I hereby promulgate the Law concerning the Repair of Roads.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This twenty-ninth day of the twelfth month of the twenty-third year of Showa (December 29, 1948)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law concerning the Repair of Roads
Article 1. The State may, for the time being, subsidize a local public entity a part of expenses for repairing roads, prescribed in the Road Law (Law No.58 of 1919).
Necessary matters concerning the subsidy mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be provided by Cabinet Order.
Article 2. If the Minister of Construction deems it necessary, he may, for the time being, repairanational road notwithstanding the provisions of Article 20, Paragraph 1 of the Road Law.
In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph the competency of the road administrator shall be administered by the Minister of Construction in accordance with the provisions prescribed by Cabinet Order.
The expenditures for the repairs prescribed in Paragraph 1 shall be paid by the State. However, the local public entity shall bear a part of the expenditures in accordance with Cabinet Order.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Finance pro tem. Minister of State OYA Shinzo
Minister of Construction MASUTANI Shuji