# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第六十六条 (Article 66) - 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: 第六十六条 (Article 66)（過労運転等の禁止） — address `art-66` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-66 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-66 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条（過労運転等の禁止） — (Prohibition against Driving While Overworked or Otherwise Compromised) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-66 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-66 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-66 **第一項** 何人も、前条第一項に規定する場合のほか、過労、病気、薬物の影響その他の理由により、正常な運転ができないおそれがある状態で車両等を運転してはならない。 art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-66/par-1 It is prohibited for any person to drive a vehicle or streetcar while in a state in which overwork, illness, the influence of drugs, or any other circumstances is likely to make the person unable to drive safely, beyond as provided in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article. Inability to drive safely because the person is Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-66/par-1: 前条第一項 → 道路交通法 第六十五条第一項 (Article 65, paragraph (1)), art-65/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-65/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第六十六条の二第一項（過労運転に係る車両の使用者に対する指示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-66-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-66-2/par-1 - 道路交通法 第六十七条第一項（危険防止の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-67/par-1 - 道路交通法 第六十七条第二項（危険防止の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-67/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-67/par-2 - 道路交通法 第六十七条第四項（危険防止の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-67/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-67/par-4 - 道路交通法 第七十五条第一項第四号（自動車の使用者の義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75/par-1/item-4 - 道路交通法 第百十七条の二第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-117-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-2/par-1/item-3 - 道路交通法 第百十七条の二の二第一項第七号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-117-2-2/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-2-2/par-1/item-7 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13