# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第五十八条の二 (Article 58-2) - 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: 第五十八条の二 (Article 58-2)（積載物の重量の測定等） — address `art-58-2` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-2 - 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. --- ### 第五十八条の二（積載物の重量の測定等） — (Measuring Weight of Loads; Related Measures) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-58-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-2 **第一項** 警察官は、第五十七条第一項の積載物の重量の制限を超える積載をしていると認められる車両が運転されているときは、当該車両を停止させ、並びに当該車両の運転者に対し、自動車検査証（道路運送車両法第六十条の自動車検査証をいう。第六十三条第一項において同じ。）その他政令で定める書類の提示を求め、及び当該車両の積載物の重量を測定することができる。 art-58-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-2/par-1 When a vehicle is being driven that could be found to exceed the weight restrictions on loads prescribed in Article 57, paragraph (1), a police officer may stop it, require the driver to present a motor vehicle inspection certificate (meaning a motor vehicle inspection certificate as referred to in Article 60 of the Act on Vehicles for Road Transportation; the same applies in Article 63, paragraph (1)) and other documents that Cabinet Order prescribes, and measure the weight of the vehicle's load. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-58-2/par-1: 第五十七条第一項 → 道路交通法 第五十七条第一項 (Article 57, paragraph (1)), art-57/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-57/par-1 - art-58-2/par-1: 道路運送車両法第六十条 → 道路運送車両法 第六十条 (Article 60), art-60 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-60 - art-58-2/par-1: 第六十三条第一項 → 道路交通法 第六十三条第一項 (Article 63, paragraph (1)), art-63/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第五十七条第一項（乗車又は積載の制限等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-57/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百十九条第一項第八号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-119/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119/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