Angola Building Safety Department

City of Angola, Indiana

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210 N Public Sq, Angola, IN 46703

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STATE-SET, AND ANGOLA TAKES IT BY A FLOATING REFERENCE RATHER THAN A FROZEN EDITION. Municipal Code section 15.10.320, Adoption of rules by reference, provides: "Pursuant to IC 22-13-2-3(b), the rules of the Indiana Fire Prevention and Building Safety Commission, as set out in the following articles of IAC Title 675, are hereby incorporated by reference in this code and shall include any later amendments to those rules." The list that follows names ten articles, among them "Article 13 - Building Codes" and "Article 14 - Indiana Residential Code". The section carries the history "(Ord. 1488-2015 s 34; Ord. 1165-2004; Code 2000 s 150.37)", and it adds that two copies of the incorporated rules are on file with the clerk under IC 36-1-5-4, and that a variance granted by the Building Commissioner is not effective until approved by the Commission under IC 22-13-2-7(b). WHAT THE FLOATING WORDS BUY A ROOFER. Because the incorporation expressly includes later amendments, Angola does not lag behind the state when the state amends its rules, and there is no older local edition sitting underneath this one to argue about. The current residential rule is 675 IAC 14-4.4, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, which incorporates the first printing of the 2018 International Residential Code. IC 22-13-2-3(b) is the statute the section cites, and it provides that a reference to the Indiana Administrative Code "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". No specific edition is named here. THE CITY DESCRIBES THE SAME STRUCTURE IN ITS OWN VOICE. Angola's Building Safety pages state that "The Angola Common Council adopts an ordinance in accordance with Indiana Code 36-1-3 and 675 IAC 12-10 to require compliance with the statewide code of fire safety laws and building laws adopted in the rules of the fire prevention and building safety commission under Indiana Code 22-13", and that because the Council establishes restricted fire limits and extraterritorial jurisdiction the building code ordinance is adopted under Indiana Code 36-7-10. THE ONE LOCAL TECHNICAL PROVISION, AND ITS SCOPE. All thirty two sections of Chapter 15.10 were read. The chapter is administrative from end to end apart from section 15.10.060, Construction within restricted fire limits, which requires exterior walls of noncombustible material and provides that no person shall alter any building "frame, wooden or other, or roof of which are not constructed of some noncombustible material". That provision is confined to the restricted fire limits and does not reach an ordinary re-roof elsewhere in the city.

Required — REQUIRED BY THE STATE CODE, WHICH APPLIES WITH OR WITHOUT A PERMIT. The Indiana State Building Commissioner's memo on ice and water shield and drip edge reproduces Section R905.2.8.5 of the 2020 Indiana Residential Code as adopted, and it opens: "A drip edge shall be provided at eaves and rake edges of shingle roofs." The memo sets out the provision in full, including its overlap, its extension below the sheathing and its fastener spacing; read those there rather than from this summary. Angola's own Chapter 15.10 was read in full and "drip" occurs zero times in it, and IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars a city from an ordinance more stringent or more detailed than the commission's rules. The requirement travels with the code, not with the permit, so it applies to a re-covering that is exempt from the building permit under section 15.10.070(A)(1)(g) exactly as it applies to permitted work. About drip edge

Required — REQUIRED BY THE STATE TABLE FOR STEUBEN COUNTY, AND THIS IS THE ANSWER MOST INDIANA RECORDS IN THIS BOOK DO NOT GIVE. The Steuben County row of Table R301.2(1) in the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, as substituted by 675 IAC 14-4.4-5, reads ice shield underlayment required Yes. That row was read from the rendered table rather than from extracted text, because the table's termite column drops out of extraction and every column to its right then reads one place out. WHAT THE Yes MEANS, IN THE STATE'S OWN WORDS. The State Building Commissioner's memo distinguishes counties where the barrier is always required from "specific counties in which it is required only when the roofing manufacturer's written installation instructions require it". Steuben County is in the first group, so the ice barrier is required on an asphalt shingle roof here regardless of what the shingle manufacturer's instructions say, and regardless of whether the job needs a building permit. Section R905.1.2 states the trigger in the code's own terms: "In areas where there has been a history of ice forming along the eaves causing a backup of water as designated in Table R301.2(1), an ice barrier shall be installed for asphalt shingles, metal roof shingles, mineral-surfaced roll roofing, slate and slate-type shingles, wood shingles and wood shakes." DO NOT CARRY THIS ACROSS THE STATE. Neighbouring Indiana counties answer differently, and several counties in this book read No on the same table. Angola's Chapter 15.10 says nothing either way: "ice barrier", "ice and water" and "ice shield" each occur zero times across all thirty two sections. About ice & water barrier

