The chief of the police station may ask a corporation registered by the public safety commission to handle all or part of the administrative processes involved in checking for abandoned vehicles, confirming that vehicles have been abandoned, and attaching marks to them as prescribed in Article 51-4, paragraph (1) (hereinafter these actions are referred to as "checking for, confirming, and marking abandoned vehicles") (hereinafter these administrative processes are referred to as "checking and confirmation processes").
警察署長は、第五十一条の四第一項に規定する放置車両の確認及び標章の取付け（以下「放置車両の確認等」という。）に関する事務（以下「確認事務」という。）の全部又は一部を、公安委員会の登録を受けた法人に委託することができる。
Registration as referred to in the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to from this Article through Article 51-11 as "registration") is carried out at the application of a corporation that has been asked to handle the checking and confirmation processes and that seeks to handle them.
A corporation as referred to in one of the following items may not be registered:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する法人は、登録を受けることができない。
a corporation whose registration has been revoked pursuant to Article 51-10 and it has been less than two years since the date of the revocation;
a corporation among whose corporate officers (meaning a member who executes its business, a director, an executive officer, or a person equivalent to any of them, and including, regardless of what name the person bears, such as adviser, consultant, or otherwise, a person found to have control over the corporation equal to or greater than that of a member who executes its business, director, executive officer, or equivalent person; the same applies in Article 75-14) there is a person who falls under any of the following:
役員（業務を執行する社員、取締役、執行役又はこれらに準ずる者をいい、相談役、顧問その他いかなる名称を有する者であるかを問わず、法人に対し業務を執行する社員、取締役、執行役又はこれらに準ずる者と同等以上の支配力を有するものと認められる者を含む。第七十五条の十四において同じ。）のうちに次のいずれかに該当する者のある法人
a person who is subject to a decision on the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings and has not had their rights restored;
破産手続開始の決定を受けて復権を得ない者
a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment or a heavier punishment, or who has been sentenced for committing a crime as referred to in Article 119-2-4, paragraph (2), if it has been less than two years since the day on which the person completed the sentence or ceased to be subject to its execution;
拘禁刑以上の刑に処せられ、又は第百十九条の二の四第二項の罪を犯して刑に処せられ、その執行を終わり、又は執行を受けることがなくなつた日から起算して二年を経過しない者
a person whom there are reasonable grounds to find likely of engaging concertedly or regularly in violent unlawful activities or other illegal activities constituting a crime provided for by Rules of the National Public Safety Commission;
集団的に、又は常習的に暴力的不法行為その他の罪に当たる違法な行為で国家公安委員会規則で定めるものを行うおそれがあると認めるに足りる相当な理由がある者
a person who has been subject to an order pursuant to Article 12 or Article 12-6 of the Act on the Prevention of Unlawful Activities by Members of Organized Crime Groups (Act No. 77 of 1991) or an instruction pursuant to Article 12-4, paragraph (2) of that Act, if it has been less than less than two years since the day on which the person became subject to that order or instruction;
暴力団員による不当な行為の防止等に関する法律（平成三年法律第七十七号）第十二条若しくは第十二条の六の規定による命令又は同法第十二条の四第二項の規定による指示を受けた者であつて、当該命令又は指示を受けた日から起算して二年を経過しないもの
an alcohol, narcotics, marijuana, opium, or stimulants addict;
アルコール、麻薬、大麻、あへん又は覚醒剤の中毒者
a person provided for by Rules of the National Public Safety Commission as one who cannot appropriately undertake the checking and confirmation processes due to a mental or physical disorder.
心身の障害により確認事務を適正に行うことができない者として国家公安委員会規則で定めるもの
The public safety commission must register a corporation that has applied for the registration pursuant to paragraph (2) if it conforms to all of the following requirements:
the checking and confirmation processes will be carried out using vehicles, cellular telephones and other portable wireless telephones, maps, cameras, and computers;
parking inspectors as referred to in Article 51-12, paragraph (3) will be the ones checking for, confirming, and marking abandoned vehicles;
第五十一条の十二第三項の駐車監視員が放置車両の確認等を行うものであること。
the corporation has an office within the boundaries of the prefecture where the public safety commission is located.
当該公安委員会が置かれている都道府県の区域内に事務所を有するものであること。
A registration must give the name of the registered corporation, the name of its representative, the locality of its principal office, the date of the registration, and the registration number.
登録は、登録簿に登録を受ける法人の名称、代表者の氏名、主たる事務所の所在地、登録の年月日及び登録番号を記載してするものとする。
Unless a registration is renewed by the end of each period as prescribed by Cabinet Order, it becomes invalid once that period passes.
登録は、三年を下らない政令で定める期間ごとにその更新を受けなければ、その期間の経過によつて、その効力を失う。
The provisions of paragraphs (2) through (5) apply mutatis mutandis to the renewal of a registration as referred to in the preceding paragraph.
第二項から第五項までの規定は、前項の登録の更新について準用する。