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

Dolores County, Colorado

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Dove Creek, CO

Not required

Not required

Dolores County processes construction notices rather than building permits: the Building and Improvement Notice filed with the Assessor's Office is for tracking purposes only and is not intended to infringe on the owner's right to construct as they choose. Septic and driveway permits may be required; check with the Commissioners Office at 970-677-2383. There may be setbacks and other considerations when building.

Dolores County has adopted no building code. The county's own Building and Improvement Notice, published by the Assessor's Office for anyone building in the county, advises that "there may be set backs and other considerations when building" and that "Septic and driveway permits may also be required," then closes: "This notice is for tracking purposes only and is not intended to infringe on your rights to construct as you choose." The county's complete published ordinance index carries Fire Ban, Flood Plain, Flood Prevention, Marijuana, Road and Special Events ordinances, and no building code ordinance. Two state sources corroborate: the Colorado Energy Office Statewide Building Code Adoption dataset, revised April 2, 2026, reports no adopted code for the county, and the Colorado Division of Housing lists Dolores County among the jurisdictions without building departments. Construction is instead reached by the county's septic, driveway and right-of-way permits and by state electrical and plumbing licensing.

Not required — Dolores County has adopted no building code, so no UL 2218 Class 4 impact-resistance requirement attaches to a reroof. The county's own Building and Improvement Notice states that the notice "is for tracking purposes only and is not intended to infringe on your rights to construct as you choose," and the county's complete published ordinance index — Fire Ban, Flood Plain, Flood Prevention, Marijuana, Road and Special Events — contains no building code ordinance. The only statewide instrument reaching reroofing is the Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code, 8 CCR 1507-39, effective July 1, 2026 in areas designated wildland-urban interface under that code, which requires a Class A roof covering tested to ASTM E108 or UL 790 where 25 percent or more of the roof surface is replaced, at Sections 101.6 and 403.2; that is a fire classification independent of impact rating, and the code sets no impact-resistance requirement. Two state sources corroborate the absence of a county code: the Colorado Energy Office Statewide Building Code Adoption dataset, revised April 2, 2026, reports no adopted code, and the Colorado Division of Housing lists Dolores County among the jurisdictions without building departments. The county's own published snow and wind design table is a design reference rather than an adopted code provision, and it sets no roof-covering standard of any kind.

Dolores County's own "Snow/Wind Loads" page (About Us section) prints an elevation-banded design table, reproduced here exactly: "Elevation | Ground Snow Load (Non-reducible) | Wind Stagnation Pressure at 30 ft. ht. | Basic Wind Speed (Residential Only)" -- "4,000-5,500 FT | 30# | 13 | 115"; "5,501-6,500 FT | 40# | 13 | 115"; "6,501-7,500 FT | 50# | 13 | 115"; "7,501-8,500 FT | 70# | 13 | 115"; "8,501-9,500 FT | 90# | 17 | 115"; "9,501-11,000 FT | 100# | 17 | 115." The county has adopted no building code (see adopted_code above), so this table is not tied to a numbered IRC Table R301.2(1) provision; it is the County's own published elevation-based snow/wind design reference. No ice-barrier row is printed on this page.

2.9% (state rate only; no county sales tax and no city portion, as this figure applies to unincorporated Dolores County). Per CO DOR DR 1002 (rev. 06/19/19), Dolores County does not appear on the "State-Collected Colorado County Sales Tax" table; the publication's own governing text states "Broomfield and Denver are self-collected counties. If a county is not listed, that county does not have a sales tax." No RTD/SCFD/RTA district applies. No live County finance page stating a sales-tax rate was found to corroborate against; the County's own Ordinances and Permits pages (read in full above) do not mention a county sales tax. Re-verified 2026-08-27 against the January 2026 edition of Colorado Department of Revenue form DR 1002, read from a rendered image of its tables rather than from extracted text: the state, county and city figures above match that edition exactly. Where the text above names the June 19, 2019 revision of DR 1002, that describes the edition the figure was originally taken from and is not a current citation.