Art.10.　A committee for the administration of election of assembly of an urban or rural prefecture (it shall be referred to as the electoral administration committee herein after in the present Chapter) shall be established in every urban or rural prefecture.

Art.11.　Members of the electoral administrative Committee shall be elected by the assembly of an urban or rural prefecture from among those who have the right to vote at the election of the members of the assembly as of an urban or rural prefecture.

Art.12.　The electoral administration committee shall in accordance with the provisions prescribed by laws and ordinances, administer the affairs in relation to the election of the members of the assembly of an urban or rural prefecture and other elections.

Art.12-(2).　The electoral administration committee shall elect a chairman from among its members.

Art.12-(3).　A meeting of the electoral administration committee shall be convened by the chairman of the cmmittee;if a demand for the convention of a meeting of the committee has been made by a member of the committee, the chairman of the committee shall covene the same.

Art.12-(4).　No business shall be transacted at a meeting of the electoral administration committee, unless more than three members of the committee are present thereat.

Art.12-(5).　All proceedings at a meeting of the electoral administration committee shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the members of the committee present;in the case of an equality of the votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.

Art.12-(6).　The electoral administration committee shall have a clerk who shall deal with the affairs of the committee under the supervision of the chairman.

Art.12-(7).　Besides the provisions contemplated in the present Law, any matter which may be necessary with respect to the affairs of the electoral administration committee shall be provided by the committee.

Art.14.　The superintendent of the poll shall be a person who shall be elected by the electoral administration committe of assembly of the city, town or village from among those who have the right to vote at the election of the members of the assembly of an urban or rural prefecture.

Art.21.　Except in the case in which the superintendent of the poll is concurrently, the superintendent of the counting of the votes, superintendent of the poll, as accompanied by a polling inspector, designated by him, shall forward the ballot box, a record of the polls and the register of electors to the superintendent of the counting of the votes.

Art.22-(2).　The area of a district for the counting of the votes (kaihyo-ku) shall be the same as the area of the city, town or village.

Art.22-(3).　The superintendent of the counting of the votes shall be a person who shall be elected by the electoral administration committee of the assembly of the city, town or village from among those who have the right to vote at the election of the assembly of an urban or rural prefecture.

Art.22-(4).　The provisions of Art.16 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the inspector for the counting of the votes.

Art.22-(5).　The counting of the votes shall take place on the day of the poll or on the following day (on the day when all of the ballot boxes forwarded have been received or on the following day in case there are several polling districts within a district for the counting of the votes).

Art.22-(6).　The superintendent for the counting of the votes shall in the presence of the inspectors for the counting of the votes, open each ballot box, and shall first of all investigate such votes as are mentioned in Art.19, Par.2 and 4;the acceptability of these votes shall be decided upon by the superintendent of the counting of the votes after asking the opinion of the inspectors for the counting of the votes.

Art.22-(7).　An elector may demand to visit the station for the counting of the votes.

Art.22-(8).　The validity of a vote shall be determined by the superintendent of the counting of the votes after-hearing the opinion of the inspectors for the counting of the votes.

Art.22-(9).　Any of votes specified below shall be void:

Art, 22-(10).　The superintendent of the counting of the votes shall prepare a record of the counting of the votes (kaihyo-roku), wherein he shall state the particulars relative to the counting of the votes and attach his signature thereto together with the signature of two or more inspectors for the counting of the votes.

Art.22-(11).　When the election has become partly null and void and an election has been held again, the validity of the votes in such election shall be determined.

Art.22-(12).　The provisions contemplated in the principal clause of Art.13, par.2, shall apply mutatis mutandis to the counting of the votes.

Art.22-(13).　The provision of Art.17, pars.1 and 2 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the keeping of order at the station for the counting of the votes.

Art.25.　The presiding officer of election shall hold the election meeting on the day when the returns as provided for in Art.22-(6), Par.3, have been received by him from all the superintendents of the counting of the votes or on the following day and investigate these returns in the presence of the inspectors of election.

Art.27.　The provisions of Art.17, Pars.1 and 2 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the keeping of order at the place of election meeting.

Art.28　shall be deleted.

