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A permit to engage in new construction or substantial improvements in the area of special flood hazard may be issued by the Permit Authority only if the following design and performance standards are met. All new construction or substantial improvements shall be:

8-623.A. Anchoring. Designed so that the proposed construction (including prefabricated homes) is anchored to prevent flotation, collapse or lateral movement of the structure;

8-623.B. Flood Resistance. Constructed with materials and utility equipment resistant to flood damage and constructed using methods and practices that minimize flood damage;

8-623.C. Utilities. Designed so that all utility and sanitary facilities attendant to new construction and substantial improvements of residential and nonresidential structures are floodproofed using flood resistant materials to or above the level of the intermediate regional flood;

8-623.D. Drainage. Designed so that adequate drainage is provided so as to reduce exposure to flood hazards;

8-623.E. Infiltration. Designed so that new or replacement water supply systems and sanitary sewage systems minimize or eliminate infiltration of flood waters, and discharge from the systems into flood waters, and provide for on site waste disposal systems to be located so as to avoid impairment of them or contamination from them during or subsequent to flooding; and

8-623.F. Floodproofing. Designed so all utility and sanitary facilities attendant to new construction and substantial improvements of residential and nonresidential structure are floodproofed to or above the level of the base flood.