A municipal disaster management council is established in a municipality in order to formulate an area disaster management plan concerning an area of the relevant municipality and promote the implementation of the plan, and also to deliberate on important matters relating to disaster management concerning an area of the relevant municipality in response to consultation from a mayor of a municipality.
Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, municipalities may set forth a constitution after deliberations and jointly establish a municipal disaster management council.
前項に規定するもののほか、市町村は、協議により規約を定め、共同して市町村防災会議を設置することができる。
When a joint municipal disaster management council has been established pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, or when it is inappropriate or difficult to establish a municipal disaster management council, the municipality may choose not to establish it, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1).
When the municipality has decided not to establish a municipal disaster management council pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (except for the case where a joint municipal disaster management council has been established pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2)), the municipality must promptly report to the prefectural governor to that effect.
When the prefectural governor has received a report under the preceding paragraph, that governor is to consult the prefectural disaster management council, and when found necessary, that governor may provide necessary advice or recommendations to the municipality.
都道府県知事は、前項の規定による報告を受けたときは、都道府県防災会議の意見を聴くものとし、必要があると認めるときは、当該市町村に対し、必要な助言又は勧告をすることができる。
The organization and the function under the jurisdiction of a municipal disaster management council are prescribed by an ordinance of the municipality (a constitution in the case of a municipal disaster management council established pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2)) following the case of the organization of the prefectural disaster management council and the function under its jurisdiction.
市町村防災会議の組織及び所掌事務は、都道府県防災会議の組織及び所掌事務の例に準じて、当該市町村の条例（第二項の規定により設置された市町村防災会議にあつては、規約）で定める。
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「防災」
Preventing disasters before they happen, stopping the damage from spreading once one strikes, and recovering from a disaster and rebuilding after it.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)· applies throughout the law
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「地域防災計画」
A disaster management plan for a particular area: the plan for a prefecture made by its prefectural disaster management council, the plan for a municipality made by its municipal disaster management council or mayor, and the plans for areas spanning two or more prefectures or municipalities made by joint committees of their councils.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (x)· applies throughout the law
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.