Permitting Authorities / Town of Boone (permitting delegated to Southern Colorado Building Department)
Do you need a permit to replace a roof in Boone, CO?
Adopted code
Town of Boone (permitting delegated to Southern Colorado Building Department)
Yes — a permit is required to replace a roof in Boone, CO, issued by Town of Boone (permitting delegated to Southern Colorado Building Department). Boone's own town site (boone.colorado.gov) publishes no building-permit, fee-schedule, or building-code content on any of its pages (Town Council, Departments, Town Clerk/Administrator, Business Licensing, Public Utilities, Fee Schedule) - the town does not run its own building department. The Southern Colorado Building Department (socobd.com), the confirmed regional building authority for the City of Pueblo, states on its own site "City of Pueblo | Town of Boone" and "Serving Pueblo and Boone" near its contact information, confirming Boone's building permits are issued through the Southern Colorado Building Department rather than by the Town directly. See the Southern Colorado Building Department and Pueblo Regional Building Department entries for fuller permit and licensing detail, all of which applies to Boone.
Jurisdiction
Town of Boone, Colorado
Address
421 E 1st St. (PO Box 13), Boone, CO 81025
Contact
- url: https://boone.colorado.gov/
- phone: 719-947-3311
Roofing permit required
Required
Contractor registration required
Required
Registration details
- license: Roofing contractor license issued by the Southern Colorado Building Department after passing an ICC standardized exam (per the department's licensing page, hosted at prbd.com under its prior Pueblo Regional Building Department name).
Permit process note
Boone's own town site (boone.colorado.gov) publishes no building-permit, fee-schedule, or building-code content on any of its pages (Town Council, Departments, Town Clerk/Administrator, Business Licensing, Public Utilities, Fee Schedule) - the town does not run its own building department. The Southern Colorado Building Department (socobd.com), the confirmed regional building authority for the City of Pueblo, states on its own site "City of Pueblo | Town of Boone" and "Serving Pueblo and Boone" near its contact information, confirming Boone's building permits are issued through the Southern Colorado Building Department rather than by the Town directly. See the Southern Colorado Building Department and Pueblo Regional Building Department entries for fuller permit and licensing detail, all of which applies to Boone.
Adopted code
International Codes with regional amendments, administered by the Southern Colorado Building Department; verify the current adopted edition with the department. No separate Town-of-Boone code adoption was found.
Drip edge
Required — Boone runs no building department of its own; permitting is administered by the Southern Colorado Building Department (SOCOBD). Neither of SOCOBD's two candidate governing instruments -- the City of Pueblo's Title IV Building Regulations (Pueblo Municipal Code Sec. 4-6-2, which names SOCOBD as enforcement agency) or Pueblo County's Title 15 (Chapter 15.08, Resolution No. 25-303) -- amends R905.2.8.5 in their full IRC-amendment text, so the base 2021 IRC drip-edge requirement stands as adopted code under either.
About drip edgeImpact-resistant roofing
Not required — No amendment mandates Class 4 / UL 2218 impact-resistant roof coverings. Boone's permitting authority, SOCOBD, administers either the City of Pueblo's Title IV (Sec. 4-6-2 IRC amendments, Sec. 4-2-2 IBC amendments) or Pueblo County's Title 15 (Chapter 15.08 IRC amendments) -- both read in full and neither contains such a provision.
Sales & use tax
3.9% combined (state 2.9% + Pueblo County 1%). Boone does not appear in DR 1002's city sales-tax table, meaning it levies no town-level sales tax of its own, consistent with its description as a small statutory town with no departments of its own, deferring building administration to the Southern Colorado Building Department. Pueblo County's use tax applies only to Motor Vehicles, not Building Materials, so no local use tax applies to construction materials in Boone. Effective 2026-07-01 the Colorado Department of Revenue added a "Pueblo Rural Fire Protection District (New District)" sales tax of 1.00%, which would raise the combined rate to 4.9% inside that district. Whether the Town of Boone lies within the district is not resolved here: the district's own site publishes no list of member communities, and the only boundary map it offers is a 2019 document, so the question is held rather than answered.
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The permitting arrangement for the Town of Boone, a small statutory town in Pueblo County along the Arkansas River. Boone does not run its own building department: building permitting is handled by the Southern Colorado Building Department (formerly the Pueblo Regional Building Department), whose own site states "City of Pueblo | Town of Boone" in its service-area header and describes itself as "Serving Pueblo and Boone."
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