Article 19, Article 58, paragraph (1), or Article 73, paragraph (1) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 97-3, paragraph (2) of that Act), Article 5 of the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents (Act No. 97 of 1955), or Article 11, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act on Assurance of Car Parking Spaces and Other Matters (Act No. 145 of 1962) are deemed to be provisions of this Act for the purpose of applying Article 67, paragraph (2), Article 90, paragraph (1), item (iv) or (v), Article 95-6, paragraph (1), Article 97-2, paragraph (1), item (iii), (a), the main clause of Article 100-2, paragraph (1) or item (iv) of that paragraph, Article 101-4, paragraph (3), Article 102-2, Article 102-3, Article 103, paragraph (1), item (v), Article 104-2-4, paragraph (1), (2), or (4), Article 106, Article 107-5, paragraph (1), item (ii), Article 108-3-3, or the following Article.

If the driver of a vehicle or streetcar violates this Act, an order under this Act, or a measure under this Act and the public safety commission finds that the violation has been committed in connection with the business of the user of the vehicle or streetcar in which the violation was committed, it is to notify the relevant person of the details of the violation, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order; if the user of that vehicle or streetcar is a passenger motor carrier under the Road Transportation Act, a person engaged in Type II cargo transportation services under the Cargo Forwarder Service Act, or the operator of a track under the Railroad Act, the commission is to notify the administrative agencies that supervise it and its business, and if the user of that vehicle or streetcar is a person other than any of these, the commission is to notify the user of the vehicle or streetcar, itself.

When a police officer finds that the driver of a motor vehicle or general motorized bicycle has committed an act in connection with driving a motor vehicle or general motorized bicycle that falls under the penal provisions of this Act, the officer may, at the scene and pursuant to Cabinet Office Order, order that person, specifying a date, time, and place, to appear in order to undergo confirmation of the facts relating to the grounds set forth in Article 103, paragraph (1), item (v) and other necessary measures.

①A public safety commission must endeavor to provide drivers of vehicles with the information they need to travel the road with their vehicles (hereinafter referred to in this Article and the following Article as "traffic information"), pursuant to Cabinet Office Order.

②A public safety commission may ask a person that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to handle the administrative functions involved in providing drivers with traffic information.

③The National Public Safety Commission must create and publicize guidelines for providing drivers with traffic information in order to ensure that persons carrying out operations to provide drivers with traffic information are able to provide traffic information accurately and appropriately.

④A person carrying out operations to provide drivers with traffic information (other than what a public safety commission or a person asked to handle administrative functions under paragraph (2) carries out, and other than what the manager of a road under the Road Act carries out for the maintenance, repair, or other management of the road; the same applies in paragraph (1) of the following Article) must take care to prevent road hazards and to otherwise contribute to the safety and fluidity of traffic by providing traffic information accurately and appropriately in accordance with the guidelines for providing drivers with traffic information that are referred to in the preceding paragraph.

①A person seeking to carry out operations to provide drivers with traffic information that fall under one of the following items (hereinafter referred to in this Article as "operations to provide drivers with specified traffic information") must file the name and address thereof (or, if it is a corporation, its name, the name of its representative, and the locality of its principal office), how the person will collect and provide the traffic information, and the information that Cabinet Office Order prescribes with the National Public Safety Commission, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order. The same applies if a piece of information that that person has filed with the commission changes:

②On finding that a person carrying out operations to provide drivers with specified traffic information has caused a road traffic hazard or congestion by providing inaccurate and inappropriate traffic information, the National Public Safety Commission may recommend that the person take the necessary measures to provide drivers with accurate and appropriate traffic information, fixing a reasonable period for this in light of the level of technology involved in the operations set forth in the preceding paragraph and other circumstances.

③If the National Public Safety Commission has made a recommendation under the preceding paragraph, but the person carrying out the operations to provide drivers with specified traffic information that has received that recommendation fails to comply with it, the National Public Safety Commission may publicly announce this, giving the details of its recommendation.

④The National Public Safety Commission may have a person carrying out operations to provide drivers with specified traffic information report on the necessary matters, but only so far as is necessary to enforce the preceding two paragraphs.

①On finding it to be necessary to do so in order to ensure uniformity in the regulation of traffic on nationwide arterial roads (other than national expressways and limited highways that the National Public Safety Commission designates in accordance with the standards that Cabinet Order prescribes), the National Public Safety Commission may instruct a public safety commission, pursuant to Cabinet Order, regarding the handling of administrative processes involving the maximum speed limit for vehicles or streetcars and other things that Cabinet Order prescribes over which the public safety commission has authority under this Act.

