Boone County Area Plan Office

Boone County, Indiana

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116 W. Washington St., Suite 101, Lebanon, IN 46052

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WHERE, AND WHICH OFFICE. The Area Plan Office is in the Boone County Office Building, 116 W. Washington St., Suite 101, Lebanon, IN 46052, telephone 765-482-3821, fax 765-483-5241, open Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm. Its Executive Director is Nicole M. Schell and its Building Inspector is Kerby Britton. Check the address first: the office serves the Town of Advance and unincorporated Boone County only. HOW TO FILE. The residential packets describe "Residential building permits (location improvement permits)" and state that "Applications and supporting documents must be submitted electronically to [email protected] and [email protected]." Every application carries the 10-digit county parcel number, not the State ID. The office emails when the submittal review is complete, with instructions for an appointment to finish the filing. MONEY. Under the Building Permit Fees effective 3/4/26 the Roof Upgrade permit is fifty dollars. "Fees are not paid until the permit has been issued and is ready for pick up", and the office can only take "cash or checks made out to the "Boone County Treasurer"." Starting work without a permit costs "1X the permit fee in addition to the cost of the permit itself", and a re-inspection is charged at the cost of the inspection repeated. INSPECTION. The office "requires 24-hour notice to schedule a new inspection"; call 765-482-3821 with the permit number, the permit holder's name and the inspection type. Code questions go to the Building Inspector at [email protected]. NOT ESTABLISHED. Whether the County requires a contractor bond or registration was not established; the residential forms ask for the contractor's name and address and a plumbing contractor's state license number, and name no roofing credential.

THE STATE CODE, WHICH INDIANA SAYS BINDS EVERY JURISDICTION WHETHER OR NOT IT HAS A BUILDING OFFICE. The Indiana residential rule is 675 IAC 14-4.4, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, and the State Building Commissioner's memo on roofing states that the code "adopts, and amends, the first printing of the 2018 International Residential Code" and that "The 2020 Indiana Residential Code is in full force and effect statewide." It adds: "Local units of government are statutorily mandated to require compliance with the code." A county 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." WHAT THE COUNTY ITSELF SAYS. Its Area Plan page says the office "administers and enforces the zoning, floodplain, building, and unsafe structures through adopted ordinances", and its dated letter to builders and remodelers of January 1, 2020 announced that "the 2020 Indiana Energy Code has been adopted and went into effect on December 26, 2019" and warned that "portions of this code could be amended at the state level, so any changes to this code will take place at the time those amendments are adopted." That letter is about the energy chapter; the County publishes no current statement naming the residential code edition it enforces. WHAT WAS NOT READ. The County's codified building regulations, including whatever provision adopts the state rules, were not read for this record, so their text is not quoted or relied on here. This record reports the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, which is the edition the state rule itself applies.

Required — REQUIRED AT EAVES AND RAKES, BY THE STATE CODE. The Indiana State Building Commissioner's memo on ice and water shield and drip edge in Class 2 construction reproduces the provision as Indiana adopted it, opening: "R905.2.8.5 Drip edge. A drip edge shall be provided at eaves and rake edges of shingle roofs." The State rule, 675 IAC 14-4.4, amends R905.2.8 only by deleting the word "approved" and does not touch R905.2.8.5, and the same memo states that the 2020 Indiana Residential Code "is in full force and effect statewide." Boone County has no drip-edge rule in any document it publishes and no power under IC 22-13-2-3(c) to add or remove one; its codified building regulations were not read for this record. Note that "Class 2" in Indiana building law is a structure class meaning a one or two family dwelling, not a fire or hail rating. About drip edge

Not required — NOT REQUIRED BY THE COUNTY TABLE HERE, AND THAT IS NOT THE END OF THE QUESTION. Indiana replaces the model climatic table with its own county-by-county Table R301.2(1), and the Boone County row reads Ice Shield Underlayment Required No. The State Building Commissioner's memo explains what that No means: "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)." Boone is in the second group. So read the printed installation instructions for the shingle actually being installed; if they call for the membrane on that assembly, the code requires it on this job regardless of the table. Boone County publishes no ice-barrier rule of its own and IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars it from writing one. About ice & water barrier

Not required — NOT REQUIRED. The State rule, 675 IAC 14-4.4, contains no occurrence of UL 2218, Class 4, Class IV or FM 4473, the designations that answer this question, and its only roof-assemblies amendments are the word and sentence deletions described in this record's layer field. IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars a county from adopting an ordinance more stringent or more detailed than the state rules. The County's Zoning Ordinance names no impact rating, and its codified building regulations were not read for this record. Impact-rated shingles are an insurance and warranty choice in Boone County, not a code requirement.

