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East McKeesport Borough - Building Permits

East McKeesport Borough in Allegheny County takes building permit applications through its Borough office at 907 Florence Avenue and names the Code Enforcement Agency, in Jefferson Hills, as its code enforcement agency. The Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code applies statewide, but Act 45 section 104(b) lists "Repairs to residential buildings" and alterations that make no structural or egress change among work it does not apply to, "except as might be required by ordinances in effect pursuant to section 303(b)(1) or adopted pursuant to section 503."

Roof code checklist: Borough of East McKeesport, PA

ItemAnswerCode citeSourceVerified
Permit to replace a roofNot published
Repair permit thresholdPublishedpacodeandbulletin.gov2026-10-12
Layer limit / roof-overPublishedR908.3.1.1pacodeandbulletin.gov2026-10-12
Deck & sheathingPublishedR905.2.1pacodeandbulletin.gov2026-10-12
Drip edgeNot published
Ice & water shieldNot published
Mid-roof inspectionNot published
Impact-resistant (Class 4) roofingNot published
Wind design criteriaNot published
Adopted codePublishedSec. 5-101pacodeandbulletin.gov2026-10-12
Contractor license / registrationYespalegis.us2026-10-12
Sales & use taxPublishedpa.gov2026-10-12

Each row comes from the sourced record on this page; full wording is in the table below. "Not published" means no official source for that item was found when the record was last verified.

