(A) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to construct, maintain, attempt to construct or maintain any levee or other improvement on, along or near any stream of the state within the corporate city limits that is subject to floods, freshets or overflows so as to control, regulate or otherwise change the flood water of the stream without first having obtained approval of the City Council.
(B) The City Council hereby require that as a condition precedent to the obtaining of a hermit that any application for permit be submitted to the Director of Public Service of the city, along with the plans and specifications for the project. All applications shall be submitted at least five days prior to any meeting of the City Council.
(C) The city of Sweeny, Texas having qualified for the National Flood Insurance Program, Title 42 USC 4001 through 4127, hereby specifically provides that the plans and specifications shall be required to be in substantial compliance with the rules and standards adopted by the Water Development Board of the state, as the same now exist or may be hereafter amended. The rules pertaining to the matter are now found in Chapter X of the Texas Department of Water Resource’s Permanent Rules.
(Ord. 279, passed 9-18-79) Penalty, see § 10.99