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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Elevated Building means a nonbasement <br /> building (i) built, in the case of a building in <br /> Zones A1-30, AE, A, A99, A0, AH, B, C, X, and D, <br /> to have the top of the elevate.d floor, or in the <br /> case of a building in Zones V1-30, VE, or V, to <br /> have the bottom of the lowest horizontal structure <br /> member of the elevated floor elevated above the <br /> ground level by means of pilings, columns (posts <br /> and piers), or shear walls parallel to the floor <br /> of the water and (ii) adequately anchored so as <br /> not to impair the structural integrity of the <br /> building duririg a flood of up to the magnitude of <br /> the base flood. In the case of Zones A1-30, AE, <br /> A, A99, A0, AH, B, C, X, D, "elevated building" <br /> also includes a building elevated by means of fill <br /> or solid foundation perimeter walls with openings <br /> sufficient to facilitate the unimpeded movement of <br /> flood waters. In the case of Zones V1-30, VE, or <br /> V, "elevated buildi.ng" also includes a building <br /> otherwise meeting the definition of "elevated <br /> building", even though the lower area is enclosed <br /> by nieans of breakaway walls if the breakaway walls <br /> met the standards of Section 60.3(e)(5) of the <br /> National Flood Insurance Program regulations. <br /> Existing Construction means for the purposes <br /> of determining rates, structures for which the <br /> "start of construction" commenced before the <br /> effective date of the FIRM or before January 1, <br /> 1975, for FIRMs effective before that date. <br /> "Existing construction" may also be referred to as <br /> "existing structures." <br /> Flood or Flooding means a general and tem- <br /> porary condition of partial or complete inundation <br /> of normally dry land areas from: <br /> (1) the overfl.ow of inland or tidal waters. <br /> (2) the unusual and rapid accumulation or <br /> runoff of surface waters from any <br /> source. <br /> Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) means an <br /> official map of a community, on which the Federal <br /> Emergency Management Agency has delineated both <br /> the areas of special flood hazards and the risk <br /> premium zones applicable to the community. <br /> Flood Insurance Study is the official report <br /> provided by the Federal Emergency Management <br /> Agency. The report contains flood profiles, water <br /> surface elevation of the base flood, as well as <br /> the Flood Boundary-Floodway Map. <br /> F1oodPlain or Flood-Prone Area means any land <br /> area susceptible to being inundated by water from <br /> any source (see definition of flooding); <br /> Flood Protection System means those physical <br /> structural works for which funds have been <br /> authorized, appropriated, and expended and which <br /> have been constructed specifically to modify <br /> flooding in order to reduce the extent of the <br /> areas within a community subject to a"special <br /> f.lood hazard" and the extent of the depths of <br /> associated flooding. Such a system typically <br /> includes hurricane tidal barriers, dams, reser- <br /> voirs, levees or dikes. These specialized flood <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> -2- <br />