In a case as referred to in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, if it is found to be difficult for the driver or staff member of a vehicle or streetcar to immediately follow the instructions given pursuant to that paragraph due to injury or another reason, a police officer at the scene may physically move an object damaged in the traffic accident or a load being carried by a vehicle or streetcar involved in the traffic accident (hereinafter referred to in this Article as a "damaged object or load") and take other stop-gap measures, but only so far as is necessary to prevent road traffic hazards and otherwise ensure the safety and fluidity of traffic.
In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, having moved a damaged object or load, a police officer must hand it over to the chief of the police station who has jurisdiction over the place where the damaged object or load was originally found. In such a case, the chief of the police station must store the damaged object or load as its custodian.
The provisions of Article 51, paragraph (7) and paragraphs (9) through (21) of that Article, and Article 51-2 apply mutatis mutandis to a damaged object or load that is the subject of measures under the preceding two paragraphs. In such a case, the phrase "the user of the vehicle" in Article 51, paragraph (7) is deemed to be replaced with "the owner, possessor, or other person with title to the damaged object or load (hereinafter referred to in this Article and the following Article as the 'owner or other such person')"; the phrase "the preceding paragraph" in paragraph (9) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (7) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 72-2, paragraph (3)", and the phrase "cannot ascertain the name and address of the owner of a vehicle" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "cannot ascertain the name and address of the owner of a vehicle, and it is found to be difficult to return the damaged object or load to a person other than its owner"; the phrase "paragraphs (7) through (10)" in paragraph (11) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (7) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 72-2, paragraph (3) and the preceding two paragraphs"; the phrase "remains unreturned one month after the date of a notification as under paragraph (8) or" in paragraph (12) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "is likely to spoil or deteriorate, or remains unreturned one month after the date of a notification to the owner of the damaged object or load as under paragraph (7) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 72-2, paragraph (3) or", and the term "cost" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "cost or effort"; the phrase "the driver, etc. or the user or owner of the vehicle (hereinafter referred to in this Article and the following Article as the 'user, etc.')" in paragraph (15) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the owner or other such person"; the phrase "the driver, etc. or the user, etc." in paragraph (16) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the owner or other such person"; the phrase "a notification as under paragraph (8)" in paragraph (20) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "a notification to the owner of the damaged object or load as under paragraph (7) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 72-2, paragraph (3)"; and the phrase "the user, etc. of a vehicle stored pursuant to paragraph (6) of that Article or other relevant persons, or the owner, possessor, or other person with title to a load stored pursuant to paragraph (6) of that Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (22) of that Article" in Article 51-2, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "the owner or other such person of a damaged object or load stored pursuant to the second sentence of Article 72-2, paragraph (2)".
第五十一条第七項及び第九項から第二十一項まで並びに第五十一条の二の規定は、前二項の規定による措置に係る損壊物等について準用する。この場合において、第五十一条第七項中「使用者」とあるのは「所有者、占有者その他当該損壊物等について権原を有する者(以下この条及び次条において「所有者等」という。)」と、同条第九項中「前項」とあるのは「第七十二条の二第三項において読み替えて準用する第七項」と、「知ることができない」とあるのは「知ることができず、かつ、当該損壊物等の所有者以外の者に当該損壊物等を返還することが困難であると認められる」と、同条第十一項中「第七項から前項まで」とあるのは「第七十二条の二第三項において読み替えて準用する第七項及び前二項」と、同条第十二項中「第八項の規定による告知の日又は」とあるのは「腐敗し、若しくは変質するおそれがあるとき、又は第七十二条の二第三項において読み替えて準用する第七項の規定による当該損壊物等の所有者に対する告知の日若しくは」と、「費用」とあるのは「費用若しくは手数」と、同条第十五項中「運転者等又は使用者若しくは所有者(以下この条及び次条において「使用者等」という。)」とあるのは「所有者等」と、同条第十六項中「運転者等又は使用者等」とあるのは「所有者等」と、同条第二十項中「第八項の規定による」とあるのは「第七十二条の二第三項において読み替えて準用する第七項の規定による当該損壊物等の所有者に対する」と、第五十一条の二第一項中「同条第六項の規定により保管した車両の使用者等その他の関係者又は同条第二十二項において準用する同条第六項の規定により保管した積載物の所有者、占有者その他当該積載物について権原を有する者」とあるのは「第七十二条の二第二項後段の規定により保管した損壊物等の所有者等」と読み替えるものとする。
