See "zone A."

means a structure which is on the same parcel as the principal structure to be insured and the use of which is incidental to the use of the principal structure.

means a walled and roofed expansion to the perimeter of a structure in which the expansion is connected by a common load-bearing wall other than a firewall. A walled and roofed expansion, which is connected by a firewall or is separated by independent perimeter load-bearing walls, shall be treated as new construction.

means a request to the zoning board of review to review the inspector of buildings' interpretation of any provision of this title or a request for a variance.

means a designated AO, AH, AR/AO, AR/AH, or VO zone on a FIRM with a one percent or greater annual chance of flooding to an average depth of one foot to three feet where a clearly defined channel does not exist, where the path of flooding is unpredictable and where velocity flow may be evident. Such flooding is characterized by ponding or sheet flow.

See definition for "special flood hazard area."

See zone B."

means the flood having a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.

means the elevation of surface water resulting from a flood that has a 1% chance of equaling or exceeding that level in any given year. The BFE is shown on the FIRM for zones AE, AH, A1-A30, AR, AR/A, AR/AE, AR/A1-A30, AR/AH, AR/AO, V1-V30 and VE.

means any area of the building having its floor subgrade (below ground level) on all sides.

means a wall that is not part of the structural support of the building and is intended through its design and construction to collapse under specific lateral loading forces, without causing damage to the elevated portion of the building or supporting foundation system.

See definition for "structure."

See zone C.

means those parts of the city's coastal floodplain, inland from the mapped V Zone, that are subject to the damaging effects of waves, velocity flows, erosion, scour or combination of those forces. The boundary of the coastal A zone shall be the limit of moderate wave action as shown on the FIRM.

means the cost of any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, alteration, repair or other improvement of a structure established by a detailed written contractor's estimate. The estimate shall include, but not be limited to: The cost of materials (including interior finishing elements), structural elements, utility and service equipment (including heating and air conditioning and utility meters); sales tax on materials, building equipment and fixtures; labor; built-in appliances; demolition and site preparation; repairs made to damaged parts of the building worked on at the same time and contractor's overhead and profit. Items to be excluded include: Cost of plans and specifications, survey costs, permit fees, outside improvements such as septic systems, water supply wells, landscaping, sidewalks, fences, yard lights, irrigation systems, and detached structures such as garages, sheds, and gazebos.

means a structure or other improvement that; because of its function, size, service area, or uniqueness; has the potential to cause serious bodily harm, extensive property damage or disruption of vital socioeconomic activities if it is destroyed or damaged or if its functionality is impaired. Critical facilities include the following categories:

means any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to the construction of structures; mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations or the storage of equipment or materials.

means any combination of structural and non-structural waterproofing measures incorporated in a structure that is not elevated to the BFE or the elevation required by the Rhode Island Building Code, whichever is greater, that keeps water from entering the building in order to prevent or minimize flood damage.

means a nonbasement building that has its lowest elevated floor raised above ground level by foundation walls, shear walls, posts, piers, pilings, or columns. Solid (perimeter) foundations walls are not an acceptable means of elevating buildings in V and VE zones.

means a statement certified by a professional engineer (PE) or professional land surveyor (PLS), on a FEMA approved form, which verifies a structure's elevation and other related information needed to verify compliance with this Chapter.

means that portion of an elevated building below the lowest elevated floor that is either partially or fully shut in by rigid walls.

means the physical advance or infringement of uses, plant growth or development into a floodplain.

means any structure for which the start of construction commenced before January 1, 1975.

means a manufactured (mobile) home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities servicing the lots on which the manufactured (mobile) homes are to be affixed (including, as a minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) is completed before November 27, 1974.

means the preparation of additional sites by the construction of facilities servicing the lots on which the manufacturing (mobile) homes are to be placed (including the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads).

means the federal agency under which the NFIP is administered.

means the flood that has a 0.2 percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.

means:

means an official map of a community, on which the Federal Insurance Administrator has delineated both the special hazard areas and the risk premium zones applicable to the community. A FIRM that has been made available digitally is called a digital flood insurance rate map (DFIRM).

means an examination, evaluation and determination of flood hazards and, if appropriate, corresponding water surface elevations, or an examination, evaluation and determination of mudslide (i.e., mudflow) and/or flood-related erosion hazards.

means any land area susceptible to being inundated by flood waters from any source. (See definition of flood or flooding.)

means any combination of structural and non-structural additions, changes, or adjustments to structures which reduce or eliminate flood damage to real estate or improved real property, water and sanitary facilities, structures and their contents.

means a statement certified by a PE or a registered architect, on a FEMA approved form, stating that a non-residential structure, together with attendant utilities and sanitary facilities is watertight to a specified design elevation with walls that are substantially impermeable to the passage of water and that all structural components are capable of resisting hydrostatic and hydrodynamic flood forces, including the effects of buoyancy and anticipated debris impact forces.

means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than a designated height.

means a factor of safety usually expressed in feet above a flood level for purposes of flood plain management. Freeboard" tends to compensate for the many unknown factors that could contribute to flood heights greater than the height calculated for a selected size flood and floodway conditions, such as wave action, bridge openings, and the hydrological effect of urbanization of the watershed.

means the highest natural elevation of the ground surface prior to construction next to the proposed walls of a structure.

means any structure that is:

means the inland limit of the area affected by waves greater than 1.5 feet. The LiMWA is determined based on the landward limit of the one percent annual chance coastal flood that can support a 1.5-foot wave.

means the lowest point of the ground level immediately next to a building. It does not include earth that is emplaced for aesthetic or landscape reasons around a foundation wall. It does include natural ground or properly compacted fill that comprises a component of a structure's foundation system.

