The applicant for parcel boundary demarcation is to bear the costs for a survey and other costs specified by Ministry of Justice Order which are incurred in the procedure for parcel boundary demarcation (hereinafter referred to as the "procedural costs").
筆界特定の手続における測量に要する費用その他の法務省令で定める費用（以下この条において「手続費用」という。）は、筆界特定の申請人の負担とする。
When there are two applicants for a parcel boundary demarcation, if one of those applicants is the registered holder of ownership or other owner for either of the subject parcels and the other applicant is the registered holder of ownership or other owner for the other subject parcel, those applicants for a parcel boundary demarcation are to bear the procedural costs equally.
When there are two or more applicants for a parcel boundary demarcation, if all of them are the registered holder of ownership or other owner for one of the subject parcels, those applicants for parcel boundary demarcation bear the procedural costs according to their shares (the share referred to in Article 59, item (iv) if there is a registration of ownership relating to the subject parcel, or the share referred to in Article 27, item (iii) if there is no registration of ownership relating to the subject parcel; the same applies in the following paragraph).
When there are three or more applicants for parcel boundary demarcation, if one or two of those applicants are the registered holders of ownership or other owner for one of the subject parcels, and the other applicants are the registered holders of ownership or other owner for the other subject parcel, one of those applicants for parcel boundary demarcation who is the single registered holder of ownership or other owner for one of the subject parcels bears the amount equivalent to half of the procedural costs, and the two or more applicants for parcel boundary demarcation who are the joint registered holders of ownership or other owner for one of the subject parcels bear the amount equivalent to half of the procedural costs according to their shares.
A registrar for parcel boundary demarcation must have the applicant for parcel boundary demarcation prepay the estimated amount of the procedural costs.