# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第十五条の二 (Article 15-2)

- Law: 道路交通法 (Road Traffic Act), 昭和三十五年法律第百五号
- English title "Road Traffic Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第十五条の二 (Article 15-2)（遠隔操作型小型車に対する危険防止等の措置） — address `art-15-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-07-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-15-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-15-2
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### 第十五条の二（遠隔操作型小型車に対する危険防止等の措置） — Hazard Prevention and Other Such Measures concerning Remotely Operated Small Vehicles
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-15-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-15-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-15-2</sup>

**第一項**  警察官等は、遠隔操作により道路を通行している遠隔操作型小型車が著しく道路における交通の危険を生じさせ、又は交通の妨害となるおそれがあり、かつ、急を要すると認めるときは、道路における交通の危険を防止し、又は交通の妨害を排除するため必要な限度において、当該遠隔操作型小型車を停止させ、又は移動させることができる。
<sup>art-15-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-15-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-15-2/par-1</sup>
When an officer finds that a remotely operated small vehicle traveling on a road by remote operation is likely to cause a serious road traffic hazard or to become an obstruction to traffic, and that urgency is required, the officer may stop or move that remotely operated small vehicle, but only to the extent necessary to prevent the road traffic hazard or eliminate the obstruction to traffic.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路交通法 — the text in force from 2026-07-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000105/20260721_508AC0000000052), retrieved 2026-10-13
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-traffic-act-20261013T074321-002, translated 2026-10-13
- This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13
