CHAPTER 6: FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION

Section

Article I: General Provisions

   5-6-1   Statutory Authorization

   5-6-2   Findings of Fact

   5-6-3   Statement of Purpose and Objectives

   5-6-4   Lands to which this Chapter Applies

   5-6-5   Establishment of Development Permit

   5-6-6   Compliance

   5-6-7   Interpretation

   5-6-8   Partial Invalidity and Severability

   5-6-9   Warning and Disclaimer of Liability

   5-6-10   Penalties for Violation

Article II: Definitions

   5-6-15   Definitions

Article III: Administration

   5-6-20   Designation of Local Floodplain Administrator

   5-6-21   Adoption of Letter of Map Revisions (LOMR)

   5-6-22   Development Permit and Certification Requirements

   5-6-23   Duties and Responsibilities of the Local Floodplain Administrator

   5-6-24   Administrative Procedures

Article IV: Provisions for Flood Hazard Reduction

   5-6-30   General Standards

   5-6-31   Specific Standards

   5-6-32   Standards for Streams without Established Base Flood Elevations and/or Floodways

   5-6-33   Standards for Streams with Established Base Flood Elevations but without Floodways

   5-6-34   Standards for Areas of Shallow Flooding (AO Zones)

   5-6-35   Coastal High Hazard Areas (V-Zones)

Article V: Variance Procedures

   5-6-40   Establishment of Appeal Board

   5-6-41   Right to Appeal

   5-6-42   Historic Structures

   5-6-43   Functionally Dependent Uses

   5-6-44   Agricultural Structures

   5-6-45   Considerations

   5-6-46   Findings

   5-6-47   Floodways

   5-6-48   Conditions

Article VI: Legal Status Provisions

   5-6-50   Effect on Rights and Liabilities under the Existing Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance

   5-6-51   Effect upon Outstanding Building Permits

   5-6-52   Effective Date

ARTICLE I: GENERAL STANDARDS

§ 5-6-1 STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION.

   The Legislature of the State of South Carolina has in S.C. Code, Title 5 and Title 6, and amendments thereto, delegated the responsibility to local governmental units to adopt regulations designed to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare of its citizenry. Therefore, the Mayor and Council of the City of Dillon, South Carolina ordain as follows.

(Ord. 18-06, passed 6-11-2018)

§ 5-6-2 FINDINGS OF FACT.

   (A)   The special flood hazard areas of the city are subject to periodic inundation which results in loss of life, property, health and safety hazards, disruption of commerce and governmental services, extraordinary public expenditures of flood protection and relief, and impairment of the tax base, all of which adversely affect the public health, safety, and general welfare.

   (B)   Furthermore, these flood losses are caused by the cumulative effect of obstructions in floodplains causing increases in flood heights and velocities, and by the occupancy in flood hazard areas by uses vulnerable to floods or hazardous to other lands which are inadequately elevated, floodproofed, or otherwise unprotected from flood damages.

(Ord. 18-06, passed 6-11-2018)