Art.36-(3).　In cases where the public notice in respect of the date of the election of the governor of an urban or rural prefecture has been given, the election of the members of the assembly of the urban or rural prefecture shall not take place until after the expiration of the date fixed for the election.

Art.37-(2).　When a member of the electoral administrative committee, the superintendent of the poll, the superintendent of the counting of the votes or the presiding officer of election has become disqualified to elect a member of assembly of the urban or rural prefecture, he shall lose his office.

Art.43-(2).　The assembly of an urban or rural prefecture may inspect the documents and statement of account relating to the affairs of the prefecture and investigate, by requesting report from the governor of the prefecture, the management of affairs, execution of the decisions adopted by the assembly and receipt and disbursements.

Art.56.　A sitting of the assembly of an urban or rural prefecture shall be open to the public, except in cases where a resolution for closing it to the public has been passed by the majority of more than two-thirds at a meeting thereof on the motion either of the chairman or of three or more councillors.

Art.70.　The provisions of Art.43, Arts.44 to 46 inclusive, Art.49, Art.50, Par.6, Art.55, Art.57 to 62 inclusive, Art.63, Par.2 and Art.64, Par.1 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the board of aldermen of urban or rural prefecture.

Art.72,　shall be deleted.

Art.74-(2).　An urban or rural prefecture shall have the governor of the urban or rural prefecture (fu-ken-chiji).

Art.74-(3).　Any person who has the right to vote at the election of the members of the assembly of an urban or rural prefecture shall have the right to vote at the election of the governor of an urban or rural prefecture.

Art.74-(4).　Any Japanese citizen not less than thirty years of age shall have the right to be elected to the office of the governor of an urban or rural prefecture.

Art.74-(5).　The election of the governor of an urban or rural prefecture shall be held not later than twenty-five days before the expiration of the term of office of the governor in office.

Art.74-(6).　The affairs relating to the election of the governor of an urban or rural prefecture shall be administered by the committee for the administration of election of the members of the assembly of an urban or rural prefecture (hereafter in this chapter it shall be referred to as the electoral administration committee).

Art.74-(7).　A person who purports to be a candidate for the office of governor of an urban or rural prefecture shall file notice to that effect with the presiding officer of election during the period between the day whereupon public notice of election has been given and the seventh day before the date of election.

Art.74-(8).　A person who purports to file notice of candidature for the office of the governor of an urban or rural prefecture or notice of recommendation of a candidature must, for each candidate, deposit with the competent authorities two thousand yen or national loan bonds of a face value equal to that amount.

Art.74-(9).　The presiding officer of election sahll be a person who has been elected by electoral administration committee from among those who have the right to vote at the election of the governor of an urban or rural prefecture.

Art.74-(10).　At the election of the governor of an urban or rural prefecture, a person who has polled the majority of the valid votes cast shall be elected, provided, however, that he is required to have polled more than three eighths of the total number of the valid votes cast.

Art.74-(11).　If there is only one candidate for the office of governor of an urban or rural prefecture in respect of whom notice as provided for in Art.74-(7), Pars.1 to 3 inclusive has been filed, no poll shall be taken.

Art.74-(12).　In cases where any person elected falls under any of the following items, an election shall further be held within twenty-five days form the day whereupon such cases happened if there is no person to whom the provision of Par.2 are applicable:

Art.74-(13),　If, at the election of a governor of a governor of an urban or rural prefecture, there is no candidate who has polled so much votes contempleted in the provise to Art.74-(11), Par.1. another election shall be held within ten days from the date of the announcement, as prescribed in the provision of Art.31, Par.1, which is applied with the necessary modifications in Art.74-(21), notwithstanding the provisions of Art.74-(5), Par.1 and 2, Par.1 of the preceding Article, Art.74-(15), Par.1, and Art.74-(17), Par.1 and 3. In this case, the two persons who get the largest member of valid votes shall be the candidates for the Governor of a prefecture, notwithstanding the provisions contemplated in Art.74-(7), Pars.1 to 3 inclusive, and Art.74-(8)(if in determining the two persons, an equality of votes exist among the candidates, the committee for the administration of election shall determine then by drawing lots.)