Not required — NOT ESTABLISHED AS A SOURCED AFFIRMATIVE ANYWHERE IN THE CHAIN, AND BOTH HALVES OF THE CHAIN WERE READ. Indiana's residential rule is 675 IAC 14-4.4, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, and it states no impact resistance requirement for roof coverings: the state rule contains no UL 2218 or FM 4473 class requirement, and the base 2018 International Residential Code it incorporates imposes none either. On the local side, all thirty two sections of Angola Municipal Code Chapter 15.10 were fetched and counted, and "impact", "hail", "UL 2218", "Class 4" and "Class IV" each occur ZERO times. IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars the City from adopting a more stringent or more detailed requirement than the commission's rules in any event. FIRE CLASS IS NOT IMPACT CLASS. Section 15.10.060 requires noncombustible roof construction within the City's restricted fire limits, which is a fire provision and says nothing about hail. An insurer may still offer a premium credit for an impact rated shingle in this part of Indiana; that is a contract between the owner and the insurer and not a code requirement.

ROOFING IS NAMED IN THE CITY'S OWN EXEMPTION LIST, AND THE CARVE OUT IS STRUCTURAL RATHER THAN A DOLLAR FIGURE. Municipal Code section 15.10.070(A) requires a complete application to the Building Commissioner from any owner or agent who intends to "construct a class 1 or class 2 structure, enlarge, alter, move, demolish, or change the occupancy or use", and provides that no construction shall be done "until the building official issues a building construction permit unless the construction is of a type specifically exempt from building construction permit requirements." The exemption list that follows, at section 15.10.070(A)(1), includes at item (g): "Repair, maintenance, and replacement of roofing, siding, windows and similar exterior maintenance. This exemption does not include repair, maintenance, and replacement of load bearing members which affect the structural safety of a class 2 structure." WHAT THAT MEANS ON A JOB, AND WHAT THIS RECORD DOES NOT DECIDE. The line Angola draws is not a cost and not a square footage. It is whether the work reaches load bearing members affecting structural safety. A like for like tear off and re-cover that leaves the deck and framing alone sits inside the exemption on its face; a job that replaces rafters, trusses or a structurally deficient deck does not, and needs the permit. Because the exemption is conditional rather than flat, this record publishes no yes or no value on the roofing permit question at all, and a roofer should settle a particular job with Building Safety on 260-665-6683 before the tear off rather than reading a value off this page. There is no published dollar threshold to fall back on. IF A PERMIT IS NEEDED, THE FEE IS THE REMODEL LINE. The City's 2026 Permit Fee Schedule gives "Building Permit-One, Two and Multi-Family Dwellings-Remodel/Alteration" at "$50 Minimum or $0.10 per Sq. Ft." The schedule carries no roofing or re-roofing category of its own. AND DO NOT READ THE IMPROVEMENT LOCATION PERMIT AS THE SAME THING. The 2026 schedule lists an Improvement Location Permit at $25 per permit, under the Unified Development Ordinance rather than under the Building Department, and an improvement location permit is a zoning instrument. It answers a different question from the building construction permit in Chapter 15.10, and neither one substitutes for the other.

