国民健康保険を行う市町村(一部事務組合又は広域連合を設けて国民健康保険を行う場合には、当該一部事務組合又は広域連合に加入している市町村)は、当該市町村の国民健康保険に関する特別会計において負担する次に掲げる費用に充てるため、国民健康保険の被保険者(以下この節において「被保険者」という。)である世帯主(当該市町村の区域内に住所を有する世帯主に限る。)に対し、国民健康保険税を課することができる。
A municipality that carries out National Health Insurance (where National Health Insurance is carried out through the establishment of a partial-affairs association or wide-area union, the municipalities that have joined that partial-affairs association or wide-area union) may impose national health insurance tax on a householder who is an insured person under National Health Insurance (hereinafter in this Section referred to as an "insured person") (limited to a householder who has a domicile within the area of that municipality), in order to defray the following expenses borne by the special account for National Health Insurance of that municipality.