A police official who has found an abandoned child or has received a report that an abandoned child was found must inform the mayor of a municipality to that effect within 24 hours.
棄児を発見した者又は棄児発見の申告を受けた警察官は、二十四時間以内にその旨を市町村長に申し出なければならない。
When having received information as set forth in the preceding paragraph, the mayor of a municipality must give a name to the child and the kana characters indicating the pronunciation of the name, and designate their registered domicile, and must enter in a record any belongings of that child, the place, the date and time, and other circumstances concerning how the child was found, the kana characters indicating the pronunciation of their name, their gender, the presumed date of birth, and the registered domicile. The record in question is deemed to be a written notification.