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8/19/2002
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Board of Commissioners
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Annex C: County Capability Assessment <br /> <br />I. Purpose. To identify and define the capabilities that Cabarms County has available to <br />implement and enforce a hazard mitigation plan. <br /> <br />II. Situation and Assumptions. <br /> <br /> A. The ability of a community to develop an effective hazard mitigation plan depends upon <br />its capability to implement policy and programs. This is accomplished through the legal, <br />technical, and fiscal capabilities of the local government. <br /> <br /> B. Cabarms County is a local government body with a Board-Manager form of government. <br />The elected Board of Commissioners is the decision making body for the County. The appointed <br />Planning and Zoning Board serves as an advisory body to the elected Board on planning matters. <br />The County has a number of professional staff departments to serve the citizens of the County <br />and to carry out day-to-day administrative activities. <br /> <br />III. Legal Authority of Local Governments in North Carolina <br /> <br /> A. Cabarrus County has a wide array of powers as a result of North Carolina legislation. <br />These powers enable the County to adopt and implement policies and ordinances that may be <br />used to mitigate the potential harmful effects of natural hazards. Below is a summary of the legal <br />authority'and powers that North Carolina has conferred on local governments within the state. <br />These powers fall into four broad categories: regulation, acquisition, taxation, and spending. <br /> <br /> B. Regulation <br /> <br /> 1. General Police Power. Local governments in North Carolina have been granted broad <br />regulatory powers in their jurisdictions. North Carolina General Statutes (NCGS) bestow the <br />general police power on local governments, allowing them to enact and enforce ordinances <br />which define, prohibit, regulate, or abate acts, omissions, or conditions detrimental to the health, <br />safety, and welfare of the people, and to define and abate nuisances (including public health <br />nuisances). Since hazard mitigation can be included under the police power (as protection of <br />public health, safety and welfare), towns, cities, and counties may include requirements for <br />hazard mitigation in local ordinances. Local governments may also use their ordinance-making <br />power to abate "nuisances," which could include, by local definition, any activity or condition <br />making people or property more vulnerable to any hazard (NCGS 160A Art. 8 (Delegation and <br />Exercise of the General Police Power to Cities and Towns); 153A, Art. 6 (Delegation and <br />Exercise of the General Police Power to Counties)). <br /> <br />2. Building Codes and Building Inspection. <br /> <br /> (a) Many structural mitigation measures involve constructing and retrofitting homes, <br />businesses and other structures according to standards designed to make the buildings more <br />resilient to the impacts of natural hazards. Many of these standards are imposed through the <br />building code. <br /> <br />Draft Annex C v.3 C-1 1 June 2002 <br /> <br /> <br />
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