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<br /> SECTION 6. Chapter 27, article 2, section 27-8, Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005
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<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 with other
<br /> applicable laws and regulations including, but not limited to, the zoning, building,
<br /> electricity, plumbing, subdivision, erosion and sedimentation control chapters of the
<br /> Hawaii County Code, and the storm drainage standards, October 1970 edition, or later
<br /> revisions of the County of Hawaii. This chapter, designed to reduce flood losses, shall
<br /> take precedence over any less restrictive, conflicting laws, ordinances, and regulations.
<br /> This chapter is not intended to repeal, abrogate, or impair any existing easements,
<br /> covenants, or deed restrictions. However, where this chapter and another chapter,
<br /> easement, covenant, or deed restriction conflict or overlap, whichever imposes the more
<br /> stringent restrictions shall prevail.
<br /> In the event of a conflict between this chapter and the National Flood Insurance
<br /> Program and Related Regulations (NFIP), as amended, the mr~] more restrictive
<br /> 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 /> [(-a~] Unless specifically defined below, words or phrases used in this chapter shall be
<br /> interpreted so as to give them the meaning they have in common usage and to give this
<br /> chapter its most reasonable application.
<br /> [(-1~] "Accessory use" means a use which is incidental and subordinate to the principal
<br /> use of the pazcel 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 /> "Area of shallow flooding" means a designated AO or AH zone on the Flood
<br /> Insurance Rate Map (FIRM). The base flood depths range from one to three feet[;]
<br /> where:
<br /> [a] A clearly defined channel does not exist;
<br /> [~Ite] The path of flooding is unpredictable and indeterminate; and
<br /> Velocity flow may be evident. Such flooding is characterized by
<br /> ponding or sheet flow.
<br /> [(-0j] "Backfill" means the placement of fill material within a specified depression, hole
<br /> or excavation pit below the surrounding adjacent ground level as a means of improving
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