# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第五十条の二 (Article 50-2)

- 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: 第五十条の二 (Article 50-2)（違法停車に対する措置） — address `art-50-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-07-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-50-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-50-2
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### 第五十条の二（違法停車に対する措置） — (Measures against Illegal Stopping)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-50-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-50-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-50-2</sup>

  **第一項**  車両（トロリーバスを除く。以下この条、次条及び第五十一条の四において同じ。）が第四十四条第一項、第四十七条第一項若しくは第三項又は第四十八条の規定に違反して停車していると認められるときは、警察官等は、当該車両の運転者に対し、当該車両の停車の方法を変更し、又は当該車両を当該停車が禁止されている場所から移動すべきことを命ずることができる。
  <sup>art-50-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-50-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-50-2/par-1</sup>
  If a vehicle (other than a trolleybus; the same applies hereinafter in this Article, the following Article, and Article 51-4) is found to be stopped in violation of Article 44, paragraph (1), Article 47, paragraph (1) or (3), or Article 48, an officer may order the driver of the vehicle to change the way the vehicle is stopped or to move the vehicle from a place where Stopping is prohibited.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-50-2/par-1: この条 → 道路交通法 第五十条の二 (Article 50-2), art-50-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-50-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-50-2
- art-50-2/par-1: 次条 → 道路交通法 第五十一条 (Article 51), art-51 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51
- art-50-2/par-1: 第五十一条の四 → 道路交通法 第五十一条の四 (Article 51-4), art-51-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-4
- art-50-2/par-1: 第四十四条第一項 → 道路交通法 第四十四条第一項 (Article 44, paragraph (1)), art-44/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-44/par-1
- art-50-2/par-1: 第四十七条第一項 → 道路交通法 第四十七条第一項 (Article 47, paragraph (1)), art-47/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-47/par-1
- art-50-2/par-1: 第三項 → 道路交通法 第四十七条第三項 (Article 47, paragraph (3)), art-47/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-47/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-47/par-3
- art-50-2/par-1: 第四十八条 → 道路交通法 第四十八条 (Article 48), art-48 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-48

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 道路交通法 第五十条の二第一項（違法停車に対する措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-50-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-50-2/par-1
- 道路交通法 第七十五条の八第二項（停車及び駐車の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-8/par-2
- 道路交通法 第百十九条第一項第七号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-119/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119/par-1/item-7

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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-20261013T074321-004, 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
