Borough of South Plainfield, NJ Floodplain Management

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Borough of South Plainfield, NJ

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Table of Contents

Part I: Administrative Legislation
Ch 1 General Provisions
Ch 5 Administration
Ch 11 Aging, Office on
Ch 17 Boards, Committees and Commissions
Ch 22 Civil Service
Ch 28 Claims Procedure
Ch 34 Court
Ch 41 Ethics, Code of
Ch 46 Financial Disclosure
Ch 52 Fire Department
Ch 54 Fiscal Year
Ch 71 Officers and Employees
Ch 73 Payroll
Ch 78 Personnel Regulations
Ch 84 Police Department
Ch 90 Public Works Department
Ch 96 Salaries and Compensation
Ch 101 Seal
Ch 107 Sewerage Authority
Ch 112 Swimming Pool Utility
Ch 118 Volunteer Municipal Positions
Part II: General Legislation
Ch 125 (Reserved)
Ch 131 Alarm Systems
Ch 136 Alcoholic Beverages
Ch 141 Amusements
Ch 146 Animals
Ch 152 Background Checks
Ch 160 (Reserved)
Ch 163 Bicycles
Ch 168 Bingo and Raffles
Ch 172 Business and Rental Insurance Certificate Registry
Ch 175 Cannabis Transfer Tax and User Tax
Ch 181 Charitable Clothing Bins
Ch 186 Cigarettes and Tobacco Products
Ch 187 Vehicles and Traffic
Ch 196 Curfew
Ch 204 Drug-Free Zones
Ch 210 Emergency Management
Ch 216 Fees
Ch 218 Fiber Optic Cable
Ch 220 Firearms
Ch 225 Fire Insurance Claims
Ch 230 Fire Prevention
Ch 241 Fireworks
Ch 247 Floodplain Management
Ch 247 Art I Scope and Administration
§ 247-1.1 Title.
§ 247-1.2 Scope.
§ 247-1.3 Purposes and objectives.
§ 247-1.4 Coordination with building codes.
§ 247-1.5 Ordinary building maintenance and minor work.
§ 247-1.6 Warning.
§ 247-1.7 Other laws.
§ 247-1.8 Violations and penalties for noncompliance.
§ 247-1.9 Solid waste disposal in a flood hazard area.
§ 247-1.10 Abrogation and greater restrictions.
Ch 247 Art II Applicability
§ 247-2.1 General.
§ 247-2.2 Establishment of flood hazard areas.
§ 247-2.3 Establishing the local design flood elevation (LDFE).
Ch 247 Art III Duties and Powers of the Floodplain Administrator
§ 247-3.1 Floodplain Administrator designation.
§ 247-3.2 General.
§ 247-3.3 Coordination.
§ 247-3.4 Duties.
§ 247-3.5 Use of changed technical data.
§ 247-3.6 Other permits.
§ 247-3.7 Determination of local design flood elevations.
§ 247-3.8 Requirement to submit new technical data.
§ 247-3.9 Activities in riverine flood hazard areas.
§ 247-3.10 Floodway encroachment.
§ 247-3.11 Floodway revisions.
§ 247-3.12 Watercourse alteration.
§ 247-3.13 Engineering analysis.
§ 247-3.14 Alterations in coastal areas.
§ 247-3.15 Development in riparian zones.
§ 247-3.16 Substantial improvement and substantial damage determinations.
§ 247-3.17 Department records.
§ 247-3.18 Liability.
Ch 247 Art IV Permits
§ 247-4.1 Permits required.
§ 247-4.2 Application for permit.
§ 247-4.3 Validity of permit.
§ 247-4.4 Expiration.
§ 247-4.5 Suspension or revocation.
Ch 247 Art V Site Plans and Construction Documents
§ 247-5.1 Information for development in flood hazard areas.
§ 247-5.2 Information in flood hazard areas without base flood elevations (approximate Zone A).
§ 247-5.3 Analyses and certifications by a licensed professional engineer.
§ 247-5.4 Submission of additional data.
Ch 247 Art VI Inspections
§ 247-6.1 General.
§ 247-6.2 Inspections of development.
§ 247-6.3 Buildings and structures.
§ 247-6.4 Manufactured homes.
Ch 247 Art VII Variances
§ 247-7.1 General.
§ 247-7.2 Historic structures.
§ 247-7.3 Functionally dependent uses.
§ 247-7.4 Restrictions in floodways.
§ 247-7.5 Considerations.
§ 247-7.6 Conditions for issuance.
Ch 247 Art VIII Violations
§ 247-8.1 Violations.
§ 247-8.2 Authority.
§ 247-8.3 Unlawful continuance.
§ 247-8.4 Review period to correct violations.
Ch 247 Art IX Definitions
§ 247-9.1 General.
§ 247-9.2 Definitions.
Ch 247 Art X Subdivisions and Other Developments
§ 247-10.1 General.
§ 247-10.2 Subdivision requirements.
Ch 247 Art XI Site Improvement
§ 247-11.1 Encroachment in floodways.
§ 247-11.2 Prohibited in floodways.
§ 247-11.3 Sewer facilities.
§ 247-11.4 Water facilities.
§ 247-11.5 Storm drainage.
§ 247-11.6 Streets and sidewalks.
§ 247-11.7 Limitations on placement of fill.
§ 247-11.8 Hazardous materials.
Ch 247 Art XII Manufactured Homes
§ 247-12.1 General.
§ 247-12.2 Elevation.
§ 247-12.3 Foundations.
§ 247-12.4 Anchoring.
§ 247-12.5 Enclosures.
§ 247-12.6 Protection of mechanical equipment and outside appliances.
Ch 247 Art XIII Recreational Vehicles
§ 247-13.1 Placement prohibited.
§ 247-13.2 Temporary placement.
§ 247-13.3 Permanent placement.
Ch 247 Art XIV Tanks
§ 247-14.1 Tanks.
Ch 247 Art XV Other Development and Building Work
§ 247-15.1 General requirements for other development and building work.
§ 247-15.2 Requirements for habitable buildings and structures.
§ 247-15.3 Garages and accessory storage structures.
§ 247-15.4 Fences.
§ 247-15.5 Retaining walls, sidewalks, and driveways.
§ 247-15.6 Swimming pools.
§ 247-15.7 Roads and watercourse crossings.
Ch 247 Art XVI Temporary Structures and Temporary Storage
§ 247-16.1 Temporary structures.
§ 247-16.2 Temporary storage.
§ 247-16.3 Floodway encroachment.
Ch 247 Art XVII Utility and Miscellaneous Group U
§ 247-17.1 Utility and Miscellaneous Group U.
§ 247-17.2 Flood loads.
§ 247-17.3 Elevation.
§ 247-17.4 Enclosures below base flood elevation.
§ 247-17.5 Flood-damage-resistant materials.
§ 247-17.6 Protection of mechanical, plumbing, and electrical systems.
Ch 259 (Reserved)
Ch 265 Hazardous Materials Cleanup
Ch 272 Junkyards
Ch 278 Laundromats
Ch 283 Library
Ch 288 Littering and Handbills
Ch 293 Locksmiths
Ch 296 Motels and Hotels
Ch 300 Noise
Ch 305 Obscene Materials
Ch 311 (Reserved)
Ch 317 Parks and Recreation Areas
Ch 322 Peace and Good Order
Ch 327 Peddling and Soliciting
Ch 332 Planting, Growing and Containment of Bamboo
Ch 333 Property Maintenance
Ch 334 Property, Residential
Ch 335 Property, Unsafe
Ch 342 Sales, Special
Ch 347 School Enrollment
Ch 350 Senior Center Rental
Ch 352 Sewers
Ch 357 Shopping Carts
Ch 362 Shopping Mall Security
Ch 367 Skateboards
Ch 373 Smoking
Ch 383 Soil Moving
Ch 389 Solid Waste
Ch 394 Spray Paint Sales and Use
Ch 399 Stormwater Control
Ch 403 Stormwater Management
Ch 409 Streets and Sidewalks
Ch 415 Swimming Pools
Ch 421 Taxation
Ch 426 Taxicabs and Limousines
Ch 434 Towing
Ch 439 Trailers and Storage Containers
Ch 444 Trees
Ch 449 Utility Poles and Underground Facilities
Ch 455 (Reserved)
Ch 457 Vehicles, Sale of
Ch 462 Vending Machines
Ch 467 Wetlands
Appendix
Ch A470 Cable Television Franchise
Derivation Table
Ch DT Derivation Table
Disposition List
Ch DL Disposition List
Land Use and Development
Ch 500 General Provisions
Ch 504 Affordable Housing
Ch 507 Buildings, Unsafe
Ch 510 Construction Codes, Uniform
Ch 515 Development Review
Ch 519 Escrow Accounts for Professional Services
Ch 531 Redevelopment Plans
Ch 540 Zoning
Land Use Disposition List
Ch LDL Disposition List

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Chapter 247 Floodplain Management

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[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of South Plainfield 7-11-2022 by Ord. No. 2236.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]

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Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Ch. 247, Flood Damage Prevention, adopted 1-31-1991 by Ord. No. 1226 (Ch. 106 of the 1982 Code), as amended.