Jurisdiction
Borough of East McKeesport, Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction type
city
Address
907 Florence Avenue, East McKeesport, PA 15035
Contact
  • url: https://www.eastmckeesportboro.com/1213/Residential-Commercial-Building-Permits
  • phone: 412-824-2531
Contractor registration required
Required
Permit process note
No East McKeesport Borough text read says in terms that a house reroof needs a building permit or is exempt. The Borough's residential building application, read October 12, 2026, lists "Permits Required: Building Permit Electrical Permit Mechanical Permit Plumbing Permit Energy Permit Zoning Permit" and project types "New Construction Single Family Duplex Addition Demolition PV / Solar Shed Pool Deck Fence," and names no roof work; the Building Permits page lists plan details for new construction, pools and spas, and decks "(Including Roof over Decks)" and says "Roofing method (Truss, flat, rafter, etc.) The truss roof requires an engineered stamped design at application" for new construction. The agency's plan review fee sheet the Borough posts has a separate fee table for alterations, repairs and change in occupancy and names no roof work. Section 27-1101 of the Borough's Zoning Chapter says "A zoning permit shall be required for all proposed principal structures and proposed additions to principal structures" and "A zoning permit shall be required for all proposed accessory buildings or structures or additions thereto," names no roof work, and says "The preceding zoning permit requirements shall not be construed as building permits as regulated and defined by Act 45"; this record does not decide whether a house reroof is a proposed addition. Section 5-102 adopts "The Uniform Construction Code, contained in 34 Pa.Code, Chapters 401-405, as amended from time to time," as the Borough's Municipal Building Code, and Section 5-105 keeps in effect building code ordinances adopted on or before July 1, 1999 "which equal or exceed the requirements of the Code"; neither names roof work, and the Borough's Chapters 4 (Buildings), 11 (Housing) and 13 (Licenses, Permits and General Business Regulations) name no roof permit. Ask the Borough office at 412-824-2531 or the Code Enforcement Agency at 888-410-4952 before work starts. Read for this answer: Chapters 4, 5, 11, 13 and 27 of the Borough Code as the Borough posts them (each word-searched for "roof" and "shingle"), the Borough's Building Permits, Code Enforcement Agency, Application, Documents, & Forms and Borough Ordinances pages, its 2026 residential building application, and the residential application instructions and fee sheets it posts. The Borough points to American Legal Publishing for the most current ordinances; that site was not read.
Adopted code
The 2021 International Residential Code, as adopted by the State in the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code (UCC). 34 Pa. Code 403.21(a)(7) adopts "The 'International Residential Code of 2021,' except that:" followed by the State's list of exclusions and modifications, effective January 1, 2026 (55 Pa.B. 7701). None of the State's changes touches Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, or Section R803, Roof Sheathing, so those apply as the International Code Council publishes them. Work on existing buildings is also pointed to the State's existing-building code: "The repair, alteration, change of occupancy, addition and relocation of existing buildings must comply with Chapter 34 of the 'International Building Code of 2021' or with the 'International Existing Building Code of 2021'" (34 Pa. Code 403.21(f)). The UCC is the minimum everywhere in the state: "no municipality may propose or enact any ordinance which is less than the minimum requirement of the Uniform Construction Code" (Pennsylvania Construction Code Act, Act 45 of 1999, section 503(b)). The Act also lists work it "shall not apply to", including "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress" or to "Repairs to residential buildings," in each case "except as might be required by ordinances" kept in force under section 303(b)(1) or adopted under section 503 (Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6); 34 Pa. Code 403.1(b)(8) and (9)). The Act defines a repair as "The reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing building for the purpose of its maintenance." So whether the code's roofing rules reach a given house reroof depends on the municipality's own ordinances. Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, East McKeesport Borough's Residential & Commercial Building Permits page names the Code Enforcement Agency as its code enforcement agency, at 1633 Route 51, Suite 100, Jefferson Hills (888-410-4952), and the Borough's residential building application is headed "Residential Building Application" and "PA UCC Building Permit Application"; the Borough office is at 907 Florence Avenue, East McKeesport (412-824-2531). Section 5-101 of the Borough Code (Ord. 842, July 24, 2004) says the Borough "elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act," and Section 5-103 lets it do so through "one or more construction code officials or third-party agencies". Section 5-102 adopts "The Uniform Construction Code, contained in 34 Pa.Code, Chapters 401-405, as amended from time to time," as the Borough's Municipal Building Code, and Section 5-105 keeps in effect building code ordinances adopted on or before July 1, 1999 "which equal or exceed the requirements of the Code"; neither names roof work, and the Borough's Chapters 4 (Buildings), 11 (Housing) and 13 (Licenses, Permits and General Business Regulations) name no roof permit. The Borough's Building Permits page heads its residential guidance "New Construction - Addition - Single Family / Duplex - 2018 IRC" and its Application, Documents, & Forms page lists "Code Enforcement Agency - 2025 Guidelines for 2018 Codes," while the Borough's 2026 residential building application says "2021 International Residential Code (IRC) requires detailed descriptions of the project"; this record has not read the 2018 edition's text and does not decide which edition the Borough applies.
