Article 51-4Abandonment Penalty
第五十一条の四（放置違反金）
The chief of a police station may have an officer check whether there is any vehicle in a case found to have been parked illegally (in the case of a light road vehicle, limited to one that has a structure and equipment that allows it to be towed and has a gross vehicle weight (meaning the gross vehicle weight prescribed in Article 40, item (iii) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act) exceeding 750 kilograms (hereinafter referred to as a "heavy towable vehicle"); the same applies hereinafter in this Article) the driver of which has left it and cannot drive it immediately (hereinafter referred to as an "abandoned vehicle"), and have the officer attach to the vehicle, in an easily visible place and pursuant to Cabinet Office Order, a mark giving notice that the officer has made that check and that, if the person who committed the Illegal Parking concerning that vehicle (meaning the act of the driver of a vehicle in a case found to have been parked illegally; the same applies in paragraphs (4) and (16)) does not fall under the case prescribed in the proviso to paragraph (4), the user of that vehicle may be ordered to pay an abandonment penalty pursuant to the main clause of that paragraph.
警察署長は、警察官等に、違法駐車と認められる場合における車両（軽車両にあつては、牽引されるための構造及び装置を有し、かつ、車両総重量（道路運送車両法第四十条第三号の車両総重量をいう。）が七百五十キログラムを超えるもの（以下「重被牽引車」という。）に限る。以下この条において同じ。）であつて、その運転者がこれを離れて直ちに運転することができない状態にあるもの（以下「放置車両」という。）の確認をさせ、内閣府令で定めるところにより、当該確認をした旨及び当該車両に係る違法駐車行為（違法駐車と認められる場合に係る車両の運転者の行為をいう。第四項及び第十六項において同じ。）をした者について第四項ただし書に規定する場合に該当しないときは同項本文の規定により当該車両の使用者が放置違反金の納付を命ぜられることがある旨を告知する標章を当該車両の見やすい箇所に取り付けさせることができる。
It is prohibited for any person to damage or deface a mark attached to a vehicle pursuant to the preceding paragraph or to remove the same; provided, however, that this does not apply to the removal of such a mark by the user or driver of the vehicle or any other person responsible for the management of that vehicle.
Having caused a mark to be attached to a vehicle pursuant to paragraph (1), the chief of the police station must report how the vehicle is parked to the public safety commission.
Upon receiving a report under the preceding paragraph, if the public safety commission finds that the vehicle to which the report pertains is an abandoned vehicle, it may order the user of the vehicle to pay an abandonment penalty; provided, however, that this does not apply if the person that has illegally parked the vehicle pays a penalty pursuant to Article 128, paragraph (1) within 30 days, counting from the day following that on which a mark is attached to the vehicle pursuant to paragraph (1), nor does it apply if a case that is connected with that instance of illegal parking becomes subject to prosecution or is brought before the family court for trial.
An order under the main clause of the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "payment order") is to be issued in writing through a document that gives the amount, due date, and place for payment of the abandonment penalty.
前項本文の規定による命令（以下「納付命令」という。）は、放置違反金の額並びに納付の期限及び場所を記載した文書により行うものとする。
Prior to issuing a payment order, the public safety commission must notify the user of the vehicle of the following information in writing and give the user an opportunity to submit a written explanation of the matter at issue (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph and paragraph (9) as an "explanatory statement") and evidence in the user's favor within a reasonable timeframe:
the facts constituting the grounds for the payment order;
当該納付命令の原因となる事実
the address and due date for submission of an explanatory statement.
弁明書の提出先及び提出期限
If the whereabouts of the person who should receive a payment order are unknown, the public safety commission may give the notice under the preceding paragraph by taking measures to place the person's name, the matters set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph, and the fact that the public safety commission will deliver to the person at any time a document stating the matters set forth in the items of that paragraph (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as the "particulars of the public notice") in a state in which they can be viewed by an unspecified number of persons by the method that Cabinet Office Order prescribes and, at the same time, to post a document stating the particulars of the public notice on the notice board of the public safety commission, or to place in a state in which it can be viewed what displays the particulars of the public notice on the display screen of a computer installed in the office building of the public safety commission. In such a case, the notice is deemed to have reached the person when two weeks have passed from the day on which those measures were begun.
