# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第八十三条 (Article 83) - 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: 第八十三条 (Article 83)（工作物等に対する応急措置） — address `art-83` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-83 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-83 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八十三条（工作物等に対する応急措置） — (Stop-Gap Measures for Structures and Objects) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-83 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-83 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-83 **第一項** 警察官は、道路又は沿道の土地に設置されている工作物等又は転落積載物等が著しく道路における交通の危険を生じさせ、又は交通の妨害となるおそれがあり、かつ、急を要すると認めるときは、道路における交通の危険を防止し、又は交通の妨害を排除するため必要な限度において、当該工作物等又は転落積載物等の除去、移転その他応急の措置を採ることができる。 art-83/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-83/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-83/par-1 If a structure or object erected or placed on a road or roadside land or a spilled load is likely to cause a serious toad traffic hazard or an obstruction to traffic, and if a police officer finds it to be urgently necessary to do so, that officer may remove, move, or take other stop-gap measures regarding the structure or object or the spilled load, but only so far as is necessary to prevent a road traffic hazard or eliminate a traffic obstruction. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項に規定する措置を採つた場合において、工作物等又は転落積載物等を除去したときは、警察官は、当該工作物等又は転落積載物等を、当該工作物等が設置されていた場所又は当該転落積載物等が在つた場所を管轄する警察署長に差し出さなければならない。この場合において、警察署長は、当該工作物等又は転落積載物等を保管しなければならない。 art-83/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-83/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-83/par-2 In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, having removed the structure or object or spilled load, a police officer must hand it over to the chief of the police station with jurisdiction over the place where the structure or object was erected or placed or where the spilled load was located. In such a case, the chief of the police station must store the structure or object or spilled load as its custodian. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第八十一条第三項から第十二項までの規定は、前項の規定による保管について準用する。 art-83/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-83/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-83/par-3 Article 81, paragraphs (3) through (12) apply mutatis mutandis to the storage prescribed in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-83/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第八十三条第一項 (Article 83, paragraph (1)), art-83/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-83/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-83/par-1 - art-83/par-3: 第八十一条第三項から第十二項まで → 道路交通法 第八十一条第十項 (Article 81, paragraph (10)), art-81/par-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-81/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-81/par-10 - art-83/par-3: 第八十一条第三項から第十二項まで → 道路交通法 第八十一条第十一項 (Article 81, paragraph (11)), art-81/par-11 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-81/par-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-81/par-11 - art-83/par-3: 第八十一条第三項から第十二項まで → 道路交通法 第八十一条第十二項 (Article 81, paragraph (12)), art-81/par-12 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-81/par-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-81/par-12 - art-83/par-3: 第八十一条第三項から第十二項まで → 道路交通法 第八十一条第三項 (Article 81, paragraph (3)), art-81/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-81/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-81/par-3 - art-83/par-3: 第八十一条第三項から第十二項まで → 道路交通法 第八十一条第四項 (Article 81, paragraph (4)), art-81/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-81/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-81/par-4 - art-83/par-3: 第八十一条第三項から第十二項まで → 道路交通法 第八十一条第五項 (Article 81, paragraph (5)), art-81/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-81/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-81/par-5 - art-83/par-3: 第八十一条第三項から第十二項まで → 道路交通法 第八十一条第六項 (Article 81, paragraph (6)), art-81/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-81/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-81/par-6 - art-83/par-3: 第八十一条第三項から第十二項まで → 道路交通法 第八十一条第七項 (Article 81, paragraph (7)), art-81/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-81/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-81/par-7 - art-83/par-3: 第八十一条第三項から第十二項まで → 道路交通法 第八十一条第八項 (Article 81, paragraph (8)), art-81/par-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-81/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-81/par-8 - art-83/par-3: 第八十一条第三項から第十二項まで → 道路交通法 第八十一条第九項 (Article 81, paragraph (9)), art-81/par-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-81/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-81/par-9 - art-83/par-3: 前項 → 道路交通法 第八十三条第二項 (Article 83, paragraph (2)), art-83/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-83/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-83/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第八十一条の二第一項（転落積載物等に対する措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-81-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-81-2/par-1 - 道路交通法 第八十三条第二項（工作物等に対する応急措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-83/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-83/par-2 - 道路交通法 第八十三条第三項（工作物等に対する応急措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-83/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-83/par-3 --- ## 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