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DANE COUNTY CODE 11 - 13 to time, alter, supplement or change the amendments, until an official letter of map boundaries of use districts and the amendment has been issued by the Federal regulations contained in the ordinance in the Insurance Administration of HUI). manner provided by •law. Official amendments are required for any changes in Section 11.14 Enforcement and pen- the official floodway lines, water surface alties. profiles, flood plain zoning maps or flood plain zoning ordinance. Actions which require an amendment include, but are not Any violations of the provisions of this limited to, the following: ordinance by any person, firm, association, corporation (including building contractors) (a) Any change in the official floodway or his or their agent, shall be unlawful and lines or the boundary of the flood plain area. shall be forwarded to the corporation counsel, who shall expeditiously prosecute • (b) Settlement of conflicts between the all such violators. A violator shall, upon water surface profiles and flood plain zoning conviction, forfeit to the county, a penalty of maps, in accordance with Section!1,.1a3)(c) not less than$5.00 and not more than$200.00 of this ordinance. together with a taxable cost of such action. Each day during within such violation exists (c) Any fill or encroachment into the shall constitute a separate offense. Every floodway which will result in raising the violation of this ordinance is a public elevation of an area in the floodway to a nuisance and the creation thereof may be height at or above the elevation of the enjoined and the maintenance thereof may - regional flood; be abated by action at suit of the county, the State, or any citizen thereof. (d) Any fill or encroachment that will cause a change equal to or greater than 0.1 foot in the water surface profiles of the Section . 11.15 Definitions. regional flood; and (1) Unless specifically defined below, (e) Any upgrading of flood plain zoning words or phrases used in this ordinance shall ordinances required by law. be interpreted so as to give them the same meaning as they have at common law and to (f) Amendments to this ordinance may be give this ordinance its most reasonable made upon petition of any interested party in application. accordance with the provisions of 59.97 of the Wisconsin Statutes. Such petitions shall (a) A Zones. Are those areas shown on a i include any necessary data required by community's `official flood plain zoning Sectionsl l.12(4)(b) andll.07(5)(e) of this map" (see definition p) which would be ordinance. inundated by the "base flood" or "regional flood"as defined herein. These areas may be (2) Amendment procedure. Copies of any numbered as AO, Al to A30, A99, or be amendment proposed to the county board unnumbered "A Zones". The "A Zones" may shall be referred to the zoning committee or may not be reflective of flood profiles, which shall be forwarded by the zoning depending on the availability of date for a administrator together with the first notice given area. of the public hearing thereon, to the main office and appropriate district office of the (b) Accessory use. An accessory use is any Department of Natural Resources, and the facility, structure, building or use which is Federal Insurance Administration. The accessory or incidental to the principal use of ' amendment procedure shall comply with the a property, structure or building. . provisions of Section 59.97, Wis. Stats. No ( amendment to the text or maps shall become (c) Base flood. A flood having having a one effective until approved by the Department percent chance of being equalled or of Natural Resources,the Federal Insurance exceeded in any given year. (See also Administration and, in the case of map regional flood).