Baltimore City Council
File #: 14-0409    Version: 0 Name: Floodplain Management Code - Corrective
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 6/23/2014 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 9/17/2014
Enactment #: 14-283
Title: Floodplain Management Code - Corrective FOR the purpose of correcting, as mandated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the definition of “historic structure”, clarifying an exclusion from the definition of “substantial improvement”, and correcting a misleading conjunction; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to the protection, maintenance, and enhancement of the public health, safety, and welfare through floodplain management.
Sponsors: City Council President (Administration)
Indexes: Code, Corrective Bill, Floodplain, Management
Attachments: 1. 14-0409~1st Reader.pdf, 2. City Solicitor 14-0409.pdf, 3. BMZA 14-0409.pdf, 4. Housing 14-0409.pdf, 5. Susainability 14-0409.pdf, 6. Planning 14-0409.pdf, 7. 14-0409~3rd Reader.pdf
EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL

Introduced by: The Council President
At the request of: The Administration (Department of Planning)

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Floodplain Management Code - Corrective

FOR the purpose of correcting, as mandated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the definition of “historic structure”, clarifying an exclusion from the definition of “substantial improvement”, and correcting a misleading conjunction; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to the protection, maintenance, and enhancement of the public health, safety, and welfare through floodplain management.
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BY repealing and reordaining
Article 7 - Natural Resources
Section(s) 1-3(g) and (u)(3) and 3-35(b)(2)
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:

Baltimore City Code

Article 7. Natural Resources

Subtitle 1. Definitions; General Provisions

§ 1-3. Definitions – “Floodproofing” to “Wet floodproofing”.

(g) Historic structure.

“Historic structure” means a structure that is:

(1) individually listed in the National Register of Historic Places or certified or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as meeting the requirements for individual listing in the Register;


(2) individually listed in the Maryland [Inventory] REGISTER of Historic...

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