All new construction and substantial improvements to residential structures shall have the lowest floor, including basements, elevated to or above the base flood level, unless the Township is granted an exception by the Federal Insurance Administration for the allowance of basements and/or storm cellars.

All new construction or substantial improvements to nonresidential structures shall have the lowest floor, including basements, elevated to or above the base flood level or, together with attendant utility and sanitary facilities, be designed so that below the base flood level the structure is watertight with walls substantially impermeable to the passage of water and with structural components having the capability of resisting hydrostatic and hydrodynamic loads and effects of buoyancy. Where floodproofing is utilized for structures constructed below the base flood elevation, a registered New Jersey professional engineer and/or architect shall certify that the floodproofing methods are adequate to withstand the flood depths, pressure, velocities, impact and uplift forces and other factors associated with the base flood. The Construction Official shall maintain a record of such certificates indicating the specific elevation, in relation to mean sea level, to which such structures are floodproofed.

Plans submitted with applications for building permits for all new construction or substantial improvements to residential and nonresidential structures on land having an elevation of less than the base flood elevation and/or within any "A" Zone as shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps of the Federal Insurance Administration shall include the elevation of the first finished floor and the elevation of the basement or cellar, where provided. Data shall be United States Coast and Geodetic Survey data (MSL-0) and the source of data shall be noted. The Construction Official shall maintain a record of all such first finished floor, basement and cellar elevations submitted.

Prior to the issuance of any building permit on land located within an unnumbered "A" Zone as shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps of the Federal Insurance Administration, the applicant shall undertake and submit such studies as are necessary to determine the base flood elevation.

Whenever an applicant proposes to alter or relocate a watercourse, he shall notify adjacent communities and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and submit copies of such notification to the Federal Insurance Administration. The design of the alteration or relocation of any watercourse shall be required to demonstrate that the flood-carrying capacity of the watercourse is maintained.

All mobile homes located on land having an elevation less than the base flood elevation shall be anchored to resist flotation, collapse or lateral movement by providing over-the-top and frame ties to ground anchors. Specific requirements shall be as follows:

All new mobile home parks, expansion to existing mobile home parks, and existing mobile home parks where the repair, reconstruction or improvement of the streets, utilities and pads equals or exceeds 50% of the value of the streets, utilities and pads before the repair, reconstruction or improvement has commenced, located on land having an elevation below the base flood elevation, shall make provision that stands or lots are elevated on compacted fill or on pilings so that the lowest floor of the mobile home will be at or above the base flood level, adequate surface drainage and access for a hauler are provided and, in the instance of elevation on pilings, lots are large enough to permit steps, piling foundations are placed in stable soil no more than 10 feet apart and reinforcement is provided for pilings more than six feet above the ground level.

New mobile home parks shall not be permitted within any floodway or flood hazard area.

All mobile homes, not within mobile home parks, which are located on land having an elevation below the base flood elevation shall make provision that stands or lots are elevated on compacted fill or on pilings so that the lowest floor of the mobile home will be at or above the base flood level, adequate surface drainage and access for a hauler are provided and, in the instance of elevation on pilings, lots are large enough to permit steps, piling foundations are placed in stable soil no more than 10 feet apart and reinforcement is provided for piers more than six feet above ground level.

Along the Atlantic Ocean within Zone V6, as shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps of the Federal Insurance Administration, no new buildings shall be permitted, and any substantial improvement shall be elevated on adequately anchored pilings or columns and securely anchored to such piles or columns so that the lowest portion of the structural members of the lowest floor, excluding the pilings or columns, is elevated to or above the base flood level, and a registered professional engineer or architect shall certify that the structure is securely anchored to adequately anchored pilings or columns in order to withstand high-velocity waters and hurricane wave wash. The space below the lowest floor shall be free of obstructions or be constructed with breakaway walls intended to collapse under stress without jeopardizing the structural support of the structure so that the impact on the structure by abnormally high tides or wind-driven water is minimized. Such temporarily enclosed space shall not be used for human habitation.

No alteration of sand dunes and their natural vegetation which would increase potential flood damage shall be permitted.

No building, structure or use shall be permitted within floodways or flood hazard areas as defined in Chapter 313, Flood Damage Prevention, of the Code of the Township of Toms River, except in accordance with a permit issued under that chapter.

With any application for development on land located within a floodway and/or having an elevation of less than the base flood elevation, the Planning Board shall require that the applicant submit a plan, certified by a registered New Jersey professional engineer and/or registered architect, of the flood protection measures to be taken. Such flood protection measures shall include, where applicable, the following: