§ 752 - Definitions - Vermont Statutes

§ 752. Definitions

For the purpose of this chapter:

(1) "Agency" means the agency of natural resources.

(2) "Flood hazard area" means an area which would be inundated in a flood of such severity that the flood would be statistically likely to occur once in every hundred years. In appropriate circumstances this might be the 1927 or the 1973 flood. In delineating any flood hazard area for the one hundred year flood based upon prior floods, flood control devices such as, but not limited to dams, canals, and channel work should be considered in the delineation.

(3) "Floodway" means the channel of a watercourse and adjacent land areas which are required to carry and discharge the one hundred year flood within a regulated flood hazard area without substantially increasing the flood heights.

(4) "Flood proofing" means any combination of structural and nonstructural additions, changes, or adjustments to properties and structures, primarily for the reduction or elimination of flood damage to lands, water and sanitary facilities, structures and contents of buildings.

(5) "Legislative body" means the board of selectmen, trustees, mayor and board of aldermen of a municipality.

(6) "Municipality" means any town, city or incorporated village.

(7) "Obstruction" means any natural or artificial condition including but not limited to, real estate which may impede, retard, or change the direction of the flow of water, either in itself or by catching or collecting debris carried by the water, or so situated that the flow of the water might carry it downstream to the damage of life or property.

(8) "Regional planning commission" means the regional planning commission of which a municipality is a member or would be a member based upon its location.

(9) "Secretary" means the secretary of the agency of natural resources or the secretary's duly authorized representative. (Added 1973, No. 263 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 16, 1974; amended 1987, No. 76, § 18; 2003, No. 115 (Adj. Sess.), § 15.)