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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>74913</law_id><section_number>10.1-600</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>10.1-1402.02</reference><reference>10.1-1408.1</reference><reference>10.1-603</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="10.1">Conservation</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Activities Administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Flood Protection and Dam Safety</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Flood Damage Reduction Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Emergency flood insurance program</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">emergency program</span>&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">Emergency Program</span> 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.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Flood hazard area</span>&#x201D; means those areas susceptible to flooding.
		&#x201C;Flood plain&#x201D; or &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">flood-prone areas</span>&#x201D; means those areas adjoining a river, stream, water course, ocean, bay or lake which are likely to be covered by floodwaters.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Flood plain management regulations</span>&#x201D; means zoning <span class="dictionary">ordinances</span>, subdivision regulations, the building code, health regulations, special purpose <span class="dictionary">ordinances</span> such as flood plain <span class="dictionary">ordinances</span>, grading <span class="dictionary">ordinances</span> or erosion control <span class="dictionary">ordinances</span>, and other rules, regulations and <span class="dictionary">ordinances</span> 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 <span class="dictionary">flood-prone areas</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Hundred year flood</span>&#x201D; 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.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Locality</span>&#x201D; means a county, city, or town.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">National flood insurance program</span>&#x201D; 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.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Nonfederal cost</span>&#x201D; means the flood protection project costs provided by sources other than the federal government.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Regular flood insurance program</span>&#x201D; means a program of insurance under the <span class="dictionary">national flood insurance program</span>, 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.</p></section></text><history>1977, c. 310, &#xA7; 62.1-44.110; 1987, c. 163; 1988, c. 891; 1989, cc. 468, 497.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
