# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第五十一条の二 (Article 51-2) - 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: 第五十一条の二 (Article 51-2)（報告徴収等） — address `art-51-2` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-2 - 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. --- ### 第五十一条の二（報告徴収等） — Collection of Reports caption: machine translation, not official art-51-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-2 **第一項** 警察署長は、前条の規定の施行のため必要があると認めるときは、同条第六項の規定により保管した車両の使用者等その他の関係者又は同条第二十二項において準用する同条第六項の規定により保管した積載物の所有者、占有者その他当該積載物について権原を有する者その他の関係者に対し、当該車両又は積載物に関し必要な報告又は資料の提出を求めることができる。 art-51-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-2/par-1 When the chief of a police station finds it necessary for the enforcement of the preceding Article, the chief may request the user, etc. of a vehicle stored pursuant to paragraph (6) of that Article or other relevant persons, or the owner, possessor, or other person with title to a load stored pursuant to paragraph (6) of that Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (22) of that Article or other relevant persons, to make the necessary reports or submit the necessary materials concerning that vehicle or load. machine translation, not official **第二項** 警察署長は、前条の規定の施行のため必要があると認めるときは、官庁、公共団体その他の者に照会し、又は協力を求めることができる。 art-51-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-2/par-2 When the chief of a police station finds it necessary for the enforcement of the preceding Article, the chief may make inquiries to, or ask for cooperation from, government agencies, public bodies, and other persons. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-51-2/par-1: 前条 → 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-51-2/par-1: 同条第六項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条第六項 (Article 51, paragraph (6)), art-51/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51/par-6 - art-51-2/par-1: 同条第二十二項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条第二十二項 (Article 51, paragraph (22)), art-51/par-22 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51/par-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51/par-22 - art-51-2/par-2: 前条 → 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 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第五十一条第十五項（違法駐車に対する措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51/par-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51/par-15 - 道路交通法 第五十一条第二十二項（違法駐車に対する措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51/par-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51/par-22 - 道路交通法 第七十二条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-72-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-72-2/par-3 - 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 --- ## 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