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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 2-4 Flood elevations.">
  <section prefix="§" num="2-4" heading="Flood elevations.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Nontidal floodplain.">
      <para num="(1)">Regulated Flood Hazard Areas in the nontidal floodplain are designated on the FIRM as “Special Flood Hazard Areas”.</para>
      <para num="(2)">The flood elevations for these areas correspond to the base-flood elevations specified in the Flood Insurance Study.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Tidal floodplain.">
      <para num="(1)">Regulated Flood Hazard Areas in the tidal floodplain are designated on the FIRM as Zones AE, V, VE, and X.</para>
      <para num="(2)">The flood elevations for Zones V and VE are as shown in the Flood Insurance Study’s Table 4 {“Transect Data”}, under the column heading “Zone Designation and BFE”.</para>
      <para num="(3)">The flood elevations for Shaded Zone X (“areas of 0.2% annual chance flood”) and for Zones A and AE are those shown in the Flood Insurance Study’s Table 4 {“Transect Data”}, under the column heading “0.2% Annual Chance”.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Flood elevations not provided by FIRM or FIS.">To establish flood elevations for Regulated Flood Hazard Areas that do not have these elevations shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Map or in the Flood Insurance Study, the Floodplain Manager may:<para num="(1)">provide the best available data for flood elevations;</para>
      <para num="(2)">require the applicant to obtain available information from Federal, State, or other sources; or</para>
      <para num="(3)">require the applicant to establish Regulated Flood Hazard Areas and design-flood elevations as set forth in &lt;cite data-path="|7|§2-5"&gt;§ 2-5 {“Changes to District”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 7, §4(c)(part)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">2000, art. 7, §2-3(a)(part)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-208</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 21-020</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
