The payment periods of city planning tax are to be specified by the Municipal Ordinance of the municipality within April, July, December and February; provided, however, that where there are special circumstances, payment periods different from these may be specified.
都市計画税の納期は、四月、七月、十二月及び二月中において、当該市町村の条例で定める。ただし、特別の事情がある場合においては、これと異なる納期を定めることができる。
With respect to city planning tax for which the city planning tax amount (where fixed assets tax is collected together under the first sentence of paragraph (1) of the following Article, the total of the city planning tax amount and the fixed assets tax amount) is not more than the amount specified by Municipal Ordinance of the municipality, the municipality may collect the whole amount in any one of the payment periods specified under the preceding paragraph.
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.