Art.74-(14),　When there remains only one candidate of the governor of an urban or rural prefecture, which is contemplated in the preceding Art. Par.1, has been only one, on account of the death or withdrawal from the candidature of the candidates, no election shall be held.

Art.74-(15),　In a case where the elected person, prescribed in Art.74-(13), Par.3 or Par.4, falls under any of the items contemplated in Art.74-(12), Par.1, if there is no person to whom the provision of Par.2 may be applied, another election shall be held within twenty five days.

Art.74-(16).　When the elected person has consented to his election, the electoral administration committee shall forthwith give the public notice of the full name and permanent residence of the elected person and file the return thereof in the Minister for Home Affairs.

Art.74-(17).　In a case where the election was decided null and void, an election shall further be held within twenty-five days.

Art.74-(18).　The election contemplated in Art.74-(5), Par.2, Art.74-(12), Par.1 Art.74-(15), Par.1 or Par.1 or 3 of the last preceding Article shall not be held during the period in which such objection against an election or the election of a person as is relating to that election may be filed or while the determination of such objection does not become final or an action is pending thereupon.

Art.74-(19).　In cases where the public notice in respect of the date of the election of the member of the Assembly of an urban or rural prefecture has been given, the election of the governor of an urban or rural prefecture shall not take place until after the expiration of the date fixed for the election.

Art.74-(20).　The provisions of Chapter X and XI of the Law of Election of Members of the House of Representatives and Art.140, Pars.2 to 4 inclusive, Art.142 and Art.147 shall apply with the necessary modifications in respect of the election of the governor of an urban or rural prefecture;provided that government officials or local officers mentioned in Art.99 of the same Law shall be deemed to include electoral administrative members of the assembly of an urban or rural prefecture, electoral administrative member of the assembly of city, town or village, clerk of the committee for the administration of election and of the committee for the administration of election of the assembly of a city, town or village, superintendent of the poll, superintendent of the counting of the votes, presiding officer of election, and with respect to such amount of expenses of election campaign as are to be fixed respect of each candidate for the office of govern or of an urban or rural prefecture provisions shall be made in an Ordinance.

Art.74-(21).　The provisions of Art.6, Pars.3 and 4, Art.13, Par.2. Art.14, Art.15, Pars.2 and 3, Art.16, Art.17, Art.18, Pars.1 to 10 inclusive, Arts.18-(2) to 22 inclusive, Art.22-(3) to 22-(8) inclusive. Art.22-(9), Par.1, Items I to 7 inclusive, Art.22-(10) to 22-13 inclusive, Art.24 to 27 inclusive, Art.29-(2) excluding such part of the provisions of the same Article as related to Art.37, Par.(12), Art.30, Art.31, Art.34, Pars.1 to 4 inclusive, Art 34-(2), the principal clause of Art.35, Art.37-(2), excluding such part of the provisions of the same article as erlated to electoral administrative members Art.38 and Art.40 shall apply with necessary modifications to the election of the governor of an urban or rural prefecture provided that "three persons" mentioned in Art.16, Par.2 shall read "two persons" in the provision relating to the election of Art.74-(13), Par.1, that "the governor of an urban or rural prefecture" mentioned in Art.31, Par.2 shall read "the Minister for Home Affairs" "Par.2 of the preceding Article" mentioned in Art.34, Par. I shall read Art.74-(16), Par.2 "and when the election was held, the words" the day of election "or" the day of notification "in Art.73-(14), Par.1, shall read" those days concerning election in Art.73-(13), Par.1 "and" Par.6 of the preceding Article "mentioned in Art.34-(2), Par.5 shal lread" Art.74-(18), Par.2,"and the provisions of Art.31, Par.5 shall not apply to the governor of an urban or rural prefecture, if he is elected in the urban prefecture in which he is holding his office.

Art.74-(22).　Matters other than those prescribed in this law relating to the government officials of an urban or rural prefecture shall be provided in an Imperial Ordinance.

Art.74-(23).　An urban or rural prefecture shall have inspection commissioners (Kansa-iin).

Art.75.　The governor of an urban or rural prefecture and the inspection commissionar shall not be a person who enters into a contract for work with the respective urban or rural prefecture or any other person who has received a mundate from him in respect of the work the expenses of which fall to be charged on the respective urban or rural prefecture, or the manager of that person, a member with unlimited liability, a director, an auditor, an officer corresponding to any of those fore-going officers, a manager or a liquidator of such juristic person as is mainly performing acts of the nature.

