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City of Alliance - Community Development (Building and Zoning)

Yes — a permit is required to replace a roof in Alliance, NE, issued by City of Alliance - Community Development (Building and Zoning). Forms are printed from the City's Forms and Applications page and returned to the Community Development Department at City Hall, 324 Laramie Avenue; the office is open 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday to Friday and the phone is 308-762-5400. The building permit application, contractor licence application, demolition permit, right-of-way permit, plumbing and mechanical permit and certificate of occupancy application are all separate forms. Under Municipal Code Section 105-221(b) there must be a separate application and permit for each building or structure, except that accessory buildings may ride on the principal building's permit where the work is simultaneous. Section 105-221(c) requires the City to approve or deny an application "not later than the fifth business day succeeding the day of filing", with an appeal to the board of adjustment if refused. Fees are valuation-based and start at $14.00 for work valued up to $500. A drawing review fee of ten percent of the permit fee is charged where the estimated value is $100,000.00 or more and is credited against the permit fee. Up to ninety percent of a permit fee is refundable where no work has been done. Under Section 105-222(d) the City may charge a separate no-permit fee against anyone habitually working without a permit, and under 105-222(e) a re-inspection fee where work is called in before it is ready or where earlier corrections were not made; the code says both are aimed at repeat behaviour rather than a first slip. A stop-work order takes effect immediately on written notice, and a permit can be revoked 24 hours after written notice where a stop-work order is not complied with.

