Petition and petition

When there is opinion or request about municipal administration, anyone can submit petition and petition to City Counsil.
When submitting a petition, you need a referral from a city council member.
In the case of a petition, the introduction of a city council member is not required.
In the case of a petition, after examination by the Standing Committee, etc., the plenary session decides whether it is "adopted" or "non-adopted" and notifies the petitioner of the result.
In the case of a petition, petition regarding the decision of the council's institutional decision, such as those requesting that the parliament submit a written opinion to the relevant administrative agency, shall be referred to the Standing Committee, etc., and the examination results are reported to the plenary session. After that, notify the petitioner.
About other petition (petition about request to administration), chairperson asks for answers such as the mayors and notifies petitioner to that effect.
In addition, please be careful as we may do not ask examination in committee or answer from the mayor depending on contents of petition including thing requesting act contrary to laws and ordinances or public order and morals.
For details, please see the Yokohama City Council Petition and Petition Handling Guidelines (PDF: 144KB).

• Procedure for petition(You can also download the form.)
• Petition procedure(You can also download the form.)

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