In cases where a disaster involving an area of a prefecture has occurred or is likely to occur, when the prefectural governor finds that support concerning emergency disaster control measures at the municipal level within the area of the prefecture would not be implemented smoothly only by the instructions under Article 72, paragraph (1), or the request under paragraph (2) of the same Article, the governor may request other prefectural governors to support the mayor of the municipality where the disaster has occurred or is likely to occur (hereinafter referred to as "mayor of the municipality where the disaster has occurred or is likely to occur" in the following paragraph and the following Article).
In cases where support will be provided in response to the request under the preceding paragraph, when the prefectural governors who have received a request under the preceding paragraph find it particularly necessary for ensuring that emergency disaster control measures to be taken by the mayor of the municipality where the disaster has occurred or is likely to occur are implemented accurately and smoothly, they may request the mayors of municipalities within the areas of the prefectures to support the mayor of the municipality where the disaster has occurred or is likely to occur.
Those who render the support concerning a request from the prefectural governors under the preceding two paragraphs are to act under the direction of the mayor of the municipality receiving the support insofar as the implementation of emergency disaster control measures is concerned.
前二項の規定による都道府県知事の要求に係る応援に従事する者は、災害応急対策の実施については、当該応援を受ける市町村長の指揮の下に行動するものとする。
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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
mayor of the municipality where the disaster has occurred or is likely to occurmachine translation
「災害発生市町村長」
In Articles 74-2 and 74-3, the mayor of a municipality where a disaster has occurred or is likely to occur, whom a prefectural governor may ask the governors of other prefectures to support.
Short name set inArticle 74-2, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 74-2, paragraph (2); and Article 74-3