# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第十九条 (Article 19) - Law: 道路運送車両法 (Road Transport Vehicle Act), 昭和二十六年法律第百八十五号 - English title "Road Transport Vehicle Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - 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: 第十九条 (Article 19)（自動車登録番号標の表示の義務） — address `art-19` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条（自動車登録番号標の表示の義務） — Obligation to Display Motor Vehicle Registration Number Plates caption: machine translation, not official art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-19 **第一項** 自動車は、第十一条第一項（同条第二項及び第十四条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により国土交通大臣又は第二十五条の自動車登録番号標交付代行者から交付を受けた自動車登録番号標を国土交通省令で定める位置に、かつ、被覆しないことその他当該自動車登録番号標に記載された自動車登録番号の識別に支障が生じないものとして国土交通省令で定める方法により表示しなければ、運行の用に供してはならない。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-19/par-1 A motor vehicle must not be put to operation unless it displays the motor vehicle registration number plate issued by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or a motor vehicle registration number plate issuing agent under Article 25 pursuant to Article 11, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of that Article and Article 14, paragraph (2)), in the position specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and by a method specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism as one that, by not covering the plate or otherwise, does not impede the identification of the motor vehicle registration number stated on the plate. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-19/par-1: 第十一条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第十一条第一項 (Article 11, paragraph (1)), art-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-11/par-1 - art-19/par-1: 同条第二項 → 道路運送車両法 第十一条第二項 (Article 11, paragraph (2)), art-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-11/par-2 - art-19/par-1: 第十四条第二項 → 道路運送車両法 第十四条第二項 (Article 14, paragraph (2)), art-14/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-14/par-2 - art-19/par-1: 第二十五条 → 道路運送車両法 第二十五条 (Article 25), art-25 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-25 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第百八条の三十三第一項（免許の拒否等に関する規定の適用の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-108-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-33/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第三十四条第一項（臨時運行の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-34/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第三十六条の二第一項（回送運行の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-36-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-36-2/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第七十三条第二項（車両番号標の表示の義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-73/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-73/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第百九条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-109/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-109/par-1/item-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路運送車両法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326AC0000000185/20260401_508AC0000000002), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 道路運送車両法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/529), retrieved 2026-09-18 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-transport-vehicle-act-20261013T120733-004, translated 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 189 — 道路運送車両法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13