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(b) AMENDMENT PROCEDURE: Copies of any amendment proposed to the County Board shall be re- ferred to the Committee which shall he forwarded together with the first notice of the public hearing thereon, to the main office and appropriate district office of the Depart- ment of Natural Resources, and the Federal Insurance and Hazard Mitigation Office. The amendment procedure shall comply with the provisions of section 59.97 Wis. Stats. No amendment to the text or maps shall be come effective until approved by the Department of - Natural Resources, the Office of. 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 Office of FEMA. In areas where no stream profiles exist the Committee shall consider data jointly submitted by the Department of Natural Resources and the Zoning Administration based on visual on-site inspection and other available infor- mation. 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 inundated by the "base flood" or "regional flood" as defined herein. These areas may be numbered as AO, Al to A30, A99, or be 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 incidental to the principal use of a property, 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) BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT - The body established under Chapter 59.99, WISCONSIN STATUTES, for counties and designated "board of adjustment". (6) BULKHEAD 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 Re- sources 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. (7) CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE - A certification by the Zoning Administrator that a struc- ture, use, or development is in compliance with all provisions of this Ordinance. (8) CHANNEL - A channel is a natural or artificial watercourse with definite bed and banks to confine and conduct the normal flow of water. (9) DEVELOPMENT - Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to construction of or additions or substantial improvements to buildings. Other structures, or accessory uses, the placement of mobile homes, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations, deposition of materials. (10) ENCROACHMENT - An encroachment is any fill, structure, building, accessory use, use or development in the floodway. (11) ENCROACHMENT/FLOODWAY LINES - Encroachment lines are limits of obstruction to flood I ; flows. These lines are on both sides of and generally parallel to the stream. The lines are established by assuming that the area landward (outside) of the encroach- ment lines will be ultimately developed in such a way that it will not be available to convey flood flows. (12) EQUAL DEGREE OF HYDRAULIC ENCROACHMENT - The effect of any encroachment into the ✓ floodway must be computed by assuming an equal degree of hydraulic encroachment on - 60 -