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If a vehicle is found to be parked in violation of Article 44, paragraph (1), Article 45, paragraph (1) or (2), Article 47, paragraph (2) or (3), Article 48, Article 49-3, paragraph (2) or (3)…
車両が第四十四条第一項、第四十五条第一項若しくは第二項、第四十七条第二項若しくは第三項、第四十八条、第四十九条の三第二項若しくは第三項、第四十九条の四若しくは第四十九条の五後段の規定に違反して駐車していると認められるとき…
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When the chief of a police station finds it necessary for the enforcement of the preceding Article, the chief may request the user, etc. of a vehicle stored pursuant to paragraph (6) of that Article…
警察署長は、前条の規定の施行のため必要があると認めるときは、同条第六項の規定により保管した車両の使用者等その他の関係者又は同条第二十二項において準用する同条第六項の規定により保管した積載物の所有者、占有者その他当該積載物について権原を有する者その他の関係者に対し…
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When the chief of a police station finds it necessary for the enforcement of the preceding Article, the chief may request the user, etc. of a vehicle stored pursuant to paragraph (6) of that Article…
警察署長は、前条の規定の施行のため必要があると認めるときは、同条第六項の規定により保管した車両の使用者等その他の関係者又は同条第二十二項において準用する同条第六項の規定により保管した積載物の所有者、占有者その他当該積載物について権原を有する者その他の関係者に対し…
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After issuing public notice under the preceding paragraph, the chief of the police station must publicly announce the date and details of the public notice via the Internet and through other means…
警察署長は、前項の規定による公示をしたときは、内閣府令で定めるところにより、当該公示の日付及び内容をインターネットの利用その他の方法により公表するものとする。
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Beyond what is prescribed in paragraphs (7) through (10), Cabinet Order provides for the necessary particulars concerning the return of a vehicle that the chief of a police station has taken into…
第七項から前項までに定めるもののほか、第六項の規定により保管した車両の返還に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。
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If a vehicle that the chief of a police station has taken into storage pursuant to paragraph (6) remains unreturned one month after the date of a notification as under paragraph (8) or public notice…
警察署長は、第六項の規定により保管した車両につき、第八項の規定による告知の日又は第九項の規定による公示の日から起算して一月を経過してもなお当該車両を返還することができない場合において、政令で定めるところにより評価した当該車両の価額に比し、その保管に不相当な費用を要するときは、政令で定めるところにより、当該車両を売却し…
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If there is no purchaser for a vehicle in a sale as under the preceding paragraph and the value of the vehicle as prescribed in that paragraph is extremely low…
警察署長は、前項の規定による車両の売却につき買受人がない場合において、同項に規定する価額が著しく低いときは、当該車両を廃棄することができる。
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The proceeds of a sale undertaken pursuant to paragraph (12) may be allocated to cover the expenses required to conduct that sale.
第十二項の規定により売却した代金は、売却に要した費用に充てることができる。
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The expenses required for measures under paragraph (2) or (3) or paragraphs (5) through (11), including moving a vehicle, storing a vehicle, public notice, and other such measures…
第二項、第三項又は第五項から第十一項までの規定による車両の移動、車両の保管、公示その他の措置に要した費用は、当該車両の運転者等又は使用者若しくは所有者(以下この条及び次条において「使用者等」という。)の負担とする。
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The chief of the police station must set the amount, due date, and place for payment of the charges payable by the driver or other responsible person or by the user or owner pursuant to the preceding…
警察署長は、前項の規定により運転者等又は使用者等の負担とされる負担金につき納付すべき金額、納付の期限及び場所を定め、これらの者に対し、文書でその納付を命じなければならない。この場合において、納付すべき金額は、同項に規定する費用につき実費を勘案して都道府県規則でその額を定めたときは、その定めた額とする。
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If a person ordered to make a payment pursuant to the preceding paragraph fails to do so before the due date, the chief of the police station must issue a written demand that fixes the due date for…
警察署長は、前項の規定により納付を命ぜられた者が納付の期限を経過しても負担金を納付しないときは、督促状によつて納付すべき期限を指定して督促しなければならない。この場合において、警察署長は、負担金につき年十四・五パーセントの割合により計算した額の範囲内の延滞金及び督促に要した手数料を徴収することができる。
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If a person subject to a demand under the preceding paragraph fails to pay the charges, fines for delinquency, or fees referred to in the second sentence of that paragraph…
前項の規定による督促を受けた者がその指定期限までに負担金並びに同項後段の延滞金及び手数料(以下この条において「負担金等」という。)を納付しないときは、警察署長は、地方税の滞納処分の例により、負担金等を徴収することができる。この場合における負担金等の先取特権の順位は、国税及び地方税に次ぐものとする。
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Charges, fines, and fees paid and collected are the revenue of the prefecture where the police station is located.
