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• Recently FEMA revised the format of the Elevation Certificate Form and modified instructions for completion. Effective January, 1, 2007, FEMA Form 81-31 requires surveyors to certify square footage and to provide all building description related items and photographs. FEMA will no longer accept existing copies of the old form.

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• When a community adopts new flood maps, Elevation Certificates and Letters of Map Amendments for individual lots may no longer be valid. Subsequently, property owners may find that their building has been designated in a high-risk flood zone, which mandates the purchase of flood insurance if they hold a mortgage on the property; or, they may find that their building has been designated in a low-risk flood zone, which may reduce or eliminate the cost of flood insurance. In either situation, the property owner will need a new Elevation Certificate. Check with your community’s floodplain manager for any flood map updates, or, call us, Premier Elevation Certificate Network, Inc. at
  561-253-9010.

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• Acronyms We Use
  SFHA: Special Flood Hazard Areas
  FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency
  NFIP: National Flood Insurance Program
  LOMA: Letter of Map Amendment
  FIRM: Flood Insurance Rate Map
  BFE: Base Flood Elevation

Premier Elevation Certificate Network, Inc. centralizes the expertise of licensed surveyors and engineers throughout the United States to prepare Elevation Certificates associated with the purchase of flood insurance or the evaluation of flood risk for insurance brokers and agents, commercial property owners and condominium associations.

Premier Elevation Certificate Network, Inc. utilizes an "eight-point" quality control standard to ensure elevation certificates are prepared in accordance with FEMA rules and regulations and to prevent errors and the resulting policy mis-rating and liability.

Our consortium of licensed surveyors and engineers meet our high standards of professional membership practices, are conversant with FEMA's Elevation Certificate Instructions and comply with all FEMA rules and regulations governing elevation certificates. All network members maintain workers' compensation insurance, general liability insurance and professional liability insurance.

The principals of Premier Elevation Certificate Network, Inc. have experience in the preparation and coordination of elevation data, flood risk analysis and flood zone correction.

Premier Elevation Certificate Network, Inc. maintains its corporate office in West Palm Beach, FL.