Article 58-5Prohibition on Requiring or Otherwise Compelling Drivers to Drive Overloaded Vehicles
第五十八条の五（過積載車両の運転の要求等の禁止）
It is prohibited for a person other than a user or an owner as prescribed in Article 75, paragraph (1) to do the following:
to require the driver of a vehicle to drive while carrying an excessive load in the vehicle;
to sell or deliver to the driver of a vehicle a load exceeding the weight subject to the restrictions referred to in Article 57, paragraph (1) so that the load can be loaded onto the vehicle, while knowing that the load exceeds those restrictions.
If a person violates the preceding paragraph and the chief of the police station finds that the violator is likely to violate that paragraph again, the chief may order the violator not to violate that paragraph, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order.
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(Restrictions on Riding and Loading; Related Considerations)
The driver of a vehicle (other than a light road vehicle; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and in Articles 58-2 through 58-5) must not drive a vehicle while carrying a number of…
車両（軽車両を除く。以下この項及び第五十八条の二から第五十八条の五までにおいて同じ。）の運転者は、当該車両について政令で定める乗車人員又は積載物の重量、大きさ若しくは積載の方法（以下この条において「積載重量等」という。）の制限を超えて乗車をさせ、又は積載をして車両を運転してはならない。
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It is prohibited for a person other than a user or an owner as prescribed in Article 75, paragraph (1) to do the following:
第七十五条第一項に規定する使用者等以外の者は、次に掲げる行為をしてはならない。
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It is prohibited for a motor vehicle user (including the user of heavy towable vehicles; the same applies hereinafter in this Article, paragraph (1) of the following Article, and Article 75-2-2…
自動車（重被牽引車を含む。以下この条、次条第一項及び第七十五条の二の二第二項において同じ。）の使用者（安全運転管理者等その他自動車の運行を直接管理する地位にある者を含む。次項において「使用者等」という。）は、その者の業務に関し、自動車の運転者に対し、次の各号のいずれかに掲げる行為をすることを命じ…
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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
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)
excessive load
「過積載」
Loading a vehicle with cargo heavier than the limit under Article 57, paragraph (1), or than the weight allowed by a permit under paragraph (3) of that Article.
Defined inArticle 58-3, paragraph (1)
user, etc.machine translation
「使用者等」
In Article 75, paragraph (2), the user (使用者) of a motor vehicle together with its driving safety supervisor or deputy (安全運転管理者等) and anyone else in a position to directly manage the operation of its motor vehicles.
Short name set inArticle 75, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 75, paragraph (2)
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.