City of East Point, Georgia - Building Inspections and Permits Division

City of East Point, Georgia

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East Point, GA

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East Point runs permitting through the BS&A online portal and issues a dedicated roof permit. The Permits Division, in the City's own words, "processes the application intake, coordinates the plan review cycle for drawings submitted, and ultimately issues the permit and Certificate of Occupancy or Completion for new construction or renovations in the City." Walk-in hours for application intake and processing are Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and the office is on the ground floor of City Hall at 2757 East Point Street. THE ROOFING PATH, STEP BY STEP AS THE CITY WRITES IT. Set up a BS&A account and obtain a web pin, which is requested online rather than by telephone. In the portal, choose Apply for Permit, enter the street number and select the address, then at Step 2 select "Put on new and/or repair ROOF", choose commercial or residential, and describe the scope. Enter the value of the job. Confirm the applicant information. At the fee step the residential flat fee of 75.00 dollars is precalculated, while a commercial roof is priced on the value of the job. Attach the completed Roof Permit Application and the required credentials, confirm and submit. The permit issues to the entity actually doing the work, so where a contractor is engaged the homeowner cannot pull it. CREDENTIALS TO HAVE READY: for a roofer taking the permit as a Specialty Trade, a valid state issued ID and a current Georgia business licence whose title or description shows the business specialises in the type of work; for a state certified contractor, the state card and a current Georgia business licence as well; for a homeowner doing the work personally, a state ID, a notarised Homeowner's Affidavit and a tax bill or recorded Fulton County deed. A notarised Authorized Agent Form is needed if anyone else pulls the permit, and it covers that one permit and address only. INSPECTIONS are requested only through the BS&A portal, and a request for the next business day must be in by 3:30 p.m.; inspectors take calls from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. and inspect from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday to Friday. The permit, the inspection card and any stamped plans must be posted on site. Inspectors do not enter occupied homes without the owner or an authorised agent present, accept lock box codes on unoccupied sites, and will not inspect where an alarm is armed. Where an inspection has been requested and not carried out within 48 hours, the City's procedures allow a Georgia licensed registered professional engineer to be engaged to make it, with a sealed report giving the address, permit number, inspection performed and date, uploaded to BS&A. A re-inspection fee must be paid before a re-inspection is requested. Contact the Permits Division on (943) 200-2029 option 1 or [email protected], and Building Inspections on option 4 or [email protected].

STATE-SET AND LOCALLY ENFORCED, ON A FLOATING LOCAL ADOPTION - AND THE CITY'S OWN PAGES DISAGREE ABOUT THE EDITION, SO READ THIS BEFORE QUOTING ONE. Georgia has no local code adoption to look up. The International Residential Code, 2024 Edition, with Georgia Amendments 2026 is a mandatory state minimum standard code adopted by the Department of Community Affairs and effective January 1, 2026, and under O.C.G.A. 8-2-25(a) it binds any structure built in Georgia whether or not the local government chooses to enforce it locally. Compliance is therefore statewide and automatic; what is local is enforcement, and East Point enforces. Its own adoption floats rather than naming an edition: Section 10-3001 of the Zoning Code and Development Regulations opens "The following are adopted amendments to the State Minimum Code: Accessibility in Georgia Code, all chapters of the International Code Council (ICC) including the following trades International Building Code (IBC), International Residential Code (IRC), International Plumbing Code (IPC), and International Property Maintenance Code (IMPC), National Electric Code (NEC), International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), International Mechanical Code (IMC) and International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC)", and then adds four City procedural amendments about conforming work, penalties, permit fees and state contractor licensing. Because the adoption floats, the City moved to the 2024 editions on January 1, 2026 by operation of its own ordinance, with nothing further to pass. WHERE THE CITY'S PAPER DISAGREES WITH ITSELF. The City hosts the Department of Community Affairs memorandum of September 1, 2025, from Ted Miltiades, Director of the Office of Construction Codes and Industrialized Buildings, headed "New Mandatory State Codes and Georgia Amendments, Effective January 1, 2026", which lists the 2024 IRC, IBC, IMC, IFGC, IPC and ISPSC and the 2026 Georgia Amendments to the 2023 National Electrical Code, and the Permits page carries a notice pointing to it. The Department of Planning and Community Development also publishes 2024 IRC homeowner building guides. But the City's own Construction Codes handout still lists the 2018 editions with 2020 to 2024 Georgia amendments, and its Certificate of Occupancy page still refers to the 2018 IBC by edition. The ordinance and the Department of Community Affairs both point to the 2024 editions; parts of the website have not caught up. APPENDIX U WAS NOT ESTABLISHED EITHER WAY, and that is deliberate. Appendix U Disaster Resilient Construction is adopted by the Department of Community Affairs as optional, so it reaches a jurisdiction only through a local adopting ordinance or resolution. Chapter 3 of the Zoning Code and Development Regulations, read in full, contains no appendices clause for the building code and no reference to Appendix U or to the Disaster Resilient appendix, and no adopting instrument for it was located. The City's Construction Codes handout does list "Disaster Resilient Building Code IRC Appendix (2013)" - but it lists it under "Current Permissive Codes as Adopted by DCA", which is the State's list of what a local government may adopt, not a record of East Point adopting it. Treat the question as open and ask the Building Official. CURRENCY. The building regulations are not in the Code of Ordinances volume: Ord. No. 003-09, adopted March 2, 2009, repealed the former Part 10 in its entirety and re-enacted it as a separate volume, the Zoning Code and Development Regulations, which is codified through Ordinance No. 157-020, adopted December 29, 2020.

