# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第五十条 (Article 50) - 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: 第五十条 (Article 50)（整備管理者） — address `art-50` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-50 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-50 - 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. --- ### 第五十条（整備管理者） — Maintenance Manager caption: machine translation, not official art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-50 **第一項** 自動車の使用者は、自動車の点検及び整備並びに自動車車庫の管理に関する事項を処理させるため、自動車の点検及び整備に関し特に専門的知識を必要とすると認められる車両総重量八トン以上の自動車その他の国土交通省令で定める自動車であつて国土交通省令で定める台数以上のものの使用の本拠ごとに、自動車の点検及び整備に関する実務の経験その他について国土交通省令で定める一定の要件を備える者のうちから、整備管理者を選任しなければならない。 art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-50/par-1 In order to have matters concerning the inspection and maintenance of motor vehicles and the management of motor vehicle garages handled, a user of a motor vehicle must appoint a maintenance manager, for each base of operations of motor vehicles that have a gross vehicle weight of eight tons or more and are found to require particularly specialized knowledge regarding the inspection and maintenance of motor vehicles, and of other motor vehicles specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, in a number specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or more, from among persons who meet certain requirements specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism concerning practical experience in the inspection and maintenance of motor vehicles and other matters. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により整備管理者を選任しなければならない者（以下「大型自動車使用者等」という。）は、整備管理者に対し、その職務の執行に必要な権限を与えなければならない。 art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-50/par-2 A person who must appoint a maintenance manager pursuant to the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "user of large motor vehicles, etc.") must grant the maintenance manager the authority necessary for the performance of his or her duties. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-50/par-2: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 第五十条第一項 (Article 50, paragraph (1)), art-50/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-50/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第五十条第二項（整備管理者） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-50/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第百十条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-110/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-110/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-20261013T120733-011, 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