②The National Public Safety Commission may instruct a public safety commission regarding the enforcement of this Act on a national expressway or limited highway it designates pursuant to the preceding paragraph, on finding it to be particularly necessary to do so in order to prevent hazards or otherwise ensure the safety and fluidity of traffic on those roads.

①On receipt of a request as referred to in Article 21, paragraph (1) or Article 23, paragraph (2) of the Air Pollution Control Act (Act No. 97 of 1968), Article 17, paragraph (1) of the Noise Regulation Act (Act No. 98 of 1968), or Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Vibration Regulation Act (Act No. 64 of 1976), or on learning that a traffic nuisance has occurred and finding it to be necessary to do so, a public safety commission may carry out the administrative processes to prevent traffic nuisances over which it has authority pursuant to Article 4, paragraph (1). When doing so, the public safety commission may ask the prefectural governor or head of the relevant local government to provide materials relating to the traffic nuisance, if it finds this to be necessary.

②If a public safety commission seeks to prohibit motor vehicles from entering onto a road based on Article 4, paragraph (1) using road signs or markings as referred to in Article 8, paragraph (1), and the prohibition is likely to have a significant effect on road traffic across a wide area, it must hear the opinions of the prefectural governor, the heads of the relevant local administrative organs, and the persons that Cabinet Order prescribes.

③Before regulating traffic based on Article 4, paragraph (1) using road signs or markings as referred to in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iii), item (iii)-4, item (iv), item (iv)-2, or item (vii), Article 4, paragraph (3), Article 8, paragraph (1), Article 13, paragraph (2), Article 17, paragraph (4), paragraph (5), item (v), or paragraph (6), Article 17-2, paragraph (1), Article 22, paragraph (1), Article 23, Article 34, paragraph (5), Article 49, paragraph (1), Article 63-4, paragraph (1), item (i), or Article 63-7, paragraph (2) (but only road signs or markings that Cabinet Office Order/Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism prescribes, if they are as referred to in Article 17, paragraph (6); and only road signs or markings showing a maximum speed limit exceeding that which Cabinet Order prescribes as referred to in Article 22, paragraph (1), if they are as referred to in that paragraph; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), a public safety commission (or the chief of a police station to whom authority has been delegated pursuant to Article 5, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter in this Article) must hear the opinion of the manager of the road on which the traffic would be so regulated (but only if it is a road as under the Road Act, for road signs or markings other than as referred to in Article 22, paragraph (1) and Article 63-4, paragraph (1), item (i)); provided, however, that this does not apply if traffic will be regulated using road signs or markings as prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (1) and urgent circumstances are found to compel the commission to do otherwise, in which case the commission is to notify the manager of its regulation of traffic promptly after doing so.

④Notwithstanding the main clause of the preceding paragraph, before regulating traffic on a national expressway or limited highway based on Article 4, paragraph (1) using road signs or markings as referred to in the main clause of the preceding paragraph, Article 17, paragraph (5), item (iv), Article 30, Article 42, or Article 75-4, a public safety commission must consult with the manager of the road in question. The proviso of the preceding paragraph applies mutatis mutandis to such a consultation.

⑤Before prohibiting Stopping and parking or parking based on Article 4, paragraph (1) on a part of the road that road signs or markings as referred to in Article 44, paragraph (1) or Article 45, paragraph (1) show to be an on-street parking spot, a public safety commission must specify the timeframe of that prohibition after hearing the opinion of the local government that set in place the on-street parking spot regarding the fact that it seeks to prohibit this and the timeframe of the prohibition. In such a case, the commission may implement the prohibition without hearing the opinion of the local government if urgent circumstances are found to compel this, and when it has implemented the prohibition, it must promptly give notice of the fact that it has implemented the prohibition and of the timeframe of the prohibition.

⑥Before designating, based on Article 4, paragraph (1), a part of the road that road signs or markings as referred to in Article 49, paragraph (1) show to be an on-street parking spot as a time-restricted parking zone, a public safety commission must hear the opinion of the local government that set in place the on-street parking spot.

