# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第六十五条 (Article 65) - 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: 第六十五条 (Article 65)（酒気帯び運転等の禁止） — address `art-65` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-65 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-65 - 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. --- ### 第六十五条（酒気帯び運転等の禁止） — (Prohibition against Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and Related Conduct) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-65 **第一項** 何人も、酒気を帯びて車両等を運転してはならない。 art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-65/par-1 It is prohibited for any person to drive a vehicle or streetcar while under the influence of alcohol. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 何人も、酒気を帯びている者で、前項の規定に違反して車両等を運転することとなるおそれがあるものに対し、車両等を提供してはならない。 art-65/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-65/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-65/par-2 It is prohibited for any person to provide a vehicle or streetcar to a person under the influence of alcohol who is likely to drive it in violation of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 何人も、第一項の規定に違反して車両等を運転することとなるおそれがある者に対し、酒類を提供し、又は飲酒をすすめてはならない。 art-65/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-65/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-65/par-3 It is prohibited for any person to provide an alcoholic beverage to or encourage the consumption of alcohol by a person who is likely to drive a vehicle or streetcar in violation of paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 何人も、車両（トロリーバス及び旅客自動車運送事業の用に供する自動車で当該業務に従事中のものその他の政令で定める自動車を除く。以下この項、第百十七条の二の二第一項第六号及び第百十七条の三の二第三号において同じ。）の運転者が酒気を帯びていることを知りながら、当該運転者に対し、当該車両を運転して自己を運送することを要求し、又は依頼して、当該運転者が第一項の規定に違反して運転する車両に同乗してはならない。 art-65/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-65/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-65/par-4 It is prohibited for any person to demand or request that a driver transport that person in a vehicle (other than a trolleybus or motor vehicle used for passenger motor carrier services that is in service at the time, or any other motor vehicle that Cabinet Order prescribes; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph, Article 117-2-2, paragraph (1), item (vi) and Article 117-3-2, item (iii)) with the knowledge that the driver is under the influence of alcohol, and then get into a vehicle that the driver is driving in violation of paragraph (1) together with the driver. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-65/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第六十五条第一項 (Article 65, paragraph (1)), art-65/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-65/par-1 - art-65/par-3: 第一項 → 道路交通法 第六十五条第一項 (Article 65, paragraph (1)), art-65/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-65/par-1 - art-65/par-4: この項 → 道路交通法 第六十五条第四項 (Article 65, paragraph (4)), art-65/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-65/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-65/par-4 - art-65/par-4: 第百十七条の二の二第一項第六号 → 道路交通法 第百十七条の二の二第一項第六号 (Article 117-2-2, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-117-2-2/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117-2-2/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-2-2/par-1/item-6 - art-65/par-4: 第百十七条の三の二第三号 → 道路交通法 第百十七条の三の二第一項第三号 (Article 117-3-2, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-117-3-2/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117-3-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-3-2/par-1/item-3 - art-65/par-4: 第一項 → 道路交通法 第六十五条第一項 (Article 65, paragraph (1)), art-65/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-65/par-1 ## Cited by 17 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第六十五条第二項（酒気帯び運転等の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-65/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-65/par-2 - 道路交通法 第六十五条第三項（酒気帯び運転等の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-65/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-65/par-3 - 道路交通法 第六十五条第四項（酒気帯び運転等の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-65/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-65/par-4 - 道路交通法 第六十六条第一項（過労運転等の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-66/par-1 - 道路交通法 第六十七条第一項（危険防止の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-67/par-1 - 道路交通法 第六十七条第二項（危険防止の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-67/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-67/par-2 - 道路交通法 第六十七条第三項（危険防止の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-67/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-67/par-3 - 道路交通法 第六十七条第四項（危険防止の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-67/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-67/par-4 - 道路交通法 第七十五条第一項第三号（自動車の使用者の義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75/par-1/item-3 - 道路交通法 第百十七条の二第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-2/par-1/item-1 - 道路交通法 第百十七条の二第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-2/par-1/item-2 - 道路交通法 第百十七条の二の二第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117-2-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-2-2/par-1/item-3 - 道路交通法 第百十七条の二の二第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117-2-2/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-2-2/par-1/item-4 - 道路交通法 第百十七条の二の二第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117-2-2/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-2-2/par-1/item-5 - 道路交通法 第百十七条の二の二第一項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117-2-2/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-2-2/par-1/item-6 - 道路交通法 第百十七条の三の二第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117-3-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-3-2/par-1/item-2 - 道路交通法 第百十七条の三の二第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117-3-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-3-2/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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-20261013T073427-005, 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