Repair permit threshold
No East McKeesport Borough text read says in terms that a house reroof needs a building permit or is exempt. The Borough's residential building application, read October 12, 2026, lists "Permits Required: Building Permit Electrical Permit Mechanical Permit Plumbing Permit Energy Permit Zoning Permit" and project types "New Construction Single Family Duplex Addition Demolition PV / Solar Shed Pool Deck Fence," and names no roof work; the Building Permits page lists plan details for new construction, pools and spas, and decks "(Including Roof over Decks)" and says "Roofing method (Truss, flat, rafter, etc.) The truss roof requires an engineered stamped design at application" for new construction. The agency's plan review fee sheet the Borough posts has a separate fee table for alterations, repairs and change in occupancy and names no roof work. Section 27-1101 of the Borough's Zoning Chapter says "A zoning permit shall be required for all proposed principal structures and proposed additions to principal structures" and "A zoning permit shall be required for all proposed accessory buildings or structures or additions thereto," names no roof work, and says "The preceding zoning permit requirements shall not be construed as building permits as regulated and defined by Act 45"; this record does not decide whether a house reroof is a proposed addition. Section 5-102 adopts "The Uniform Construction Code, contained in 34 Pa.Code, Chapters 401-405, as amended from time to time," as the Borough's Municipal Building Code, and Section 5-105 keeps in effect building code ordinances adopted on or before July 1, 1999 "which equal or exceed the requirements of the Code"; neither names roof work, and the Borough's Chapters 4 (Buildings), 11 (Housing) and 13 (Licenses, Permits and General Business Regulations) name no roof permit. Ask the Borough office at 412-824-2531 or the Code Enforcement Agency at 888-410-4952 before work starts. State law sets no square-footage or percentage threshold for roof work; any threshold is set locally. The Uniform Construction Code "does not apply to" "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress, except as required by ordinances in effect under sections 303(b)(1) or 503 of the act" or to "Repairs to residential buildings, except as required by ordinances in effect under sections 303(b)(1) and 503 of the act" (34 Pa. Code 403.1(b)(8) and (9)), and "A permit is not required for the exceptions listed in § 403.1(b) (relating to scope) and the following, if the work does not violate a law or ordinance" (34 Pa. Code 403.62(c)). For houses the regulation adds: "An ordinary repair does not require a permit." Its list of work that is not an ordinary repair names cutting away a load-bearing wall, "The removal or cutting of any structural beam or load-bearing support," changes to a required means of egress, and new or relocated piping, wiring or mechanical work (34 Pa. Code 403.62(d)); roofing is not named. A municipality may require more: under Act 45 section 503(c) it "may enact ordinances pursuant to this section which adopt additional code requirements for alterations or repairs to residential buildings," after a public hearing and after filing the proposed ordinance with the Department of Labor and Industry. These rules concern a "Residential building," which the regulation defines as "Detached one-family and two-family dwellings and townhouses which are not more than three stories above grade plane in height with a separate means of egress and their accessory structures" (34 Pa. Code 401.1). Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, East McKeesport Borough's Residential & Commercial Building Permits page names the Code Enforcement Agency as its code enforcement agency, at 1633 Route 51, Suite 100, Jefferson Hills (888-410-4952), and the Borough's residential building application is headed "Residential Building Application" and "PA UCC Building Permit Application"; the Borough office is at 907 Florence Avenue, East McKeesport (412-824-2531). Section 5-101 of the Borough Code (Ord. 842, July 24, 2004) says the Borough "elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act," and Section 5-103 lets it do so through "one or more construction code officials or third-party agencies". The Borough's pages set no area or cost threshold for roof work.
Roof layer limit / recover
Two layers at most where the state code reaches the job. Pennsylvania adopts the 2021 International Residential Code without changing its reroofing section, R908 (34 Pa. Code 403.21(a)(7); the State's list of changes names no Chapter 9 section). Section R908.3.1.1 says "A roof recover shall not be permitted where any of the following conditions occur," and the third condition is "Where the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering." So one existing layer may be covered once, and a roof that already has two layers is torn off to the deck. The same section also bars a recover "Where the existing roof or roof covering is water soaked or has deteriorated to the point that the existing roof or roof covering is not adequate as a base for additional roofing" and "Where the existing roof covering is slate, clay, cement or asbestos-cement tile." The existing-building code the State also adopts, the 2021 International Existing Building Code (34 Pa. Code 403.21(f)), carries the same three conditions in Section 705.2.1.1. These rules bind work the Uniform Construction Code reaches. The Act does not apply to "Repairs to residential buildings" or to alterations that make no structural change, "except as might be required by ordinances" (Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6)), so whether R908 binds a particular house reroof turns on that exclusion and on the municipality's own ordinances. Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, East McKeesport Borough's Residential & Commercial Building Permits page names the Code Enforcement Agency as its code enforcement agency, at 1633 Route 51, Suite 100, Jefferson Hills (888-410-4952), and the Borough's residential building application is headed "Residential Building Application" and "PA UCC Building Permit Application"; the Borough office is at 907 Florence Avenue, East McKeesport (412-824-2531). Section 5-101 of the Borough Code (Ord. 842, July 24, 2004) says the Borough "elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act," and Section 5-103 lets it do so through "one or more construction code officials or third-party agencies". The Borough's Building Permits page heads its residential guidance "New Construction - Addition - Single Family / Duplex - 2018 IRC" and its Application, Documents, & Forms page lists "Code Enforcement Agency - 2025 Guidelines for 2018 Codes," while the Borough's 2026 residential building application says "2021 International Residential Code (IRC) requires detailed descriptions of the project"; this record has not read the 2018 edition's text and does not decide which edition the Borough applies. The Borough's pages say nothing on roof layers.
Deck & sheathing requirements
State rules from the base code, where the state code reaches the job. Pennsylvania adopts the 2021 International Residential Code without changing Section R803, Roof Sheathing (34 Pa. Code 403.21(a)(7); the State's changes to Chapter 8 are to ridge framing and attic ventilation). Lumber roof sheathing follows Table R803.1: over rafters or beams 24 inches apart it must be at least 5/8 inch net thick. Wood structural panels "shall be identified for grade, bond classification and performance category by a grade mark or certificate of inspection issued by an approved agency," and their spans "shall not exceed the values set forth in Table R503.2.1.1(1) or APA E30." For shingles, "Asphalt shingles shall be fastened to solidly sheathed decks" (R905.2.1), and on any reroof "The structural roof components shall be capable of supporting the roof covering system and the material and equipment loads that will be encountered during installation of the roof covering system" (R908.2). These rules bind work the Uniform Construction Code reaches; the Act does not apply to "Repairs to residential buildings" or to alterations that make no structural change, "except as might be required by ordinances" (Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6)). Act 45 section 104(b)(5) excludes alterations "which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress" and says only that "a structural change does not include a minor framing change needed to replace existing windows or doors"; 34 Pa. Code 403.62(d)(2) lists "The removal or cutting of any structural beam or load-bearing support" as not an ordinary repair. Neither names roof sheathing; this record does not decide whether replacing it is either. Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, East McKeesport Borough's Residential & Commercial Building Permits page names the Code Enforcement Agency as its code enforcement agency, at 1633 Route 51, Suite 100, Jefferson Hills (888-410-4952), and the Borough's residential building application is headed "Residential Building Application" and "PA UCC Building Permit Application"; the Borough office is at 907 Florence Avenue, East McKeesport (412-824-2531). Section 5-101 of the Borough Code (Ord. 842, July 24, 2004) says the Borough "elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act," and Section 5-103 lets it do so through "one or more construction code officials or third-party agencies". The Borough's pages read do not name roof sheathing. The Borough's Building Permits page heads its residential guidance "New Construction - Addition - Single Family / Duplex - 2018 IRC" and its Application, Documents, & Forms page lists "Code Enforcement Agency - 2025 Guidelines for 2018 Codes," while the Borough's 2026 residential building application says "2021 International Residential Code (IRC) requires detailed descriptions of the project"; this record has not read the 2018 edition's text and does not decide which edition the Borough applies.
Sales & use tax
6% Pennsylvania sales and use tax, with a local tax added on purchases made in Allegheny County (1%) and Philadelphia (2%). On a reroof the roofer pays the tax on the materials and does not add it to the homeowner's bill. The Department of Revenue says: "The Pennsylvania sales tax rate is 6 percent. By law, a 1 percent local tax is added to purchases made in Allegheny County, and 2 percent local tax is added to purchases made in Philadelphia." Roof work is a construction activity: the rule's list of items "presumed to become a permanent part of real estate" includes "Roofing (repairs)" (61 Pa. Code 31.11). For construction activities, "A contractor shall pay tax upon the purchase price ... of all property, including materials, equipment, components and supplies, which he furnishes and installs" (61 Pa. Code 31.12(a)(1)), and the rule's example says the contractor "does not charge sales tax on this transaction to his customer. The contractor may include the tax he must pay in his bid proposal but not as a separately stated item." Apart from limited exceptions set out in the rule, the same holds on jobs for tax-exempt owners: "a contractor erecting a building, repairing a roof, replacing a door for a governmental agency, ... school district, charitable or religious organization, and the like, shall pay tax upon the property which he consumes" (61 Pa. Code 31.13(a)). Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. East McKeesport Borough is in Allegheny County. The Borough's pages say nothing on sales tax.

