The purpose of this chapter is to provide guidelines regarding
the National Flood Insurance Program, adopting by reference revised
Flood Insurance Study and Flood Insurance Rate Maps, and floodplain
management regulations.
Those public records entitled "Flood Insurance Study for Carroll
County, Maryland and Incorporated Areas" with accompanying Flood Insurance
Rate Maps and all subsequent amendments and/or revisions, copies of
which shall be kept on file in the Town office of the Town of Hampstead,
are hereby adopted by reference, as the basis for establishing the
special flood hazard areas for floodplain management in the Town of
Hampstead. The special flood hazard areas documented in the Flood
Insurance Study and Flood Insurance Rate Maps are the minimum area
of applicability of the floodplain management regulations and may
be supplemented by studies for other areas as allowed in the regulations.
That public record designated as the floodplain management regulations
for Carroll County known as Chapter 153, Floodplain Management, of
the Carroll County Code and all subsequent amendments and/or revisions,
copies of which shall be kept on file in the Town office of the Town
of Hampstead, is hereby adopted as the legal basis for implementing
floodplain management in the Town of Hampstead.