A person as referred to in one of the following items is subject to imprisonment for not more than six months or a fine of not more than 100,000 yen:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、六月以下の拘禁刑又は十万円以下の罰金に処する。
a person engaging in conduct that constitutes a violation of Article 22 (Maximum Speed Limits);
第二十二条（最高速度）の規定の違反となるような行為をした者
a person violating Article 64-2 (Prohibition against Driving of Specified Small Motorized Bicycles by Persons under 16 Years of Age and Related Conduct), paragraph (1);
第六十四条の二（十六歳未満の者による特定小型原動機付自転車の運転等の禁止）第一項の規定に違反した者
a person violating Article 64-2 (Prohibition against Driving of Specified Small Motorized Bicycles by Persons under 16 Years of Age and Related Conduct), paragraph (2) (but only if the person provided with the specified small motorized bicycle as a result of the violation drives that specified small motorized bicycle in violation of paragraph (1) of that Article);
第六十四条の二（十六歳未満の者による特定小型原動機付自転車の運転等の禁止）第二項の規定に違反した者（当該違反により当該特定小型原動機付自転車の提供を受けた者が同条第一項の規定に違反して当該特定小型原動機付自転車を運転した場合に限る。）
a person using a wireless telephone to make a telephone call or focusing attention on the screen of a device carried into or onto a motor vehicle, motorized bicycle, or bicycle while holding the device in the hand, in violation of Article 71 (Rules to Be Observed by Drivers), item (v)-5 (other than a person falling under Article 117-4, paragraph (1), item (ii));
a person violating Article 85 (Class 1 Licenses), paragraph (5) through (10); or
第八十五条（第一種免許）第五項から第十項までの規定に違反した者
a person driving a motor vehicle in violation of the second sentence of Article 87 (Provisional Licenses), paragraph (2).
In any of the following cases, the person who committed the violation is subject to imprisonment for not more than six months or a fine of not more than 100,000 yen:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、当該違反行為をした者は、六月以下の拘禁刑又は十万円以下の罰金に処する。
when the person drives a vehicle while carrying a load that exceeds weight restrictions, in violation of Article 57 (Restrictions on Riding and Loading; Related Considerations), paragraph (1);
when the person fails to comply with an order of the chief of a police station under Article 58-5 (Prohibition on Requiring or Otherwise Compelling Drivers to Drive Overloaded Vehicles), paragraph (2);
when the person violates Article 75 (Responsibilities of Motor Vehicle Users; Related Considerations), paragraph (1), item (ii) or (v);
when the person, in violation of Article 75 (Responsibilities of Motor Vehicle Users; Related Considerations), paragraph (1), item (vi), orders or allows a person to drive a motor vehicle carrying a load as prescribed in item (i);
when the person violates Article 76 (Prohibited Activities), paragraph (1) or (2).
A person who, through negligence, commits the offense referred to in paragraph (1), item (i) is subject to imprisonment for not more than three months or a fine of not more than 100,000 yen.
過失により第一項第一号の罪を犯した者は、三月以下の拘禁刑又は十万円以下の罰金に処する。
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a person violating Article 71 (Rules to Be Observed by Drivers), item (v)-5 and thereby causing a road traffic hazard; or
第七十一条（運転者の遵守事項）第五号の五の規定に違反し、よつて道路における交通の危険を生じさせた者
Open this provisiona person engaging in conduct that constitutes a violation of Article 22 (Maximum Speed Limits);
第二十二条（最高速度）の規定の違反となるような行為をした者
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A vehicle must not exceed the posted maximum speed limit when traveling on a road where a maximum speed limit is specified by road signs or markings, and must not exceed the maximum speed limit…
車両は、道路標識等によりその最高速度が指定されている道路においてはその最高速度を、その他の道路においては政令で定める最高速度をこえる速度で進行してはならない。
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The driver of a vehicle (other than a light road vehicle; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and in Articles 58-2 through 58-5) must not drive a vehicle while carrying a number of…
車両（軽車両を除く。以下この項及び第五十八条の二から第五十八条の五までにおいて同じ。）の運転者は、当該車両について政令で定める乗車人員又は積載物の重量、大きさ若しくは積載の方法（以下この条において「積載重量等」という。）の制限を超えて乗車をさせ、又は積載をして車両を運転してはならない。
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The driver of a vehicle (other than a light road vehicle; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and in Articles 58-2 through 58-5) must not drive a vehicle while carrying a number of…
車両（軽車両を除く。以下この項及び第五十八条の二から第五十八条の五までにおいて同じ。）の運転者は、当該車両について政令で定める乗車人員又は積載物の重量、大きさ若しくは積載の方法（以下この条において「積載重量等」という。）の制限を超えて乗車をさせ、又は積載をして車両を運転してはならない。
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It is prohibited for a person other than a user or an owner as prescribed in Article 75, paragraph (1) to do the following:
第七十五条第一項に規定する使用者等以外の者は、次に掲げる行為をしてはならない。
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If a person violates the preceding paragraph and the chief of the police station finds that the violator is likely to violate that paragraph again, the chief may order the violator not to violate…
警察署長は、前項の規定に違反する行為が行われた場合において、当該行為をした者が反復して同項の規定に違反する行為をするおそれがあると認めるときは、内閣府令で定めるところにより、当該行為をした者に対し、同項の規定に違反する行為をしてはならない旨を命ずることができる。
Open this provisionProhibition against Driving of Specified Small Motorized Bicycles by Persons under 16 Years of Age and Related Conduct
A person under 16 years of age must not drive a specified small motorized bicycle.