公安委員会は、納付命令を受けるべき者の所在が判明しないときは、前項の規定による通知を、その者の氏名及び同項第二号に掲げる事項並びに公安委員会が同項各号に掲げる事項を記載した書面をいつでもその者に交付する旨（以下この項において「公示事項」という。）を内閣府令で定める方法により不特定多数の者が閲覧することができる状態に置くとともに、公示事項が記載された書面を当該公安委員会の掲示板に掲示し、又は公示事項を当該公安委員会の庁舎に設置した電子計算機の映像面に表示したものの閲覧をすることができる状態に置く措置をとることによつて行うことができる。この場合においては、当該措置を開始した日から二週間を経過したときに、当該通知がその者に到達したものとみなす。
Cabinet Order provides for the amount of abandonment penalties within the scope of the amount prescribed in Schedule I.
放置違反金の額は、別表第一に定める金額の範囲内において、政令で定める。
A person notified as under paragraph (6) may make a provisional payment in an amount equivalent to the abandonment penalty by the due date for submission of the explanatory statement, pursuant to Cabinet Order.
A payment order may be issued by public notice against a person making a provisional payment under the preceding paragraph, pursuant to Cabinet Order.
If a payment order is issued in connection with a notice referred to in paragraph (9) against a person that has made a provisional payment as under that paragraph (9), the provisional payment in the amount equivalent to the relevant abandonment penalty is deemed to constitute the payment of the abandonment penalty as under that payment order.
If the public safety commission decides not to issue a payment order in connection with a notice referred to in paragraph (9) against a person that has made a provisional payment as under that paragraph, it must promptly notify that person in writing, giving a clear indication of the reasons for this and returning the provisional payment.
If a person issued a payment order fails to pay the abandonment penalty by its due date, the public safety commission must issue a written demand that fixes the due date for payment. In such a case, the public safety commission may collect a fine for delinquency of up to the amount calculated as representing 14.5 percent per annum of the abandonment penalty, and may collect a fee for the necessary costs of issuing the demand.
If a person subject to a demand under the preceding paragraph fails to pay the abandonment penalty, fines for delinquency, or fees referred to in the second sentence of that paragraph (hereinafter referred to in this Article and Article 51-7 as an "abandonment penalty, fines, or fees") by the fixed due date, the public safety commission may collect the abandonment penalty, fines, or fees based on the rules governing measures to collect local tax arrears. In such a case, the abandonment penalty, fines, or fees follow national taxes and local taxes in order of priority as concerns statutory liens.
Abandonment penalties, fines, and fees paid and collected are the revenue of the prefecture where the public safety commission is located.
The public safety commission must revoke a payment order it has issued if the person illegally parking a vehicle and thereby giving grounds for the payment order pays a penalty for having parked illegally as under Article 128, paragraph (1), or if the case involving that instance of illegal parking becomes subject to prosecution or is brought before the family court for trial.
Having revoked a payment order pursuant to the preceding paragraph, a public safety commission must promptly notify the person subject to it of this, clearly indicating the reason for the revocation. In such a case, if the abandonment penalty, fines, or fees to which the payment order pertained have been paid or collected, the public safety commission must refund an equivalent amount.
Service of documents and service by publication in connection with the collection and refunding of the abandonment penalty, fines, or fees are governed by the rules governing local taxes.
放置違反金等の徴収又は還付に関する書類の送達及び公示送達については、地方税の例による。
Article 51-5Requests to Report; Other Measures
第五十一条の五（報告徴収等）
On finding it to be necessary to do so to enforce the preceding Article, a public safety commission may request the user, the owner, or a person otherwise affiliated with a vehicle on which a mark has been attached pursuant to paragraph (1) of that Article to report as necessary or submit the necessary materials in connection with the use of the vehicle.
On finding it to be necessary to do so to enforce the preceding Article, a public safety commission may make inquires with or ask for cooperation from government agencies, public bodies, and other persons.
