# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第百九条 (Article 109) - 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: 第百九条 (Article 109)（出頭命令） — address `art-109` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109 - 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. --- ### 第百九条（出頭命令） — Orders to Appear caption: machine translation, not official art-109 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109 **第一項** 警察官は、自動車又は一般原動機付自転車の運転者が自動車又は一般原動機付自転車の運転に関しこの法律の罰則に触れる行為をしたと認めるときは、その現場において、内閣府令で定めるところにより、その者に対し、日時及び場所を指定して、第百三条第一項第五号に掲げる事由に係る事実の確認その他の必要な措置を受けるために出頭すべき旨を命ずることができる。 art-109/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109/par-1 When a police officer finds that the driver of a motor vehicle or general motorized bicycle has committed an act in connection with driving a motor vehicle or general motorized bicycle that falls under the penal provisions of this Act, the officer may, at the scene and pursuant to Cabinet Office Order, order that person, specifying a date, time, and place, to appear in order to undergo confirmation of the facts relating to the grounds set forth in Article 103, paragraph (1), item (v) and other necessary measures. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-109/par-1: 第百三条第一項第五号 → 道路交通法 第百三条第一項第五号 (Article 103, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-103/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-103/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-103/par-1/item-5 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第百二十三条の二第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-123-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-123-2/par-1/item-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-20261013T074321-013, 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