# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第六十六条 (Article 66) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-66. 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: 第六十六条 (Article 66)（災害時における漂流物等の処理の特例） — address `art-66` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-66 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-66 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条（災害時における漂流物等の処理の特例） — (Special Provisions for Disposition for Flotsam in Time of a Disaster) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-66 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-66 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-66 **第一項** 災害が発生した場合において、水難救護法（明治三十二年法律第九十五号）第二十九条第一項に規定する漂流物又は沈没品を取り除いたときは、警察署長等は、同項の規定にかかわらず、当該物件を保管することができる。 art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-66/par-1 In cases where a disaster has occurred, when the chief of a police station and others have removed flotsam or submerged goods prescribed in Article 29, paragraph (1) of the Sea Casualties Rescue Act (Act No. 95 of 1899), they may keep the objects in custody, notwithstanding the provisions of the same paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 水難救護法第二章の規定は、警察署長等が前項の規定により漂流物又は沈没品を保管した場合について準用する。 art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-66/par-2 The provisions of Chapter II of the Sea Casualties Rescue Act apply mutatis mutandis to cases in which the chief of a police station and others have taken into custody flotsam or submerged goods pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-66/par-1: 水難救護法（明治三十二年法律第九十五号）第二十九条第一項 → e-Gov law 132AC0000000095, 第二十九条第一項 (Article 29, paragraph (1)), art-29/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-66/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十六条第一項 (Article 66, paragraph (1)), art-66/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-66/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第五十九条第二項（市町村長の事前措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-59/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第六十六条第二項（災害時における漂流物等の処理の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-66/par-2 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 221 — 災害対策基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02