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2-4 Family Building
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Act
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Actual Cash Value (ACV)
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Anchored
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Application
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Appurtenant Structure
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Assignment
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Base Flood
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Base Flood Depth (BFD)
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Base Flood Elevation (BFE)
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Basement
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Binder or Certificate of Insurance
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Blanket Insurance
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Breakaway Wall
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Building
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Building in the Course of Construction
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Business Building
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Cancellation
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Cistern
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Closed Basin Lake
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Coastal Barrier
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Coastal Barrier Improvement Act of 1990 (CBIA)
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Coastal Barrier Resources Act (CBRA)
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Coastal Barrier Resources System (CBRS)
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Coastal High Hazard Areas
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Coinsurance
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Community
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Community Number
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Community Rating System (CRS)
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Conditional Letter of Map Amendment (CLOMA)
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Conditional Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR)
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Condominium Association
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Condominium Building
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Contract Agent
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Countywide Map
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Crawlspace
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Cumulative Damage Building
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Cumulative Damage Property
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Date of Construction
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Declarations Page
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Deductible
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Described Location
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Diagram Number
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Direct Physical Loss By or From Flood
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Doublewide Manufactured (Mobile) Home
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Dwelling
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Dwelling Policy Form
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Elevated Building
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Elevation Certificate (EC)
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Emergency Program
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Enclosure
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Erosion
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Fair Market Value
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Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
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Federal Policy Fee
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Fill
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Financial Assistance/Subsidy Arrangement
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Finished (Habitable) Area
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Flood
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Flood Disaster Protection Act
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Flood Hazard Boundary Map (FHBM)
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Flood In Progress
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Flood Insurance Claims Office (FICO)
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Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)
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Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004
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Flood Response Office (FRO)
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Floodplain
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Floodplain Management
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Floodproofing
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Floodproofing Certificate
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Foundation Walls
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Freeboard
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General Property Form
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Grade Elevation
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Group Flood Insurance Policy (GFIP)
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HFIAA Surcharge
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High-Rise Building
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Highest Adjacent Grade (HAG)
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Historic Building
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Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 (HFIAA)
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Improvements and Betterments
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Increased Cost of Compliance (ICC) Coverage
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Letter of Determination Review (LODR)
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Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA)
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Letter of Map Revision (LOMR)
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Loss in Progress
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Low-Rise Building
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Lowest Adjacent Grade
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Lowest Floor
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Lowest Floor Elevation (LFE)
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Mandatory Purchase
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Manufactured (Mobile) Home
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Manufactured (Mobile) Home Park or Subdivision, Existing
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Manufactured (Mobile) Home Park or Subdivision, Expansion to Existing Site
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Manufactured (Mobile) Home Park or Subdivision, New
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Map Revision
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Masonry Walls
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Misrating
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Mixed-Use Building
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Modular Building
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Mortgage Portfolio Protection Program (MPPP)
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Mudflow
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Multifamily Building
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National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
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National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929
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Natural Grade
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New Construction
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Newly Mapped (A Property Newly Mapped into the SFHA)
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NFIP Bureau and Statistical Agent
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NFIP Servicing Agent
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NFIP Special Direct Facility (SDF)
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Non-Primary Residence
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Non-Primary Residential Property
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Non-Residential Building
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Non-Residential Property
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North American Vertical Datum (NAVD) of 1988
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Nullification
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Other Non-Residential Building
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Other Residential Building
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Other Residential Property
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Otherwise Protected Areas (OPAs)
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Out-As-Shown Determination
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Participating Community
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Policy
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Pollutants
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Ponding Hazard
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Post-FIRM Building
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Pre-FIRM Building
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Prepaid Amount (Total)
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Prepaid Premium (Total)
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Presentment of Payment (Premium)
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Primary Residence
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Primary Residential Property
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Principal Residence
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Principally Above Ground Building
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Probation
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Probation Surcharge (Premium)
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Proper Openings – Enclosures (Applicable to Zones A, A1-A30, AE, AO, AH, AR, and AR Dual)
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Property Removed to Safety Expense
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Provisional Rating
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Regular Program
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Regular Program Community
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Repetitive Loss Structure
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Replacement Cost Value (RCV)
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Reserve Fund Assessment
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Residential Building
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Residential Condominium Building
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Residential Condominium Building Association Policy (RCBAP)
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Residential Property
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Scheduled Building Policy
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Section 1316
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Severe Repetitive Loss Building
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Severe Repetitive Loss Property
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Shear Walls
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Sheet Flow Hazard
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Single Building
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Single Family Dwelling
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Solid (Perimeter) Foundation Walls
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Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA)
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Split Level
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Standard Flood Insurance Policy (SFIP)
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Start of Construction
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Stock
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Subgrade Crawlspace
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Submit-for-Rate (SFR)
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Subsidized Premium Rate
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Substantially Damaged Building
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Substantially Damaged Property
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Substantially Improved Building
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Substantially Improved Property
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Suspension
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Travel Trailer
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Underground Building
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Unfinished Area
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Unit
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Valued Policy
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Variance
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Waiting Period
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Walled and Roofed
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Wave Height Adjustment
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Write Your Own (WYO) Program
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Zone
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