THE PERMIT TRIGGER IS ANY ALTERATION TO A STRUCTURE, AND THE ONLY EXEMPTION WRITTEN INTO IT IS FOR LOW FENCES. The requirement sits in the Boone County Zoning Ordinance, Article IX, Improvement Location Permit. Section IX.A.1 makes the Director responsible for "the issuance of all ILP's for any alteration to the condition of land, or structures thereon" and provides that "Any persons making said alterations must obtain an Improvement Location Permit for said alterations from the APC prior to the start of any construction". The ordinance defines the permit as "written permission issued by the APC for the construction, repair, alteration, or addition to a structure". Section IX.A.3 then states the one carve out: "Fences under 6 feet high shall not require an ILP." Article IX sets no square-footage, percentage or dollar floor below which roof work escapes a permit. THE FEE SCHEDULE NAMES THE ROOF JOB. The Building Permit Fees effective 3/4/26 list, under Specialty Permit Fees, a Roof Upgrade permit at fifty dollars, and the schedule it replaced, dated 1.1.11 to 3.4.26, carried the same job as "Fence/Upgrade Roof" at the same fifty dollars. WHAT IS NOT SETTLED. Neither schedule defines what a Roof Upgrade covers, and none of the County's residential permit packets lists roofing among the jobs it is for. The County's codified building regulations were not read for this record, so any repair exemption written in them is not reflected here. Call the Area Plan Office on 765-482-3821 with the scope before treating a small patch as permit-free.

THE FIGURES ARE THE STATE'S COUNTY TABLE, NOT A BOONE COUNTY ENACTMENT. Indiana deletes the model Table R301.2(1) and substitutes its own, one row per county, at 675 IAC 14-4.4-5. Boone County is row 06, which reads: wind speed 115 mph, seismic design category B, ground snow load 20 psf, foundation depth 30 inches from finish grade to the bottom of the footing, winter design temperature 2 degrees Fahrenheit, decay slight to moderate, termite moderate to heavy, weathering severe, ice shield underlayment required No, air freezing index 1500 or less, mean annual temperature 52.3 degrees. NOTE THE SEISMIC CATEGORY. Boone is B, while neighbouring Hamilton County is A, so a detail carried over from a Hamilton County job may rest on a different seismic assumption. The County publishes no design criteria of its own, and IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars it from varying these.

NEITHER THE COUNTY NOR THE STATE WRITES A LAYER RULE OF ITS OWN, SO THE ADOPTED MODEL CODE APPLIES. The State rule, 675 IAC 14-4.4, amends four sections of the roof assemblies chapter and every one is the deletion of a word or a sentence: Sec. 84 deletes the last sentence of R902.4 on rooftop photovoltaic panel systems, Sec. 85 and Sec. 86 delete the word "approved" from R905.2.6 and R905.2.8, and Sec. 87 deletes the word "printed" from R905.2.8.4. It makes no amendment to the reroofing section, R908, so the 2018 International Residential Code reroofing and recover provisions apply in Boone County unmodified by Indiana. The County's Zoning Ordinance, fee schedule and residential permit packets contain no layer rule, and IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars a county from an ordinance more stringent or more detailed than the state rules. Base-code rule, read at 2018 International Residential Code Section R908.3.1.1, Roof recover not allowed: 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; a second existing layer means a tear-off to the deck. The County's own building regulations were not read for this record, so no layer classification is declared here. Establish the existing layer count and settle any overlay with the Area Plan Office before quoting one.

NO LOCAL SHEATHING RULE, AND THE STATE'S ONLY CHANGE TO ROOF SHEATHING IS A PAPERWORK POINT. Indiana's rule, 675 IAC 14-4.4, makes one amendment to the roof sheathing provisions: Sec. 82 deletes the words "or certificate of inspection issued by an approved agency" from R803.2.1, identification and grade, so roof sheathing panels are identified by their grade mark alone. Its roof-assemblies amendments are the word and sentence deletions described in this record's layer field, and none reaches the deck. The County writes no sheathing rule in its Zoning Ordinance, fee schedule or permit packets, and IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars a county from adding one. Boone County's itemised inspection list has no deck stage, so if a tear-off will expose damaged decking, agree with the Building Inspector how it is to be seen before it is covered.

7% in Boone County, the Indiana state rate, with no county or municipal sales tax on top. The Department of Revenue's county tax information page lists the taxes Indiana counties do levy, an innkeeper's tax, a food and beverage tax and a local income tax, and states: "The sales tax for the entire State of Indiana is 7%." None of those county taxes reaches roofing materials, so 7% is the full rate on materials bought in Boone County.