Do you need a permit to replace a roof in Burlington, CO?

City of Burlington, Colorado

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415 15th Street, Burlington, CO 80807

Building permit / zoning compliance applications are filed with City Hall with a scale drawing of the tract attached; applicants agree to employ licensed plumbers and electricians for plumbing and electrical work, and a 2% use tax applies to materials purchased outside the city (Burlington Municipal Code Chapter 3.08).

The City of Burlington has not adopted a local building code; per the city's own building permit application, applicants are responsible for following State of Colorado building-code guidelines and any inspections the State, the City, and the Colorado Department of Local Affairs and Housing may require.

Not required — The City of Burlington has not adopted a residential building code. The City's own building permit application states that Burlington has not adopted a building code and that applicants are responsible for following State of Colorado building-code guidelines, and the City's published building pages carry the same statement; Colorado has no statewide residential building code that would supply one. Burlington Municipal Code Title 15, Buildings and Construction, was reviewed in full, and its Chapter 15.04, Building Code Adopted, contains only a permit fee schedule and a fire-zone designation. Ordinance No. 1016, adopted March 30, 2026, which adds Section 15.04.040 adopting the 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code, was also reviewed in full; that code's roof requirement is a Class A fire classification tested to ASTM E108 or UL 790, and it carries no impact-resistance or UL 2218 Class 4 requirement.

Burlington's combined sales tax rate is 5.9 percent: 2.9 percent Colorado state and 3 percent City of Burlington, with no county component and no special district. Kit Carson County levies no sales tax, and the City is state-collected rather than home rule, so the city rate appears in the Colorado Department of Revenue's state- collected city schedule in form DR 1002. No regional transportation, cultural facilities or fire protection district rate applies in this part of the state.