# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第四十六条 (Article 46) - 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: 第四十六条 (Article 46)（停車又は駐車を禁止する場所の特例） — address `art-46` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-46 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-46 - 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. --- ### 第四十六条（停車又は駐車を禁止する場所の特例） — (Special Rules for Places Where Stopping or Parking Is Prohibited) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-46 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-46 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-46 **第一項** 前条第一項に規定するもののほか、車両は、第四十四条第一項又は第四十五条第一項の規定による停車及び駐車を禁止する道路の部分又は駐車を禁止する道路の部分の一部について、道路標識等により停車又は駐車をすることができることとされているときは、これらの規定にかかわらず、停車し、又は駐車することができる。 art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-46/par-1 In addition to what is prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, and notwithstanding Article 44, paragraph (1) and Article 45, paragraph (1), the driver of a vehicle may stop or park the vehicle partially within a part of the road where Stopping and parking are prohibited under Article 44, paragraph (1) or where parking is prohibited under Article 45, paragraph (1), if road signs or markings indicate that Stopping or parking is permitted. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-46/par-1: 前条第一項 → 道路交通法 第四十五条の二第一項 (Article 45-2, paragraph (1)), art-45-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-45-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-45-2/par-1 - art-46/par-1: 第四十四条第一項 → 道路交通法 第四十四条第一項 (Article 44, paragraph (1)), art-44/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-44/par-1 - art-46/par-1: 第四十五条第一項 → 道路交通法 第四十五条第一項 (Article 45, paragraph (1)), art-45/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-45/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第四十九条の三第一項（時間制限駐車区間における駐車の方法等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-49-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-49-3/par-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-20261013T074321-004, 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