In cases where a disaster involving an area of a prefecture or adjoining or nearby prefectures has occurred or is imminent, when the prefectural public safety commission finds it urgently necessary for accurate and smooth emergency disaster control measures, as provided for by Cabinet Order, it may designate sections of road (zones or sections of roads in the locale where the disaster has occurred or is imminent, and in nearby areas) and ban or restrict vehicular traffic in those sections, excluding emergency vehicles (referring to "emergency motor vehicles" as set forth in Article 39, paragraph (1) of the Road Traffic Act (Act No. 105 of 1960) or other vehicles for which there is a particular need to ensure passage in order for accurate and smooth implementation of emergency disaster control measures and which are provided for by Cabinet Order; the same applies hereinafter).
都道府県公安委員会は、当該都道府県又はこれに隣接し若しくは近接する都道府県の地域に係る災害が発生し、又はまさに発生しようとしている場合において、災害応急対策が的確かつ円滑に行われるようにするため緊急の必要があると認めるときは、政令で定めるところにより、道路の区間（災害が発生し、又はまさに発生しようとしている場所及びこれらの周辺の地域にあつては、区域又は道路の区間）を指定して、緊急通行車両（道路交通法（昭和三十五年法律第百五号）第三十九条第一項の緊急自動車その他の車両で災害応急対策の的確かつ円滑な実施のためその通行を確保することが特に必要なものとして政令で定めるものをいう。以下同じ。）以外の車両の道路における通行を禁止し、又は制限することができる。
When the ban or restriction of vehicular traffic under the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "traffic ban, etc.") has been issued, the prefectural public safety commission issuing the traffic ban, etc. and prefectural public safety commissions with jurisdictions adjoining or nearby the relevant prefectural public safety commission that issued the traffic ban, etc. must immediately take measures to inform persons within the area of their prefectures of the zones or sections of roads related to the traffic ban, etc. (referred to as "traffic ban zone, etc." in paragraph (4) of the following Article and in Article 76-3, paragraph (1)) and any other necessary matters.
前項の規定による通行の禁止又は制限（以下「通行禁止等」という。）が行われたときは、当該通行禁止等を行つた都道府県公安委員会及び当該都道府県公安委員会と管轄区域が隣接し又は近接する都道府県公安委員会は、直ちに、それぞれの都道府県の区域内に在る者に対し、通行禁止等に係る区域又は道路の区間（次条第四項及び第七十六条の三第一項において「通行禁止区域等」という。）その他必要な事項を周知させる措置をとらなければならない。
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disastermachine translation
「災害」
Damage caused by a storm, tornado, heavy rain or snow, flood, slope failure, debris flow, storm surge, earthquake, tsunami, soil liquefaction, volcanic eruption, landslide or other abnormal natural phenomenon, or by a large fire or explosion or another cause that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as causing damage on a similar scale.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
emergency vehiclemachine translation
「緊急通行車両」
An emergency motor vehicle under Article 39, paragraph (1) of the Road Traffic Act, or another vehicle that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as one whose passage must especially be secured so that emergency disaster control measures can be carried out properly and smoothly.
Defined inArticle 76, paragraph (1)
traffic ban zone, etc.
「通行禁止区域等」
The area or section of road where vehicle traffic has been banned or restricted under Article 76, paragraph (1).
Short name set inArticle 76, paragraph (2)· applies only in this provision and in Article 76-2, paragraph (4); and Article 76-3, paragraph (1)
traffic ban, etc.
「通行禁止等」
A ban on or restriction of vehicle traffic on roads that a prefectural public safety commission imposes under Article 76, paragraph (1), except for emergency vehicles, so that emergency disaster control measures can be carried out.
Short name set inArticle 76, paragraph (2)
Prefectural Public Safety Commission
都道府県公安委員会
A commission the Police Act (警察法) places in each prefecture under the jurisdiction of its governor (都道府県知事) (Police Act, Article 38, paragraph (1)). It administers that prefecture's police (都道府県警察) (Article 38, paragraph (3)). It has five members in Tokyo (都), Hokkaido (道), Osaka and Kyoto (府) and in a prefecture that contains a city designated under the Local Autonomy Act (指定市), and three in any other prefecture (Article 38, paragraph (2)). The governor appoints the members, with the consent of the prefectural assembly, from people eligible to stand for that assembly who have not been career public officials doing police or prosecution work in the five years before their appointment; in Hokkaido, Osaka, Kyoto and a prefecture that contains a designated city (指定市), two of the members are people the mayor of that city recommends with the consent of the city assembly (Article 39, paragraph (1)). Under the Secondhand Goods Business Act, a person who intends to run a business buying, selling or exchanging secondhand goods — other than one that only sells them, or only buys back what it sold from the person it sold to — or to run a secondhand goods market must first obtain its permit; that Act calls it the Public Safety Commission (公安委員会) (Secondhand Goods Business Act, Article 2, paragraph (2), items (i) and (ii), and Article 3, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Police Act, Arts. 38, 39 and Secondhand Goods Business Act, Arts. 2, 3 as a reference.