It is prohibited for a pedestrian, etc. or the driver of a vehicle or streetcar to enter onto a road or any part of a road onto which entry is prohibited by a road sign or marking.
Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, if the chief of the police station finds there to be a compelling reason as prescribed by Cabinet Order and grants permission, a vehicle may proceed onto a road or a part of a road onto which entry is prohibited by a road sign or marking.
The chief of the police station must issue a permit when granting the permission prescribed in the preceding paragraph.
警察署長は、前項の許可をしたときは、許可証を交付しなければならない。
The driver of a vehicle issued a permit pursuant to the preceding paragraph must carry that permit at all times when using the road or part of the road for which the permission has been given.
On finding it to be necessary to do so, the chief of the police station may attach conditions when granting a permission as referred to in paragraph (2).
第二項の許可を与える場合において、必要があると認めるときは、警察署長は、当該許可に条件を付することができる。
Cabinet Office Order provides for the format of the permit referred to in paragraph (3) and for necessary particulars concerning the permission referred to in paragraph (2).
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(Prohibition and Permission of Entry)
It is prohibited for a pedestrian, etc. or the driver of a vehicle or streetcar to enter onto a road or any part of a road onto which entry is prohibited by a road sign or marking.
歩行者等又は車両等は、道路標識等によりその通行を禁止されている道路又はその部分を通行してはならない。
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Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, if the chief of the police station finds there to be a compelling reason as prescribed by Cabinet Order and grants permission…
車両は、警察署長が政令で定めるやむを得ない理由があると認めて許可をしたときは、前項の規定にかかわらず、道路標識等によりその通行を禁止されている道路又はその部分を通行することができる。
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The chief of the police station must issue a permit when granting the permission prescribed in the preceding paragraph.
警察署長は、前項の許可をしたときは、許可証を交付しなければならない。
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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
road sign or markingmachine translation
「道路標識等」
A road sign (道路標識) or a road marking (道路標示).
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iv)
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)
drivermachine translation
「運転者」
The person driving a vehicle or streetcar (車両等).
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xviii)
pedestrian, etc.machine translation
「歩行者等」
In Articles 5 to 13-2, a pedestrian, or a remotely operated small vehicle (遠隔操作型小型車) while it is travelling on a road by remote operation (遠隔操作).
Short name set inArticle 4, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Articles 5 to 13-2
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.