City of Carrington, North Dakota - Building Permits and Inspections Department

City of Carrington, North Dakota

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103 10th Ave N, PO Box 501, Carrington, ND 58421

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Carrington City Hall is at 103 10th Ave N, PO Box 501, Carrington, ND 58421, on 701-652-2911, open Monday to Friday 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. The Building Permits and Inspections Department states it is "responsible for permitting all construction and conducting inspections of all construction-related permits as well as issuance of Certificates of Occupancy, Fire Prevention, and Special Events," and that it is responsible for conducting building construction inspections, issuing building permits, issuing certificate of occupancy permits, reviewing building plans, and working directly with the Planning and Zoning Commission. It states: "To obtain a permit for both residential and commercial uses, simply download the forms below (if available) or give us a call and we will be happy to provide you with the necessary forms." NEITHER A FEE SCHEDULE NOR A PERMIT-EXEMPT WORK LIST IS PUBLISHED ONLINE. Both the City's Business Licenses & Permits page and its Fee & Rate Schedule page are content-free beyond directing a caller to visit City Hall or telephone the office; no roofing-specific fee table or exempt-work list is posted on either. The only building-related document the City links online alongside the permits page is an Excavation Permit Application, unrelated to roofing. WHERE THE CODE LIVES. Carrington publishes its whole codified ordinance as per-chapter PDFs on its Ordinances page, including Chapter 9, Buildings, and Chapter 19, Licenses.

Carrington adopts the North Dakota State Building Code on a FLOATING basis and adds no building-code amendments of its own. City of Carrington Ordinances, Chapter 9, Buildings, Article I, Section 9.0101, provides, in full: "The erection, construction, enlargement, alteration, repair, moving, removal, demolition, conversion, occupancy, equipment, uses, height, area, and maintenance of buildings or structures in the City of Carrington shall meet with the provisions of the rules and regulations of the North Dakota State Building Code and any future updates and amendments to that code, copies of which are on file with the City Auditor and are hereby made a part of this chapter by reference, and the City of Carrington hereby adopts said code as so modified." The words "and any future updates and amendments to that code" make the adoption floating, so a state update reaches Carrington without a new City ordinance. WHAT THAT MEANS TODAY. The North Dakota State Building Code book, effective January 1, 2026, states: "Effective January 1, 2026, the North Dakota State Building Code consists of the 2024 International Building Code (IBC), International Residential Code (IRC), International Mechanical Code (IMC), International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC), International Energy Conservation Code, and the International Existing Building Code as published by the International Code Council (ICC)." A house in Carrington therefore runs on the 2024 International Residential Code. THE STATE FRAMEWORK BEHIND THE ELECTION. North Dakota Century Code 54-21.3-03(6) provides: "The governing body of a city, township, or county that elects to administer and enforce a building code shall adopt and enforce the state building code. However, the state building code may be amended by cities, townships, and counties to conform to local needs." Carrington has not exercised that local-amendment power for its building code - Chapter 9, read in full (Articles I through V, Sections 9.0101 through 9.0138), contains no amendment to the adopted code's technical provisions; its only substantive content beyond the adoption clause is the Building Official's office and duties (Article II), the dangerous-buildings abatement process (Article III), an appeals process (Article IV), and a storage-container permit scheme (Article V), none of which touches roofing. TWO STATUTORY EXEMPTIONS WORTH KNOWING. NDCC 54-21.3-04(2)(a) exempts "Buildings which are neither heated nor cooled" from the state building code entirely, and 54-21.3-04(3) provides "Any building used for agricultural purposes, unless a place of human habitation or for use by the public, is exempt from this chapter." Neither exemption is adjudicated here as to any particular structure; both are reported because a farm building or an unheated outbuilding in Foster County may fall outside the code altogether. THE AMENDMENT PROCESS ITSELF. NDCC 54-21.3-03(1) directs the Department of Commerce, with the State Building Code Advisory Committee, to adopt rules updating the code; the Administrative Code chapter implementing that process (Article 108-01) sets out the voting jurisdictions and update cycle but does not itself state the current edition - that is published separately in the state building code book cited above.

Required — The International Residential Code drip-edge requirement for asphalt-shingle roof coverings applies in Carrington unamended, and both instruments that could have changed it were opened and read in full. THE CHAIN. City of Carrington Ordinances Section 9.0101 adopts the North Dakota State Building Code "and any future updates and amendments to that code," which since January 1, 2026 has been the 2024 International Residential Code for one- and two-family dwellings. Chapter 9 was read in full, all five articles, and contains no amendment to any roof-assemblies provision. The North Dakota State Building Code book's amendments to the 2024 International Residential Code were also read in full and reach no drip-edge or roof-flashing section. So there is no local softening and no local addition, and the requirement stands as the adopted code writes it. WHAT THIS RECORD DOES NOT DO. The operative International Code Council text of the drip-edge section sits behind the ICC paywall; this record does not restate it and does not rely on any third-party republication of it. What is recorded is the sourced fact that the requirement is in force in Carrington unamended. Take the material, extent, and fastener spacing from the 2024 International Residential Code itself or from the Building Permits and Inspections Department, 701-652-2911. About drip edge

