Regulations Governing Application for an Operating Permit by an Enterprise that Obtains and Provides Hot Spring Water Article 10

A hot spring business operating permit is valid for a period of five years, and as a matter of course becomes invalid at the expiration of that period. But where hot spring water rights or hot spring mining rights are extant for a shorter period, the period of validity shall be governed thereby. Six months before the expiration of its operating permit, a hot spring enterprise may submit an application, in the form as prescribed in Article 3, Paragraph 1 hereof, to the city or county (municipal) government with due jurisdiction, to apply for an extension of the permit. An extension shall each time be limited to a period of five years.Where one of the situations as specified in Article12 applies to the hot spring enterprise’s extension application, the city or county (municipal) government with due jurisdiction shall not grant such extension.