十六歳未満の者は、特定小型原動機付自転車を運転してはならない。
Open this provisionProhibition against Driving of Specified Small Motorized Bicycles by Persons under 16 Years of Age and Related Conduct
A person under 16 years of age must not drive a specified small motorized bicycle.
十六歳未満の者は、特定小型原動機付自転車を運転してはならない。
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It is prohibited for any person to provide a person who is likely to drive a specified small motorized bicycle in violation of the preceding paragraph with a specified small motorized bicycle.
何人も、前項の規定に違反して特定小型原動機付自転車を運転することとなるおそれがある者に対し、特定小型原動機付自転車を提供してはならない。
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The driver of a vehicle or streetcar must observe the following rules:
車両等の運転者は、次に掲げる事項を守らなければならない。
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when driving a motor vehicle, motorized bicycle or bicycle (hereinafter referred to in this item as a "motor vehicle, etc."), except when that motor vehicle, etc. is at a stop…
自動車、原動機付自転車又は自転車（以下この号において「自動車等」という。）を運転する場合においては、当該自動車等が停止しているときを除き、携帯電話用装置、自動車電話用装置その他の無線通話装置（その全部又は一部を手で保持しなければ送信及び受信のいずれをも行うことができないものに限る。第百十八条第一項第四号において「無線…
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It is prohibited for a motor vehicle user (including the user of heavy towable vehicles; the same applies hereinafter in this Article, paragraph (1) of the following Article, and Article 75-2-2…
自動車（重被牽引車を含む。以下この条、次条第一項及び第七十五条の二の二第二項において同じ。）の使用者（安全運転管理者等その他自動車の運行を直接管理する地位にある者を含む。次項において「使用者等」という。）は、その者の業務に関し、自動車の運転者に対し、次の各号のいずれかに掲げる行為をすることを命じ…
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to drive a motor vehicle that it has been established may be driven only by a person holding a public-safety-commission driver's license as under Article 84…
第八十四条第一項の規定による公安委員会の運転免許を受けている者（第百七条の二の規定により国際運転免許証又は外国運転免許証で自動車を運転することができることとされている者を含む。以下この項において同じ。）でなければ運転することができないこととされている自動車を当該運転免許を受けている者以外の者（第九十条第五項、第百三条…
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to drive a motor vehicle in violation of Article 22, paragraph (1);
第二十二条第一項の規定に違反して自動車を運転すること。
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to drive a large, mid-sized, or semi-mid-sized motor vehicle in violation of Article 85, paragraph (5); to drive a mid-sized or semi-mid-sized motor vehicle in violation of paragraph (6) of that…
第八十五条第五項の規定に違反して大型自動車、中型自動車若しくは準中型自動車を運転し、同条第六項の規定に違反して中型自動車若しくは準中型自動車を運転し、同条第七項の規定に違反して準中型自動車若しくは普通自動車を運転し、同条第八項の規定に違反して普通自動車を運転し…
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to drive a motor vehicle carrying a load in violation of Article 57, paragraph (1); or
第五十七条第一項の規定に違反して積載をして自動車を運転すること。
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It is prohibited for any person to install a traffic light, a road sign or marking, or any similar structure or object on any road without due cause.
