                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 10.1-600)

As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Emergency flood insurance program&#8221; or &#8220;emergency
program&#8221; 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.
		&#8220;Flood hazard area&#8221; means those areas susceptible to flooding.
		&#8220;Flood plain&#8221; or &#8220;flood-prone areas&#8221; means those areas
adjoining a river, stream, water course, ocean, bay or lake which are likely to
be covered by floodwaters.
		&#8220;Flood plain management regulations&#8221; 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.
		&#8220;Hundred year flood&#8221; 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.
		&#8220;Locality&#8221; means a county, city, or town.
		&#8220;National flood insurance program&#8221; 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.
		&#8220;Nonfederal cost&#8221; means the flood protection project costs
provided by sources other than the federal government.
		&#8220;Regular flood insurance program&#8221; 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.