Traffic patrol officers are employed as part of the prefectural police to handle administrative processes connected with ensuring safe road use by pedestrians and bicycles, compliance with regulations on stopping and parking, and other instructions related to the safety and fluidity of road traffic.
Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding paragraph, traffic patrol officers are to handle administrative processes connected with persons' compliance in securing parking spaces for motor vehicles pursuant to the Act on Securing Parking Spaces for Motor Vehicles.
A traffic patrol officer is appointed by the chief of the prefectural police from among the staff members (other than police officers) as prescribed in Article 55, paragraph (1) of the Police Act (Act No. 162 of 1954) who meet the requirements that Cabinet Order prescribes.
交通巡視員は、警察法（昭和二十九年法律第百六十二号）第五十五条第一項に規定する職員（警察官を除く。）で政令で定める要件を備えるもののうちから、警察本部長が命ずる。
A prefectural government is to provide traffic patrol officers with the clothing and lend them the equipment that they need in order to perform their duties, in accordance with the standards that Cabinet Order prescribes and pursuant to prefectural ordinance.
都道府県は、政令で定める基準に従い条例で定めるところにより、交通巡視員に対し、その職務遂行上必要な被服を支給し、及び装備品を貸与するものとする。
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Traffic patrol officers are employed as part of the prefectural police to handle administrative processes connected with ensuring safe road use by pedestrians and bicycles…
都道府県警察に、歩行者又は自転車の通行の安全の確保、停車又は駐車の規制の励行及び道路における交通の安全と円滑に係るその他の指導に関する事務を行わせるため、交通巡視員を置く。
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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
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「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
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「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
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「駐車」
A vehicle or streetcar stopping for some time to wait for passengers or cargo, to load or unload, because of a breakdown or for another reason (stops of up to five minutes to load or unload cargo, and stops to let people on or off, aside), or stopping (other than during specified automated operation (特定自動運行)) while its driver has left it and cannot drive it at once.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xviii)· applies throughout the law
stopping
「停車」
A vehicle or streetcar (車両等) coming to a stop, other than parking (駐車).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xix)· applies throughout the law
chief of the prefectural police
「警察本部長」
The Superintendent General of the Metropolitan Police (警視総監) or the chief of a prefectural police headquarters (道府県警察本部長).
Short name set inArticle 114-2, paragraph (1)
Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance
条例
A rule a local government makes for itself: a prefecture (都道府県), a city, town or village (市町村), or one of Tokyo's special wards (特別区) (Local Autonomy Act, Articles 1-3, 281 and 283). Its assembly (議会), whose members the residents elect, passes it (Articles 89 and 96, paragraph (1), item (i)), and its head — the governor or the mayor (Article 139) — promulgates it, that is, makes it public so that it can take effect (Article 16). The Constitution lets local governments make them within the limits of Acts (Constitution, Article 94), and one may not go against the national laws and regulations (法令), such as Acts, Cabinet Orders (政令) and Ministerial Orders (省令) (Local Autonomy Act, Article 14, paragraph (1)). Unless national laws and regulations provide otherwise, a local government can impose a duty or restrict a right only by one of these (Article 14, paragraph (2)), and it may write into one penalties for breaking it, within limits the Local Autonomy Act sets (Article 14, paragraph (3)). It is made for that local government's own affairs (Article 2, paragraph (2) and Article 14, paragraph (1)), so the same matter can be handled differently from one place to the next. It is a local rule, not a national one: an "ordinance" in the name of a national rule, such as an Ordinance for Enforcement of an Act, is usually a Ministerial Order (省令) or another national instrument.
Written by AI using Constitution, Art. 94 and Local Autonomy Act, Arts. 1-3, 2, 14, 16, 89, 96, 139, 281, 283 as a reference.