Jurisdiction
City of Alliance, Nebraska
Jurisdiction type
city
Address
324 Laramie Avenue, Alliance, NE 69301
Contact
  • url: https://www.cityofalliance.net/132/Building-and-Zoning-Community-Developmen
  • phone: 308-762-5400
Roofing permit required
Required
Contractor registration required
Required
Registration details
  • state_level: STATEWIDE, AND INDEPENDENT OF WHAT ALLIANCE REQUIRES. Neb. Rev. Stat. 48-2104(1), in the Contractor Registration Act: "Before performing any construction work in Nebraska, a contractor shall be registered with the department." The department is the Nebraska Department of Labor. A roofer is inside the definitions rather than at their edge: "Construction" means "work on real property and annexations, including new work, additions, alterations, reconstruction, installations, and repairs" (48-2103(2)), and "Contractor" means a person or firm "engaged in the business of the construction, alteration, repairing, dismantling, or demolition of buildings ... and every other type of structure" (48-2103(3)). Two exemptions, both in 48-2104(1): a person who performs work, or has work performed, on his or her own property; and "any person who earns less than five thousand dollars annually for construction services." That threshold is annual earnings for construction services, not the value of one job, so it will rarely reach a working roofer.
  • city_level: REQUIRED, AND ROOFING IS NAMED. Alliance Municipal Code Section 105-241(a): "Any person or corporation, engaged in the business of performing work requiring a permit within the city's jurisdiction, shall be licensed as a contractor by the city unless otherwise exempted from doing so in City Code." Subcontractors need their own licence under 105-241(b). The class that covers a roofer is the Basic Building Contractor under Section 105-242(1), whose work allowed is stated as "May do cement and concrete work, masonry, roofing, siding, drywall, framing, and other similar types of work, but may not act as a general contractor"; its licensing requirement is to "Provide references for one year of relevant work experience or proof of licensing in another jurisdiction." A Residential General Contractor licence, which adds hiring and coordinating other trades on one- and two-family dwellings, requires the ICC Residential Building Contractor exam and three years of referenced experience, and the City may accept an equivalent licence from another jurisdiction. Every licence needs a certificate of insurance showing liability cover of at least $300,000.00 (or $1,000,000.00 for tower construction) valid for the licence period, covering the applicant and their employees, plus the annual fee set by Council. Licences expire April 30 every year and must be renewed. The bite is at the counter: under Section 105-221(d) no permit issues to anyone without the appropriate City licence, except to the bona fide owner-occupier of a one-family dwelling who personally buys the materials and does the labour. Working unlicensed carries a Council-set penalty on top of having to obtain the licence, and a licence may be revoked for code violations, with an appeal to the City Council.
Permit process note
Forms are printed from the City's Forms and Applications page and returned to the Community Development Department at City Hall, 324 Laramie Avenue; the office is open 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday to Friday and the phone is 308-762-5400. The building permit application, contractor licence application, demolition permit, right-of-way permit, plumbing and mechanical permit and certificate of occupancy application are all separate forms. Under Municipal Code Section 105-221(b) there must be a separate application and permit for each building or structure, except that accessory buildings may ride on the principal building's permit where the work is simultaneous. Section 105-221(c) requires the City to approve or deny an application "not later than the fifth business day succeeding the day of filing", with an appeal to the board of adjustment if refused. Fees are valuation-based and start at $14.00 for work valued up to $500. A drawing review fee of ten percent of the permit fee is charged where the estimated value is $100,000.00 or more and is credited against the permit fee. Up to ninety percent of a permit fee is refundable where no work has been done. Under Section 105-222(d) the City may charge a separate no-permit fee against anyone habitually working without a permit, and under 105-222(e) a re-inspection fee where work is called in before it is ready or where earlier corrections were not made; the code says both are aimed at repeat behaviour rather than a first slip. A stop-work order takes effect immediately on written notice, and a permit can be revoked 24 hours after written notice where a stop-work order is not complied with.
Inspection requirements
Community Development performs the building inspections; all electrical permitting, plan review and inspection is done by the Nebraska State Electrical Board rather than by the City, which the City states on its own Building Code Enforcement page and directs to electrical.nebraska.gov or (308) 631-1828. Alliance does not publish a numbered inspection sequence in its municipal code; Section 105-222(e) allows a re-inspection fee "for each inspection or reinspection when such portion of work for which the inspection is called for is not complete or when corrections called for on previously inspector work are not made", and the code otherwise leaves the schedule to the department. Confirm the inspection stages for a re-roof when the permit is taken out.
Adopted code
Alliance is on the 2018 International Residential Code. Alliance Municipal Code Section 105-21 adopts "The 2018 International Residential Code, including appendices E, F, H, I, J, K, M, O, P, Q, R, S, and T as published by the International Code Council" for one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses not more than three stories, and applies it to the whole of the city's extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction. Section 105-41 adopts the 2018 International Building Code with appendices C, F, G, H, I, J and N. Both were enacted by Ordinance No. 2880, section 5 (Exhibit A), passed March 5, 2019, and amended by Ordinance No. 2922, section 3 (Exhibit A), passed August 3, 2021. The City's own Building Code Enforcement page lists the full enforced suite: 2018 International Building Code, 2018 International Existing Building Code, 2018 International Fuel Gas Code, 2018 International Mechanical Code, 2018 International Plumbing Code, 2018 International Residential Code, 2018 International Energy Conservation Code, 2018 International Property Maintenance Code and the 2017 National Electrical Code, and it notes that all electrical permitting, plan review and inspection is done by the Nebraska State Electrical Board rather than by the City. Alliance's codified ordinances are current through Ordinance No. 3016, enacted March 17, 2026. One caution about an older City document: the building permit fee resolution still in use on the City website, Resolution No. 19-20, recites in its preamble that the City "has passed an ordinance adopting the 2015 International Building Codes." That recital predates the 2018 adoption and is not the edition in force.
Drip edge
Required — Required by the code Alliance has adopted, with no local change. The City adopts the 2018 International Residential Code at Municipal Code Section 105-21, and Section 105-22, its complete list of amendments to that code, was read in full: it amends Section R101.1 (the title), Section R105.2 (adding zoning permits for six of the exempt items), Table R301.2(1) (the design criteria and the ice barrier footnote), Sections R313.1 and R313.2 (making residential fire sprinklers optional), Section G2401.2 (LPG appliances) and Section P2603.5.1 (sewer depth). Nothing in Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, is touched. The base 2018 IRC drip-edge provision for asphalt shingles, Section R905.2.8.5, therefore applies in Alliance unmodified. About drip edge
Ice & water shield
Not required — Not required in Alliance, and the City says so in its own amended code rather than by silence. Municipal Code Section 105-22 amends Table R301.2(1) of the 2018 International Residential Code and enters a footnote marker in the ICE BARRIER UNDERLAYMENT REQUIRED column instead of a Yes or No. The footnote reads: "Ice barrier is recommended but not required. Any installation of ice barrier shall be installed according to Section R905.1.2." So an Alliance re-roof may be built without an ice barrier, and where one is installed it must still be installed to the code's own standard. This is a local answer, not a regional one - other Nebraska cities in this directory answer Yes in the same column, and a neighbouring jurisdiction's requirement says nothing about Alliance. Note also that a manufacturer's installation instructions or a warranty may call for an ice barrier even where the City does not. About ice & water barrier
Mid-roof inspection
