CHAPTER 154: FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION
Section
General Provisions
   154.01   Statutory authorization
   154.02   Findings of fact
   154.03   Statement of purpose
   154.04   Objectives
   154.05   Definitions
   154.06   Lands to which this chapter applies
   154.07   Basis for establishing special flood hazard areas
   154.08   Establishment of development permit
   154.09   Compliance
   154.10   Abrogation and greater restrictions
   154.11   Discrepancy between mapped floodplain and actual ground elevations
   154.12   Interpretation
   154.13   Warning and disclaimer of liability
Administration and Enforcement
   154.25   Floodplain Administrator: designation; duties; responsibilities
   154.26   Permit procedures
   154.27   Variance and Appeals Board
   154.28   Variance and appeals procedures
Flood Hazard Reduction
   154.40   General standards
   154.41   Specific standards
   154.42   Standards for subdivision proposals
   154.43   Critical facilities
   154.44   Standards for identified floodways
   154.45   Standards for identified fringe
   154.46   Standards for SFHAs without established base flood elevation and/or floodways/fringes
   154.47   Standards for flood prone areas
 
   154.99   Penalty
GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 154.01 STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION.
   The state legislature has in I.C. 36-7-4 granted the power to local government units to control land use within their jurisdictions. Therefore, the County Commissioners do hereby adopt the following floodplain management regulations.
(Ord. 2014-1, passed 2-3-2014)
§ 154.02 FINDINGS OF FACT.
   (A)   The flood hazard areas of county are subject to periodic inundation which results in loss of life and property, health and safety hazards, disruption of commerce and governmental services, extraordinary public expenditures for flood protection and relief and impairment of the tax base, all of which adversely affect the public health, safety and general welfare.
   (B)   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, inadequately floodproofed or otherwise unprotected from flood damages.
(Ord. 2014-1, passed 2-3-2014)
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