# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第十九条 (Article 19) - 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: 第十九条 (Article 19)（軽車両の並進の禁止） — address `art-19` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-19 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十九条（軽車両の並進の禁止） — (Prohibition against Light Road Vehicles Traveling Abreast of Each Other) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-19 **第一項** 軽車両は、軽車両が並進することとなる場合においては、他の軽車両と並進してはならない。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-19/par-1 The driver of a light road vehicle must not pull abreast of another light road vehicle if doing so would result in those light road vehicles traveling abreast of each other. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第六十三条の五第一項（普通自転車の並進） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-5/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百二十一条第一項第八号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-121/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-121/par-1/item-8 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13