Not required — NO MID-ROOF OR ROOF-DECK STAGE IS SCHEDULED IN ALLIANCE, BUT THE CITY KEEPS THE RIGHT TO ADD INSPECTIONS AND ONE ITEM ON ITS LIST IS WORTH ASKING ABOUT. Alliance sets no roofing inspection stage anywhere in its law. Municipal Code Chapter 105, Building Codes and Contractor Licensing, was read in full, all four articles, including every division of the construction-code article and the whole of the permitting, fees and violations article. Section 105-22, which is the complete list of the City's amendments to the 2018 International Residential Code, amends the title section, the work-exempt-from-permit section, the climatic and geographic design table, the sprinkler sections, an LPG appliance rule and a sewer depth rule, and nothing else. It leaves the code's own inspections section untouched, and the chapter adds no stage of its own: Section 105-221 has the owner agree to "obtain all necessary permits, call for inspections" without saying which, and Section 105-222(e) sets a re-inspection fee for calling before the work is ready. What the City publishes instead is a working list, and it appears in four places that agree with each other. The Building Permit Application, the form an Alliance re-roof permit is applied for on, prints "Typical inspections required for construction include but are not limited to: Site plan lay out - Foundations and footings - Prior to covering structural members - Final inspection before occupancy". The City's project handouts for a residential addition, a detached garage, decks and porches, and a basement finish or remodel each carry the same sequence: site layout before digging, footings before and after the pour, framing before enclosing walls, the plumbing, HVAC and State electrical work before anything is closed up, and a final. No tear-off, roof-deck, dry-in, in-progress or mid-roof stage appears on any of them. Two things a roofer should still price in. The application says the list is not exhaustive and each handout adds that the Building Official may require additional inspections depending on the complexity of the project, so an inspector may call for more than the list shows. And the stage worded "Prior to covering structural members" is the one item on the list that is not plainly a new-construction stage; the City does not say whether it reaches a re-roof in which decking is replaced over rafters or trusses, and that question is worth settling before the sheathing goes down. Ask Community Development which inspections your permit carries when it is issued, on 308-762-5400. Note also that all electrical permitting and inspection in Alliance is done by the Nebraska State Electrical Board rather than by the City.
Impact-resistant roofing
Not required — No impact-resistance requirement applies in Alliance. Chapter 105 of the municipal code, Building Codes and Contractor Licensing, was read in full across all four articles and contains no UL 2218, Class 4, Class IV or FM 4473 reference, and no occurrence of the word impact at all. The City's amendments to the 2018 International Residential Code are confined to Section 105-22 and touch nothing in the roofing chapter, and its amended Table R301.2(1) records no windborne debris zone and no special wind region. Nebraska supplies no impact requirement either. Hail-resistant roofing is commonly an insurance-discount question in the Panhandle rather than a code question, and an insurer's requirement is not a building-code requirement.
Repair permit threshold
Alliance publishes no dollar, square-footage or percentage floor below which a re-roof escapes a permit, and roofing is not on the exemption list it does publish. Municipal Code Section 105-221(a) states that "No building or other structure shall be erected, constructed, reconstructed, nor shall it be altered, nor shall any plumbing, mechanical, or any work requiring a permit be conducted without first obtaining a permit from the city manager or designee". The City's own answer to "When do I need a Permit?" says "A Building Permit is required for anything which is built or constructed with the following exceptions", and then gives a thirteen-item list - detached accessory structures under the stated size limits, fences not over 6 feet, oil derricks, retaining walls not over 4 feet, water tanks, internal sidewalks, "Painting, papering, tiling, carpeting, cabinets, counter tops and similar finish work", temporary stage sets, prefabricated above-ground pools less than 24 inches deep, shade cloth structures, playground equipment, window awnings not projecting more than 54 inches, and non-fixed fixtures under 5 feet 9 inches. Roofing is not among them, and the City notes the list is "Amended by Section 105-42 of the City of Alliance Municipal Code." On the residential side, the City's only amendment to the code's own exemption section is narrow: Section 105-22 amends "Section R105.2. Work exempt from permit" to read "Zoning Permits are required for items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10", which adds a requirement rather than removing one. The fee schedule confirms there is no floor - building permit fees start at a valuation band of "Up to $500" at $14.00. A separate condition matters more than a threshold here: under Section 105-221(d) no permit may be issued to anyone who does not hold the appropriate City contractor licence, with an exception for the bona fide owner-occupier of a one-family dwelling who "shall personally purchase all material and perform the labor."
Wind design criteria
Alliance fills in its own climatic and geographic design criteria. Municipal Code Section 105-22 amends Table R301.2(1) of the 2018 International Residential Code and publishes: GROUND SNOW LOAD 20; wind design Speed (mph) 115, Topographic effects No, Special Wind Region No, Windborne debris zone No; SEISMIC DESIGN CATEGORY A; subject to damage from Weathering Severe, Frost Line Depth 36", Termite Slight to Moderate; WINTER DESIGN TEMP -10 degrees F; ICE BARRIER UNDERLAYMENT REQUIRED carrying the City's footnote that it is recommended but not required; FLOOD HAZARD with NFIP entry 1977, map date 7/16/1987 and map panels 310011-0005A and 310011-0015A; AIR FREEZING INDEX 1439; and MEAN ANNUAL TEMP 47.2 degrees F. The same section adds a Manual J design criteria table giving elevation 3930 ft, latitude 42 degrees 06 minutes, winter heating 0 degrees, summer cooling 93 degrees, altitude correction factor .88, indoor design temperature 70 degrees, design temperature cooling 75 degrees, heating temperature difference 70 degrees, cooling temperature difference 18 degrees, wind velocity heating 15 mph, wind velocity cooling 7.5 mph, coincident wet bulb 65 degrees, daily range H, winter humidity 54% and summer humidity 50%. The ordinance does not state whether the 115 mph is a nominal or an ultimate wind speed and adds no separate figure, so confirm the basis with Community Development before using it in a design method that expects one or the other, and do not convert between the two. Note that the 15 mph and 7.5 mph figures are heating and cooling load design velocities from the Manual J table and have nothing to do with structural wind design.
Roof layer limit / recover
Alliance states no layer cap of its own. Chapter 105 of its municipal code, Building Codes and Contractor Licensing, was read in full across all four articles, and its only amendments to the 2018 International Residential Code are at Section 105-22, which touches Sections R101.1, R105.2, Table R301.2(1), R313.1, R313.2, G2401.2 and P2603.5.1 and nothing in Chapter 9. The base 2018 IRC roof-recover rule at Section R908.3.1.1 therefore governs an Alliance re-roof unmodified. That section is what decides whether an existing roof may be covered over or has to come off, and it is the provision to read before quoting an overlay.
Deck & sheathing requirements
Alliance writes no roof-deck or sheathing rule of its own. Chapter 105 of the municipal code was read in full and its amendments to the 2018 International Residential Code, all of which sit in Section 105-22, touch nothing in Chapter 9 or Chapter 8, so the sheathing and deck requirements of the adopted 2018 IRC apply unmodified. Two things a roofer should still note. The City's published guidance says that "Projects such as same size window replacement, siding, and roofing most likely won't require drawings but just the submittal of a set of specifications from the manufacturer to ensure they meet code" - so on a re-roof the City expects manufacturer specifications with the application in place of drawings. And under Municipal Code Section 105-222(b) a non-refundable drawing review fee of ten percent of the permit fee is charged on projects with an estimated value of $100,000.00 or more.
Sales & use tax
7.0% combined (.07) = Nebraska state rate 5.5% + City of Alliance local-option rate 1.5%, effective July 1, 2026, per the Nebraska Department of Revenue's Local Sales and Use Tax Rates schedule. Box Butte County levies no county sales tax - Dakota County is the only Nebraska county on that schedule with a county rate. Nebraska's local sales tax is state-administered rather than self-collected by the city, and no separate construction or use tax deposit is taken at building-permit issuance in Alliance.