Article 51-6Reporting to the National Public Safety Commission; Other Actions
第五十一条の六（国家公安委員会への報告等）
Having issued a payment order, made a demand pursuant to Article 51-4, paragraph (13) or revoked a payment order pursuant to paragraph (16) of that Article or when any other reason that Cabinet Office Order prescribes has been found to exist with respect to the user of a vehicle that has been the cause of a payment order, a public safety commission must report this, the name and address of the user, the plate number of the vehicle, and the information that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to the National Public Safety Commission. In such a case, the National Public Safety Commission must report the information given in the report to each public safety commission in order to ensure the appropriateness of measures for abandoned vehicles.
When the National Public Safety Commission receives a report that a demand has been issued pursuant to the first sentence of the preceding paragraph, it must notify the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or other relevant authority (meaning the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism; or the Director of the District Transportation Bureau, the Director of the Transportation Administration Department, or the Transportation Bureau Chief to whom the authority of the Minister has been delegated; or the Light Motor Vehicle Inspection Organization (meaning the Light Motor Vehicle Inspection Organization established pursuant to Chapter V-2 of the Road Transport Vehicle Act); the same applies in the following Article and Article 75-13, paragraph (2), item (i)) of the information given in the report (but only the information that Cabinet Office Order prescribes). The same applies if the National Public Safety Commission receives a report that a payment order for which a demand has been issued has been revoked.
国家公安委員会は、前項前段の規定により、督促をした旨の報告を受けたときは、当該報告に係る事項（内閣府令で定めるものに限る。）を国土交通大臣等（国土交通大臣若しくはその権限の委任を受けた地方運輸局長、運輸監理部長若しくは運輸支局長又は軽自動車検査協会（道路運送車両法第五章の二の規定により設立された軽自動車検査協会をいう。）をいう。次条及び第七十五条の十三第二項第一号において同じ。）に通知するものとする。当該督促に係る納付命令を取り消した旨の報告を受けたときも、同様とする。
第五十一条の七（放置違反金等の納付等を証する書面の提示）
If a person seeking the return of a motor vehicle inspection certificate (meaning the return of a motor vehicle inspection certificate pursuant to Article 62, paragraph (2) of the Act on Vehicles for Road Transportation (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 67, paragraph (4) of that Act) or Article 22-2, paragraph (3) of the Comprehensive Special Zones Act (Act No. 81 of 2011); the same applies hereinafter in this Article) has become subject to a demand under Article 51-4, paragraph (13) (but only one connected with a payment order (other than one that has been revoked pursuant to paragraph (16) of that Article) of which the motor vehicle in question was the cause) after a motor vehicle inspection certificate was last issued as under Article 60, paragraph (1) or Article 71, paragraph (4) of that Act or after a motor vehicle inspection certificate was last returned for that vehicle (meaning a motor vehicle as prescribed in Article 58, paragraph (1) of the Act on Vehicles for Road Transportation), the person must present a document to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or other relevant authority evidencing that the abandonment penalty, fines, or fees subject to the demand have been paid or collected.
自動車検査証の返付（道路運送車両法第六十二条第二項（同法第六十七条第四項において準用する場合を含む。）又は総合特別区域法（平成二十三年法律第八十一号）第二十二条の二第三項の規定による自動車検査証の返付をいう。以下この条において同じ。）を受けようとする者は、その自動車（道路運送車両法第五十八条第一項に規定する自動車をいう。）が最後に同法第六十条第一項若しくは第七十一条第四項の規定による自動車検査証の交付又は自動車検査証の返付を受けた後に第五十一条の四第十三項の規定による督促（当該自動車が原因となつた納付命令（同条第十六項の規定により取り消されたものを除く。）に係るものに限る。）を受けたことがあるときは、国土交通大臣等に対して、当該督促に係る放置違反金等を納付したこと又はこれを徴収されたことを証する書面を提示しなければならない。
If a person (but only one notified as referred to in the first sentence of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article) that the preceding paragraph requires to present the document prescribed in that paragraph fails to do so, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or other relevant authority must not return the motor vehicle inspection certificate.