CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 10.1-600)

As used in this article, unless the context requires a different
meaning:”Emergency flood insurance program” or “emergency
program” means the Emergency Program of the Federal Insurance
Administration which provides subsidized flood insurance for potential flood
victims, applicable to both new and existing structures, pending completion of
applicable actuarial rates which is a prerequisite for eligibility to
participate in the regular program.”Flood hazard area” means those
areas susceptible to flooding.”Flood plain” or “flood-prone
areas” means those areas adjoining a river, stream, water course, ocean,
bay or lake which are likely to be covered by floodwaters.”Flood plain
management regulations” means zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations,
the building code, health regulations, special purpose ordinances such as flood
plain ordinances, grading ordinances or erosion control ordinances, and other
rules, regulations and ordinances which may affect flood plain uses. The term
describes such legally enforceable regulations, in any combination thereof,
which provide standards for the control of the use and occupancy of flood-prone
areas.”Hundred year flood” means a flood of that level which on the
average will have a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given
year at designated locations.”Locality” means a county, city, or
town.”National flood insurance program” means the program
established by the United States Congress under provisions of the National Flood
Insurance Act of 1968, as amended, and as expanded in the Flood Disaster
Protection Act of 1973, designed to provide flood insurance at rates made
affordable through federal subsidy.”Nonfederal cost” means the flood
protection project costs provided by sources other than the federal
government.”Regular flood insurance program” means a program of
insurance under the national flood insurance program, for which the Federal
Insurance Administrator has issued a flood insurance rate map and applicable
actuarial rates, and under which new construction will not be eligible for flood
insurance except at the applicable actuarial rates.

HISTORY: 1977, c. 310, § 62.1-44.110; 1987, c. 163; 1988, c. 891; 1989, cc.
468, 497.