Required — STATE-GOVERNED, NOT CITY-SET, and it applies in East Point exactly as it applies everywhere else in Georgia. The International Residential Code is one of the codes Georgia designates as a mandatory state minimum standard, so under O.C.G.A. 8-2-25(a) it binds construction in East Point whether or not the City elects to enforce it locally - and East Point does enforce, requiring a permit and inspections for a roof. The Georgia Department of Community Affairs amendment packet for the 2024 IRC carries no amendment to Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, so the Chapter 9 drip-edge provision at Section R905.2.8.5 stands as written, neither deleted nor rewritten for Georgia. East Point's own building instrument was opened in full for this entry: Chapter 3 of the Zoning Code and Development Regulations, Building Regulations, all sixteen articles A through P and every section from 10-3001 to 10-3079, of which not one mentions drip edge, roof covering, underlayment, sheathing, shingles or roof-covering fastening. The City's only amendments to the adopted codes, in Section 10-3001, are procedural. So there is no East Point rewrite either. Appendix U Disaster Resilient Construction, which the Department of Community Affairs adopts as optional and which carries extra deck-sealing and shingle-fastening rules, has not been shown to be adopted here; in any event it could not remove the drip-edge requirement. The operative ICC text of R905.2.8.5, which sets the extent, lap and fastening specifics, 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 East Point unamended. Practical note: because East Point issues a roof permit and inspects roofs, this is a requirement that will actually be looked at, not merely one that applies on paper. About drip edge

Not required — NO IN-PROGRESS ROOFING INSPECTION IS PUBLISHED - BUT A ROOF INSPECTION IS, SO READ THIS CAREFULLY. East Point's Building Inspection Procedures, updated December 2025, set out the inspection sequence and name roofs in it: "The following list provides a sample of required inspections for permit holders: This includes inspections starting with the foundation, plumbing slab, electrical slab, building slab, electric rough, plumbing rough, mechanical rough, framing, insulation, plumbing final, electrical final, mechanical final, these inspections shall also include roofs, house wrap & siding, driveway apron, fences, signs, water and sewer connections, t-poles and temp power, and all these inspections that apply to your permit shall be completed before the building final." That is a roof inspection inside a construction permit's sequence. What the City does not publish anywhere is a mid-roof, dry-in, felt, underlayment or post-tear-off stage for a reroof, and Chapter 3 of the Zoning Code and Development Regulations, read in full, prescribes no inspection stages at all. The document also warns that the list is "a sample", so do not treat it as exhaustive: it says elsewhere, of the code generally, that work "shall not be done beyond the point indicated in each successive inspection without first obtaining the approval of the building official", and that any work covered or concealed before inspection may have to be uncovered. PRACTICAL EFFECT: read the inspection list attached to your own permit in the BS&A portal rather than assuming a single final. Inspections must be requested through the BS&A online portal and, for the next business day, by 3:30 p.m. Inspectors will not enter an occupied home without the owner or an authorised agent present, lock box codes are accepted on unoccupied sites, and no inspection is made where an alarm system is armed.

