Duties of owners and managers

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• A parking space for your car must be secured at a location off the road within 5 kilometers of your home or the base location where the car is used.
• When you put your car into use on the road, you must display the parking space sticker issued by the chief of the police station by affixing it to the rear window or a similar place.
• Because a moped (motorized bicycle) is a small vehicle, the owner may freely choose whether or not to take out compulsory automobile liability insurance or mutual aid insurance.
• The numbers on the inspection sticker attached to the windshield show when the vehicle's next inspection is due (year and month).
• An owner or person managing a vehicle must not lend the vehicle to someone without a licence or to someone who has been drinking alcohol.
• If a business location uses even one vehicle with a seating capacity of 11 or more, it must appoint a safety driving manager.
• For vehicles seating fewer than 11 people, a safety driving manager must be appointed once a business location uses three or more of them.
• When counting vehicles for the safety driving manager requirement, large and ordinary motorcycles each count as one vehicle.
• A business location using 20 or more vehicles must appoint deputy safety driving managers, the number depending on how many vehicles it uses.
• A safety driving manager must keep the records of alcohol detector checks for one year.
• The safety driving manager only needs to check for alcohol in drivers who are about to start driving.
• For long-distance driving and similar cases, the safety driving manager must assign a relief driver.
• The registered user of a vehicle only has to make an effort to arrange proper parking; it is not a legal duty.
• If a driver drives while dangerously fatigued, the public safety commission may order the vehicle's user to take measures to prevent it happening again.
• A user who has been sent a reminder for an unpaid abandoned-parking fine cannot obtain a new vehicle inspection certificate without showing proof of payment.
• Vehicle users and safety driving managers must not let drivers drive without a licence, nor turn a blind eye to it.
• A "minicar" is an ordinary vehicle with an engine displacement of 125cc or less.
• A "small motorcycle" is an ordinary motorcycle with an engine displacement of 125cc or less.
• A motor vehicle must be registered (or notified, for light motor vehicles) and carry number plates.
• Because a moped is small, it may be ridden on the road without a number plate.
• As long as you have compulsory liability insurance, there is no need to consider voluntary insurance as well.
• Take good care of your car keys so that the car cannot be taken out without permission.
• A vehicle's user must strive to make drivers obey the traffic rules and to have the safe-driving manager manage driving safety.
• The user of an emergency vehicle such as a fire engine must, unless a safe-driving manager is appointed, strive to give its drivers the traffic safety education needed for safe driving.
• If a driver speeds, drives overloaded, or drives while overtired, the Public Safety Commission may direct the vehicle's user to take measures to prevent a recurrence.
• If the violations continue even after the Public Safety Commission's direction, the user may be barred for a set period from driving that vehicle or letting anyone drive it.
• A driver-substitution business can also face a Public Safety Commission direction or a suspension of business when its drivers commit parking or stopping violations.
• A vehicle user repeatedly ordered to pay abandoned-parking fines may be barred for a set period from driving that vehicle or letting anyone drive it.
• A driver-substitution business must appoint a safe-driving manager at each of its offices.
• A driver-substitution business must appoint deputy safe-driving managers, in numbers matching the fleet, at any office using 10 or more escort vehicles.
• The duties of a safe-driving manager include giving drivers traffic safety education.
• A safe-driving manager takes steps to keep track of drivers' aptitude, skills, and knowledge, and of whether they obey the traffic rules.
• A safe-driving manager draws up operation plans with close attention to preventing speeding, overloaded driving, overtired driving and the like.
• Taking measures for safe driving in abnormal weather or natural disasters, such as giving drivers the necessary instructions, is also part of a safe-driving manager's duties.
• A safe-driving manager confirms that daily inspections are done and checks drivers' health, giving the instructions needed for safe driving.
• The breath-alcohol tester only has to work at the moment of the check; there is no need to keep it in working order at all times.
• Checking a driver for alcohol involves not only the breath tester but also observing the driver's condition visually.
• A safe-driving manager has drivers keep a driving log.
• The duties of a safe-driving manager include instructing drivers in the skills, knowledge, and other matters needed for safe driving.
• A deputy safe-driving manager's role is to assist the safe-driving manager in those duties.
• The vehicle's user must give the safe-driving manager the authority the job requires and provide the necessary equipment.
• A vehicle's user or safe-driving manager must not turn a blind eye to a driver's drunk or drink driving.
• If a driver chooses to drive while overtired, the user or manager who condoned it faces no sanction of their own.
• The user or safe-driving manager must not order or condone driving that breaks the loading limits.
• The user or safe-driving manager must not have a driver park illegally and leave the vehicle so that it cannot be moved at once.
• A driver-substitution business mainly operates at night, driving customers' cars for them after they have been drinking at restaurants and bars.
• In driver substitution, the company vehicle that follows the customer's car being driven is called the escort vehicle (zuihan-yo jidosha).
• The street in front of my house is wide, so I decided to use it as my car's storage space.
• I noticed the vehicle inspection was overdue, but decided to keep using the car until the next long weekend.
• A minicar is an ordinary motor vehicle powered by an engine of 50 cc or less.