# 地方税法 / Local Tax Act — 第三百九十七条 (Article 397) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-397. 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: 地方税法 (Local Tax Act), 昭和二十五年法律第二百二十六号 - English title "Local Tax Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - 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: 第三百九十七条 (Article 397)（固定資産税に係る道府県の職員及び総務省の職員が行う検査拒否等に関する罪） — address `art-397` - Text in force since: 2026-11-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-397 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-397 - 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. --- ### 第三百九十七条（固定資産税に係る道府県の職員及び総務省の職員が行う検査拒否等に関する罪） — Offenses Relating to Refusal of Inspection, etc. by Prefectural Officials and Officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Concerning Fixed Assets Tax caption: machine translation, not official art-397 · https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-397 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-397 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、その違反行為をした者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-397/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-397/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-397/par-1 In a case that falls under any of the following items, the person who committed the violation is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen: machine translation, not official **一** 第三百九十六条の規定による帳簿書類その他の物件の検査を拒み、妨げ、又は忌避したとき。 art-397/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-397/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-397/par-1/item-1 when the person refuses, obstructs or evades inspection of books and documents or other articles under Article 396; machine translation, not official **二** 第三百九十六条第一項の規定による物件の提示又は提出の要求に対し、正当な理由がなくこれに応ぜず、又は偽りの記載若しくは記録をした帳簿書類その他の物件（その写しを含む。）を提示し、若しくは提出したとき。 art-397/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-397/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-397/par-1/item-2 when the person fails, without justifiable grounds, to comply with a request for presentation or submission of articles under Article 396, paragraph (1), or presents or submits books and documents or other articles (including copies thereof) containing false entries or records; machine translation, not official **三** 第三百九十六条の規定による道府県指定職員又は総務省指定職員の質問に対し答弁をしないとき、又は虚偽の答弁をしたとき。 art-397/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-397/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-397/par-1/item-3 when the person fails to give an answer to a question by a designated prefectural official or an official designated by the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications under Article 396, or gives a false answer. machine translation, not official **第二項** 法人の代表者又は法人若しくは人の代理人、使用人その他の従業者がその法人又は人の業務又は財産に関して前項の違反行為をした場合には、その行為者を罰するほか、その法人又は人に対し、同項の罰金刑を科する。 art-397/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-397/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-397/par-2 Where a representative of a corporation, or an agent, employee or other worker of a corporation or person, has committed a violation set forth in the preceding paragraph in connection with the business or property of that corporation or person, in addition to punishing the offender, the fine prescribed in that paragraph is to be imposed on that corporation or person. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-397/par-1/item-1: 第三百九十六条 → 地方税法 第三百九十六条 (Article 396), art-396 — https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-396 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-396 - art-397/par-1/item-2: 第三百九十六条第一項 → 地方税法 第三百九十六条第一項 (Article 396, paragraph (1)), art-396/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-396/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-396/par-1 - art-397/par-1/item-3: 第三百九十六条 → 地方税法 第三百九十六条 (Article 396), art-396 — https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-396 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-396 - art-397/par-2: 前項 → 地方税法 第三百九十七条第一項 (Article 397, paragraph (1)), art-397/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-397/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-397/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 地方税法 第三百五十三条第一項（徴税吏員等の固定資産税に関する調査に係る質問検査権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-353/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-353/par-1 - 地方税法 第三百九十六条第一項（道府県の職員及び総務省の職員の固定資産税に関する調査に係る質問検査権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-396/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-396/par-1 - 地方税法 第三百九十七条第二項（固定資産税に係る道府県の職員及び総務省の職員が行う検査拒否等に関する罪） — https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-397/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-397/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 地方税法 — the text in force from 2026-10-16 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/325AC0000000226/20261016_508AC0000000002), retrieved 2026-10-27 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 地方税法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/487), retrieved 2026-09-18 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch local-tax-act-20261027T214204-039, translated 2026-10-28 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch local-tax-act-20261027T214204-063, translated 2026-10-28 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch local-tax-act-20261027T214204-134, translated 2026-10-28 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch local-tax-act-20261027T214204-135, translated 2026-10-28 - This site's parser, version 218 — 地方税法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-27