(a) The Charter Township of Clinton directs its designated enforcing agent for the Construction Code Act and as amended from time to time, the Superintendent of the Clinton Township Building Department and as directed by the Superintendent, the employees within the Clinton Township Building Department, to administer, apply and enforce the floodplain management regulations as included within the Michigan Building and Construction Codes, including, but not limited to, Appendix G, by:
(1) Obtaining, reviewing and reasonably utilizing available flood hazard data available from Federal, State, or other sources to meet the standards of this chapter. Data furnished by the Federal Insurance Administration shall take precedence over data from other sources.
(2) Ensuring that all permits necessary for development in floodplain areas have been issued by Federal, State, County and other local agencies, including a floodplain permit, approval or letter of no authority from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality under the floodplain regulatory provision of Part 31, “Water Resources Protection,” of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, 1994 PA 451, as amended.
(3) Reviewing all permit applications to determine whether the proposed development will be reasonably safe from flooding. Where it is determined that a proposed development will be located in a flood hazard area or special flood hazard area, the construction code act enforcing agent shall implement the following applicable codes according to their terms:
A. Floodplain management regulation portions and referenced codes and standards of the current Michigan Residential Code.
B. Floodplain management regulation portions and referenced codes and standards of the current Michigan Building Code.
(4) Reviewing all proposed subdivisions to determine whether such proposals are reasonably safe from flooding and to ensure compliance with all applicable floodplain management regulations.
(5) Assisting in the delineation of flood hazard areas; proving information concerning uses and occupancy of the floodplain or flood-related erosion areas, maintaining flood proofing and lowest floor construction records, cooperating with other officials, agencies and persons for floodplain management.
(6) Advising FEMA of any changes in community boundaries, including appropriate maps.
(7) Maintaining records of new structures and substantially improved structures concerning any certificates of floodproofing, lowest floor elevation, basements, floodproofing, and elevations to which structures have been floodproofed.
(b) The Charter Township of Clinton assures the Federal Insurance Administrator (Administrator) that it intends to review, on an ongoing basis, all amended and revised FHBMs and Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) and related supporting data and revisions thereof and revisions of 44 CFR, Part 60, Criteria for Land Management and Use, and to make such revisions in its floodplain management regulations as may be necessary to continue to participate in the program.
(c) The Charter Township of Clinton further assures the Administrator that it will adopt the current effective FEMA Flood Insurance Study (FIS), FHBMs, and/or the FIRMs by reference within its Floodplain Management Map Adoption Ordinance or similarly binding ordinance documentation.
(Res. Unno. Passed 9-11-06; Ord. 469. Passed 12-21-20.)