Hot Spring Act Article 11

In order to conserve and sustain the use of hot springs, the local authority-in-charge shall collect hot spring usage fees from hot spring licensees in addition to the fees levied pursuant to the Water Act and the Mining Act; the central authority-in-charge will prescribe regulations governing the method and scope of collection as well as rates and allocation of revenues.The fees collected from hot spring usage as mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be used exclusively to pay administration fees and to provide for hot spring conservation, management, international exchange, infrastructures in hot spring areas and other pertinent purposes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the local authority-in-charge shall allocate at least one-third of the revenues garnered from hot springs in indigenous people's habitats to the Indigenous People Combined Development Fund of the Executive Yuan to help indigenous peoples' economic and cultural development.In addition to the one-third of revenues allocated to the Indigenous People Combined Development Fund, the local authority-in-charge shall earmark one-tenth of the hot spring usage fees collected to funds set up by the central authority-in-charge to develop hot spring industry in activities of hot spring policy-making, research and development, and international exchange.