N.J. Admin. Code § 19:4-9.2
This subchapter sets forth procedures and engineering and planning standards in accordance with which the NJSEA shall review and approve or disapprove applications for the development or use of land within the District. This subchapter is designed to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in specific areas by provisions designed: to protect human life and health; to minimize expenditure of public money for costly flood control projects; to minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding and generally undertaken at the expense of the general public; to minimize prolonged business interruptions; to minimize damage to new and existing construction; to minimize damage to public and private facilities and utilities, such as water and gas mains, electric, telephone, and sewer lines, streets, and bridges located in areas of special flood hazard; to help maintain a stable tax base by providing for the sound use and development of areas of special flood hazard, so as to minimize future flood blight areas; to ensure that potential buyers are notified that property is in an area of special flood hazard; to ensure that those who own or occupy the areas of special flood hazard assume responsibility for their actions; and generally to provide for the exercise of the powers regarding the review and regulation of land use and development conferred upon the NJSEA by P.L. 2015, c. 19. In order to accomplish its purpose, this subchapter includes methods and provisions for: restricting or prohibiting uses that are dangerous to health, safety, and property due to water or erosion hazards, or that result in damaging increases in erosion, flood heights, or velocities; requiring that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities that serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction; controlling the alteration of natural floodplains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers that help accommodate or channel flood waters; controlling filling, grading, dredging, and other development that may increase flood damage; and preventing or regulating the construction of flood barriers that will unnaturally divert flood waters or that may increase flood hazards in other areas.
N.J. Admin. Code § 19:4-9.2