10.1-600 - Definitions.
§ 10.1-600. Definitions.
As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
"Emergency flood insurance program" or "emergency program" means theEmergency Program of the Federal Insurance Administration which providessubsidized flood insurance for potential flood victims, applicable to bothnew and existing structures, pending completion of applicable actuarial rateswhich 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 byfloodwaters.
"Flood plain management regulations" means zoning ordinances, subdivisionregulations, the building code, health regulations, special purposeordinances such as flood plain ordinances, grading ordinances or erosioncontrol ordinances, and other rules, regulations and ordinances which mayaffect flood plain uses. The term describes such legally enforceableregulations, in any combination thereof, which provide standards for thecontrol of the use and occupancy of flood-prone areas.
"Hundred year flood" means a flood of that level which on the average willhave a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year atdesignated locations.
"Locality" means a county, city, or town.
"National flood insurance program" means the program established by theUnited States Congress under provisions of the National Flood Insurance Actof 1968, as amended, and as expanded in the Flood Disaster Protection Act of1973, designed to provide flood insurance at rates made affordable throughfederal subsidy.
"Nonfederal cost" means the flood protection project costs provided bysources other than the federal government.
"Regular flood insurance program" means a program of insurance under thenational flood insurance program, for which the Federal InsuranceAdministrator has issued a flood insurance rate map and applicable actuarialrates, and under which new construction will not be eligible for floodinsurance except at the applicable actuarial rates.
(1977, c. 310, § 62.1-44.110; 1987, c. 163; 1988, c. 891; 1989, cc. 468, 497.)