# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第六十二条 (Article 62) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-62. 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: 第六十二条 (Article 62)（市町村の応急措置） — address `art-62` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-62 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-62 - 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. --- ### 第六十二条（市町村の応急措置） — (Emergency Measures of a Municipality) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-62 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-62 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-62 **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ときは、法令又は地域防災計画の定めるところにより、消防、水防、救助その他災害の発生を防禦し、又は災害の拡大を防止するために必要な応急措置（以下「応急措置」という。）をすみやかに実施しなければならない。 art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-62/par-1 When a disaster involving an area of a municipality has occurred or is imminent, as provided for by laws and regulations or under an area disaster management plan, the mayor of a municipality must promptly implement fire-fighting, flood prevention, rescue, and other necessary emergency measures to prevent disaster or the spread of a disaster (hereinafter referred to as "emergency measures"). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 市町村の委員会又は委員、市町村の区域内の公共的団体及び防災上重要な施設の管理者その他法令の規定により応急措置の実施の責任を有する者は、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ときは、地域防災計画の定めるところにより、市町村長の所轄の下にその所掌事務若しくは所掌業務に係る応急措置を実施し、又は市町村長の実施する応急措置に協力しなければならない。 art-62/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-62/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-62/par-2 When a disaster involving an area of a municipality has occurred or is imminent, pursuant to the provisions of an area disaster management plan, the committee of the municipality or its members, any public organization in that area, administrators of facilities important for disaster management, and other parties responsible for the implementation of emergency measures as provided for by laws and regulations must implement emergency measures concerning the function or operations under their jurisdiction under the jurisdiction of the mayor of a municipality, or must cooperate in the implementation of emergency measures undertaken by the mayor of a municipality. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a disaster involving an area of a municipality has occurred or is imminent, pursuant to the provisions of an area disaster management plan, the committee of the municipality or its members, any public organization in that area, administrators of facilities important for disaster management, and other parties responsible for the implementation of emergency measures as provided for by laws and regulations must implement emergency measures concerning the function or operations under their jurisdiction under the jurisdiction of the mayor of a municipality, and also must cooperate in the implementation of emergency measures undertaken by the mayor of a municipality." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Basic Act on Disaster Management, written 2026-11-03 - 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 (災害対策基本法), Article 62, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb), 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