A person as referred to in one of the following items is subject to imprisonment for not more than two years or a fine of not more than 300,000 yen:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、二年以下の拘禁刑又は三十万円以下の罰金に処する。
a person violating Article 64 (Prohibition against Unlicensed Driving and Related Conduct), paragraph (3);
a person providing a person with an alcoholic beverage in violation of Article 65 (Prohibition against Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and Related Conduct), paragraph (3) (but only if the person provided with the alcoholic beverage as a result of the violation drives a vehicle or streetcar (other than a light road vehicle that is not a bicycle) with alcohol in their system at or above the level that Cabinet Order prescribes which is referred to in Article 117-2-2, paragraph (1), item (iii); other than as under paragraph (1), item (v) of that Article); or
a person violating Article 65 (Prohibition against Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and Related Conduct), paragraph (4) (but only if the driver of the vehicle (other than a light road vehicle that is not a bicycle; the same applies hereinafter in this item) into which the person has gotten drives the vehicle in an intoxicated state or with alcohol in their system at or above the level that Cabinet Order prescribes which is referred to in Article 117-2-2, paragraph (1), item (iii); other than as under paragraph (1), item (vi) of that Article).
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a person driving a vehicle or streetcar (other than a light road vehicle that is not a bicycle; the same applies in the following item) in violation of Article 65…
第六十五条（酒気帯び運転等の禁止）第一項の規定に違反して車両等（自転車以外の軽車両を除く。次号において同じ。）を運転した者で、その運転をした場合において身体に血液一ミリリットルにつき一・〇ミリグラム未満の範囲内又は呼気一リットルにつき〇・五ミリグラム未満の範囲内において政令で定める程度以上にアルコールを保有する状態に…
Open this provisiona person providing a person with an alcoholic beverage in violation of Article 65 (Prohibition against Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and Related Conduct)…
第六十五条（酒気帯び運転等の禁止）第三項の規定に違反して酒類を提供した者（当該違反により当該酒類の提供を受けた者が酒に酔つた状態で車両等を運転した場合に限る。）
Open this provisiona person violating Article 65 (Prohibition against Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and Related Conduct), paragraph (4)…
第六十五条（酒気帯び運転等の禁止）第四項の規定に違反した者（その者が当該同乗した車両の運転者が酒に酔つた状態にあることを知りながら同項の規定に違反した場合であつて、当該運転者が酒に酔つた状態で当該車両を運転したときに限る。）
Open this provisiona person violating Article 65 (Prohibition against Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and Related Conduct), paragraph (4)…
第六十五条（酒気帯び運転等の禁止）第四項の規定に違反した者（当該同乗した車両（自転車以外の軽車両を除く。以下この号において同じ。）の運転者が酒に酔つた状態で当該車両を運転し、又は身体に第百十七条の二の二第一項第三号の政令で定める程度以上にアルコールを保有する状態で当該車両を運転した場合に限るものとし、同項第六号に該当…
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It is prohibited for any person to drive a motor vehicle or ride a general motorized bicycle without being licensed to drive by a public safety commission as under Article 84…
何人も、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ないで（第九十条第五項、第百三条第一項若しくは第四項、第百三条の二第一項、第百四条の二の三第一項若しくは第三項又は同条第五項において準用する第百三条第四項の規定により運転免許の効力が停止されている場合を含む。）…
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It is prohibited for any person who knows that the driver of a motor vehicle (other than a motor vehicle used for passenger motor carrier services as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the…
何人も、自動車（道路運送法第二条第三項に規定する旅客自動車運送事業（以下単に「旅客自動車運送事業」という。）の用に供する自動車で当該業務に従事中のものその他の政令で定める自動車を除く。以下この項において同じ。）又は一般原動機付自転車の運転者が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ないこと（第九十条…
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It is prohibited for any person to drive a vehicle or streetcar while under the influence of alcohol.
何人も、酒気を帯びて車両等を運転してはならない。
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It is prohibited for any person to provide an alcoholic beverage to or encourage the consumption of alcohol by a person who is likely to drive a vehicle or streetcar in violation of paragraph (1).
何人も、第一項の規定に違反して車両等を運転することとなるおそれがある者に対し、酒類を提供し、又は飲酒をすすめてはならない。
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It is prohibited for any person to demand or request that a driver transport that person in a vehicle (other than a trolleybus or motor vehicle used for passenger motor carrier services that is in…
何人も、車両（トロリーバス及び旅客自動車運送事業の用に供する自動車で当該業務に従事中のものその他の政令で定める自動車を除く。以下この項、第百十七条の二の二第一項第六号及び第百十七条の三の二第三号において同じ。）の運転者が酒気を帯びていることを知りながら、当該運転者に対し、当該車両を運転して自己を運送することを要求し…
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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
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
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
vehicle or streetcarmachine translation
「車両等」
A vehicle (車両) or a streetcar (路面電車).
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xvii)
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)
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.