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SECTION 6. Chapter 27, article 2, section 27-8, Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 <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 [NF4P-] 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 />[041 "Accessory use" means a use which is incidental and subordinate to the principal <br />use of the parcel of land on which it is located. <br />[(2)] "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 />(1) [a] A clearly defined channel does not exist; <br />(2) [the] The path of flooding is unpredictable and indeterminate; and <br />(3) [ueleeky] Velocity flow may be evident. Such flooding is characterized by <br />ponding or sheet flow. <br />[(4)] "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 <br />[flRAd water] floodwater conveyance or to restore the land to the natural contours existing <br />prior to excavation. <br />