Regulations Governing Land and Building Use in Hot Spring Areas Article 7

To assist existing enterprises that have already developed hot spring utilization in hot spring areas to comply with the provisions of the law concerning land and building use, the municipal or county (city) government with due jurisdiction may first draw up an assistance program setting out the scope, targets, conditions, implementation period, and other relevant matters of the assistance, and after submitting it for review by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications and other authorities in charge of land use, buildings, environmental protection, water and soil conservation, agriculture, water resources, and so on, submit it to the Executive Yuan for approval.Where land within an assistance program as referred to in the preceding paragraph meets the provisions of the proviso to Article 44, Subparagraph 1 or Article 52-1, Subparagraph 6 of the Non-Urban Land-Use Management Regulations, the city/county (metropolitan) government with due jurisdiction shall make other provision in the assistance program concerning restriction on the size of land area occupied by a start-up enterprise and the ratio of the area to be established as protected green space, and submit it together with the program to the Executive Yuan for approval.For the purpose of assisting, within the scope of the first paragraph, existing enterprises that have already developed hot spring utilization in hot spring areas to comply with the provisions of the law concerning building use, the municipal or county (city) government with due jurisdiction shall, giving consideration to the development characteristics of the hot spring area as well as public safety, stipulate in the assistance program appropriate provisions concerning the setback distance of their building(s) from the foot of a retaining wall, the distance between the outer wall of their building(s) and retaining wall facilities, and the setback distance of their building(s) from a river bank, and submit these together with the program to the Executive Yuan for approval.