# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百六十九条 (Article 269) - Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号 - English title "Civil Code": 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: 第二百六十九条 (Article 269)（工作物等の収去等） — address `art-269` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-269 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-269 - 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. --- ### 第二百六十九条（工作物等の収去等） — (Removal of Structures) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-269 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-269 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-269 **第一項** 地上権者は、その権利が消滅した時に、土地を原状に復してその工作物及び竹木を収去することができる。ただし、土地の所有者が時価相当額を提供してこれを買い取る旨を通知したときは、地上権者は、正当な理由がなければ、これを拒むことができない。 art-269/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-269/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-269/par-1 When the right of the superficiary is extinguished, the superficiary may restore the land to its original state and remove structures and trees or bamboo on the same; provided, however, that if the owner of the land gives notice that the owner will purchase the same by offering to pay an amount equivalent to the market value, the superficiary may not refuse that offer without reasonable grounds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定と異なる慣習があるときは、その慣習に従う。 art-269/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-269/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-269/par-2 If there are customs that differ from the provisions of the preceding paragraph, those customs prevail. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-269/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第二百六十九条第一項 (Article 269, paragraph (1)), art-269/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-269/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-269/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第二百六十九条第二項（工作物等の収去等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-269/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-269/par-2 - 民法 第二百七十九条第一項（工作物等の収去等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-279/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-279/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11