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Roofing questions: Borough of East McKeesport, PA

When does a roof repair need a permit in Borough of East McKeesport, PA?

No East McKeesport Borough text read says in terms that a house reroof needs a building permit or is exempt. The Borough's residential building application, read October 12, 2026, lists "Permits Required: Building Permit Electrical Permit Mechanical Permit Plumbing Permit Energy Permit Zoning Permit" and project types "New Construction Single Family Duplex Addition Demolition PV / Solar Shed Pool Deck Fence," and names no roof work; the Building Permits page lists plan details for new construction, pools and spas, and decks "(Including Roof over Decks)" and says "Roofing method (Truss, flat, rafter, etc.) The truss roof requires an engineered stamped design at application" for new construction. The agency's plan review fee sheet the Borough posts has a separate fee table for alterations, repairs and change in occupancy and names no roof work. Section 27-1101 of the Borough's Zoning Chapter says "A zoning permit shall be required for all proposed principal structures and proposed additions to principal structures" and "A zoning permit shall be required for all proposed accessory buildings or structures or additions thereto," names no roof work, and says "The preceding zoning permit requirements shall not be construed as building permits as regulated and defined by Act 45"; this record does not decide whether a house reroof is a proposed addition. Section 5-102 adopts "The Uniform Construction Code, contained in 34 Pa.Code, Chapters 401-405, as amended from time to time," as the Borough's Municipal Building Code, and Section 5-105 keeps in effect building code ordinances adopted on or before July 1, 1999 "which equal or exceed the requirements of the Code"; neither names roof work, and the Borough's Chapters 4 (Buildings), 11 (Housing) and 13 (Licenses, Permits and General Business Regulations) name no roof permit. Ask the Borough office at 412-824-2531 or the Code Enforcement Agency at 888-410-4952 before work starts. State law sets no square-footage or percentage threshold for roof work; any threshold is set locally. The Uniform Construction Code "does not apply to" "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress, except as required by ordinances in effect under sections 303(b)(1) or 503 of the act" or to "Repairs to residential buildings, except as required by ordinances in effect under sections 303(b)(1) and 503 of the act" (34 Pa. Code 403.1(b)(8) and (9)), and "A permit is not required for the exceptions listed in § 403.1(b) (relating to scope) and the following, if the work does not violate a law or ordinance" (34 Pa. Code 403.62(c)). For houses the regulation adds: "An ordinary repair does not require a permit." Its list of work that is not an ordinary repair names cutting away a load-bearing wall, "The removal or cutting of any structural beam or load-bearing support," changes to a required means of egress, and new or relocated piping, wiring or mechanical work (34 Pa. Code 403.62(d)); roofing is not named. A municipality may require more: under Act 45 section 503(c) it "may enact ordinances pursuant to this section which adopt additional code requirements for alterations or repairs to residential buildings," after a public hearing and after filing the proposed ordinance with the Department of Labor and Industry. These rules concern a "Residential building," which the regulation defines as "Detached one-family and two-family dwellings and townhouses which are not more than three stories above grade plane in height with a separate means of egress and their accessory structures" (34 Pa. Code 401.1). Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, East McKeesport Borough's Residential & Commercial Building Permits page names the Code Enforcement Agency as its code enforcement agency, at 1633 Route 51, Suite 100, Jefferson Hills (888-410-4952), and the Borough's residential building application is headed "Residential Building Application" and "PA UCC Building Permit Application"; the Borough office is at 907 Florence Avenue, East McKeesport (412-824-2531). Section 5-101 of the Borough Code (Ord. 842, July 24, 2004) says the Borough "elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act," and Section 5-103 lets it do so through "one or more construction code officials or third-party agencies". The Borough's pages set no area or cost threshold for roof work.

Can you roof over an existing roof in Borough of East McKeesport, PA?

