Article 66Special Provisions for Disposition for Flotsam in Time of a Disaster
第六十六条（災害時における漂流物等の処理の特例）
In cases where a disaster has occurred, when the chief of a police station and others have removed flotsam or submerged goods prescribed in Article 29, paragraph (1) of the Sea Casualties Rescue Act (Act No. 95 of 1899), they may keep the objects in custody, notwithstanding the provisions of the same paragraph.
The provisions of Chapter II of the Sea Casualties Rescue Act apply mutatis mutandis to cases in which the chief of a police station and others have taken into custody flotsam or submerged goods pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
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disastermachine translation
「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
chief of a police station and others
「警察署長等」
In Article 59, paragraph (2) and Articles 64 and 66, the chief of a police station, or the head of an office of a regional coast guard headquarters that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
Short name set inArticle 59, paragraph (2)· applies only in this paragraph and in Articles 64 and 66