City of Anderson, Indiana - Permit Center

City of Anderson, Indiana

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120 East Eighth Street, Anderson, IN 46018

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ONE FORM, AND ROOFING IS A TICK BOX ON IT. A re-roof in Anderson goes on the City's Structural Building Permit Application for One and Two Family, issued by the Department of Municipal Development at 120 East Eighth Street, Anderson, Indiana 46018, office (765) 648-6055, fax (765) 648-5914. Under section 3, "NATURE OF STRUCTURAL WORK", the choices are New Construction, Exterior Remodeling, Modular Home Placement, Addition, Manufactured Home Placement, Interior Remodeling, Roofing and Other - so there is no separate roofing form to hunt for. The same section asks for the start and completion dates, the floor areas, the foundation type, the type of bearing wall construction, the total cost of the job and the intended use. Section 1 asks whether the property is in or adjacent to a Federal Flood Way Boundary and Map Area or Special Flood Hazard Area, to be verified through the Zoning Division, and requires a complete Federal Elevation Certificate if it is. WHAT THE FORM WARNS: it is headed "Print in Ink Incomplete Applications Will Not Be Processed Permit Valid for One Year", so the permit runs a year from issue and a partly filled form comes back. The applicant signs a certificate that the application and site plan are correct, that all construction will comply with all ordinances currently adopted by the City, that drainage will be properly controlled, and "that the construction will not be used and/or occupied in any manner until all inspections have been made and the Department of Municipal Development issues a Certificate of Occupancy." INSPECTIONS are coordinated by the Permit Center, which describes its role as "Coordinating improvement inspections relative to permits issued" and coordinating final inspections that also involve the City Engineer's office and the Fire Department. The Center does not publish a roofing inspection stage, so agree the timing with the inspector. The office is open Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 4 PM. The permit fee is not published on the City's permitting pages; the City directs fee questions to the Permit Center, so confirm the figure before quoting.

STATE-SET. Indiana leaves a city nothing to adopt on the residential side. The operative rule is 675 IAC 14-4.4, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, whose opening section provides that "That certain document being titled the 2018 International Residential Code for One and Two Family Dwellings, first printing August 2017, published by the International Code Council ... is hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set out in this rule save and except those revisions made in this rule", and that "This rule shall be known as the 2020 Indiana Residential Code." It was filed November 26, 2019 and formally readopted November 18, 2025, and it is the newest rule in the article - there is no later Indiana residential code. Anderson could not be on a different edition even if it wanted to be: IC 22-13-2-3(c) provides that "A city, town, or county may not adopt an ordinance that conflicts with or includes more stringent or detailed requirements than the commission's rules", and IC 22-13-2-3(a)(2) gives those rules precedence over any local ordinance covering the same subject matter. The City frames its own permit the same way: the applicant certifies on the building permit application "that all construction will comply with all ordinances, currently adopted by the City of Anderson, IN." Where an Indiana local ordinance cites the Indiana Administrative Code, IC 22-13-2-3(b) makes that citation float forward - it "shall be construed to include all amendments as of the date that the reference is written and any later amendments to that provision, unless accompanied by a reference to a specific edition or supplement" - so a local adoption tracks the current state rule instead of freezing at its adoption date. The Indiana State Building Commissioner puts the point bluntly for roofing work: "The 2020 Indiana Residential Code is in full force and effect statewide. Regardless of any established local enforcement policies or practices to the contrary, or whether a local building authority even exists in any particular jurisdiction or location in the state, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code governs all Class 2 residential construction, and its requirements, by law, must be followed." One vocabulary warning: "Class 2" in Indiana is a STRUCTURE class, broadly one and two family dwellings, and has nothing to do with a fire class or an impact class of roof covering.

Required — STATE-GOVERNED, NOT CITY-SET, and unconditional on a shingle roof. Anderson cannot vary it: IC 22-13-2-3(c) provides that "A city, town, or county may not adopt an ordinance that conflicts with or includes more stringent or detailed requirements than the commission's rules." The operative text is published first-hand by the Indiana State Building Commissioner, on Indiana Department of Homeland Security letterhead, in the Ice/Water Shield and Metal Drip Edge guidance of February 25, 2020, which reproduces the adopted Section R905.2.8.5 in full: "A drip edge shall be provided at eaves and rake edges of shingle roofs. Adjacent segments of drip edge shall be overlapped not less than 2 inches (51 mm). Drip edges shall extend not less than ¼ inch (6.4 mm) below the roof sheathing and extend up back onto the roof deck not less than 2 inches (51 mm). Drip edges shall be mechanically fastened to the rood deck at not more than 12 inches (305 mm) o.c. with fasteners as specified in Section R905.2.5 Underlayment shall be installed over the drip edge along eaves and under the drip edge along rake edges." The word "rood" in that passage is a typographical error in the published guidance, quoted here as printed; it plainly means the roof deck. The Indiana rule amends Section R905.2.8 only by deleting the word "approved" and does not touch R905.2.8.5, so this text governs as published. About drip edge