Not required — No mid-roof, roof-deck, or underlayment inspection stage exists in Carrington, established by reading the chapter that would carry one rather than by failing to find one. Chapter 9 of the City of Carrington Ordinances was read in full. Its inspection-related sections are Section 9.0104, Right of Entry (general authority to enter a building during an inspection), Section 9.0108, Inspections Generally (the Building Official may accept a certified report from a recognized inspection service in lieu of inspecting personally), and Section 9.0109, Duties of Inspection and Reporting of the Building Official, which is expressly limited to inspecting public buildings and structures reported as possible "dangerous buildings" under Section 9.0102 - it is not a construction-permit inspection schedule at all. Nowhere in the chapter does Carrington publish a staged list of required construction inspections comparable to a footing, framing, or roof-deck stage, and no roof-covering or mid-roof stage appears anywhere. A permitted job's inspection schedule, if any, is administered case by case by the Building Permits and Inspections Department, 701-652-2911.

Not required — No impact-resistance mandate applies in Carrington, at either level of government, and that is established by reading the instruments rather than by failing to find one. CITY LEVEL. Chapter 9 of the City of Carrington Ordinances was read in full, all five articles, Sections 9.0101 through 9.0138, and contains no UL 2218, Class 4, Class IV, or FM 4473 provision and imposes no impact, hail, or roof-covering rating requirement of any kind. STATE LEVEL. The North Dakota State Building Code book, effective January 1, 2026, was read across all of its amendments to the 2024 International Building Code and International Residential Code, and a full-document term search confirms zero occurrences of "impact," "hail," "Class 4," "Class IV," or "UL 2218" anywhere in the 67-page publication. AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION. Impact resistance under UL 2218 is a hail rating. It is not the same thing as a fire classification, which is graded under ASTM E108 or UL 790, or a wind rating, which is graded under ASTM D3161 or D7158. An impact-rated shingle may well be worth buying in Foster County, and an insurer may discount for one, but nothing in Carrington or North Dakota law requires it.

CARRINGTON PUBLISHES NO PERMIT-EXEMPT WORK LIST OF ITS OWN, AND THE STATE'S OWN AMENDMENTS SPLIT SHARPLY BETWEEN THE COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL CODES ON EXACTLY THIS POINT - READ BOTH BEFORE ASSUMING EITHER ANSWERS FOR A HOUSE. City of Carrington Ordinances Section 9.0110(a) reads only: "It is unlawful to do any work covered by this Code for which a permit is required without first obtaining a permit." Chapter 9 was read in full, all five articles, and it contains no enumerated list of what work is or is not exempt from a permit - unlike some neighboring North Dakota cities, Carrington has no closed local list, so the exemption question runs entirely to whatever the adopted North Dakota State Building Code itself says. THE STATE'S RESIDENTIAL AMENDMENT, WHICH GOVERNS A HOUSE. The "AMENDMENTS FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL CODE" section of the state building code book, read in full, amends Section 105.2, Work Exempt from Permit, as follows: "Add as follows: 2. Fences not over 8.5 feet high. 7. Swimming pools. 10. Decks not exceeding 120 square feet in area, that are not more than 7 inches above grade at any point, are not attached to a dwelling and do not serve the exit door required by Section R318.4." No roofing or reroofing item appears anywhere in that residential list. A SEPARATE STATE AMENDMENT, TO A DIFFERENT CODE, DOES ADD A ROOFING EXEMPTION - BUT ONLY FOR COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS. The state building code book's separate "AMENDMENTS FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE" section revises that code's own Section 105.2 to add, among other items: "11. Swings and other playground equipment. 12. Window awnings. 14. Reroofing." That is the International Building Code's exempt-from-permit list - the code for commercial and multi-family structures, not the one-and-two-family code a house runs under. THE POINT THIS RECORD DOES NOT SETTLE. The residential amendment above is headed "Add as follows," meaning the numbered items it prints are additions or replacements at those slots in the base 2024 International Residential Code's own Section 105.2 list; the rest of that base list, at whatever other item numbers it uses, is left as the International Code Council's own text states it, which this record has not read - that text sits behind the ICC's paywall and returns a JavaScript shell to a scripted fetch rather than the section content. So whether an ordinary shingle tear-off and recover on a Carrington house needs a City building permit is not established here either way; what is established is that the state has NOT added a residential roofing exemption the way it added one for commercial buildings. Ask the Building Permits and Inspections Department directly, 701-652-2911, before starting work.