何人も、信号機若しくは道路標識等又はこれらに類似する工作物若しくは物件をみだりに設置してはならない。
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It is prohibited for any person to install a traffic light, a road sign or marking, or any similar structure or object on any road without due cause.
何人も、信号機若しくは道路標識等又はこれらに類似する工作物若しくは物件をみだりに設置してはならない。
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It is prohibited for any person to install any structure or object that impairs the utility of traffic lights or road signs or markings on a road.
何人も、信号機又は道路標識等の効用を妨げるような工作物又は物件を設置してはならない。
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A person seeking to drive a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle as set forth in the left-hand column of the following Table must obtain the corresponding class 1 license set forth in the right-hand…
次の表の上欄に掲げる自動車等を運転しようとする者は、当該自動車等の種類に応じ、それぞれ同表の下欄に掲げる第一種免許を受けなければならない。 自動車等の種類 第一種免許の種類 大型自動車 大型免許 中型自動車 中型免許 準中型自動車 準中型免許 普通自動車 普通免許 大型特殊自動車 大型特殊免許 大型自動二輪車 大型二…
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Notwithstanding paragraph (2), it is not permissible for a person holding an S-ML (other than a person also holding an L-ML) who has not held an L-ML or S-ML for at least two years in total…
普通二輪免許を受けた者（大型二輪免許を現に受けている者を除く。）で、大型二輪免許又は普通二輪免許のいずれかを受けていた期間（当該免許の効力が停止されていた期間を除く。）が通算して二年に達しないものは、第二項の規定にかかわらず、政令で定める普通自動二輪車を運転することはできない。
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Notwithstanding paragraph (2), it is not permissible for a person holding an L-MVL who is under 21 years of age or who has not held an L-MVL, M-MVL, SM-MVL, S-MVL…
大型免許を受けた者で、二十一歳に満たないもの又は大型免許、中型免許、準中型免許、普通免許若しくは大型特殊免許のいずれかを受けていた期間（当該免許の効力が停止されていた期間を除く。）が通算して三年に達しないものは、第二項の規定にかかわらず、政令で定める大型自動車、中型自動車又は準中型自動車を運転することはできない。
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Notwithstanding paragraph (2), it is not permissible for a person holding an M-MVL (other than a person also holding an L-MVL) who is under 21 years of age or who has not held an L-MVL, M-MVL, SM-MVL…
中型免許を受けた者（大型免許を現に受けている者を除く。）で、二十一歳に満たないもの又は大型免許、中型免許、準中型免許、普通免許若しくは大型特殊免許のいずれかを受けていた期間（当該免許の効力が停止されていた期間を除く。）が通算して三年に達しないものは、第二項の規定にかかわらず…
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Notwithstanding paragraph (2), it is not permissible for a person holding an SM-MVL (other than a person also holding an L-MVL or M-MVL) who is as set forth in one of the following items to drive a…
準中型免許を受けた者（大型免許又は中型免許を現に受けている者を除く。）で、次の各号に掲げるものは、第二項の規定にかかわらず、それぞれ当該各号に定める自動車を運転することはできない。
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Notwithstanding paragraph (2), it is not permissible for a person holding an S-MVL (other than a person also holding an SM-MVL) who has not held a L-MVL, M-MVL, SM-MVL, S-MVL…
普通免許を受けた者（準中型免許を現に受けている者を除く。）で、大型免許、中型免許、準中型免許、普通免許又は大型特殊免許のいずれかを受けていた期間（当該免許の効力が停止されていた期間を除く。）が通算して二年に達しないものは、第二項の規定にかかわらず、政令で定める普通自動車を運転することはできない。
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Notwithstanding paragraph (2), it is not permissible for a person holding an L-ML who has not held a L-ML or S-ML for at least two years in total…
大型二輪免許を受けた者で、大型二輪免許又は普通二輪免許のいずれかを受けていた期間（当該免許の効力が停止されていた期間を除く。）が通算して二年に達しないものは、第二項の規定にかかわらず、政令で定める大型自動二輪車又は普通自動二輪車を運転することはできない。
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A person who, without obtaining a class 1 or class 2 license permitting the person to drive a standard motor vehicle, seeks to drive such a motor vehicle for practice…
大型自動車、中型自動車、準中型自動車又は普通自動車を当該自動車を運転することができる第一種免許又は第二種免許を受けないで練習のため又は第九十七条第一項第二号に掲げる事項について行う運転免許試験若しくは第九十九条第一項に規定する指定自動車教習所における自動車の運転に関する技能についての技能検定（次項において「試験等」と…
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A person holding a provisional L-MVL may drive a large, mid-sized, semi-mid-sized, or standard motor vehicle; a person holding a provisional M-MVL may drive a mid-sized, semi-mid-sized…
大型仮免許を受けた者は大型自動車、中型自動車、準中型自動車又は普通自動車を、中型仮免許を受けた者は中型自動車、準中型自動車又は普通自動車を、準中型仮免許を受けた者は準中型自動車又は普通自動車を、普通仮免許を受けた者は普通自動車を、練習のため又は試験等において運転することができる。
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「車両」
