# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第五十八条の五 (Article 58-5) - 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: 第五十八条の五 (Article 58-5)（過積載車両の運転の要求等の禁止） — address `art-58-5` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-5 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十八条の五（過積載車両の運転の要求等の禁止） — (Prohibition on Requiring or Otherwise Compelling Drivers to Drive Overloaded Vehicles) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-58-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-5 **第一項** 第七十五条第一項に規定する使用者等以外の者は、次に掲げる行為をしてはならない。 art-58-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-5/par-1 It is prohibited for a person other than a user or an owner as prescribed in Article 75, paragraph (1) to do the following: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 車両の運転者に対し、過積載をして車両を運転することを要求すること。 art-58-5/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-5/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-5/par-1/item-1 to require the driver of a vehicle to drive while carrying an excessive load in the vehicle; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 車両の運転者に対し、当該車両への積載が過積載となるとの情を知りながら、第五十七条第一項の制限に係る重量を超える積載物を当該車両に積載をさせるため売り渡し、又は当該積載物を引き渡すこと。 art-58-5/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-5/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-5/par-1/item-2 to sell or deliver to the driver of a vehicle a load exceeding the weight subject to the restrictions referred to in Article 57, paragraph (1) so that the load can be loaded onto the vehicle, while knowing that the load exceeds those restrictions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 警察署長は、前項の規定に違反する行為が行われた場合において、当該行為をした者が反復して同項の規定に違反する行為をするおそれがあると認めるときは、内閣府令で定めるところにより、当該行為をした者に対し、同項の規定に違反する行為をしてはならない旨を命ずることができる。 art-58-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-5/par-2 If a person violates the preceding paragraph and the chief of the police station finds that the violator is likely to violate that paragraph again, the chief may order the violator not to violate that paragraph, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-58-5/par-1: 第七十五条第一項 → 道路交通法 第七十五条第一項 (Article 75, paragraph (1)), art-75/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75/par-1 - art-58-5/par-1/item-2: 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-58-5/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第五十八条の五第一項 (Article 58-5, paragraph (1)), art-58-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-5/par-1 ## Cited by 3 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 第五十八条の五第二項（過積載車両の運転の要求等の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-5/par-2 - 道路交通法 第百十八条第二項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-118/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-118/par-2/item-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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13