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(4) Addition of mass or weight to structures to prevent floatation. (5) Placement of essential utilities above the flood protection elevation. (6) Pumping facilities and/or subsurface drainage systems for buildings to relieve ex- ternal foundation wall and basement floor pressures and to lower water levels in structures. (7) Construction of water supply and waste treatment systems to prevent the entrance of flood waters. (8) Construction to resist rupture or collapse caused by water pressure or floating debris. (9) Cutoff valves on sewer lines or the elimination of gravity flow basement drains. 10.57 AMENDMENTS (a) GENERAL: The County Board of the County of Dane, Wisconsin, may from time to time, al- ter supplement or change the boundaries of use districts and the regulations contained in the Ordinance in the manner provided by law. Official amendments are required for any changes in the official floodway lines, water surface profiles, flood plain zoning maps or flood plain zoning ordinance. Actions which require an amendment include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) Any change in the official floodway lines or in the boundary of the flood plain area. (2) Settlement of conflicts between the water surface profiles and flood plain zoning maps, in accordance with Section 10.56 (c) (3) of this Ordinance. (3) Any fill or encroachment into the floodway which will result in raising the elevation of an area in the floodway to a height at or above the elevation of the regional flood; (4) Any fill or encroachment that will cause a change equal to or greater than 0.1 foot in the water surface profiles of the regional flood; and (5) Any upgrading of flood plain zoning ordinances required by law. (6) Amendments to this Ordinance may be made upon petition of any interested party in accor- dance with the provisions of 59.97 of the WISCONSIN STATUTES. Such petitions shall in- clude any necessary data required by Sections 10.56 (d) (2) and 10.51 (e) (5) of this Ordinance. (b) AMENDMENT PROCEDUPE: Copies of anv amendment proposed to the County Board shall be re- ferred to the Zoning Committee which shall be forwarded by the Zoning Administrator to- gether with the first notice of the public hearing thereon, to the main office and appro- priate district office of the Department of Natural Resources, and the Federal Insurance Administration. The amendment procedure shall comply with the provisions of Section 59.97, Wis. Statutes. No amendment to the text or maps shall become effective until approved by the Department of Natural Resources, the Federal Insurance Administration and, in the case of map amendments, until an official letter of map amendment has been issued by the Federal Insurance Administration of HUD. 10.58 ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES Any violations of the provisions of this Ordinance by any person, firm, association, corporation (including building contractors) or his or their agent, shall be unlawful and shall be forwarded to the Corporation Counsel, who shall expeditiously prosecute all such violators. A violator shall, upon conviction, forfeit to the County, a penalty of .not less than $5.00 and not more than $200.00, together with a taxable cost of such action. Each day during within such violation exists shall constitute a separate offense. Every violation of this Ordinance is a public nuisance and the creation thereof may be enjoined and the maintenance thereof may be abated by action at suit of 'the County, the State, or any citizen thereof. 10.59 DEFINITIONS (a) Unless specifically defined below, words or phrases used in this Ordinance shall be inter- preted so as to give them the same meaning as they have at common law and to give this Ordinance its most reasonable application. (1) A ZONES - are those areas shown on a community's "Official Flood Plain Zoning Map" (see definition 27) which would be inunrated by the "base flood" or "regional flood" as defined herein. These areas may be numbered as AO, Al to A30, A99, or he unnumbered A ZONES. The A ZONES may or may not be reflective of flood profiles, depending on the availability of data for a given area. (2) ACCESSORY USE - An accessory use is any facility, structure, building or use which is accessory or incidential to the principal use of a pronerty, structure or building. (3) BASE FLOOD - A flood having a one percent chance of being equalled or exceeded in any given year. (See also regional flood) . (4) BASE FLOOD ELEVATION - An elevation equal to that which reflects the height of the base flood as defined in (3) above. (5) BOAPD OF ADJUSTMENT - The body established under Chapter 59.99, WISCONSIN STATUTES, for counties and designated "board of adjustment". (6) BULKHFAD LINE - A geographic line along a reach of navigable body of water that has been adopted by a municipal ordinance and approved by the Department of Natural Resources pursuant to Section 30.11, WISCONSIN statutes, and which allows complete filling on the landward side except where such filling is prohibited by the floodway provisions of this Ordinance. - 9 -