Two layers at most where the state code reaches the job. Pennsylvania adopts the 2021 International Residential Code without changing its reroofing section, R908 (34 Pa. Code 403.21(a)(7); the State's list of changes names no Chapter 9 section). Section R908.3.1.1 says "A roof recover shall not be permitted where any of the following conditions occur," and the third condition is "Where the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering." So one existing layer may be covered once, and a roof that already has two layers is torn off to the deck. The same section also bars a recover "Where the existing roof or roof covering is water soaked or has deteriorated to the point that the existing roof or roof covering is not adequate as a base for additional roofing" and "Where the existing roof covering is slate, clay, cement or asbestos-cement tile." The existing-building code the State also adopts, the 2021 International Existing Building Code (34 Pa. Code 403.21(f)), carries the same three conditions in Section 705.2.1.1. These rules bind work the Uniform Construction Code reaches. The Act does not apply to "Repairs to residential buildings" or to alterations that make no structural change, "except as might be required by ordinances" (Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6)), so whether R908 binds a particular house reroof turns on that exclusion and on the municipality's own ordinances. Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, East McKeesport Borough's Residential & Commercial Building Permits page names the Code Enforcement Agency as its code enforcement agency, at 1633 Route 51, Suite 100, Jefferson Hills (888-410-4952), and the Borough's residential building application is headed "Residential Building Application" and "PA UCC Building Permit Application"; the Borough office is at 907 Florence Avenue, East McKeesport (412-824-2531). Section 5-101 of the Borough Code (Ord. 842, July 24, 2004) says the Borough "elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act," and Section 5-103 lets it do so through "one or more construction code officials or third-party agencies". The Borough's Building Permits page heads its residential guidance "New Construction - Addition - Single Family / Duplex - 2018 IRC" and its Application, Documents, & Forms page lists "Code Enforcement Agency - 2025 Guidelines for 2018 Codes," while the Borough's 2026 residential building application says "2021 International Residential Code (IRC) requires detailed descriptions of the project"; this record has not read the 2018 edition's text and does not decide which edition the Borough applies. The Borough's pages say nothing on roof layers.

Do roofing contractors need a license or registration in Borough of East McKeesport, PA?

Yes.

What building code does Borough of East McKeesport, PA use?

The 2021 International Residential Code, as adopted by the State in the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code (UCC). 34 Pa. Code 403.21(a)(7) adopts "The 'International Residential Code of 2021,' except that:" followed by the State's list of exclusions and modifications, effective January 1, 2026 (55 Pa.B. 7701). None of the State's changes touches Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, or Section R803, Roof Sheathing, so those apply as the International Code Council publishes them. Work on existing buildings is also pointed to the State's existing-building code: "The repair, alteration, change of occupancy, addition and relocation of existing buildings must comply with Chapter 34 of the 'International Building Code of 2021' or with the 'International Existing Building Code of 2021'" (34 Pa. Code 403.21(f)). The UCC is the minimum everywhere in the state: "no municipality may propose or enact any ordinance which is less than the minimum requirement of the Uniform Construction Code" (Pennsylvania Construction Code Act, Act 45 of 1999, section 503(b)). The Act also lists work it "shall not apply to", including "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress" or to "Repairs to residential buildings," in each case "except as might be required by ordinances" kept in force under section 303(b)(1) or adopted under section 503 (Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6); 34 Pa. Code 403.1(b)(8) and (9)). The Act defines a repair as "The reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing building for the purpose of its maintenance." So whether the code's roofing rules reach a given house reroof depends on the municipality's own ordinances. Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, East McKeesport Borough's Residential & Commercial Building Permits page names the Code Enforcement Agency as its code enforcement agency, at 1633 Route 51, Suite 100, Jefferson Hills (888-410-4952), and the Borough's residential building application is headed "Residential Building Application" and "PA UCC Building Permit Application"; the Borough office is at 907 Florence Avenue, East McKeesport (412-824-2531). Section 5-101 of the Borough Code (Ord. 842, July 24, 2004) says the Borough "elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act," and Section 5-103 lets it do so through "one or more construction code officials or third-party agencies". Section 5-102 adopts "The Uniform Construction Code, contained in 34 Pa.Code, Chapters 401-405, as amended from time to time," as the Borough's Municipal Building Code, and Section 5-105 keeps in effect building code ordinances adopted on or before July 1, 1999 "which equal or exceed the requirements of the Code"; neither names roof work, and the Borough's Chapters 4 (Buildings), 11 (Housing) and 13 (Licenses, Permits and General Business Regulations) name no roof permit. The Borough's Building Permits page heads its residential guidance "New Construction - Addition - Single Family / Duplex - 2018 IRC" and its Application, Documents, & Forms page lists "Code Enforcement Agency - 2025 Guidelines for 2018 Codes," while the Borough's 2026 residential building application says "2021 International Residential Code (IRC) requires detailed descriptions of the project"; this record has not read the 2018 edition's text and does not decide which edition the Borough applies.