means the lowest floor of the lowest enclosed area (including a basement). An unfinished or flood-resistant enclosure, usable solely for parking of vehicles, building access or storage in an area other than a basement area, is not considered a building's lowest floor provided that such enclosure is not built so as to render the structure in violation of applicable non-elevation design requirements.

means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with or without a permanent foundation when attached to the required utilities. The term "manufactured home" does not include a "recreational vehicle."

means a parcel or contiguous parcels of land divided into two or more manufactured home lots for rent or sale.

means the price of a structure that a willing buyer and seller agree upon as determined by an independent appraisal by a professional appraiser; a property's tax assessment minus land value; the replacement cost minus depreciation of the structure or the structure's actual cash value.

means the National Geodeticl Vertical Datum {NGVD} of 1929 or other datum, to which base flood elevations shown on a community's FIRM are referenced.

means the program of flood insurance coverage and floodplain management administered under the Act and applicable federal regulations promulgated in Title 44 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Subchapter B.

means for floodplain management purposes, structures for which the "start of construction" commenced on or after November 27, 1974.

means a manufactured (mobile) home park or manufactured home subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured mobile homes are to be affixed (including at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) was completed on or after November 27, 1974.

means any dam, wall, wharf, embankment, levee, dike, pile, abutment, protection, excavation, channelization, bridge, conduit, culvert, building, wire, fence, rock, gravel, refuse, fill, structure, vegetation or other material in, along, across or projecting into any watercourse which may alter, impede, retard or change the direction and/or velocity of the flow of water, or due to its location, its propensity to snare or collect debris carried by the flow of water, or its likelihood of being carried downstream.

means a person who has been registered and licensed by the state board of registration for professional engineers in accordance with RIGL Chapter 5-8.

means a person who has been duly registered as a professional land surveyor by the board established under RIGL 5-8.1, and who is a professional specialist in the technique of measuring land, educated in the basic principles of mathematics, the related physical and applied sciences and the relevant requirements of law for adequate evidence and all to surveying of real property and engaged in the practice of land surveying as defined in this section.

means a vehicle which is built on a single chassis; four hundred (400) square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projection; designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable and designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling but as a temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel, or seasonal use.

See definition "special flood hazard area (SFHA)."

See definition for "floodway."

means naturally occurring accumulations of sand in ridges or mounds landward of the beach.

See definition for "area of shallow flooding."

means an area having special flood, mudslide (i.e. mudflow) or flood-related erosion hazards and shown on a flood hazard boundary map (FHBM) or a flood insurance rate map (FIRM) zone A, AO, A1-A30, AE, A99, AH, AR, AR/A, AR/AE, AR/AH, AR/AO, AR/A1-A30, V1-V30, VE or V.

(includes substantial improvement,) the date the building permit was issued provided the actual start of construction, repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition placement, or other improvement was within one hundred eighty (180) days of the permit date. The actual start means either the first placement of permanent construction of a structure on a site, such as the pouring of slab or footings, the installation of piles, the construction of columns, or any work beyond the stage of excavation; or the placement of a manufactured home on a foundation. Permanent construction does not include land preparation, such as clearing, grading and filling; nor does it include the installation of streets and/or walkways; nor does it include excavation for a basement, footings, piers, or foundations or the erection of temporary forms; nor does it include the installation on the property of accessory buildings, such as garages or sheds not occupied as dwelling units or not part of the main structure. For a substantial improvement, the actual start of construction means the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor, or other structural part of a building, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the building.

means for floodplain management purposes, a walled and roofed building, including a gas or liquid storage tank, that is principally above ground, as well as a manufactured home. Structure, for insurance purposes, means:

means damage of any origin sustained by a structure during a five-year period whereby the cost of restoring the structure to its before damaged condition would equal or exceed fifty (50) percent of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred.

means any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or other improvement of a structure during a five-year period, the cost of which equals or exceeds fifty (50) percent of the market value of the structure before the "start of construction" of the improvement. This term includes structures which have incurred "substantial damage," regardless of the actual repair work performed. The term does not, however, include either:

means plumbing, mechanical and electrical equipment including piping, wiring, fixtures, and other accessories which provide sanitation, lighting, heating, ventilation, cooling, refrigeration and fire-fighting facilities essential for the occupancy of structure. Utilities include but are not limited to furnaces, boilers, air conditioning compressors, air and heating ducts, water supply pipes electric, gas and water meters, control panels, electrical wiring, and gas pipes.

means for floodplain management purposes, a grant of relief by a community from the terms of a flood plain management regulation.

means the failure of a structure or other development to be fully plain management regulations. A structure or other development without the elevation certificate, other certifications, or other evidence of compliance required in Section 60.3(b)(5), (c)(4), (c)(10), (d)(3), (e)(2), (e)(4), or (e)(5) is presumed to be in violation until such time as that documentation is provided.

means a lake, river, creek, stream, wash, channel or other topographic feature on or over which waters flow at least periodically. Watercourse includes specifically designated areas in which substantial flood damage may occur.

means measures designed to minimize damage to a structure or its contents by water that is allowed into a building.

means the special flood hazard area (except coastal V zones) shown on a community's flood insurance rate map. There are seven types of A zones:

means area of minimal flood hazard, usually depicted on older FIRM's as between the limits of the base and five hundred (500) year floods of the primary source of flooding.

means area of minimal flood hazard, usually depicted on older FIRM's as between the limits of the base and five hundred (500) year floods of the primary source of flooding.

means the special flood hazard area subject to coastal high hazard flooding. There are three types of V zones: V, V#, and VE, and they correspond to the A-zone designations.

means newer flood insurance rate maps show zones B and C (see above) as zone X. The shaded zone X corresponds to a zone B and the unshaded zone X corresponds to a zone C.