A municipality must maintain a fixed assets tax ledger in order to make clear the status of fixed assets and the price of fixed assets that is the tax base for fixed assets tax.
市町村は、固定資産の状況及び固定資産税の課税標準である固定資産の価格を明らかにするため、固定資産課税台帳を備えなければならない。
A municipality may, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, maintain all or part of the fixed assets tax ledger referred to in the preceding paragraph by maintaining an electronic or magnetic record (meaning a record made in electronic form, magnetic form or any other form that cannot be perceived by the human senses, which is used for information processing by a computer; the same applies hereinafter in this Section).
市町村は、総務省令で定めるところにより、前項の固定資産課税台帳の全部又は一部の備付けを電磁的記録（電子的方式、磁気的方式その他の人の知覚によつては認識することができない方式で作られる記録であつて、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるものをいう。以下本節において同じ。）の備付けをもつて行うことができる。
In addition to the fixed assets tax ledger referred to in paragraph (1), a municipality must, as provided by the Municipal Ordinance of that municipality, maintain and progressively compile cadastral maps, land use maps, soil classification maps, house sketch maps, fixed assets sale and purchase record books and other materials necessary for the valuation of fixed assets.
市町村は、第一項の固定資産課税台帳のほか、当該市町村の条例の定めるところによつて、地籍図、土地使用図、土壌分類図、家屋見取図、固定資産売買記録簿その他固定資産の評価に関して必要な資料を備えて逐次これを整えなければならない。
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pricemachine translation
「価格」
For land or a building (家屋), its price on the assessment date (賦課期日) of the base year (基準年度) registered in the land or building tax ledgers (土地課税台帳等, 家屋課税台帳等), or the price set by comparison with it under the provisos and paragraphs of Article 349 that Article 349-3, paragraph 9 lists; for depreciable assets (償却資産), its price on the assessment date registered in the depreciable assets tax ledger (償却資産課税台帳).
Defined inArticle 349-3, paragraph (9)
electronic or magnetic recordmachine translation
「電磁的記録」
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive directly, for use in computer processing.
Defined inArticle 380, paragraph (2)· applies only in this provision
Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance
条例
A rule a local government makes for itself: a prefecture (都道府県), a city, town or village (市町村), or one of Tokyo's special wards (特別区) (Local Autonomy Act, Articles 1-3, 281 and 283). Its assembly (議会), whose members the residents elect, passes it (Articles 89 and 96, paragraph (1), item (i)), and its head — the governor or the mayor (Article 139) — promulgates it, that is, makes it public so that it can take effect (Article 16). The Constitution lets local governments make them within the limits of Acts (Constitution, Article 94), and one may not go against the national laws and regulations (法令), such as Acts, Cabinet Orders (政令) and Ministerial Orders (省令) (Local Autonomy Act, Article 14, paragraph (1)). Unless national laws and regulations provide otherwise, a local government can impose a duty or restrict a right only by one of these (Article 14, paragraph (2)), and it may write into one penalties for breaking it, within limits the Local Autonomy Act sets (Article 14, paragraph (3)). It is made for that local government's own affairs (Article 2, paragraph (2) and Article 14, paragraph (1)), so the same matter can be handled differently from one place to the next. It is a local rule, not a national one: an "ordinance" in the name of a national rule, such as an Ordinance for Enforcement of an Act, is usually a Ministerial Order (省令) or another national instrument.
Written by AI using Constitution, Art. 94 and Local Autonomy Act, Arts. 1-3, 2, 14, 16, 89, 96, 139, 281, 283 as a reference.