Madera Municipal Code Ch. 3 Floodplain Management

This chapter applies to all areas of special flood hazard, areas of flood-related erosion hazards, and areas of mud flow hazards identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency or the Federal Insurance Administration in a scientific and engineering report entitled “Flood Insurance Study for the City of Madera, California” dated September 26, 2008, with an accompanying Flood Insurance Rate Map which is on file with the office of the City Clerk and to which reference is made. This Flood Insurance Study is a minimum area of applicability of this chapter and may be supplemented by studies for other areas which allow implementation of this chapter and which are recommended to the City Council by the Flood Plain Administrator.

('61 Code, § 3-3.01) (Ord. 478 C.S., passed 8-5-87; Am. Ord. 862 C.S., passed 8-19-09)

No structure or land shall hereafter be constructed, located, extended, converted, or altered without full compliance with all of the rules, requirements, terms, and provisions of a resolution of the City Council which shall be adopted pursuant to this chapter to implement this chapter.

('61 Code, § 3-3.02) (Ord. 478 C.S., passed 8-5-87)