With respect to property (excluding property that falls under the documents, drawings or electronic or magnetic records listed in Article 35, items (ii) through (v)), if, in the case where all persons who lost the property have waived the rights they hold or in the case where the person who lost the property is not identified within three months (within six months for a buried thing; the same applies in the following paragraph) after the public notice under Article 7, paragraph (1) (including the case where it applies mutatis mutandis under Article 18) is given, there is no person who acquires ownership under the provisions of Article 240 or 241 of the Civil Code or the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1) (including the case where all such persons have lost that ownership under the provisions of the preceding Article), ownership of the property vests in the person specified in each of the following items for the category of person who keeps the property listed in that item:
物件（第三十五条第二号から第五号までに掲げる文書、図画又は電磁的記録に該当する物件を除く。）について、すべての遺失者がその有する権利を放棄した場合又は第七条第一項（第十八条において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による公告をした後三箇月以内（埋蔵物にあっては、六箇月以内。次項において同じ。）に遺失者が判明しない場合において、民法第二百四十条若しくは第二百四十一条の規定又は第三十二条第一項の規定により所有権を取得する者がないとき（その者のすべてが前条の規定によりその所有権を失ったときを含む。）は、当該物件の所有権は、次の各号に掲げる当該物件を保管する者の区分に応じ、それぞれ当該各号に定める者に帰属する。
the chief of a police station: the prefecture to which that police station belongs (the national government, for property that falls under the things listed in Article 35, item (i));
a special-case facility occupant: that special-case facility occupant.
特例施設占有者 当該特例施設占有者
With respect to property, among that submitted to the chief of a police station under Article 4, paragraph (1) or Article 13, paragraph (1), that falls under the documents, drawings or electronic or magnetic records listed in Article 35, items (ii) through (v), the chief of a police station must promptly dispose of it in accordance with National Public Safety Commission Rules when all persons who lost the property have waived the rights they hold or when the person who lost the property is not identified within three months after the public notice under Article 7, paragraph (1) is given.
With respect to property in custody that falls under the documents, drawings or electronic or magnetic records listed in Article 35, items (ii) through (v), a special-case facility occupant must promptly dispose of it in accordance with National Public Safety Commission Rules when all persons who lost the property have waived the rights they hold or when the person who lost the property is not identified within three months after the public notice under Article 7, paragraph (1), as applied mutatis mutandis under Article 18, is given.