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Do you need a permit to replace a roof in Alliance, NE?

Required. Alliance publishes no dollar, square-footage or percentage floor below which a re-roof escapes a permit, and roofing is not on the exemption list it does publish. Municipal Code Section 105-221(a) states that "No building or other structure shall be erected, constructed, reconstructed, nor shall it be altered, nor shall any plumbing, mechanical, or any work requiring a permit be conducted without first obtaining a permit from the city manager or designee". The City's own answer to "When do I need a Permit?" says "A Building Permit is required for anything which is built or constructed with the following exceptions", and then gives a thirteen-item list - detached accessory structures under the stated size limits, fences not over 6 feet, oil derricks, retaining walls not over 4 feet, water tanks, internal sidewalks, "Painting, papering, tiling, carpeting, cabinets, counter tops and similar finish work", temporary stage sets, prefabricated above-ground pools less than 24 inches deep, shade cloth structures, playground equipment, window awnings not projecting more than 54 inches, and non-fixed fixtures under 5 feet 9 inches. Roofing is not among them, and the City notes the list is "Amended by Section 105-42 of the City of Alliance Municipal Code." On the residential side, the City's only amendment to the code's own exemption section is narrow: Section 105-22 amends "Section R105.2. Work exempt from permit" to read "Zoning Permits are required for items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10", which adds a requirement rather than removing one. The fee schedule confirms there is no floor - building permit fees start at a valuation band of "Up to $500" at $14.00. A separate condition matters more than a threshold here: under Section 105-221(d) no permit may be issued to anyone who does not hold the appropriate City contractor licence, with an exception for the bona fide owner-occupier of a one-family dwelling who "shall personally purchase all material and perform the labor."

