When a vehicle found to be an improperly maintained vehicle (excluding a light road vehicle; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) is being driven, a police officer may stop the vehicle, require the driver of the vehicle to present the motor vehicle inspection certificate and other documents that Cabinet Order prescribes and the records made by the operating status recording device (meaning a device for recording the information necessary for confirming the operating status prescribed in Article 41, paragraph (2) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act; the same applies in Article 63-2-2), and inspect the equipment of the vehicle. In this case, if the police officer finds it necessary to take measures to put those records into a state in which they can be recognized by human sight or hearing, the officer may request the person who manufactured or imported the vehicle or other relevant persons to take those measures.
警察官は、整備不良車両に該当すると認められる車両（軽車両を除く。以下この条において同じ。）が運転されているときは、当該車両を停止させ、並びに当該車両の運転者に対し、自動車検査証その他政令で定める書類及び作動状態記録装置（道路運送車両法第四十一条第二項に規定する作動状態の確認に必要な情報を記録するための装置をいう。第六十三条の二の二において同じ。）により記録された記録の提示を求め、並びに当該車両の装置について検査をすることができる。この場合において、警察官は、当該記録を人の視覚又は聴覚により認識することができる状態にするための措置が必要であると認めるときは、当該車両を製作し、又は輸入した者その他の関係者に対し、当該措置を求めることができる。
In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, a police officer may order the driver of the vehicle to take the necessary stop-gap measures to prevent a road hazard or otherwise ensure traffic safety or to prevent the vehicle from being a nuisance to others; if it is found not to be possible to effect the necessary maintenance on a vehicle through stop-gap measures alone (hereinafter such a vehicle is referred to in this Article as a "malfunctioning vehicle"), the police officer may issue an order prohibiting the driver from continuing to drive the malfunctioning vehicle.
Notwithstanding the preceding Article, a police officer may grant permission for a person to drive a malfunctioning vehicle on a specified section and route of travel on finding, in a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, that there is nothing to prevent this in terms of the degree of improper maintenance on the malfunctioning vehicle and road or traffic conditions, but only so far as is necessary for the malfunctioning vehicle to undergo maintenance, and may attach other conditions necessary to prevent road hazards or to prevent the malfunctioning vehicle from being a nuisance to others. In such a case, a police officer must issue a permit.
When a police officer has taken measures under paragraph (2), the officer must issue to the driver of the malfunctioning vehicle a document stating the matters requiring maintenance on that malfunctioning vehicle, and must attach a mark in an easily visible place on the front of the malfunctioning vehicle.
Having taken a measure under the preceding paragraph, a police officer must report this to the competent police station chief over the place where the measure was taken.
警察官は、前項の措置をとつたときは、その旨を当該措置をとつた場所を管轄する警察署長に報告しなければならない。
Upon receiving a report as referred to in the preceding paragraph, the chief of the police station must notify the Director of the District Transport Bureau with jurisdiction over the base of operations of the malfunctioning vehicle of the information that Cabinet Office Order/Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism prescribes.
It is prohibited for any person to damage or deface a mark attached pursuant to paragraph (4); it is also prohibited for any person to remove such a mark until after the chief of the nearest police station or the administrative agency with authority over matters relating to vehicle maintenance confirms, through procedures that Cabinet Office Order/Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism prescribes, that the necessary maintenance of the malfunctioning vehicle has been carried out.
Cabinet Office Order/Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism provides for the format of permits as referred to in paragraph (3), the format of documents issued to the driver of a malfunctioning vehicle pursuant to paragraph (4), and the format of marks as referred to in that paragraph.