⑦If a parking space maintenance plan (but only one in which the particulars set forth in Article 3, paragraph (2), item (iv) of the Parking Spaces Act have been provided for) has been established pursuant to Article 4, paragraph (1) of that Act, before designating a time-restricted parking zone, based on Article 4, paragraph (1), using road signs or markings as referred to in Article 49, paragraph (1) within a parking space maintenance zone as prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Parking Spaces Act, a public safety commission must hear the opinion of the municipality that has established the plan.

①A public safety commission may have a police officer from the prefectural police that is under its administration do a survey of road traffic volumes, routes of travel by vehicle or streetcar, and other necessary road traffic issues, in order to ensure the appropriateness of its regulation of traffic on a road pursuant to this Act.

②On finding it to be particularly necessary to do so in order to implement a survey of road traffic pursuant to the preceding paragraph, a police officer may request the driver of a vehicle or streetcar using a road to stop temporarily, and ask questions on the route of travel in the vehicle or streetcar, but only so far as is necessary to implement that survey.

③Having implemented a survey under paragraph (1) and on finding it to be necessary to do so, a public safety commission is to notify the manager of the road or relevant administrative agency of the results of the survey, along with its opinion.

①A prefectural government must establish a Prefectural Ordinance on the collection of fees associated with the administrative processes that it has been decided the public safety commission is to carry out pursuant to Chapter VI (other than Article 105-2, paragraphs (2) and (4)) and Chapter VI-2, based on the standard of collecting, from a person as set forth in one of the following items, the standardized amount that Cabinet Order prescribes as the part of the fees that are for building and facility costs plus the standardized amount that Cabinet Order prescribes as the part of those fees that are for personnel costs, in line with the categories that Cabinet Order prescribes for the type of fee provided for in the relevant item:

②In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, a prefectural government may allow the training fees referred to in item (xii) of that paragraph that are associated with the specified training conducted by a designated training institution to be paid to that institution as its revenue, pursuant to prefectural ordinance.

Chapter III of the Administrative Procedure Act (other than Article 12 and Article 14) does not apply to any change of conditions or addition of new conditions under Article 75-15, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 75-16, paragraph (2)); to any change of conditions or addition of new conditions under Article 77, paragraph (4) or to the revocation or suspension of a permission under paragraph (5) of that Article; to the revocation or suspension of a license under Article 90, paragraph (5), the revocation of a license under paragraph (6) of that Article, or the fixing of a period during which a person may not be granted a license under paragraph (9) or (10) of that Article; to measures making a person unable to take a driver's license test under Article 97-3, paragraph (3) (but only in connection with the reversal of a decision that a person has passed as referred to in paragraph (1) of that Article); to the revocation or suspension of a license under Article 103, paragraph (1) or (4) (but only in connection with what is provided in paragraph (1), item (v) of that Article), the revocation of a license under paragraph (2) or (4) of that Article (but only in connection with what is provided in paragraph (2), items (i) through (iv) of that Article), or the fixing of a period during which a person may not be granted a license under paragraph (7) or (8) of that Article; to the revocation of a license under Article 104-2-2, paragraph (2) or (4) or Article 104-2-4, paragraph (1), (2), or (4); to the revocation of a provisional license under Article 106-2; or to a prohibition against a person's driving of a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle under Article 107-5, paragraph (1) or Article 103, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 107-5, paragraph (9) (but only in connection with what is provided in Article 107-5, paragraph (1), item (ii)) or a prohibition against a person's driving of a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle under Article 107-5, paragraph (2) or Article 103, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 107-5, paragraph (9) (but only in connection with what is provided in Article 107-5, paragraph (2), if a person is prohibited from driving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle under Article 103, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 107-5, paragraph (9)).

A request for administrative review may not be filed against a measure that an officer takes on-site based on this Act.

Administrative processes falling within the authority of the National Public Safety Commission pursuant to this Act or an order based on this Act (other than processes involved in a designation under Article 110, paragraph (1)) may be delegated to the Commissioner General of the National Police Agency pursuant to Cabinet Order.

An area public safety commission, pursuant to Cabinet Order, may be made to handle the administrative processes falling within the authority of the Hokkaido public safety commission pursuant to this Act.

①A public safety commission may have the Superintendent General of the Metropolitan Police or the chief of the prefectural police (hereinafter referred to as the "chief of the prefectural police") handle administrative processes involved in withholding and suspending licenses (including those involved in granting persons opportunities for explanation, hearings, and hearings of opinions when those measures are taken), granting provisional licenses, and revoking provisional licenses.

