Illegal Parking

Notes

If you receive a parking ticket, be sure to report yourself to the nearest police and contact to the shop.
In the event that you do not go through the necessary formalities, you may not be able to use our rental car next time.

Japanese Law

There is the following Japanese law against illegal parking:

1. Development of regulation on a system to order vehicle users to pay a fine for illegal parking.
(Fourth and Fifth Paragraphs of Article 51-4, Road Traffic Law)

Fine for Illegal Parking

In the event that a driver of illegally parked vehicle does not pay a citation, the user of the vehicle will be ordered to pay a fine for illegal parking.
The driver/user will not be ordered to pay it in the following cases within 30 days after he/she receives a parking ticket:

• The driver/user of illegally parked vehicle has paid a citation.
• The illegal parking is prosecuted.
  (For juveniles, it is tried at a family court.)

The driver should normally be responsible for illegal parking. In the event that it is impossible to pursue driver's legal responsibility, the user shall be responsible for it.

(Note) "User" is normally a person listed as a user in the vehicle inspection certificate.

Amount of Fine for Illegal Parking

The amount of a fine for illegal parking is the same as that of a citation that the driver/user of illegal parked vehicle should pay.

Demand for Payment of Fine for Illegal Parking and Coercive Collection

If the person who was ordered to pay a fine for illegal parking does not pay it even after the payment is overdue, he/she will be urged to pay with a collection letter.
If the person who was urged to pay a fine for illegal parking does not pay it within the specified time, the payment may be collected on a mandatory basis.

Development of regulation on consignment of checking illegally parked cars and putting parking tickets on them
(Article 51-8 to 51-11, Road Traffic Law)

To check illegally parked cars and put parking tickets on them can be consigned to private sectors. This has led private traffic wardens to patrol the streets and put parking tickets on illegally parked cars.
Traffic wardens patrol in accordance with a guideline in which the police chief provides places and times to be intensively controlled based on residents' intentions and demands.
The guideline is released in advance e.g. posting on a bulletin board of the police station.