# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第六十八条の二 (Article 68-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-2. 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: 第六十八条の二 (Article 68-2)（都道府県知事に対する応急措置の実施の要請の要求等） — address `art-68-2` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六十八条の二（都道府県知事に対する応急措置の実施の要請の要求等） — Request to Prefectural Governor for a Call for Implementation of Emergency Measures, Etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-68-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-2 **第一項** 市町村長は、当該市町村の地域に係る災害が発生し、又はまさに発生しようとしている場合において、応急措置を的確かつ円滑に実施するため必要があると認めるときは、都道府県知事に対し、第七十条第三項の規定による応急措置の実施の要請（次項において「要請」という。）をするよう求めることができる。この場合において、市町村長は、その旨及び当該市町村の地域に係る災害の状況を当該応急措置の実施に係る指定行政機関の長又は指定地方行政機関の長に通知することができる。 art-68-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-2/par-1 In cases where a disaster involving an area of the municipality has occurred or is imminent, when the mayor of a municipality finds it necessary for accurately and smoothly implementing emergency measures, the mayor may request the prefectural governor to make a call for the implementation of emergency measures under Article 70, paragraph (3) (referred to as "call" in the following paragraph). In this case, the mayor of a municipality may notify the head of a designated administrative organ or the head of a designated local administrative organ concerned in the implementation of those emergency measures to that effect and of the conditions of the disaster involving an area of the municipality. machine translation, not official **第二項** 市町村長は、前項の規定による要求ができない場合には、その旨及び当該市町村の地域に係る災害の状況を指定行政機関の長又は指定地方行政機関の長に通知することができる。この場合において、当該通知を受けた指定行政機関の長又は指定地方行政機関の長は、その事態に照らし緊急を要し、都道府県知事からの要請を待ついとまがないと認められるときは、当該要請を待たないで、応急措置を実施することができる。 art-68-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-2/par-2 When the mayor of a municipality is unable to make the request under the preceding paragraph, the mayor may notify the head of a designated administrative organ or the head of a designated local administrative organ to that effect and of the conditions of the disaster involving an area of the municipality. In this case, the head of a designated administrative organ or the head of a designated local administrative organ who has received the notification may, when finding it urgent in light of the situation and finding that there is no time to wait for a call from the prefectural governor, implement emergency measures without waiting for the call. machine translation, not official **第三項** 市町村長は、前二項の通知をしたときは、速やかに、その旨を都道府県知事に通知しなければならない。 art-68-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-2/par-3 When the mayor of a municipality has made the notification set forth in the preceding two paragraphs, the mayor must promptly notify the prefectural governor to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-68-2/par-1: 第七十条第三項 → 災害対策基本法 第七十条第三項 (Article 70, paragraph (3)), art-70/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-70/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-70/par-3 - art-68-2/par-1: 次項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十八条の二第二項 (Article 68-2, paragraph (2)), art-68-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-2/par-2 - art-68-2/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十八条の二第一項 (Article 68-2, paragraph (1)), art-68-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-2/par-1 - art-68-2/par-3: 前二項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十八条の二第一項 (Article 68-2, paragraph (1)), art-68-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-2/par-1 - art-68-2/par-3: 前二項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十八条の二第二項 (Article 68-2, paragraph (2)), art-68-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-2/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第六十八条の二第一項（都道府県知事に対する応急措置の実施の要請の要求等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-2/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第六十八条の二第二項（都道府県知事に対する応急措置の実施の要請の要求等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-2/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第六十八条の二第三項（都道府県知事に対する応急措置の実施の要請の要求等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-68-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-68-2/par-3 --- ## 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-20261103T010525-007, 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