City of Eagle - Building Division

City of Eagle, Idaho

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660 E Civic Lane, Eagle, ID 83616

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Eagle runs its own counter at 660 E Civic Lane and schedules inspections through a contractor portal on the City's website, which also lets a roofer look a permit up by permit number, contractor or address. TIMING, which the City states precisely: "All inspection requests must be submitted online by 4:00 pm to receive an inspection the next business day", a request submitted after 4:00 pm is scheduled for the business day after the next one, a request after 4:00 pm on a Friday goes to the following Tuesday, and "ALL INSPECTION REQUESTS RECEIVED ON A WEEKEND WILL BE SCHEDULED FOR THE FOLLOWING TUESDAY." Only footing and foundation inspections may use a time box; all other inspections happen between 8 am and 5 pm. Cancellations go by email to the Building Department. THE WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE CONDITION, WHICH IS A FIRE RATING AND NOT A HAIL RATING. Eagle has adopted a wildland-urban interface code and publishes subdivision-specific ignition-resistant construction checklists to be completed and signed with the permit application. The Avimor checklist offers, for roof coverings, a "Class B rating when tested in accordance with ASTM E108 or UL 790" or "An approved noncombustible roof covering"; the Alscott Rocking A Ranch checklist requires a "Class A rating when tested in accordance with ASTM E108 or UL 790" or an approved noncombustible covering; and both Valnova Wildfire Safety Plan checklists, Class 1 and Class 2 ignition-resistant construction, require a roof assembly that "COMPLIES WITH CLASS A RATING", with conditions on any space between the roof covering and the roof deck and a valley underlayment of "one layer of 72-pound mineral surfaced, nonperforated cap sheet complying with ASTM D3909" running the full length of the valley. Class A, B and C are FIRE classifications tested to ASTM E108 or UL 790. They are not hail or impact ratings, which are tested to UL 2218, and no Eagle checklist refers to an impact rating. FEES AND RE-INSPECTIONS: Eagle values a re-roof at $200.00 per square for permit purposes, and its fee schedule charges a re-inspection fee of "$65.00 minimum" for trips where the work is not ready, where the submitter has not accurately identified the work location, where the inspector cannot gain access, or on excessive trips caused by improperly responding to a correction notice.

LOCALLY ENACTED, ON A STATE-MANDATED EDITION. The City of Eagle's Building Division publishes its adopted codes itself: the 2018 International Building Code; the 2018 International Residential Code; the 2018 International Energy Conservation Code, residential with State amendments and commercial; the 2018 International Existing Building Code; the 2018 International Mechanical Code; the 2018 International Fuel and Gas Code; the 2018 International Fire Code; the 2023 National Electrical Code (NFPA 70); the 2017 Idaho State Plumbing Code; and the 2018 Geographical Design Criteria for the IBC and IRC. The City states that "All Building Codes and State Amendments are effective January 1, 2021." Eagle's building permits and forms page lists the same 2018 suite and adds two more: "the 1997 edition of the Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings and the 2018 International Urban-Wildland Interface Code", the second of which is why Eagle issues wildland-urban interface checklists in named subdivisions. That page still names the 2017 National Electric Code where the Building Division page names the 2023 edition, so on anything electrical confirm the edition with the Building Department before relying on either page; the roofing side of the suite is the 2018 IRC on both. The adopting text itself is codified in Eagle City Code, which the City publishes through American Legal Publishing. THE STATE FRAMEWORK: Idaho's residential code is set by the Idaho Building Code Board, not by the city. IDAPA 24.39.30.600.03 adopts the "International Residential Code, 2018 Edition ... Parts I, II, III, and IX of the 2018 Edition for one (1)- and two (2)-family dwellings", effective July 1, 2024, together with a list of state amendments; Idaho Code 39-4116(2) requires a local government that issues building permits and performs code enforcement to adopt the "Idaho residential code, parts I-III and IX" by ordinance. Parts IV through VIII -- energy, mechanical, fuel gas, plumbing and electrical -- are not part of the Idaho residential code (Idaho Code 39-4109(1)(b)); roofing sits in Part III and is included. Idaho Code 39-4116(2) also bars a local jurisdiction from adopting provisions of a later IRC edition the Board has not adopted, so a city cannot be ahead of the state. Idaho Code 39-4116(6): "Permits shall be governed by the laws in effect at the time the permit application is received."