納付され、又は徴収された負担金等は、当該警察署の属する都道府県の収入とする。
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If a vehicle stored pursuant to paragraph (6) (or the proceeds of a sale under paragraph (12); the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) remains unreturned three months after the date of a…
第八項の規定による告知の日又は第九項の規定による公示の日から起算して三月を経過してもなお第六項の規定により保管した車両(第十二項の規定により売却した代金を含む。以下この項において同じ。)を返還することができないときは、当該車両の所有権は、当該警察署の属する都道府県に帰属する。
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When a vehicle (limited to a motor vehicle registered under the Road Transport Vehicle Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) has been sold pursuant to paragraph (12)…
警察署長は、第十二項の規定による車両(道路運送車両法による登録を受けた自動車に限る。以下この項において同じ。)の売却、第十三項の規定による車両の廃棄又は前項の規定による車両の所有権の都道府県への帰属があつたときは、政令で定めるところにより、当該車両について…
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After taking a vehicle into storage pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the chief of the police station must notify the user of the vehicle of the date on which it was taken into storage and the…
警察署長は、前項の規定により車両を保管したときは、当該車両の使用者に対し、保管を始めた日時及び保管の場所並びに当該車両を速やかに引き取るべき旨を告知しなければならない。
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If the chief of a police station cannot ascertain the name and address of the user of a vehicle or if it is found to be difficult to return a vehicle to the user in a case as referred to in the…
警察署長は、前項の場合において、当該車両の使用者の氏名及び住所を知ることができないとき、その他当該使用者に当該車両を返還することが困難であると認められるときは、当該車両の所有者に対し、同項に規定する旨を告知しなければならない。
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If the chief of a police station cannot ascertain the name and address of the owner of a vehicle in a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, the chief must issue public notice giving the…
警察署長は、前項の場合において、当該車両の所有者の氏名及び住所を知ることができないときは、政令で定めるところにより、当該車両の保管の場所その他の政令で定める事項を公示しなければならない。
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前条第三項の場合において、当該車両等の運転者等が負傷その他の理由により直ちに同項の規定による指示に従うことが困難であると認められるときは、現場にある警察官は、道路における交通の危険を防止し、その他交通の安全と円滑を図るため必要な限度において…
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前条第三項の場合において、当該車両等の運転者等が負傷その他の理由により直ちに同項の規定による指示に従うことが困難であると認められるときは、現場にある警察官は、道路における交通の危険を防止し、その他交通の安全と円滑を図るため必要な限度において…
Open this provisionIn a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, having moved a damaged object or load, a police officer must hand it over to the chief of the police station who has jurisdiction over the place…
前項の規定による措置をとつた場合において、当該損壊物等を移動したときは、警察官は、当該損壊物等を当該損壊物等の在つた場所を管轄する警察署長に差し出さなければならない。この場合において、警察署長は、当該損壊物等を保管しなければならない。
Open this provisionThe provisions of Article 51, paragraph (7) and paragraphs (9) through (21) of that Article, and Article 51-2 apply mutatis mutandis to a damaged object or load that is the subject of measures under…
第五十一条第七項及び第九項から第二十一項まで並びに第五十一条の二の規定は、前二項の規定による措置に係る損壊物等について準用する。この場合において、第五十一条第七項中「使用者」とあるのは「所有者、占有者その他当該損壊物等について権原を有する者(以下この条及び次条において「所有者等」という。)」と…
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In a case as referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, a police officer at the scene may give necessary instructions to the driver or staff member of the vehicle or streetcar in order to aid…
前二項の場合において、現場にある警察官は、当該車両等の運転者等に対し、負傷者を救護し、又は道路における危険を防止し、その他交通の安全と円滑を図るため必要な指示をすることができる。
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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
vehicle
「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
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)
traffic accidentmachine translation
「交通事故」
The death or injury of a person, or damage to property, caused by the traffic of a vehicle or streetcar (車両等).
Short name set inArticle 67, paragraph (2)
driver, etc.machine translation
「運転者等」
In Chapter IV, Section 2, on measures at a traffic accident, the driver and other staff members of a vehicle or streetcar involved in a traffic accident.
Short name set inArticle 72, paragraph (1)· applies only in this section
damaged object or load
「損壊物等」
In Article 72-2, objects damaged in a traffic accident and the loads of the vehicles involved, which a police officer at the scene may move when the drivers cannot promptly follow instructions.
Short name set inArticle 72-2, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article
owner or other such personmachine translation
「所有者等」
The owner (所有者), possessor (占有者) or other person with title (権原) to an object damaged in a traffic accident or a load of a vehicle involved in it (損壊物等) that the police have moved and stored.
Short name set inArticle 72-2, paragraph (3)· applies only in this article and in Article 51-2
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.