County Commissioner Resolutions - November 2002. - -. � ao�� �
?uVIEiVDED RESOLUTION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE
NATIONAL FLOOD [I�'SURANCE PROGRAM
WHEREAS, certain areas of Gibson County, Indiana are subject to periodic flooding, or
flood- related erosion, causing serious damage to properties within these areas; and
�'�'HEREAS, relief is available in the form of Federally subsidized flood insurance as
authorized by the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968; and
WHERAS, it is the intent of the Gibson County Boazd of Commissioners to require the
recognition of evaluation of flood or flood-related erosion hazards in all official actions
relatin� to land use in areas having these hazards; and
WHERAS, this Board has the legal authoriry to adopt land use and control measures to
reduce future flood losses;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Gibson County Board of
Commissioners hereby:
1. Assures the Federal Insurance Administration that it will enact as necessazy and
maintain in force in those areas having flood, or flood-related erosion hazards,
adequate land use and control measures with effective enforcement provisions
consistent �ti�ith the criteria set forth in Section 59 et. Seq., of the National Flood
Insurance Pro�ram Regulations; and
2. Vests the Administrative Assistant to the Gibson County Commissioners with the
responsibility, authoriry, and means to:
(a) Assist the Administrator, at his/her request, in the delineation of the limits
of the area having special flood or flood-related erosion hazards.
(b) Provide information the Administrator may request conceming present
uses and occupancy of the floodplain or flood-related erosion areas.
(c) Cooperate with Federal, State, and local agencies and private firms which
undertake to study, survey, map, and identify floodplain or flood-related
erosion areas, and cooperate with neighboring communities with respect
to management of adjoining floodplain and/or flood-related erosion areas
in order to prevent aggravation of existing hazards.
(d) Submit, on forms provided by the Administrator, an annual report on the
progress made during the past yeaz �vithin the community in the
development and implementation of floodplain management measures.
(e) Upon concurrence, notify the Administrator in writing whenever the
boundaries of the community have been modified by annexation or the
community has othenvise assumed or no longer has authoriry to adopt and
enforce floodplain management regulations for a particular area. [nclude
an accurate corporate limit map suitable for reproduction, clearly
delineating the new corporate limits or new area for which the community
has assumed or relinquished floodplain management regulatory authority.
The community has assumed or relinquished floodplain management
regulatory authority. The community �vill use the Flood Insurance Rate
Map or Flood Hazard Boundary Map published for the community from
�vhich land areas were annexed or from that political entiry that previousl��
had regulatory authority until the Administrator provides a map using the
ne«� corporate limits.
3. Appoints Administrative Assistant to the Gibson County Commissioners to
maintain for public inspection and ro fumish upon request (for determining flood
insurance rates), the followin� information on all new and substantially improved
structures constructed within the identified special flood hazard area:
(a) the actual (as-built) lowest floor (including basement) elevation in relation
to mean sea level;
(b) any ceRificates of floodproo£mg;
(c) ���hether or not a building has a basement;
(d) for all floodproofed structures, the elevation to which the structure has
been floodproofed.
4. Agrees to take such other official action as may be reasonably necessary to cam�
out the objectives of the program.
RESOLVED this a5� day of_7 ,r , 2002.
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INDA K. HOOVER
RICHARD J. AUL
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