The City of Battle Creek participates in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMAs) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) by complying with the program's applicable statutory and regulatory requirements for the purposes of significantly reducing flood hazards to persons, reducing property damage, and reducing public expenditures, and providing for the availability of flood insurance and federal funds or loans within the City of Battle Creek. The NFIP requires that floodplain management regulations, of which this Chapter is a part, must be present and enforced in participating communities. By adopting City Ordinance Section 1420.01, the City of Battle Creek under authority of Section 8b of 1972 PA 230, being MCL 125.1501 et.seq., assumed responsibility for administration and enforcement of the State Construction Code, including Appendix G of the Michigan Building Code within the City of Battle Creek, and designated the Superintendent of Building Inspections as the enforcing agency for the same.
(Ord. 01-2011. Passed 3-15-11.)