②An area public safety commission may have the chief of area headquarters handle those of the administrative processes prescribed in the preceding paragraph that have been delegated to it by the Hokkaido public safety commission, pursuant to the preceding Article.

A police officer in the rank of superintendent or higher who handles administrative processes relating to the traffic police on a national expressway or limited highway may be made to handle those of the administrative processes falling within the authority of the chief of a police station pursuant to this Act which involve that national expressway or limited highway, pursuant to Rules of the Public Safety Commission.

①Traffic patrol officers are employed as part of the prefectural police to handle administrative processes connected with ensuring safe road use by pedestrians and bicycles, compliance with regulations on stopping and parking, and other instructions related to the safety and fluidity of road traffic.

②Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding paragraph, traffic patrol officers are to handle administrative processes connected with persons' compliance in securing parking spaces for motor vehicles pursuant to the Act on Securing Parking Spaces for Motor Vehicles.

③A traffic patrol officer is appointed by the chief of the prefectural police from among the staff members (other than police officers) as prescribed in Article 55, paragraph (1) of the Police Act (Act No. 162 of 1954) who meet the requirements that Cabinet Order prescribes.

④A prefectural government is to provide traffic patrol officers with the clothing and lend them the equipment that they need in order to perform their duties, in accordance with the standards that Cabinet Order prescribes and pursuant to prefectural ordinance.

①If a defense mobilization order is issued under Article 76, paragraph (1) of the Self Defense Forces Act and a public safety commission finds it urgently necessary to do so in order for the actions of the Self-Defense Forces or United States Armed Forces prescribed in Article 2, item (iv) of the Act on Measures Implemented by the Government in Line with U.S. Military Actions in Armed Attacks (Act No. 113 of 2004) (hereinafter referred to as the "SDF or USAF") to be implemented reliably and smoothly to repel an armed attack from the exterior against Japan, it may prohibit or restrict vehicle traffic on roads other than those being used by the SDF or USAF, as per Article 155, paragraph (1) of the Act on Measures to Protect the People in Armed Attacks (Act No. 112 of 2004).

②Article 76, paragraph (2), Article 76-2, Article 76-3 (other than paragraph (4)), Article 76-5, and Article 82, paragraph (1) of the Basic Act on Disaster Control Measures (Act No. 223 of 1961) apply mutatis mutandis to the prohibition or restriction of entry onto a road pursuant to the preceding paragraph. In such a case, the term "vehicle allowed emergency entry" in Article 76-2, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) and Article 76-3, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "vehicle used by the SDF or USAF"; the phrase "paragraph (1) of the preceding Article" in Article 76-2, paragraph (5) of that Act and the phrase "Article 76, paragraph (1)" in Article 76-3, paragraph (5) of that Act are deemed to be replaced with "Article 114-5, paragraph (1) of the Road Traffic Act"; the term "emergency disaster control measures" in paragraph (1) of that Article and Article 76-5 of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "actions to repel an armed attack from the outside against Japan"; the phrase "a unit, etc. ordered to serve in a disaster relief operation, etc." in the first sentence of Article 76-3, paragraph (3) and paragraph (6) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "the Self-Defense Forces ordered to serve in a defense operation pursuant to Article 76, paragraph (1) of the Self Defense Forces Act"; the phrase "paragraph (1)" in the second sentence of paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 114-5, paragraph (2) of the Road Traffic Act"; the term "vehicle allowed emergency entry" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "vehicle used by the SDF or USAF"; the phrases "SDF vehicle allowed emergency entry (meaning a vehicle allowed emergency entry that is used by the Self-Defense Forces and that is in operation to execute emergency disaster control measures; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph)" and "SDF vehicle allowed emergency entry" in that paragraph are deemed to be replaced with "vehicle used by the Self-Defense Forces"; and the word "immediately" in paragraph (6) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "without delay".

When Cabinet Order, Cabinet Office Order, Rules of the National Public Safety Commission, or Rules of the Prefectural Public Safety Commission are established, amended, or repealed based on this Act, the necessary transitional measures (including transitional measures for penal provisions) may be set forth therein to the extent judged reasonably necessary for its enactment, amendment, or repeal.

Beyond what is prescribed in this Act, Cabinet Office Order provides for the procedures for implementing this Act and other necessary particulars to bring this Act into force.