The municipal disaster management council (in a municipality where a municipal disaster management council is not established, the mayor of that municipality; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) must formulate a municipal area disaster management plan concerning an area of the relevant municipality, review it every year, and revise it when found necessary in accordance with the basic disaster management plan. In this case, the relevant municipal area disaster management plan must not conflict with the disaster management operation plan or the prefectural area disaster management plan of the prefecture including the relevant municipality.
A municipal area disaster management plan is to provide for the following matters in general:
市町村地域防災計画は、おおむね次に掲げる事項について定めるものとする。
general outline of affairs or operations relating to disaster management concerning an area of the relevant municipality to be handled by the relevant municipality and public organizations or the administrators of facilities important for disaster management within the area of the relevant municipality (referred to as "the relevant municipality, etc." in paragraph (4));
plans by category of operations concerning an area of the relevant municipality: creation or improvement of disaster management facilities, investigation and research for disaster management, education, drills, and other disaster prevention, gathering and transmission of information, issuance and transmission of forecasts and alarms related to disaster, evacuation, fire-fighting, flood prevention, rescue, aid, sanitation, and other emergency disaster control measures, and recovery and reconstruction.
plans for development, stockpiling, procurement, distribution, transportation, and communication with reference to labor, facilities, equipment, goods, funds, etc., required for measures relating to disaster involving an area of the relevant municipality, as set forth in the preceding item.
A municipal area disaster management plan may, in addition to what is set forth in each item of the preceding paragraph, provide for plans for disaster reduction drills jointly conducted by residents of a certain district within the municipality and business operators that have business places in that district (hereinafter referred to as "district residents, etc." in this paragraph and the following Article), storage of goods and materials necessary for disaster management activities by district residents, etc., mutual support among district residents, etc. in the event of a disaster, and other disaster management activities in that district (referred to as "district disaster management plan" in the following Article), and for the basic direction of cooperation with public organizations or private groups that is necessary for the smooth implementation of emergency disaster control measures or recovery and reconstruction.
In deciding the municipal area disaster management plan, the municipal disaster management council is to take necessary considerations to enable the municipality, etc. to receive support from others smoothly or support others when a disaster has occurred or is likely to occur.
When the municipal disaster management council has formulated or revised a municipal area disaster management plan pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the council must promptly report it to the prefectural governor and release to the public an outline of that plan or revision.
市町村防災会議は、第一項の規定により市町村地域防災計画を作成し、又は修正したときは、速やかにこれを都道府県知事に報告するとともに、その要旨を公表しなければならない。
When the prefectural governor has received a report on the municipal area disaster management plan pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, that governor is to consult the prefectural disaster management council and may provide necessary advice or recommendations to that municipal disaster management council when found necessary.
都道府県知事は、前項の規定により市町村地域防災計画について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、当該市町村防災会議に対し、必要な助言又は勧告をすることができる。
The provisions of Article 21 apply mutatis mutandis to the formulation or revision of a municipal area disaster management plan by the mayor of a municipality, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1).
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disastermachine translation
「災害」
Damage caused by a storm, tornado, heavy rain or snow, flood, slope failure, debris flow, storm surge, earthquake, tsunami, soil liquefaction, volcanic eruption, landslide or other abnormal natural phenomenon, or by a large fire or explosion or another cause that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as causing damage on a similar scale.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
recovery and reconstructionmachine translation
「復旧復興」
Recovery from a disaster and reconstruction after it.
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)
disaster managementmachine translation
「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
basic disaster management plan
「防災基本計画」
The basic plan on disaster management that the National Disaster Management Council draws up.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (viii)· applies throughout the law
disaster management operation planmachine translation
「防災業務計画」
A disaster management plan that the head of a designated administrative organ (or, for a commission or certain collegial bodies, the organ itself) or a designated public corporation draws up for its own work on the basis of the basic disaster management plan; for work delegated to them, the designated local administrative organ or designated local public corporation draws it up.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ix)· applies throughout the law
the relevant municipality, etc.
「当該市町村等」
In Article 42, the municipality concerned together with the public organizations and the managers of facilities important for disaster management in its area.
Short name set inArticle 42, paragraph (2), item (i)· applies only in this provision and in Article 42, paragraph (4)
district residents, etc.machine translation
「地区居住者等」
In Article 42, paragraph (3) and Article 42-2, the people who live in a particular district of a municipality and the businesses that have a place of business there.
Short name set inArticle 42, paragraph (3)· applies only in this paragraph and in Article 42-2
district disaster management planmachine translation
「地区防災計画」
In Article 42, paragraph (3) and Article 42-2, a plan for disaster management activities in a particular district of a municipality, such as drills its residents and businesses hold together, stocks of supplies and materials for their activities and their mutual support when a disaster strikes, which the municipality's area disaster management plan may include.
Short name set inArticle 42, paragraph (3)· applies only in this provision and in Article 42-2