The Organization is liable to compensate for damage that the president (or, where a vice president is appointed, the president or the vice president; the same applies in the following Article) causes to a third party in the performance of the president's duties.
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「機構」
The Local Tax Joint Organization (地方税共同機構), the body local governments (地方団体) run together to carry out the tax work the Local Tax Act assigns to it — among it running the electronic system through which local tax returns and notices are filed (地方税関係手続用電子情報処理組織) — and to support local governments in their local tax work (Article 761).
Short name set inArticle 761, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter