# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第七十六条の九 (Article 76-9)

- 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: 第七十六条の九 (Article 76-9)（発起人） — address `art-76-9`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-76-9
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-76-9
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### 第七十六条の九（発起人） — Incorporators
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-76-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-76-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-76-9</sup>

  **第一項**  協会を設立するには、自動車の安全性の確保及び自動車による公害の防止について学識経験を有する者七人以上が発起人となることを必要とする。
  <sup>art-76-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-76-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-76-9/par-1</sup>
  In order to establish the Organization, it is necessary that seven or more persons with knowledge and experience in ensuring the safety of motor vehicles and the prevention of pollution by motor vehicles become incorporators.
  <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-20261013T120733-020, translated 2026-10-13
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-transport-vehicle-act-20261013T124808-001, 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