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12/12/2406 TUB 16:43 PAX <br />ra <br />• ��=x. =ice - - <br />- Siate of Nimil CilrC31i11ii <br />lktt5`is�i( -ice' tJtik=1WtAq �c�Hfi4 <br />I •• (r, WX -! ' REFLYTB: <br />i 'tl ,i4il Crim coAh of 5 time <br />• - - - �� �fi�:3�•Rsi' � {g1927i6.U565 . <br />September 1'1, 2005 . <br />Phil Letlager <br />Nationd Flood insurance Program (hIFtP) <br />14.C. Divis `►oft -of Emergency Management <br />470 Mail Service Center <br />Raleigh, North Carolina <br />Dear Phil: <br />You requested information concerning ft proper way to amend mmaicipal flood <br />oriliixa Yo under?lortit information <br />lam. The Division of Emmerbrency Management serves a& state <br />coordinator ol'tbe Nj atiatral Flood Inmkonce ProgXam )- I ustderstand that the Federal <br />Emergency-Management Ageiuy (MMA) required Worth Carolina to develop a state model <br />tlaodptain management axdinancs. FE.MA- noted that some states avow ordieranc:es that <br />autottraticgly adept revisions, while other states require that each orditra m and revision theaem <br />mast be formally adapo by the appropriate .municipal govqui body. The question regarding , <br />the appropriate legal Roan$ to adopt andlorrevise ordinances is siguific nt as itrelates to ilaad <br />Imurancc. -naps• As development occurs and - conditions changa,'•the maps cltarrge tg reflect the, <br />effects on Eloadways and fioodpl� ins• There arc actual maps that rriay be, amended by a letter of <br />amendment. Communities participaCull -,, in the :�IF[P administer their program as pact of a zoning <br />program. <br />• jsua y, atame law requires: that zoning Ordinamos acid maps arc adopted and revised by <br />specific state law prr dm F�lIA has requested an opinion regarding whedter North Carolina <br />taw reglfdw kttat zoning ordinan= and maps are adopted and revised using specific state law <br />procedures: Fnrth>+r, FEMA has requested as opinion regarding wire'daer iucatporatim' by • • <br />reference of figure, ainendments'to another statute. rule or regrrladon constitutes an rrrrlawFul <br />de(e on o� lei #ath a Power- firmly, FEMA has requested an opinion regaEft *hethe <br />under Worth Carolina law .40A Carolina's floodptain management model ordinance. may . •. <br />provide for the mtora la adoption of revisions to such ordiriarrce without any fturther legrslAtive <br />action by the jurisdictian's gaverning body. Ft la A wants to know wtre;her any neoes�fy <br />ordinance revisions based upon new lta mAdata providdd byFE11+iA and incorporating any future <br />changes in I ftoodplain management criteria maybe made. "therefore; the issue is whether <br />han North Carolina's model floodplain management ordinance may specify that traps 'and any <br />revision thereto" or"as mucaded" are arrtornatically adopted, by the Ordinance without an <br />amendment of the ordinance.;•ii appears <br />that this is not petznissr'ble under the htarth Carolina <br />84 <br />