# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第六十二条 (Article 62) - 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: 第六十二条 (Article 62)（整備不良車両の運転の禁止） — address `art-62` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-62 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-62 - 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. --- ### 第六十二条（整備不良車両の運転の禁止） — (Prohibition against Driving Improperly Maintained Vehicles) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-62 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-62 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-62 **第一項** 車両等の使用者その他車両等の装置の整備について責任を有する者又は運転者は、その装置が道路運送車両法第三章若しくはこれに基づく命令の規定（同法の規定が適用されない自衛隊の使用する自動車については、自衛隊法（昭和二十九年法律第百六十五号）第百十四条第二項の規定による防衛大臣の定め。以下同じ。）又は軌道法第十四条若しくはこれに基づく命令の規定に定めるところに適合しないため交通の危険を生じさせ、又は他人に迷惑を及ぼすおそれがある車両等（次条第一項及び第七十一条の四の二第二項第一号において「整備不良車両」という。）を運転させ、又は運転してはならない。 art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-62/par-1 A user of a vehicle or streetcar or any other person responsible for maintaining the equipment of a vehicle or streetcar, or a driver, must not cause to be driven, or drive, a vehicle or streetcar whose equipment fails to conform to what is prescribed in Chapter III of the Road Transport Vehicle Act or an order under it (or, for a motor vehicle used by the Self-Defense Forces to which the provisions of that Act do not apply, what is established by the Minister of Defense under Article 114, paragraph (2) of the Self-Defense Forces Act (Act No. 165 of 1954); the same applies hereinafter) or in Article 14 of the Act on Rail Tracks or an order under it, and which is therefore likely to cause a traffic hazard or be a nuisance to others (referred to as an "improperly maintained vehicle" in paragraph (1) of the following Article and Article 71-4-2, paragraph (2), item (i)). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-62/par-1: 自衛隊法（昭和二十九年法律第百六十五号）第百十四条第二項 → e-Gov law 329AC0000000165, 第百十四条第二項 (Article 114, paragraph (2)), art-114/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-62/par-1: 軌道法第十四条 → e-Gov law 210AC0000000076, 第十四条 (Article 14), art-14 — not held in this collection - art-62/par-1: 次条第一項 → 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 - art-62/par-1: 第七十一条の四の二第二項第一号 → 道路交通法 第七十一条の四の二第二項第一号 (Article 71-4-2, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-71-4-2/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-71-4-2/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-71-4-2/par-2/item-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第二条第一項第十七号の二（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-2/par-1/item-17-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-2/par-1/item-17-2 - 道路交通法 第二十二条第二項（最高速度） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-22/par-2 - 道路交通法 第六十三条第三項（車両の検査等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-63/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63/par-3 - 道路交通法 第百十九条第二項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-119/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119/par-2/item-2 - 道路交通法 第百二十条第一項第七号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-120/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-120/par-1/item-7 --- ## 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