A municipality may, when it finds it impossible or inappropriate to follow under the provisions of the preceding two Articles, entrust the educational affairs in full or in part related to school-aged children to other municipalities or municipal partnerships, in place of establishing elementary schools or compulsory education schools.
In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the term "prefectural governor" in Article 252-2-2, paragraph (2) of the Local Autonomy Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the Article 252-14, paragraph (3) of that Act, is to be replaced with "prefectural governor and prefectural board of education".
前項の場合においては、地方自治法第二百五十二条の十四第三項において準用する同法第二百五十二条の二の二第二項中「都道府県知事」とあるのは、「都道府県知事及び都道府県の教育委員会」と読み替えるものとする。