Art.77-(2).　An urban or rural prefecture may have necessary officers of an urban or rural prefecture in addition to those provided in this Law.

Art.77-(3).　The governor of an urban or rural prefecture shall lose the office when he has become disqualified for being elected to that office.

Art.79.　If a demand for the enactment of a by-law of an urban or rural prefecture or a regulation of an urban or rural prefecture, which is to be subject to a resolution of the council of an urban or rural prefecture has been made to the governor of an urban or rural prefecture by not less than one fiftieth of the total number of persons who have the right to vote at the election of assembly msmbers of an urban or rural prefecture through their representative with their joint signatures, the governor of the urban or rural prefecture shall call the assembly of the urban or rural prefecture within twenty days and submit the draft bill with his observations at a meeting thereof for resolution.

Art.84.　If resolution of want of confidence in the governor of an urban or rural prefecture, has been passed at a meeting of the member of the assembly of an urban or rural prefecture the governor of the urban or rural prefecture may dissolve the assembly of the urban or rural prefecture, within ten days after the resolution was passed.

In Art.88-(2).　The inspection commissioners shall inspect the management of works undertaken by the urban or rural prefecture, the revenue and expenditure of the urban or rural prefecture and the execution of other affairs of the urban or rural prefecture.

Art.93.　Remuneration shall be allowed to the members of the assembly of an urban or rural prefecture, the electoral administrative members of councillors of an urban or rural prefecture, the inspection commissioners appointed from among the members of the assembly of an urban or rural prefecture, the members of the committees. Superintendents of the polls, polling inspectors, superintendents of the votes, inspectors, for the counting of the votes, presiding officers of election, and inspectors of election.

Art.94.　Salaries and Travelling expenses shall be paid to the officers of an urban or rural prefecture clerks of the committee for the administration of election of the assembly members of prefecture and clerks of the assembly of prefecture and of the board of aldermen of prefecture other than those mentioned in the preceding Article.

Art.124-(2),　The governor of an urban or rural prefecture shall, for the purpose of making clear the state of management of works which have been undertaken by the urban or rural prefecture and designated by the assembly of the urban or rural prefecture, prepare regularly the balance sheets and other necessary documents, present to the inspection commissioners to inspect them and submit them to the Assembly of the urban of rural prefecture at its next session with the observation of the inspection commissioners.

Art.131,　Incases where a demand for the dissolution of the Assembly of an urban or rural prefecture has been made to the committee for the administration of election of the Assembly mebers of an urban or rural prefecture, by not less than one third of the total number of persons who have the right to vote at the election of Assembly members through their representative with their joint signatures, the said committee shall submit it to the vote of the electors of the prefectural Assembly, and when the majority of them consented to the demand, the Assembly of the urban or rural prefecture shall be dissolved.

In Art.133-(2).　If a demand for the removal from office of the governer of an urban or rural prefecture towards the committee for the administration of election of the Assembly of an urban or rural prefecture is made by not less than one third of the total number of persons who have the right to vote at the election of assembly of an urban or prefecture through their representative with their joint signatures, the committee for the administration of election shal lsubmit it to the vote of electors of the prefecturee.

Art.138.　Any matter necessary in respect of exceptions in the administration relating to islands may be prescribed in an Imperial Ordianace.

Art.139　shall be deleted.

Art.144.　Any association of towns and villages which affects joint administration of the whole of the affairs of towns and villages shall, in so far as the purpose of applying this law is concerned, be deemed to be one town or village;the electoral administration committee of the Assembly of the association be deemed to be the electoral administration committee of the Assembly of a town or village;the electoral administrative member of the Assembly of the association be deemed to he the electoral administrative member of the assembly of a town or village;the offices there of be the officers of a town or village and the office thereof to be the town or village office.

Art.145.　When a city established within the former area of jurisdiction of the chief a county (gun-cho), or of an island (toshi), or any change of boundaries of a city, town or village is made within their boundaries of the area, the area shall be deemed changed accordingly.