Not required — NOT REQUIRED BY THE TABLE IN MADISON COUNTY - BUT THE MANUFACTURER CAN STILL REQUIRE IT. Indiana deletes the model climatic table and substitutes its own county-by-county table: 675 IAC 14-4.4-5 directs "Delete TABLE R301.2(1) and the corresponding footnotes and substitute to read as follows", and the substituted table runs one row per county. Row 48 is Madison, and it carries "No" in the column headed "Ice Shield Underlayment Required". Twenty-seven of Indiana's ninety-two counties carry "Yes" there and they are the northern tier; Madison is not one of them, so an answer carried down from a Fort Wayne, South Bend or Gary job would be wrong here. The rest of the Madison County row reads wind speed 115 mph, seismic design category A, ground snow 20 psf, foundation depth 30 inches, winter design temperature 2 degrees F and weathering Severe. The Indiana State Building Commissioner sets out the qualification in terms: Sections R903.1, R904.1 and R905.1 require roofing materials to be installed in accordance with the manufacturer's installation instructions, so "there are specific counties in which it is always required (per Table R301.2(1)), and specific counties in which it is required only when the roofing manufacturer's written installation instructions require it (per Sections R903 .1, R904.1 and R905 .1)." Madison County is in that second group: the table does not compel an ice barrier, and the shingle manufacturer's printed instructions still can. Anderson has no power to add a requirement of its own, because IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars a city, town or county from an ordinance more stringent or detailed than the state rules. About ice & water barrier

Not required — No impact-resistance requirement applies in Anderson. The 2020 Indiana Residential Code, 675 IAC 14-4.4, makes four amendments touching the model code's roofing chapter and not one of them concerns impact: it deletes the text of the last sentence of Section R902.4 on rooftop-mounted photovoltaic panel systems, deletes the word "approved" from Section R905.2.6 on asphalt shingle attachment, deletes the word "approved" from Section R905.2.8 on flashing, and deletes the word "printed" from Section R905.2.8.4 on other flashing. Nothing in the rule imposes a UL 2218, Class 4, Class IV or FM 4473 impact rating. Anderson could not add one on top: IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars a city, town or county from adopting an ordinance that conflicts with or includes more stringent or detailed requirements than the state rules, and IC 22-13-2-3(a)(2) gives those rules precedence over any local ordinance on the same subject. The City's own building permit application specifies no roof covering: it asks for the nature of the work, the floor areas, the foundation type, the type of bearing wall construction and the total cost of the job, and nothing about the roofing material. Two things that get mistaken for an impact mandate in Indiana: the phrase "Class 2 construction", which runs through the State Building Commissioner's roofing guidance and is Indiana's STRUCTURE class for one and two family dwellings rather than any rating of the roof covering; and an insurer's premium discount for an impact-rated shingle, which is a private contract term and not a code requirement.

115 mph. Indiana replaces the model IRC Table R301.2(1) with its own county-by-county table at 675 IAC 14-4.4-5, which opens "Delete TABLE R301.2(1) and the corresponding footnotes and substitute to read as follows." The Madison County row gives 115 in the column headed "Wind Speed", in miles per hour, and every one of the ninety-two county rows carries the same figure, so 115 mph is the one genuinely statewide Indiana roofing number. The same row gives seismic design category A, ground snow 20 psf, a 30 inch foundation depth, a winter design temperature of 2 degrees F and Severe weathering. Anderson cannot raise or lower any of it by ordinance, because IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars a city, town or county from an ordinance more stringent or detailed than the state rules. Wind exposure category is still a site-by-site determination made under the residential code rather than a figure the city or state sets - the table's own footnote a reads "Wind exposure shall be determined on a site-specific basis in accordance with SECTION R301.2.1.4" - and Indiana amends that exposure-category rule at 675 IAC 14-4.4-4 for sites in a subdivision or master-planned community where the adjacent structures are not built yet.

NO LOCAL LAYER RULE, AND NONE IS POSSIBLE IN INDIANA. Anderson's residential code is the state's: 675 IAC 14-4.4, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, which incorporates the 2018 International Residential Code. That rule runs to 245 numbered sections and its only amendments touching the model roofing chapter are word deletions in the asphalt shingle attachment and flashing sections and in the rooftop photovoltaic section. It makes no amendment at all to the model code's reroofing and roof recover section, which does not appear anywhere in the Indiana rule. So the base International Residential Code rule on recovering an existing roof applies here exactly as published. Anderson could not change it: IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars a city, town or county from an ordinance that conflicts with or includes more stringent or detailed requirements than the state rules. The number of layers a particular roof may carry therefore comes out of the adopted International Residential Code itself, and a roofer planning an overlay rather than a tear-off should settle the existing layer count with the Permit Center against that code before quoting. Either way the work is permitted work in Anderson: roofing is one of the categories the Permit Center names among the permits it issues.

7.00% statewide, with no county or city add-on in Anderson or Madison County. Indiana levies a single state sales tax rate. The Department of Revenue's own page listing what Indiana does tax at county level - innkeeper's tax, food and beverage tax and local income tax - closes with the sentence "The sales tax for the entire State of Indiana is 7%." The county-level tax Madison County levies is an income tax, not a sales tax, so there is no local percentage to add to a materials invoice. WHO PAYS IT DEPENDS ON THE SHAPE OF THE CONTRACT, NOT ON THE ROOF. Indiana Department of Revenue Sales Tax Information Bulletin #60 (March 2024) names roofing in its own definition of a contractor and then splits on contract form. A "Time and Material Contract" is one "in which the cost of construction material and the cost of labor or other charges are stated separately"; a contractor working under one "is a retail merchant that is selling the construction material that it incorporates into real property, and must be registered with the department and collect sales tax on the material portion of their contracts", and may buy the material exempt for resale. A contractor working under any other form, such as a lump sum, is not a retail merchant: they "must pay sales or use tax on their construction material" and "do not collect sales tax from their customers." On labour the bulletin adds that "Installation charges separately stated on an invoice are not included in gross retail income." The bulletin is Department guidance and says of itself that information bulletins are not binding on the department or the taxpayer, so a roofer should settle their own contract form with an accountant.