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Equipment of Motor Vehicles
The "automated operation device" referred to in item (xx) of the preceding paragraph means a device whose principal components are sensors for detecting the state of a motor vehicle during operation…
前項第二十号の「自動運行装置」とは、プログラム（電子計算機（入出力装置を含む。この項及び第九十九条の三第一項第一号を除き、以下同じ。）に対する指令であつて、一の結果を得ることができるように組み合わされたものをいう。以下同じ。）により自動的に自動車を運行させるために必要な…
Open this provision(Prohibition against Driving Improperly Maintained Vehicles)
A user of a vehicle or streetcar or any other person responsible for maintaining the equipment of a vehicle or streetcar, or a driver, must not cause to be driven, or drive…
車両等の使用者その他車両等の装置の整備について責任を有する者又は運転者は、その装置が道路運送車両法第三章若しくはこれに基づく命令の規定（同法の規定が適用されない自衛隊の使用する自動車については、自衛隊法（昭和二十九年法律第百六十五号）第百十四条第二項の規定による防衛大臣の定め。以下同じ。）又は軌道法第十四条若しくはこ…
Open this provision(Vehicle Inspections; Other Measures)
When a vehicle found to be an improperly maintained vehicle (excluding a light road vehicle; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) is being driven, a police officer may stop the vehicle…
警察官は、整備不良車両に該当すると認められる車両（軽車両を除く。以下この条において同じ。）が運転されているときは、当該車両を停止させ、並びに当該車両の運転者に対し、自動車検査証その他政令で定める書類及び作動状態記録装置（道路運送車両法第四十一条第二項に規定する作動状態の確認に必要な情報を記録するための装置をいう。第六…
Open this provisionRecords Made by Operating Status Recording Devices; Related Considerations
A user of a motor vehicle or any other person responsible for maintaining the equipment of a motor vehicle, or a driver, must not cause to be driven, or drive…
自動車の使用者その他自動車の装置の整備について責任を有する者又は運転者は、自動運行装置を備えている自動車で、作動状態記録装置により道路運送車両法第四十一条第二項に規定する作動状態の確認に必要な情報を正確に記録することができないものを運転させ、又は運転してはならない。
Open this provision(Vehicle Inspections; Other Measures)
When a vehicle found to be an improperly maintained vehicle (excluding a light road vehicle; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) is being driven, a police officer may stop the vehicle…
警察官は、整備不良車両に該当すると認められる車両（軽車両を除く。以下この条において同じ。）が運転されているときは、当該車両を停止させ、並びに当該車両の運転者に対し、自動車検査証その他政令で定める書類及び作動状態記録装置（道路運送車両法第四十一条第二項に規定する作動状態の確認に必要な情報を記録するための装置をいう。第六…
Open this provision(Vehicle Inspections; Other Measures)
In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, a police officer may order the driver of the vehicle to take the necessary stop-gap measures to prevent a road hazard or otherwise ensure traffic…
前項の場合において、警察官は、当該車両の運転者に対し、道路における危険を防止し、その他交通の安全を図り、又は他人に及ぼす迷惑を防止するため必要な応急の措置をとることを命じ、また、応急の措置によつては必要な整備をすることができないと認められる車両（以下この条において「故障車両」という。）については…
Open this provision(Vehicle Inspections; Other Measures)
Notwithstanding the preceding Article, a police officer may grant permission for a person to drive a malfunctioning vehicle on a specified section and route of travel on finding…
前項の場合において、当該故障車両の整備不良の程度及び道路又は交通の状況により支障がないと認めるときは、警察官は、前条の規定にかかわらず、当該故障車両を整備するため必要な限度において、区間及び通行の経路を指定し…
Open this provision(Vehicle Inspections; Other Measures)
When a police officer has taken measures under paragraph (2), the officer must issue to the driver of the malfunctioning vehicle a document stating the matters requiring maintenance on that…
警察官は、第二項の規定による措置をとつたときは、当該故障車両の運転者に対し、当該故障車両について整備を要する事項を記載した文書を交付し、かつ、当該故障車両の前面の見やすい箇所に標章を貼り付けなければならない。
Open this provision(Vehicle Inspections; Other Measures)
Having taken a measure under the preceding paragraph, a police officer must report this to the competent police station chief over the place where the measure was taken.