Is ice & water shield required in Alliance, NE?

Not required — Not required in Alliance, and the City says so in its own amended code rather than by silence. Municipal Code Section 105-22 amends Table R301.2(1) of the 2018 International Residential Code and enters a footnote marker in the ICE BARRIER UNDERLAYMENT REQUIRED column instead of a Yes or No. The footnote reads: "Ice barrier is recommended but not required. Any installation of ice barrier shall be installed according to Section R905.1.2." So an Alliance re-roof may be built without an ice barrier, and where one is installed it must still be installed to the code's own standard. This is a local answer, not a regional one - other Nebraska cities in this directory answer Yes in the same column, and a neighbouring jurisdiction's requirement says nothing about Alliance. Note also that a manufacturer's installation instructions or a warranty may call for an ice barrier even where the City does not..

Is drip edge required?

Required — Required by the code Alliance has adopted, with no local change. The City adopts the 2018 International Residential Code at Municipal Code Section 105-21, and Section 105-22, its complete list of amendments to that code, was read in full: it amends Section R101.1 (the title), Section R105.2 (adding zoning permits for six of the exempt items), Table R301.2(1) (the design criteria and the ice barrier footnote), Sections R313.1 and R313.2 (making residential fire sprinklers optional), Section G2401.2 (LPG appliances) and Section P2603.5.1 (sewer depth). Nothing in Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, is touched. The base 2018 IRC drip-edge provision for asphalt shingles, Section R905.2.8.5, therefore applies in Alliance unmodified..

