# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第七十六条の二十六 (Article 76-26)

- 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: 第七十六条の二十六 (Article 76-26)（役員及び職員の公務員たる性質） — address `art-76-26`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-76-26
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-76-26
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### 第七十六条の二十六（役員及び職員の公務員たる性質） — Status of Officers and Officials as Public Employees
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-76-26 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-76-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-76-26</sup>

  **第一項**  役員及び職員は、刑法（明治四十年法律第四十五号）その他の罰則の適用については、法令により公務に従事する職員とみなす。
  <sup>art-76-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-76-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-76-26/par-1</sup>
  Officers and employees are deemed to be officials engaged in public service in accordance with laws and regulations for the purpose of the application of the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907) and other penal provisions.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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-20261013T120733-022, 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