# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第八十二条 (Article 82)

- Law: 道路運送車両法 (Road Transport Vehicle Act), 昭和二十六年法律第百八十五号
- English title "Road Transport Vehicle Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title
- 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: 第八十二条 (Article 82)（相続、合併及び分割） — address `art-82`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-82
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-82
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### 第八十二条（相続、合併及び分割） — Inheritance, Merger and Split
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-82 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-82 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-82</sup>

**第一項**  自動車特定整備事業者について相続、合併又は分割（自動車特定整備事業を承継させるものに限る。）があつたときは、相続人（相続人が二人以上ある場合において、被相続人の死亡後三十日以内にその協議により事業を承継すべき相続人を選定したときは、その者）、合併後存続する法人若しくは合併により設立された法人又は分割により自動車特定整備事業を承継した法人は、自動車特定整備事業者のこの法律の規定による地位を承継する。
<sup>art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-82/par-1</sup>
When an inheritance, merger or split (limited to one by which the motor vehicle specified maintenance business is succeeded to) has occurred with respect to a motor vehicle specified maintenance business operator, the heir (where there are two or more heirs and they have, within 30 days after the death of the decedent, selected by their agreement the heir who is to succeed to the business, that person), the juridical person surviving after the merger or the juridical person established by the merger, or the juridical person that has succeeded to the motor vehicle specified maintenance business by the split succeeds to the status of the motor vehicle specified maintenance business operator under the provisions of this Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  前項の規定により自動車特定整備事業者の地位を承継した者は、その事由の生じた日から三十日以内にその旨を地方運輸局長に届け出なければならない。
<sup>art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-82/par-2</sup>
A person who has succeeded to the status of a motor vehicle specified maintenance business operator pursuant to the preceding paragraph must notify the Director of a District Transport Bureau to that effect within 30 days from the day on which the ground arose.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-82/par-2: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 第八十二条第一項 (Article 82, paragraph (1)), art-82/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-82/par-1

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 道路運送車両法 第八十二条第二項（相続、合併及び分割） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-82/par-2
- 道路運送車両法 第八十三条第二項（事業の譲渡） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-83/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-83/par-2
- 道路運送車両法 第百十条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-110/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-110/par-1/item-3

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路運送車両法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326AC0000000185/20260401_508AC0000000002), retrieved 2026-10-13
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 道路運送車両法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/529), retrieved 2026-09-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-transport-vehicle-act-20261013T120733-025, translated 2026-10-13
- This site's parser, version 189 — 道路運送車両法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13
