The legislature of the state of Utah has in Section 10-3-701 of the Utah Code Annotated delegated the responsibility of local governmental units to adopt regulations designed to minimize flood losses. Therefore, the Lindon city council of Lindon City, Utah, does ordain as follows:

The city of Lindon elects to comply with the requirements of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (P.L. 90-488, as amended). The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is a voluntary program administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Lindon City’s community officials have elected to join the program, participate, and enforce this chapter and the requirements and regulations of the NFIP. The NFIP, established in the aforesaid act, provides that areas of Lindon City having a special flood hazard be identified by FEMA, and that floodplain management measures be applied in such flood hazard areas. Furthermore, Lindon City may elect to administer the flood damage prevention ordinance to areas not identified as special flood hazard areas (SFHAs) by FEMA on the community’s effective flood insurance rate map (FIRM), if the community has documentation to support that there is an inherent risk of flooding in such areas. (Ord. 2020-7 §1, amended, 2020)