# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第五十八条 (Article 58) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-58. 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: 第五十八条 (Article 58)（市町村長の出動命令等） — address `art-58` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-58 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-58 - 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. --- ### 第五十八条（市町村長の出動命令等） — (Mayor's Orders for Action) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-58 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-58 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-58 **第一項** 市町村長は、災害が発生するおそれがあるときは、法令又は市町村地域防災計画の定めるところにより、消防機関若しくは水防団に出動の準備をさせ、若しくは出動を命じ、又は消防吏員（当該市町村の職員である者を除く。）、警察官若しくは海上保安官の出動を求める等災害応急対策責任者に対し、応急措置の実施に必要な準備をすることを要請し、若しくは求めなければならない。 art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-58/par-1 When a disaster is likely to occur, as provided for by laws and regulations or under the municipal area disaster management plan, the mayor of a municipality must instruct a fire-fighting organ or a flood prevention unit to prepare for action or order it to mobilize, or must seek action by the persons responsible for emergency disaster control measures to prepare to take such necessary measures as mobilizing firefighters (except for the municipal officials), police or coast guard officers, or must request them to do so. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 221 — 災害対策基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02