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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 2-7 Floodplain Manager.">
  <section prefix="§" num="2-7" heading="Floodplain Manager.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Duties of Planning Department.">The Planning Department is responsible to ensure compliance with the National Flood Insurance Program.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Planning Director to appoint Manager.">The Planning Director is responsible for appointing staff to carry out the duties of the Floodplain Manager.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Duties of Floodplain Manager.">The Floodplain Manager is responsible for:<para num="(1)">overseeing and implementing the City’s floodplain program;</para>
      <para num="(2)">responding to all requests and inquiries by the Administrator of the National Flood Insurance Program;</para>
      <para num="(3)">reviewing applications to determine whether the proposed uses and other activities will be reasonably safe from flooding;</para>
      <para num="(4)">reviewing elevation certificates and requiring incomplete or deficient certificates to be corrected; and</para>
      <para num="(5)">keeping all files required by the National Flood Insurance Program.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 2000, art. 7 §2-7</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 11-516</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-208</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