Is a mid-roof inspection required?

Not required — NO MID-ROOF OR ROOF-DECK STAGE IS SCHEDULED IN ALLIANCE, BUT THE CITY KEEPS THE RIGHT TO ADD INSPECTIONS AND ONE ITEM ON ITS LIST IS WORTH ASKING ABOUT. Alliance sets no roofing inspection stage anywhere in its law. Municipal Code Chapter 105, Building Codes and Contractor Licensing, was read in full, all four articles, including every division of the construction-code article and the whole of the permitting, fees and violations article. Section 105-22, which is the complete list of the City's amendments to the 2018 International Residential Code, amends the title section, the work-exempt-from-permit section, the climatic and geographic design table, the sprinkler sections, an LPG appliance rule and a sewer depth rule, and nothing else. It leaves the code's own inspections section untouched, and the chapter adds no stage of its own: Section 105-221 has the owner agree to "obtain all necessary permits, call for inspections" without saying which, and Section 105-222(e) sets a re-inspection fee for calling before the work is ready. What the City publishes instead is a working list, and it appears in four places that agree with each other. The Building Permit Application, the form an Alliance re-roof permit is applied for on, prints "Typical inspections required for construction include but are not limited to: Site plan lay out - Foundations and footings - Prior to covering structural members - Final inspection before occupancy". The City's project handouts for a residential addition, a detached garage, decks and porches, and a basement finish or remodel each carry the same sequence: site layout before digging, footings before and after the pour, framing before enclosing walls, the plumbing, HVAC and State electrical work before anything is closed up, and a final. No tear-off, roof-deck, dry-in, in-progress or mid-roof stage appears on any of them. Two things a roofer should still price in. The application says the list is not exhaustive and each handout adds that the Building Official may require additional inspections depending on the complexity of the project, so an inspector may call for more than the list shows. And the stage worded "Prior to covering structural members" is the one item on the list that is not plainly a new-construction stage; the City does not say whether it reaches a re-roof in which decking is replaced over rafters or trusses, and that question is worth settling before the sheathing goes down. Ask Community Development which inspections your permit carries when it is issued, on 308-762-5400. Note also that all electrical permitting and inspection in Alliance is done by the Nebraska State Electrical Board rather than by the City..

Do roofing contractors need a license or registration in Alliance, NE?

Required.

What building code does Alliance, NE use?

Alliance is on the 2018 International Residential Code. Alliance Municipal Code Section 105-21 adopts "The 2018 International Residential Code, including appendices E, F, H, I, J, K, M, O, P, Q, R, S, and T as published by the International Code Council" for one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses not more than three stories, and applies it to the whole of the city's extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction. Section 105-41 adopts the 2018 International Building Code with appendices C, F, G, H, I, J and N. Both were enacted by Ordinance No. 2880, section 5 (Exhibit A), passed March 5, 2019, and amended by Ordinance No. 2922, section 3 (Exhibit A), passed August 3, 2021. The City's own Building Code Enforcement page lists the full enforced suite: 2018 International Building Code, 2018 International Existing Building Code, 2018 International Fuel Gas Code, 2018 International Mechanical Code, 2018 International Plumbing Code, 2018 International Residential Code, 2018 International Energy Conservation Code, 2018 International Property Maintenance Code and the 2017 National Electrical Code, and it notes that all electrical permitting, plan review and inspection is done by the Nebraska State Electrical Board rather than by the City. Alliance's codified ordinances are current through Ordinance No. 3016, enacted March 17, 2026. One caution about an older City document: the building permit fee resolution still in use on the City website, Resolution No. 19-20, recites in its preamble that the City "has passed an ordinance adopting the 2015 International Building Codes." That recital predates the 2018 adoption and is not the edition in force.