# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第六十一条 (Article 61) - 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: 第六十一条 (Article 61)（危険防止の措置） — address `art-61` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-61 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-61 - 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. --- ### 第六十一条（危険防止の措置） — (Hazard Prevention Measures) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-61 **第一項** 警察官は、第五十八条の三第一項及び第二項の規定による場合のほか、車両等の乗車、積載又は牽引について危険を防止するため特に必要があると認めるときは、当該車両等を停止させ、及び当該車両等の運転者に対し、危険を防止するため必要な応急の措置をとることを命ずることができる。 art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-61/par-1 Beyond as provided for in Article 58-3, paragraphs (1) and (2), a police officer may order the driver of a vehicle or streetcar to stop and take the necessary stop-gap measures to prevent a hazard in connection with the vehicle's or streetcar's carrying of passengers, carrying of loads, or towing of vehicles, on finding it to be particularly necessary to do so in order to prevent that hazard. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-61/par-1: 第五十八条の三第一項 → 道路交通法 第五十八条の三第一項 (Article 58-3, paragraph (1)), art-58-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-3/par-1 - art-61/par-1: 第二項 → 道路交通法 第五十八条の三第二項 (Article 58-3, paragraph (2)), art-58-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-3/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第百十九条第一項第十号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-119/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119/par-1/item-10 --- ## 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