# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第六十条 (Article 60) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60. 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: 第六十条 (Article 60)（市町村長の避難の指示等） — address `art-60` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60 - 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. --- ### 第六十条（市町村長の避難の指示等） — (Mayor's Orders for Evacuation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60 **第一項** 災害が発生し、又は発生するおそれがある場合において、人の生命又は身体を災害から保護し、その他災害の拡大を防止するため特に必要があると認めるときは、市町村長は、必要と認める地域の必要と認める居住者等に対し、避難のための立退きを指示することができる。 art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-1 In cases where a disaster has occurred or is likely to occur, when the mayor of a municipality finds it particularly necessary for protecting people's lives and bodies from a disaster or for preventing the spread of a disaster, the mayor may give instructions to evacuate to take refuge to the residents, etc. for whom evacuation for refuge is found necessary in an area where evacuation for taking refuge is found necessary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により避難のための立退きを指示する場合において、必要があると認めるときは、市町村長は、その立退き先として指定緊急避難場所その他の避難場所を指示することができる。 art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-2 In cases where the mayor of a municipality finds it necessary for giving instructions for evacuation to take refuge pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the mayor may give instructions indicating the designated emergency evacuation site or other evacuation sites as points to take refuge. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "In cases where the mayor of a municipality finds it necessary for making recommendations or giving instructions for evacuation to take refuge pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the mayor may give instructions indicating the designated emergency evacuation site or other evacuation sites as points to take refuge." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb **第三項** 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、避難のための立退きを行うことによりかえつて人の生命又は身体に危険が及ぶおそれがあり、かつ、事態に照らし緊急を要すると認めるときは、市町村長は、必要と認める地域の必要と認める居住者等に対し、高所への移動、近傍の堅固な建物への退避、屋内の屋外に面する開口部から離れた場所での待避その他の緊急に安全を確保するための措置（以下「緊急安全確保措置」という。）を指示することができる。 art-60/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-3 In cases where a disaster has occurred or is imminent, when the mayor of a municipality finds that evacuation for taking refuge is likely to rather put the lives or bodies of people at risk and finds urgency in light of the situation, the mayor may give instructions to the residents, etc. for whom these measures are found necessary in an area where these measures are found necessary to move to heights, take refuge in sturdy buildings nearby, retreat to a place inside a building away from openings facing the outdoors, or take other urgent measures to ensure safety (hereinafter referred to as "urgent measures to ensure safety"). machine translation, not official **第四項** 市町村長は、第一項の規定により避難のための立退きを指示し、若しくは立退き先を指示し、又は前項の規定により緊急安全確保措置を指示したときは、速やかに、その旨を都道府県知事に報告しなければならない。 art-60/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-4 When the mayor of a municipality, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), has instructed evacuation for taking refuge, has specified the point to take refuge, or, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, has instructed urgent measures to ensure safety, the mayor must promptly report to the prefectural governor to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 市町村長は、避難の必要がなくなつたときは、直ちに、その旨を公示しなければならない。前項の規定は、この場合について準用する。 art-60/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-5 When there is no longer the need for evacuation, the mayor of a municipality must immediately make a public notice to that effect. The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to this case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 都道府県知事は、当該都道府県の地域に係る災害が発生した場合において、当該災害の発生により市町村がその全部又は大部分の事務を行うことができなくなつたときは、当該市町村の市町村長が第一項から第三項まで及び前項前段の規定により実施すべき措置の全部又は一部を当該市町村長に代わつて実施しなければならない。 art-60/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-6 In cases where a disaster involving an area of a prefecture has occurred, when a municipality is unable to perform all or the majority of its affairs because of the occurrence of the disaster, the prefectural governor must implement on behalf of the mayor of the municipality all or a part of the measures to be implemented by the mayor of the municipality pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3) and the first sentence of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第七項** 都道府県知事は、前項の規定により市町村長の事務の代行を開始し、又は終了したときは、その旨を公示しなければならない。 art-60/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-7 When the prefectural governor has begun or completed the implementation of affairs on behalf of the mayor of the municipality pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the governor must make a public notice to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第八項** 第六項の規定による都道府県知事の代行に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。 art-60/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-8 Necessary matters related to the prefectural governor in acting on behalf of the mayor of the municipality under paragraph (6) are prescribed by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-60/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十条第一項 (Article 60, paragraph (1)), art-60/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-1 - art-60/par-4: 第一項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十条第一項 (Article 60, paragraph (1)), art-60/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-1 - art-60/par-4: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十条第三項 (Article 60, paragraph (3)), art-60/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-3 - art-60/par-5: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十条第四項 (Article 60, paragraph (4)), art-60/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-4 - art-60/par-6: 第一項から第三項まで → 災害対策基本法 第六十条第一項 (Article 60, paragraph (1)), art-60/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-1 - art-60/par-6: 第一項から第三項まで → 災害対策基本法 第六十条第二項 (Article 60, paragraph (2)), art-60/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-2 - art-60/par-6: 第一項から第三項まで → 災害対策基本法 第六十条第三項 (Article 60, paragraph (3)), art-60/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-3 - art-60/par-6: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十条第五項 (Article 60, paragraph (5)), art-60/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-5 - art-60/par-7: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十条第六項 (Article 60, paragraph (6)), art-60/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-6 - art-60/par-8: 第六項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十条第六項 (Article 60, paragraph (6)), art-60/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-60/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-60/par-6 ## Cited by 13 provisions cite this one. 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