Not required — Sourced from Eagle's own design criteria, not inferred from climate. The City of Eagle publishes a one-page sheet headed "Climatic And Geographic Design Criteria (SECTION R301, IRC 2018)", and its entry reads "ICE BARRIER UNDERLAYMENT REQUIRED: NO". The rest of that sheet is worth having in front of you on an Eagle roof, as the City prints it: ground snow load 20 psf, with a design roof load of not less than a uniform snow load of 25 psf; weathering severe; frost line depth 24 inches; winter design temperature 10 degrees F; termite slight to moderate; decay none to slight; air freezing index 894; mean annual temperature 51.1 degrees F; climate zone 5. Idaho's state rule does not answer the ice barrier question either way: IDAPA 24.39.30.600.03 amends nothing in Chapter 9 of the 2018 International Residential Code, and Table R301.2(1) is the one part of Part III that Idaho Code 39-4116(4)(c) leaves a city free to fill in and amend for local conditions. Nothing in the City's entry stops a shingle manufacturer's printed installation instructions, or a particular roof's exposure, from calling for eave protection anyway. About ice & water barrier

No square footage figure and no dollar figure appears in the City of Eagle's published building permit guidance, and a re-roof is valued from the first dollar rather than exempted below a floor. The Building Division states the requirement broadly: "A building permit is required for New Construction, Additions, Alterations, Relocation, Enlargement, Replacement, Repair, Equipment, Use and Occupancy, Location, Maintenance, Removal, and Demolition of every Residential and Commercial structure or any Appurtenances connected or attached to such buildings or structures." Repair, replacement and maintenance are each named there, and no minimum accompanies any of them. The City then prices the work: its residential building permit and plan review fee estimator, adopted by Eagle City Council, carries a line for "Re-Roofing" charged "per squares" at a construction value of $200.00 per square, and the valuation table that line feeds opens with a "$1 to $500" band. Eagle's own instruction where the answer is unclear is unusually direct: "Never guess if you need a permit or not. The best way to find out if you need a permit for a construction project is to contact the City of Eagle Building Department." Skipping the permit is expensive: the City's building fee schedule states that "Failure to submit and obtain proper permits will, at the direction of the City of Eagle, result in the assessment of a double fee or imposition of civil penalties, or both."

Take these from the City's own sheet, which Eagle publishes filled in. Eagle's "Climatic And Geographic Design Criteria (SECTION R301, IRC 2018)" prints "WIND SPEED (MPH): 115, RISK CAT. II"; a seismic design category of "B OR C AS PER ASCE 7", referred to IBC Section 1613; "WEATHERING: SEVERE"; "FROST LINE DEPTH: 24 INCHES"; and, for roof loading, "GROUND SNOW LOAD: 20 PSF" with "DESIGN ROOF LOAD SHALL NOT BE LESS THAN A UNIFORM SNOW LOAD OF 25 PSF". CHECK THE BASIS BEFORE YOU APPLY THE NUMBER. The sheet does not print the word nominal or the word ultimate against its 115 mph figure. A nominal wind speed on the older allowable stress basis and an ultimate design wind speed are two different numbers for the same wind loading and are not interchangeable, and other Idaho cities publish their figure in the other basis, so confirm which basis your design method, engineering or product listing expects before applying 115 mph. Eagle adds a local requirement in two hillside developments: its residential submittal checklist states that Avimor and Valnova submittals "will in addition to standard submittal requirements be required to provide structural stamp plans for all homes in these designated developments due to topographic wind effects, special ground snow load areas, and Seismic Zone C." Note also that the State of Idaho deletes the model code's wind-borne debris opening-protection section statewide: IDAPA 24.39.30.600.03(d) reads "Section R301.2.1.2 Protection of Openings. Delete." That is an opening (window and door) provision rather than a roofing one, and under Idaho Code 39-4116(4)(b) a local jurisdiction may not re-adopt a provision the Idaho Building Code Board has expressly rejected.

6.0% -- the Idaho state rate, with no local add-on. Idaho Code 63-3619 imposes the state sales tax "at the rate of six percent (6%)". Idaho has only two kinds of local sales tax and neither applies here: a resort-city local-option tax, which Idaho Code 50-1044 confines to resort cities "with a population not in excess of ten thousand (10,000)" and which the Idaho State Tax Commission's own list of participating cities does not include Eagle in; and an auditorium-district tax, which the Tax Commission states "can charge a local sales tax only for short-term lodging (30 days or less) within their district boundaries" and so never reaches roofing work. Idaho counties levy no sales tax at all, so being in Ada County adds nothing. HOW A ROOF IS TAXED, which matters more than the rate: the Tax Commission's contractor guidance states that "Idaho sales tax law says contractors are the consumers (end users) of all the goods they use. As a result, they must pay sales tax on all purchases", and it names roofers among the contractors it covers. The roofer pays the 6% on materials at the supply house; the homeowner's invoice carries no sales tax line at all, on materials or on labour, because "a contractor doesn't charge sales tax to the customer" and the tax is absorbed into the bid. The Commission adds that "if sales tax is charged on the bill, the customer can refuse to pay it." A customer's own sales-tax exemption does not carry over to the contractor.