# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第七十一条の二 (Article 71-2) - 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: 第七十一条の二 (Article 71-2)（自動車等の運転者の遵守事項） — address `art-71-2` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-71-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-71-2 - 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. --- ### 第七十一条の二（自動車等の運転者の遵守事項） — (Rules to Be Observed by Drivers of Motor Vehicles and Motorized Bicycles) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-71-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-71-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-71-2 **第一項** 自動車又は原動機付自転車（これらのうち内閣府令で定めるものを除く。以下この条において同じ。）の運転者は、道路運送車両法第四十一条第一項第十一号又は第四十四条第八号に規定する消音器を備えていない自動車又は原動機付自転車（当該消音器を切断したものその他の消音器の機能に著しい支障を及ぼす改造等で内閣府令で定めるものを加えた当該消音器を備えている自動車又は原動機付自転車を含む。）を運転してはならない。 art-71-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-71-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-71-2/par-1 It is prohibited for the driver of a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle (other than a machine that Cabinet Office Order prescribes; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) to drive the motor vehicle or ride the motorized bicycle if it is not equipped with a muffler as prescribed in Article 41, paragraph (1), item (xi) or Article 44, item (viii) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act (this includes a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle equipped with a muffler that has been cut or to which another modification or the like that seriously hinders the function of a muffler and that Cabinet Office Order prescribes has been made). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-71-2/par-1: この条 → 道路交通法 第七十一条の二 (Article 71-2), art-71-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-71-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-71-2 - art-71-2/par-1: 道路運送車両法第四十一条第一項第十一号 → 道路運送車両法 第四十一条第一項第十一号 (Article 41, paragraph (1), item (xi)), art-41/par-1/item-11 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-41/par-1/item-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-41/par-1/item-11 - art-71-2/par-1: 第四十四条第八号 → 道路運送車両法 第四十四条第一項第八号 (Article 44, paragraph (1), item (viii)), art-44/par-1/item-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-44/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-44/par-1/item-8 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第七十一条の二第一項（自動車等の運転者の遵守事項） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-71-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-71-2/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百二十条第一項第十号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-120/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-120/par-1/item-10 - 道路交通法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/appdx-2 --- ## 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-20261013T073427-005, 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