# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第七十五条の八 (Article 75-8) - 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: 第七十五条の八 (Article 75-8)（停車及び駐車の禁止） — address `art-75-8` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-8 - 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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Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第五十条の二から第五十一条の二までの規定は、自動車が前項の規定に違反して停車し、又は駐車していると認められる場合について準用する。この場合において、第五十一条第三項中「当該車両が駐車している場所からの距離が五十メートルを超えない道路上の場所」とあるのは「政令で定める場所」と、同条第四項中「当該車両が駐車している場所からの距離が五十メートルを超えない範囲の地域内の道路上に当該車両を移動する場所がないとき」とあるのは「前項の政令で定める場所に当該車両を移動することができないとき」と、同条第五項中「駐車場、空地、第三項に規定する場所以外の道路上の場所その他の場所」とあるのは「第三項に規定する場所以外の場所」と読み替えるものとする。 art-75-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-8/par-2 The provisions of Articles 50-2 through 51-2 apply mutatis mutandis where a motor vehicle is found to have been stopped or parked in violation of the preceding paragraph. In such a case, the phrase "another place on the road within 50 meters of the place where it is parked" in Article 51, paragraph (3) is deemed to be replaced with "a place that Cabinet Order prescribes"; the phrase "there is no place on the road to which it can be moved that is within 50 meters of where it is parked" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "it cannot be moved to the place that Cabinet Order prescribes which is referred to in the preceding paragraph"; and the phrase "a parking spot, open space, place on a road other than as prescribed in paragraph (3), or other such place" in paragraph (5) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "a place other than the place prescribed in paragraph (3)". machine translation, not official **第三項** 高速自動車国道等において第一項の規定に違反して駐車していると認められる自動車であつて、その運転者がこれを離れて直ちに運転することができない状態にあるものは、第五十一条の四第一項に規定する放置車両とみなして、同条の規定を適用する。 art-75-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-8/par-3 A motor vehicle that is found to have been parked on a national expressway or limited highway in violation of paragraph (1) and which cannot be driven immediately because the driver has left the vicinity is deemed to be an abandoned vehicle as prescribed in paragraph (1) of Article 51-4, and that Article applies. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-75-8/par-1: この条 → 道路交通法 第七十五条の八 (Article 75-8), art-75-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-8 - art-75-8/par-2: 第五十条の二から第五十一条の二まで → 道路交通法 第五十条の二 (Article 50-2), art-50-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-50-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-50-2 - art-75-8/par-2: 第五十条の二から第五十一条の二まで → 道路交通法 第五十一条 (Article 51), art-51 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51 - art-75-8/par-2: 第五十条の二から第五十一条の二まで → 道路交通法 第五十一条の二 (Article 51-2), art-51-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-2 - art-75-8/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第七十五条の八第一項 (Article 75-8, paragraph (1)), art-75-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-8/par-1 - art-75-8/par-2: 第五十一条第三項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条第三項 (Article 51, paragraph (3)), art-51/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51/par-3 - art-75-8/par-2: 同条第四項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条第四項 (Article 51, paragraph (4)), art-51/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51/par-4 - art-75-8/par-2: 同条第五項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条第五項 (Article 51, paragraph (5)), art-51/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51/par-5 - art-75-8/par-3: 第一項 → 道路交通法 第七十五条の八第一項 (Article 75-8, paragraph (1)), art-75-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-8/par-1 - art-75-8/par-3: 第五十一条の四第一項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条の四第一項 (Article 51-4, paragraph (1)), art-51-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-4/par-1 - art-75-8/par-3: 同条 → 道路交通法 第五十一条の四 (Article 51-4), art-51-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-4 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第七十五条第一項第七号（自動車の使用者の義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75/par-1/item-7 - 道路交通法 第七十五条の八第一項（停車及び駐車の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-8/par-1 - 道路交通法 第七十五条の八第二項（停車及び駐車の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-8/par-2 - 道路交通法 第七十五条の八第三項（停車及び駐車の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-8/par-3 - 道路交通法 第百十七条の二の二第一項第八号ル — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117-2-2/par-1/item-8/sub-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-2-2/par-1/item-8/sub-11 - 道路交通法 第百十九条第一項第七号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-119/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119/par-1/item-7 - 道路交通法 第百十九条の二の四第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-119-2-4/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119-2-4/par-1/item-2 - 道路交通法 第百十九条の三第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-119-3/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119-3/par-1/item-4 - 道路交通法 附則第四条第一項（保管車両等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-4/par-1 - 道路交通法 附則第二条第一項（保管車両等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4191-90/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4191-90/art-2/par-1 - 道路交通法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/appdx-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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-traffic-act-20261013T074321-005, 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