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SECTION 6. Chapter 27, article 2, section 27-8, Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 <br /> <br /> edition), as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: <br /> Section 27-8. Other laws and regulations. <br /> All construction and improvements subject to this chapter shall comply <br /> with other applicable laws and regulations including, but not limited to, the <br /> zoning, building, electricity, plumbing, subdivision, erosion and sedimentation <br /> control chapters of the Hawaii County Code, and the storm drainage standards, <br /> October 1970 edition, or later revisions, of the County of Hawaii. This chapter, <br /> designed to reduce flood losses, shall take precedence over any less restrictive, <br /> conflicting laws, ordinances, and regulations. This chapter is not intended to <br /> repeal, abrogate, or impair any existing easements, covenants, or deed restrictions. <br /> However, where this chapter and another chapter, easement, covenant, or deed <br /> restriction conflict or overlap, whichever imposes the more stringent restrictions <br /> shall prevail. <br /> In the event of a conflict between this chapter and the National Flood <br /> Insurance Program and Related Regulations (NFIP), as amended, the mr~] more <br /> restrictive provision will govern. <br /> SECTION 7. Chapter 27, article 2, section 27-12, Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 <br /> edition), as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: <br /> Section 27-12. Definitions. <br /> [(-aj] Unless specifically defined below, words or phrases used in this chapter <br /> shall be interpreted so as to give them the meaning they have in common usage <br /> and to give this chapter its most reasonable application. <br /> [f-I)] "Accessory use" means a use which is incidental and subordinate to the <br /> principal use of the parcel of land on which it is located. <br /> "Appeal" means a request for a review of the floodplain administrator's <br /> interpretation of any provision of this chapter or denial of a request for a variance. <br /> {{3j] "Area of shallow flooding" means a designated AO or AH zone on the <br /> Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM). The base flood depths range from one to three <br /> feet; a clearly defined channel does not exist; the path of flooding is unpredictable <br /> and indeterminate; and velocity flow may be evident. Such flooding is <br /> characterized by ponding or sheet flow. <br /> [(4j] "Backfill" means the placement of fill material within a specified <br /> depression, hole or excavation pit below the surrounding adjacent ground level as <br /> a means of improving [fleed-water] floodwater conveyance or to restore the land <br /> to the natural contours existing prior to excavation. <br /> {(3j] "Base flood" means the flood having a one percent chance of being <br /> [egaafled} waled or exceeded in any given year (also called the "one-hundred- <br /> year flood"). <br /> 6 <br /> <br />