# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第六十条 (Article 60) - 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: 第六十条 (Article 60)（自動車以外の車両の牽引制限） — address `art-60` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-60 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-60 - 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. --- ### 第六十条（自動車以外の車両の牽引制限） — (Restrictions on Towing by Vehicles Other Than Motor Vehicles) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-60 **第一項** 公安委員会は、道路における危険を防止し、その他交通の安全を図るため必要があると認めるときは、自動車以外の車両によつてする牽引の制限について定めることができる。 art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-60/par-1 On finding it to be necessary to do so in order to prevent road hazards and otherwise ensure traffic safety, a public safety commission may establish restrictions on towing by vehicles other than motor vehicles. 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 第百二十一条第二項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-121/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-121/par-2/item-1 - 道路交通法 附則第二条第一項（調整規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5041-32/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5041-32/art-2/par-1 --- ## 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