# 地方税法 / Local Tax Act — 第七百七十条 (Article 770)

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- 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: 第七百七十条 (Article 770)（代表者会議の議長） — address `art-770`
- Text in force since: 2026-11-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/art-770
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-770
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### 第七百七十条（代表者会議の議長） — Chair of the Representatives' Meeting
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-770 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/art-770 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-770</sup>

  **第一項**  代表者会議に議長を置き、委員の互選によりこれを定める。
  <sup>art-770/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/art-770/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-770/par-1</sup>
  A chair is to be established in the representatives' meeting, and is to be determined by mutual election among the members.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  議長は、会務を総理し、代表者会議を代表する。
  <sup>art-770/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/art-770/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-770/par-2</sup>
  The chair presides over the affairs of the meeting and represents the representatives' meeting.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第三項**  議長に事故があるとき、又は議長が欠けたときは、議長のあらかじめ指定する委員がその職務を行う。
  <sup>art-770/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/art-770/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-770/par-3</sup>
  When the chair is prevented from performing his or her duties or the position of chair is vacant, the member designated in advance by the chair is to perform the duties of the chair.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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-20261027T202151-231, 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