§ 151.27. LANDS TO WHICH SUBCHAPTER APPLIES; BASIS FOR ESTABLISHING FLOOD DATA.  


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  • (A) Lands to which this subchapter applies. This subchapter shall apply to all SFHAs within the jurisdiction of Brazil.
    (B) Basis for establishing regulatory flood data. This subchapter’s protection standard is the regulatory flood. The best available regulatory flood data is listed below. Whenever a party disagrees with the best available data, the party submitting the detailed engineering study needs to replace existing data with better data and submit it to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources for review and approval.
    (1) The regulatory flood elevation, floodway and fringe limits for the SFHAs of the city as identified for construction purposes only on the Pogue's Run Watershed Floodplain Mapping, produced by Samuel L. Moore and Associates and dated December 1998.
    (2) For the SFHAs of those parts of unincorporated Clay County that are within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the city or that may be annexed into the city: if the SFHA is delineated as "Zone A" on the County Flood Hazard Boundary Map, the regulatory flood elevation, floodway and fringe limits shall be according to the best data available as provided by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
    (Ord. 29-2005, passed 9-27-2005)