# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第五十九条 (Article 59) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-59. 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: 第五十九条 (Article 59)（市町村長の事前措置等） — address `art-59` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-59 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-59 - 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. --- ### 第五十九条（市町村長の事前措置等） — (Mayor's Precautionary Steps) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-59 **第一項** 市町村長は、災害が発生するおそれがあるときは、災害が発生した場合においてその災害を拡大させるおそれがあると認められる設備又は物件の占有者、所有者又は管理者に対し、災害の拡大を防止するため必要な限度において、当該設備又は物件の除去、保安その他必要な措置をとることを指示することができる。 art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-59/par-1 When a disaster is likely to occur, the mayor of a municipality may instruct the occupant, owner, or administrator of equipment or an object which is found likely to spread the disaster if it occurred to remove, keep in a safe space, or take any other necessary measures regarding the equipment or object to the extent it is necessary to prevent the spread of the disaster. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 警察署長又は政令で定める管区海上保安本部の事務所の長（以下この項、第六十四条及び第六十六条において「警察署長等」という。）は、市町村長から要求があつたときは、前項に規定する指示を行なうことができる。この場合において、同項に規定する指示を行なつたときは、警察署長等は、直ちに、その旨を市町村長に通知しなければならない。 art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-59/par-2 At the request of the mayor of a municipality, the chief of a police station, or the chief of an office of regional coast guard headquarters provided for by Cabinet Order (hereinafter referred to as "chief of a police station and others" in this paragraph and Articles 64 and 66) may issue orders prescribed in the preceding paragraph. In this case, when the orders prescribed in the same paragraph have been issued, the chief of a police station and others must immediately notify the mayor of a municipality to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-59/par-2: この項 → 災害対策基本法 第五十九条第二項 (Article 59, paragraph (2)), art-59/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-59/par-2 - art-59/par-2: 第六十四条 → 災害対策基本法 第六十四条 (Article 64), art-64 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-64 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-64 - art-59/par-2: 第六十六条 → 災害対策基本法 第六十六条 (Article 66), art-66 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-66 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-66 - art-59/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第五十九条第一項 (Article 59, paragraph (1)), art-59/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-59/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第五十九条第二項（市町村長の事前措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-59/par-2 --- ## 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