Article 14-6Succession to the Status of a Person That Has Received Confirmation
第十四条の六（確認を受けた者の地位の承継）
When a person that has received the confirmation referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article transfers the entire hot spring extraction business related to the confirmation, or if such a person becomes subject to inheritance, a merger (excluding the situation where a corporation that has received the confirmation referred to in the same paragraph survives after margining with a corporation that has not received the confirmation), or a split (limited to situations where the entire hot spring extraction business related to the confirmation is succeeded), a person that acquires the entire business, an heir (if there are two or more heirs, and an heir who is to succeed to the hot spring extraction business related to the confirmation is selected with the consent of all the heirs, the selected heir), a corporation surviving a merger, a corporation established by the merger, or a corporation succeeding to the entire business through the split is to succeed to the status of the person that received the confirmation referred to in the same paragraph.
前条第一項の確認を受けた者が当該確認に係る温泉の採取の事業の全部を譲渡し、又は同項の確認を受けた者について相続、合併（同項の確認を受けた者である法人と同項の確認を受けた者でない法人の合併であつて、同項の確認を受けた者である法人が存続するものを除く。）若しくは分割（当該確認に係る温泉の採取の事業の全部を承継させるものに限る。）があつたときは、当該事業の全部を譲り受けた者又は相続人（相続人が二人以上ある場合において、その全員の同意により当該確認に係る温泉の採取の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若しくは分割により当該事業の全部を承継した法人は、同項の確認を受けた者の地位を承継する。
A person that has succeeded in the status of the person that has received the confirmation referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must give notice to the prefectural governor to that effect without delay, with a document proving that fact.