THE FIGURES ARE THE STATE'S COUNTY-INDEXED TABLE, NOT A CITY ENACTMENT. Table R301.2(1) of the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, as substituted by 675 IAC 14-4.4-5, gives the Steuben County row as wind speed 115 mph, seismic design category A, ground snow load 30 psf, frost depth 36 inches, winter design temperature 1 degree Fahrenheit, decay slight to moderate, termite moderate to heavy, weathering severe, ice shield underlayment required Yes, air freezing index 2000, and mean annual temperature 47.3 degrees. Those values were read from the rendered table: the termite column drops out of text extraction, and when it does every column to its right reads one place out. THREE POINTS BEFORE REUSING A DETAIL FROM ELSEWHERE IN INDIANA. Steuben's ground snow load of 30 psf and frost depth of 36 inches are the northern Indiana figures and are higher than the 20 and 30 that the central and southern counties print, which matters for a roof structure and for any footing a roofer's scaffold or lift sits on. Its air freezing index of 2000 is likewise the northern figure rather than the 1500 or less printed further south. Wind exposure category remains a site by site decision under Section R301.2.1.4, and the 115 mph figure is an ultimate design wind speed, so do not hand it to a method that expects a nominal speed. IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars the City from varying any of these figures by ordinance, and Angola's Chapter 15.10 states no wind or snow figure of its own.

TWO LAYERS, ON THE STATE RULE, AND ANGOLA'S OWN BUILDING CHAPTER WAS READ END TO END AND ADDS NOTHING. Municipal Code Chapter 15.10, BUILDING CODE, runs to thirty two sections across eight articles, from 15.10.010 to 15.10.320, and all thirty two were fetched and counted. Across about 400,000 characters of that chapter the words "shingle", "layer", "overlay", "tear-off", "sheathing" and "drip" each occur ZERO times, as do "R908", "R905", "hail", "impact", "UL 2218" and "Class 4". The counts rest on captures saved in this repository rather than on a live session, and the chapter is demonstrably real rather than an empty page: in the same bytes "15.10" and a section number occur 412 times, "permit" 451 times, "Building" 537 times and "shall" 348 times. WHERE THE RULE ACTUALLY COMES FROM. Section 15.10.320 incorporates 675 IAC Article 14, the Indiana Residential Code, and expressly includes later amendments, so the current state rule applies. That rule is 675 IAC 14-4.4, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, which incorporates the 2018 International Residential Code. "R908" occurs zero times in the Indiana rule, so the base model provision stands unamended: Section R908.3.1.1, Roof recover not allowed, provides that a roof recover "shall not be permitted" where "the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering." One existing layer may be recovered over; a second existing layer means a tear off to the deck. AND THE CITY COULD NOT HAVE SET A DIFFERENT NUMBER. 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." Count what is already on the roof before quoting a recover.

NO CITY RULE, AND THE STATE MAKES ONE CHANGE TO ROOF SHEATHING, A PAPERWORK ONE. Indiana's residential rule is 675 IAC 14-4.4, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, incorporating the 2018 International Residential Code. It makes exactly one amendment to the model code's roof sheathing provisions, at 675 IAC 14-4.4-82, which is headed "Section R803.2.1; identification and grade" and deletes from Section R803.2.1 the words "or certificate of inspection issued by an approved agency". That is an evidentiary change about how sheathing is identified, not a change to span, thickness or fastening, so the base 2018 IRC Section R803 governs the material itself. ANGOLA ADDS NOTHING OF ITS OWN. All thirty two sections of Municipal Code Chapter 15.10 were read and counted, and "sheathing" occurs zero times. The chapter's technical content enters at exactly one place, section 15.10.320, which incorporates the state rules by reference and adds no provision of its own. IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars the City from an ordinance more stringent or more detailed than the commission's rules, so a local deck specification could not stand even if one were adopted. ONE LOCAL RULE THAT DOES TOUCH WHAT GOES ON A ROOF, AND IT IS NOT A SHEATHING RULE. Section 15.10.060, Construction within restricted fire limits, provides that no person shall alter any building "frame, wooden or other, or roof of which are not constructed of some noncombustible material." That is a fire limits provision and it reaches the covering rather than the deck, and it applies only inside the City's designated restricted fire limits. Confirm whether an address sits inside those limits before treating it as relevant.

7% in Angola. The Indiana Department of Revenue's sales tax page states that a business selling goods or tangible personal property must "register to collect a seven percent sales tax", and it names no county or city sales tax on top of that rate, so a Steuben County address and an Angola address carry the same figure.