribed in the same paragraph, they must immediately notify the mayor of a municipality to that effect.
Provided that neither the mayor of a municipality nor anyone able to exercise the authority of the mayor of a municipality prescribed in paragraph (1) above is present, the provisions of paragraph (1) above apply mutatis mutandis to the performance of the duties of Self-Defense Force personnel of units that are prescribed in Article 8 of the Self-Defense Forces Act (Act No. 165 of 1954) and dispatched pursuant to the provisions of Article 83, paragraph (2) of the same Act (hereinafter referred to as "SDF personnel of units under disaster relief operation"). In this case, when SDF personnel of units under disaster relief operation have taken measures prescribed in the provisions of paragraph (1) above, they must immediately notify the mayor of a municipality to that effect.
The provisions of Article 61-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the case when an attempt is made to establish a restricted area pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1).
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「災害」
Damage caused by a storm, tornado, heavy rain or snow, flood, slope failure, debris flow, storm surge, earthquake, tsunami, soil liquefaction, volcanic eruption, landslide or other abnormal natural phenomenon, or by a large fire or explosion or another cause that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as causing damage on a similar scale.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
SDF personnel of units under disaster relief operation
「災害派遣を命ぜられた部隊等の自衛官」
Members of the Self-Defense Forces in units or other formations under Article 8 of the Self-Defense Forces Act that have been ordered to deploy under Article 83, paragraph (2) of that Act.
Short name set inArticle 63, paragraph (3)