Pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 12-3009, 12-3010 and 12-3301, there is hereby incorporated by reference for the purpose of providing floodplain zoning regulations within the City of Whitewater, Kansas, all of the zoning regulations contained in that document thereafter known and referred to as the “Floodplain Management Ordinance for the City of Whitewater, Kansas,” which is based upon and modeled after the Model Floodplain Management Ordinance as approved and recommended by the Federal Emergency Management Agency Region VII and the Kansas Department of Agriculture, Division of Water Resources.

No fewer than three copies of the Floodplain Management Ordinance for the City of Whitewater, Kansas, shall be marked or stamped “Official Copy as incorporated by Ordinance No. 565 of the City of Whitewater, Kansas,” and such copies shall be filed with the City Clerk to be open to inspection and available to the public at all reasonable business hours, provided that such official copies may not be removed from City Hall. All city officials requiring the use of the Floodplain Management Ordinance for the City of Whitewater, Kansas, shall be supplied, at the expense of the City, such number of official copies of such ordinance as may be deemed expedient by the Governing Body.

(Ord. 439; Ord. 565; Code 2025)