When they find that vehicles or other objects in traffic ban zone, etc. are likely to impede the passage of emergency vehicles and thereby extremely hinder the implementation of emergency disaster control measures, police officers may order the occupant, owner, or manager of the vehicles or other objects to move the vehicles or other objects to a nearby place off the road or to take other necessary measures so as to ensure the smooth passage of emergency vehicles in the traffic ban zone, etc.
In cases referred to in the preceding paragraph in which the person ordered to take the measures under the same paragraph does not take the measures or the person subject to being ordered is not present at the site and cannot be ordered to take the measures, the police officer may take the relevant measures. In this case, to the extent unavoidable in taking the measures, the police officer may damage the vehicle or other objects related to the measures.
The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to the performance of duties by SDF personnel of units under disaster relief operation provided that there is no police officer there. In this case, the term "passage of emergency vehicles and" in paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "passage of Self-Defense Forces emergency vehicles (which means emergency vehicles used by the Self-Defense Forces and being operated in order to implement emergency disaster control measures; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) and," and the term "smooth passage of emergency vehicles" is deemed to be replaced with "smooth passage of Self-Defense Forces emergency vehicles".
前二項の規定は、警察官がその場にいない場合に限り、災害派遣を命ぜられた部隊等の自衛官の職務の執行について準用する。この場合において、第一項中「緊急通行車両の通行」とあるのは「自衛隊用緊急通行車両（自衛隊の使用する緊急通行車両で災害応急対策の実施のため運転中のものをいう。以下この項において同じ。）の通行」と、「緊急通行車両の円滑な通行」とあるのは「自衛隊用緊急通行車両の円滑な通行」と読み替えるものとする。
The provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the performance of duties of fire-fighting officials provided that there is no police officer there. In this case, the term "passage of emergency vehicles and" in paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "passage of fire department emergency vehicles (which means emergency vehicles used by fire-fighting organs and being operated in order to implement emergency disaster control measures; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) and," and the term "smooth passage of emergency vehicles" is deemed to be replaced with "smooth passage of fire department emergency vehicles".
The bans and restrictions on vehicular traffic under Article 76, paragraph (1) and the provisions of paragraphs (1), (2), and (4) of the preceding Article do not apply to measures that are taken in accordance with orders given under paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding two paragraphs) or measures that are taken pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) above (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding two paragraphs).
When SDF personnel of units under disaster relief operation or fire-fighting officials issue orders under paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) or paragraph (4) or take measures under paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) or paragraph (4), they must immediately notify this action to the chief of the police station with jurisdiction over the place in which the orders were issued or the measures taken.
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SDF personnel of units under disaster relief operation
「災害派遣を命ぜられた部隊等の自衛官」
Members of the Self-Defense Forces in units or other formations under Article 8 of the Self-Defense Forces Act that have been ordered to deploy under Article 83, paragraph (2) of that Act.
Short name set inArticle 63, paragraph (3)
emergency vehiclemachine translation
「緊急通行車両」
An emergency motor vehicle under Article 39, paragraph (1) of the Road Traffic Act, or another vehicle that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as one whose passage must especially be secured so that emergency disaster control measures can be carried out properly and smoothly.
Defined inArticle 76, paragraph (1)
traffic ban zone, etc.
「通行禁止区域等」
The area or section of road where vehicle traffic has been banned or restricted under Article 76, paragraph (1).
Short name set inArticle 76, paragraph (2)· applies only in this provision and in Article 76-2, paragraph (4); and Article 76-3, paragraph (1)
Self-Defense Forces emergency vehiclemachine translation
「自衛隊用緊急通行車両」
In Article 76-3, paragraph (3), an emergency vehicle used by the Self-Defense Forces while it is being driven to carry out emergency disaster control measures.
Defined inArticle 76-3, paragraph (3)· applies only in this paragraph
fire department emergency vehiclemachine translation
「消防用緊急通行車両」
In Article 76-3, paragraph (4), an emergency vehicle used by a fire-fighting organ while it is being driven to carry out emergency disaster control measures.
Defined inArticle 76-3, paragraph (4)· applies only in this paragraph
chief of a police station
警察署長
The head of a police station (警察署). The Police Act (警察法) divides each prefecture's area into districts, each served by a police station, and places a chief in every station (Police Act, Article 53, paragraphs (1) and (2)). Under the direction and supervision of the officers above the station in the prefectural police — the Superintendent General (警視総監) of Tokyo's police, the chief of a prefectural police headquarters (警察本部長), or, in Hokkaido, a district headquarters chief (方面本部長), among others — the chief handles police work within the station's district and directs and supervises the station's police officials (Article 53, paragraph (3); Articles 48 and 51). Under the Road Traffic Act, a person who means to work on a road, put up a structure or a fixed stall on it, or use it in another way the prefectural public safety commission (公安委員会) has listed as greatly affecting traffic, needs the permission of the chief of the police station for that place (Road Traffic Act, Article 77, paragraph (1)). Under the Lost Property Act, a finder must promptly return a found item to its owner or hand it in to a police station chief, and must hand in items that are illegal to possess or appear to have been held by a criminal (Lost Property Act, Article 4, paragraph (1)); something found inside a facility such as a station or shop goes to the facility's operator instead (Article 4, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Police Act, Arts. 48, 51, 53, Road Traffic Act, Art. 77 and Lost Property Act, Art. 4 as a reference.