A motor vehicle (including a vehicle with the necessary structure and equipment to allow them to be towed by a motor vehicle; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) must not be stopped or parked on a national expressway or limited highway unless the driver has come to a stop pursuant to laws and regulations, in compliance with a police officer's orders, or in order to prevent a hazard; provided, however, that this does not apply if:
a driver stops or parks a motor vehicle in a place demarked for parking;
a malfunction or other such circumstance compels the driver to stop or park a motor vehicle, and the driver stops or parks on a shoulder or side strip that is wide enough for stopping or parking;
a driver stops a bus to load or unload passengers or parks a bus to adjust its timing so that operations can get back on schedule, at a bus stop that is part of the bus's transit system; or
a driver stops a motor vehicle at a tollgate in order to pay a toll.
料金支払いのため料金徴収所において停車するとき。
The provisions of Articles 50-2 through 51-2 apply mutatis mutandis where a motor vehicle is found to have been stopped or parked in violation of the preceding paragraph. In such a case, the phrase "another place on the road within 50 meters of the place where it is parked" in Article 51, paragraph (3) is deemed to be replaced with "a place that Cabinet Order prescribes"; the phrase "there is no place on the road to which it can be moved that is within 50 meters of where it is parked" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "it cannot be moved to the place that Cabinet Order prescribes which is referred to in the preceding paragraph"; and the phrase "a parking spot, open space, place on a road other than as prescribed in paragraph (3), or other such place" in paragraph (5) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "a place other than the place prescribed in paragraph (3)".
第五十条の二から第五十一条の二までの規定は、自動車が前項の規定に違反して停車し、又は駐車していると認められる場合について準用する。この場合において、第五十一条第三項中「当該車両が駐車している場所からの距離が五十メートルを超えない道路上の場所」とあるのは「政令で定める場所」と、同条第四項中「当該車両が駐車している場所からの距離が五十メートルを超えない範囲の地域内の道路上に当該車両を移動する場所がないとき」とあるのは「前項の政令で定める場所に当該車両を移動することができないとき」と、同条第五項中「駐車場、空地、第三項に規定する場所以外の道路上の場所その他の場所」とあるのは「第三項に規定する場所以外の場所」と読み替えるものとする。
A motor vehicle that is found to have been parked on a national expressway or limited highway in violation of paragraph (1) and which cannot be driven immediately because the driver has left the vicinity is deemed to be an abandoned vehicle as prescribed in paragraph (1) of Article 51-4, and that Article applies.