Carrington publishes no design wind speed, ground snow load, seismic design category, or frost depth for a dwelling, and that is established by reading its instruments in full. WHAT WAS READ. Chapter 9 of the City of Carrington Ordinances, all five articles, Sections 9.0101 through 9.0138, and the North Dakota State Building Code book's amendments to the 2024 International Building Code and International Residential Code, all read in full. Neither contains a climatic and geographic design criteria table, a ground snow load figure, a seismic design category, a frost depth, a winter design temperature, or an ice-barrier determination. WHERE THE NUMBERS ACTUALLY COME FROM. Section 9.0101 adopts the North Dakota State Building Code on a floating basis, so the wind, snow, and ice design criteria for a dwelling in Carrington are those of the 2024 International Residential Code as adopted by the state, which neither the City nor this record restates. If a fastening schedule or product approval is written to a design wind speed, get that figure from the Building Permits and Inspections Department, 701-652-2911, rather than assuming a figure this record has not read.

Carrington imposes no roof-covering layer or recover rule of its own, and neither does the state's own amendment package, so the question falls back to the base adopted code, unread here. WHAT WAS READ. City of Carrington Ordinances Chapter 9, Buildings, was read in full - all five articles, Sections 9.0101 through 9.0138 - and it contains no roof-covering, shingle, recover, re-roofing, or layer-count provision of any kind; its content is the adoption clause, the Building Official's office, the dangerous-buildings process, appeals, and storage containers. The North Dakota State Building Code book's amendments to the 2024 International Residential Code were also read in full, covering Chapters 1 through 6, 11, and 21 of that code as the state prints them (Sections 104.8 through 2103.3), and none of them reaches Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, of the base code. SO THE BASE CODE APPLIES, UNMODIFIED, AND ITS EXACT TEXT IS NOT RESTATED HERE. How many roof-covering layers a house in Carrington may carry is whatever the 2024 International Residential Code itself provides in its own Chapter 9, with no City and no state variation on top of it. That text sits behind the International Code Council's paywall; a scripted attempt to read it returned an empty JavaScript shell rather than the section content, so this record does not quote a section number or a layer count it has not actually read. Get the current figure from the 2024 International Residential Code itself or from the Building Permits and Inspections Department on 701-652-2911.

Carrington publishes no roof sheathing or decking standard for an ordinary dwelling, established by reading its instruments in full rather than by failing to find one. Chapter 9 of the City of Carrington Ordinances was read in full, all five articles, Sections 9.0101 through 9.0138, and contains no sheathing provision, span table, panel-thickness minimum, or roof fastener schedule of any kind. The North Dakota State Building Code book's amendments to the 2024 International Residential Code were read in full and contain no roof-assemblies or wall-and-ceiling-sheathing amendment; the single occurrence of the word "sheathing" anywhere in the state's 2024 amendment package is a fire-wall clause in the commercial (International Building Code) amendments - "Fire walls installed within detached structures of Group U or Group S-2 occupancies may terminate at the underside of the roof sheathing" - which sets where a fire wall may stop, not a decking specification, and does not apply to a one- or two-family dwelling in any event. SO THE DECK REQUIREMENT IS THE BASE CODE'S, UNMODIFIED - the 2024 International Residential Code, taken through Section 9.0101's floating adoption of the State Building Code. That operative text sits behind the International Code Council paywall, is not restated here, and no third-party republication of it is relied on.

7% on materials in Carrington - North Dakota state sales and use tax of 5%, plus the City of Carrington's 2% local sales, use and gross receipts tax. THERE IS NO COUNTY COMPONENT. Foster County does not appear in the county table of the North Dakota Office of State Tax Commissioner's Local Taxes by Location Guideline, which lists only eight North Dakota counties as imposing a local tax - Burleigh, Cass, Hettinger, Morton, Steele, Walsh, Ward, and Williams - and the Carrington city row is not shaded, the mark the guideline uses for a city that also owes county tax. The guideline, rates effective July 1, 2026, gives Carrington local code 124 and a current rate of 2%, built from 1% effective 1-1-94 and a further 1% effective 4-1-14. THERE IS A PER-TRANSACTION CAP. The guideline records a maximum tax (refund cap) of $25 per sale, effective 1-1-94, with no permit-holder compensation rate listed for Carrington. At 2% that cap is reached on a $1,250 purchase, so most shingle orders will run past it; a customer may request a refund of local tax paid above the cap. New farm machinery is not subject to the local tax. THE STATE'S OWN RATE. The guideline states the general state rate directly: "5% on the total receipts from all other taxable retail sales of tangible personal property and services except where alcohol or farm machinery gross receipts tax applies." WHO PAYS IT ON A ROOF. North Dakota treats a roofing contractor as the final consumer of the materials installed into real property, so the contractor pays the tax on its material purchases rather than charging the homeowner sales tax separately on an install-plus-materials re-roof.