Motor vehicles (自動車), motorized bicycles (原動機付自転車), light road vehicles (軽車両) and trolleybuses (トロリーバス).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (viii)· applies throughout the law
motor vehiclemachine translation
「自動車」
A vehicle that runs on a motor without rails or overhead wires, or that carries out specified automated operation (特定自動運行), other than motorized bicycles (原動機付自転車), light road vehicles (軽車両), small mobility vehicles (移動用小型車), vehicles for persons with physical disabilities (身体障害者用の車), remotely operated small vehicles (遠隔操作型小型車), and walking-aid carts, prams and other small vehicles used while walking that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies (歩行補助車等).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ix)· applies throughout the law
motorized bicyclemachine translation
「原動機付自転車」
A vehicle that runs on an engine or motor without rails or overhead wires and either has an engine or motor no larger in total displacement or rated output than a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) sets, or meets a Cabinet Office Order's standard for a vehicle whose size and structure will not obstruct other vehicles on a bicycle path and which needs no great skill to drive, other than light vehicles (軽車両), small mobility vehicles (移動用小型車), vehicles for persons with physical disabilities, remotely operated small vehicles (遠隔操作型小型車) and walking-aid vehicles (歩行補助車等).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (x)· applies throughout the law
bicyclemachine translation
「自転車」
A vehicle with two or more wheels driven by human power through pedals or hand cranks and not running on rails, other than vehicles for persons with physical disabilities (身体障害者用の車), children's vehicles and walking-aid carts (歩行補助車等); it includes power-assisted ones meeting a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) standard, but not small mobility vehicles (移動用小型車) or ones that can be driven by remote operation.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xi-2)· applies throughout the law
drivingmachine translation
「運転」
Using a vehicle or streetcar on a road as it is meant to be used, including moving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle by pedals or other human-powered gear it has besides its motor, but not specified automated operation (特定自動運行).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xvii)· applies throughout the law
drivermachine translation
「運転者」
The person driving a vehicle or streetcar (車両等).
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xviii)
specified small motorized bicyclemachine translation
「特定小型原動機付自転車」
A motorized bicycle (原動機付自転車) of the kind in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (x)(b): one meeting a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) standard for vehicles whose body size and structure will not obstruct other vehicles on a bicycle path and which need no high skill to drive.
Defined inArticle 17, paragraph (3)
wireless telephonemachine translation
「無線通話装置」
In Article 71, paragraph (1), item (v)-5 and Article 118, paragraph (1), item (iv), a mobile phone, car phone or other wireless calling device that can neither send nor receive unless all or part of it is held in the hand.
Short name set inArticle 71, paragraph (1), item (v-5)· applies only in this provision and in Article 118, paragraph (1), item (iv)
provisional license
「仮免許」
A provisional driving license (仮運転免許), the third category of driving license beside class 1 and class 2 licenses, which under Article 87 lets a person drive a large, mid-sized, semi-mid-sized or standard motor vehicle only for practice or in a driving test or skills evaluation (技能検定).
Short name set inArticle 84, paragraph (2)
class 1 license
「第一種免許」
A class 1 driver's license (第一種運転免許), one of the three classes of license under Article 84, paragraph (2) beside class 2 licenses (第二種免許) and provisional licenses (仮免許); Article 84, paragraph (3) divides it into ten kinds.
Short name set inArticle 84, paragraph (2)
fine
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.
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.