# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第四十九条の九 (Article 49-9) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-49-9. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 災害対策基本法 (Basic Act on Disaster Management), 昭和三十六年法律第二百二十三号 - English title "Basic Act on Disaster Management": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第四十九条の九 (Article 49-9)（居住者等に対する周知のための措置） — address `art-49-9` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-49-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-9 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四十九条の九（居住者等に対する周知のための措置） — (Measures to Fully Inform Residents of Circumstances) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-49-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-49-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-9 **第一項** 市町村長は、居住者等の円滑な避難のための立退きに資するよう、防災庁令で定めるところにより、災害に関する情報の伝達方法、指定緊急避難場所及び避難路その他の避難経路に関する事項その他円滑な避難のための立退きを確保する上で必要な事項を居住者等に周知させるため、これらの事項を記載した印刷物の配布その他の必要な措置を講ずるよう努めなければならない。 art-49-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-49-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-9/par-1 In order to contribute to the smooth evacuation of residents, etc. to take refuge, the mayor of a municipality must endeavor, as provided for by Disaster Management Agency Order, to take necessary measures, including distribution of printed materials stating these matters, in order to fully inform residents, etc. of how to transmit information on disasters, matters concerning designated emergency evacuation sites, evacuation roads and any other evacuation routes, and any other matters necessary to ensure smooth evacuation to take refuge. machine translation, not official --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 災害対策基本法 — the text in force from 2026-11-02 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/336AC0000000223/20261102_508AC0000000062), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Basic Act on Disaster Management — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch disaster-management-act-20261103T010525-006, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 221 — 災害対策基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02