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FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION ORDINANCE ARTICLE 1. Statutory Authorization, Findings of Fact, Purpose and Objectives SECTION A. Statutory Authorization The Legislature of the State of North Carolina has in General Statutes 160A-174 delegated the responsibility to local governmental units to adopt regulations designed to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare of its citizenry. Therefore, the Board of Commissioners of the County of Lee, North Carolina does ordain as follows: SECTION B. Findings of Fact (1) The flood hazard areas of the County of Lee are subject to periodic inundation which results in loss of life, property, health and safety hazards, disruption of commerce and govern- mental services, extraordinary public expenditures for flood protection and relief, and impairment of the tax base, all of which adversely affect the public health, safety and general welfare. (2) These flood losses are caused by the cumulative effect of obstructions in flood plains causing increases in flood heights and velocities, and by the occupancy in flood hazard areas by uses vulnerable to floods or hazardous to other properties which are inadequately elevated, flood- proofed or otherwise protected from flood damages. SECTION C. Statement of Purpose It is the purpose of this ordinance to promote the public health, safety and general welfare and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in specific areas by provisions designed to: (1) restrict or prohibit uses which are dangerous to health, safety and property due to water or erosion in flood heights or velocities;