A person intending to engage in the extraction of hot springs from a hot spring source as a business must apply to the prefectural governor and obtain the permission for each site of hot spring extraction pursuant to the provisions of the Order of the Ministry of the Environment. However, this does not apply if a person that has received the confirmation referred to in Article 14-5, paragraph (1) extracts hot springs at the site of hot spring extraction specified in that confirmation.
When an application has been filed for the permission referred to in the preceding paragraph, the prefectural governor must grant the permission referred to in that paragraph, unless the application falls under any of the following items:
when the site, structure, and equipment of the facilities for the extraction of hot springs related to the application and the method of the extraction are found not to conform to the technical standards specified by the Order of the Ministry of the Environment concerning the prevention of disasters caused by flammable natural gas resulting from the extraction;
当該申請に係る温泉の採取のための施設の位置、構造及び設備並びに当該採取の方法が採取に伴い発生する可燃性天然ガスによる災害の防止に関する環境省令で定める技術上の基準に適合しないものであると認めるとき。
when the applicant has been sentenced to a fine or a more severe punishment pursuant to the provisions of this Act, and two years have not elapsed since the day the applicant finished serving the sentence or ceased to be subject to its enforcement;
申請者がこの法律の規定により罰金以上の刑に処せられ、その執行を終わり、又はその執行を受けることがなくなつた日から二年を経過しない者であるとき。
when the applicant's permission referred to in the preceding paragraph has been revoked pursuant to the provisions of Article 14-9, paragraph (1) (limited to the part related to items (iii) and (iv)), and two years have not elapsed since the date of the revocation; or
when the applicant is a corporation and any of its officers falls under any of the preceding two items.
申請者が法人である場合において、その役員が前二号のいずれかに該当する者であるとき。
The provisions of Article 4, paragraphs (2) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the permission referred to in paragraph (1). In this case, the term "for the protection of hot springs, the prevention of disasters caused by flammable natural gas, and other matters in public interest" in paragraph (3) of the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "for the prevention of disasters caused by flammable natural gas".