警察官は、前項の措置をとつたときは、その旨を当該措置をとつた場所を管轄する警察署長に報告しなければならない。
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「道路」
A road as defined in the Road Act, a motor vehicle road (自動車道) as defined in the Road Transportation Act, and any other place used for general traffic.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
vehicle
「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
light road vehiclemachine translation
「軽車両」
A bicycle, cart or other vehicle moved by human or animal power or towed by another vehicle without rails (including sleds and horses or cattle, but not children's vehicles), or a motorized vehicle a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) treats as like one, other than small mobility vehicles (移動用小型車), vehicles for persons with physical disabilities (身体障害者用の車), walking-aid carts (歩行補助車等) and anything that can be driven by remote operation (遠隔操作).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xi)· 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)
motor vehicle inspection certificate
「自動車検査証」
In Article 58-2 and Article 63, paragraph (1), the motor vehicle inspection certificate referred to in Article 60 of the Road Transport Vehicle Act.
Defined inArticle 58-2, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 63, paragraph (1)
improperly maintained vehiclemachine translation
「整備不良車両」
A vehicle or streetcar whose equipment does not conform to Chapter III of the Road Transport Vehicle Act or orders under it (for Self-Defense Forces vehicles, the Minister of Defense's standard under Article 114, paragraph (2) of the Self-Defense Forces Act), or to Article 14 of the Act on Rail Tracks or orders under it, so that it may cause a traffic hazard or trouble others.
Short name set inArticle 62, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 63, paragraph (1); and Article 71-4-2, paragraph (2), item (i)
operating status recording devicemachine translation
「作動状態記録装置」
The device that Article 41, paragraph (2) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act requires an automated driving system (自動運行装置) to be fitted with, which records the information needed to check how the system's driving function has been operating.
Defined inArticle 63, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 63-2-2
malfunctioning vehicle
「故障車両」
In Article 63, a vehicle that cannot be put into proper order by emergency measures, which a police officer may forbid from being driven further.
Short name set inArticle 63, paragraph (2)· applies only in this article
Director of a District Transport Bureau
地方運輸局長
The head of a district transport bureau (地方運輸局), a local branch (地方支分部局) of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (国土交通省), a national ministry (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Articles 2, paragraph (1), and 30; National Government Organization Act, Articles 3, paragraph (2), and 9). The bureau handles part of the Ministry's work, including the working conditions, safety, welfare and accident compensation of seafarers (船員) and their job placement (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Article 4, paragraph (1), items (xcvi) and (xcvii), and Article 35, paragraph (1)); its names, seats and areas are set by Cabinet Order (政令) (Article 35, paragraph (3)), and a transport supervision department (運輸監理部) handles part of its work in some places (Article 36, paragraph (1)). For seafarers (船員), and people seeking to become seafarers, the director, including the director of a transport supervision department, takes the place of the director of a prefectural labor bureau (都道府県労働局長) under the Act on Promoting the Resolution of Individual Labor-Related Disputes: the director provides information and consultation, may give advice or guidance when a party to a dispute asks for help, and, on a party's application for mediation (あっせん) in a dispute other than one over recruitment and hiring, and where the director thinks it necessary, has mediators (あっせん員) designated from a list of candidates the director draws up every two years mediate it (Act on Promoting the Resolution of Individual Labor-Related Disputes, Articles 3, 4(1), 5(1), and 21, paragraphs (1) and (3)). Under the Minimum Wage Act, the director likewise exercises for seafarers the powers the Act gives the director of a prefectural labor bureau (Minimum Wage Act, Article 35, paragraph (2)). Under the Road Transport Vehicle Act the director has powers of its own — for example, to order the user of a motor vehicle that does not meet the safety standards (保安基準) to have it serviced, and to certify a business that services motor vehicles (Road Transport Vehicle Act, Articles 54, paragraph (1), and 78, paragraph (1)) — and the powers that Act gives the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (国土交通大臣) may be delegated to the director, as a Cabinet Order (政令) provides; the director's powers may be delegated on, as a Cabinet Order provides, to the head of a transport supervision department (運輸監理部長) or of a district transport branch office (運輸支局長) (Article 105, paragraphs (1) and (2)).
Written by AI using Road Transport Vehicle Act, Arts. 54, 78, 105, Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Arts. 2, 4, 30, 35, 36, National Government Organization Act, Arts. 3, 9, Act on Promoting the Resolution of Individual Labor-Related Disputes, Arts. 3, 4, 5, 21 and Minimum Wage Act, Art. 35 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.