Not required — No impact-resistant or hail-rated roof covering is required in East Point. Neither the Georgia State Amendments packet to the 2024 International Residential Code nor Chapter 3 of the East Point Zoning Code and Development Regulations contains any UL 2218, Class 4, Class IV or FM 4473 impact requirement. The Georgia packet does not amend the Code's roofing chapter at all, and Chapter 3, read in full across all sixteen articles, amends the adopted codes only in the procedural respects set out in Section 10-3001 - conforming work by licensed performers, penalties, permit fees and the state contractor licence classes - none of which is an impact rating. The City's own Roof Permit Application and its permit-type reference ask nothing about impact rating or hail class. Appendix U Disaster Resilient Construction has not been shown to be adopted here, and its roofing content is about secondary water barriers and fastening rather than impact in any event. An insurer may still offer a premium credit for an impact-rated shingle in the Atlanta hail belt, but that is an insurance matter and not a code requirement here.

NO DOLLAR OR SCOPE THRESHOLD IS PUBLISHED, AND REPAIR IS PERMITTED THE SAME WAY A REPLACEMENT IS. East Point puts roofing on its own line in its permit-type chart, and the line covers both. Its reference document "What Requires a Permit?", updated December 2025, lists the type of submittal "Roof", the application to use as the Building Permit Application, and the portal menu option "Put on a new /or repair ROOF. Com Roof (or) Res Roof". The City then publishes a dedicated Roof Permit Application whose own instruction is "Step 2: Select 'Put on new and/or repair ROOF', select commercial or residential and put in description." So a repair goes through the same door as a tear-off. THE FEE TELLS YOU THE SAME THING. The Fee Schedule of August 7, 2026 carries a "Roofing" heading with "Residential 75" and, for "Commercial and all other", the fee is "Plus valuation of Job", with the note "If plans are required, an administrative fee and a plan review fee will be assessed." The Roof Permit Application prices the residential job as a flat 75.00 dollars and offers exactly two residential options: "Shingles Only - no decking (75.00 fee)" and "Shingles Only - some decking (75.00 fee)", the second asking "How much decking?". A flat fee with no minimum job value is not a threshold; it is the price of every residential roof permit. WHAT WAS READ, SO YOU KNOW THE NEGATIVE IS EARNED. Chapter 3 of the Zoning Code and Development Regulations, Building Regulations, was read in full - all sixteen articles A through P and every section from 10-3001 to 10-3079 - and it contains no schedule of work exempt from permit and no monetary repair exemption. The seven-page "What Requires a Permit?" reference was read in full and lists no exemption for minor roof work. ONE NEAR MISS WORTH NAMING. The City's Permits page does carry the sentence "Exception: Certificates of occupancy are not required for work exempt from permits in accordance with Section 105.2. of the 2018 IBC" - but read the heading it sits under, which is Certificate of Occupancy and Change of Occupancy. That sentence excuses a certificate of occupancy, not a permit, and it points at the commercial code. Do not read it as a roofing permit exemption. PRACTICAL EFFECT: budget a permit for every East Point roof, repair included, and do not start early. The Fee Schedule states under PENALTIES that "Where work has been started prior to obtaining a permit, the fine will be assessed at the time the permit is issued", and the Roof Permit Application states "Any work prior to permit issuance is prohibited. Permits are non-transferable and Fees are Non-Refundable!"

Set by the state code, not by East Point. The residential code in force is the 2024 International Residential Code with the Georgia Amendments 2026, and the Georgia amendment packet makes no change to the Code's roofing chapter, so the base International Residential Code reroofing and roof-recover provisions apply as published and Georgia adds no layer cap of its own. On the local side, Chapter 3 of the Zoning Code and Development Regulations, Building Regulations, was read in full - all sixteen articles A through P, every section from 10-3001 to 10-3079 - and no provision in it addresses roof coverings at all, let alone how many layers of covering may remain on a building. Section 10-3001, the City's only set of amendments to the adopted codes, is procedural: conforming work and licensed performance, penalties, the permit fee schedule, and the state contractor licence classes. The City's Roof Permit Application asks only whether the job is shingles with no decking or shingles with some decking, and does not ask about existing layers. So the layer answer comes out of the base Code. Settle it with the Building Official when the permit is pulled, and note that a recover over an existing covering is exactly the kind of scope the plan reviewer will want described in the application's "Project Description / Full Scope" field.

Set by the state code, with one local practical consequence a roofer should price. The Georgia amendment packet to the 2024 International Residential Code makes no change to the Code's roofing chapter, so the base International Residential Code provisions on the deck beneath a roof covering apply as published, and Chapter 3 of the Zoning Code and Development Regulations, read in full, prescribes no roof-deck material, thickness or fastening. Appendix U Disaster Resilient Construction, which is where Georgia keeps its optional enhanced deck-sealing provisions, has not been shown to be adopted here. WHAT IS LOCAL IS THAT DECKING RIDES INSIDE THE SAME ROOF PERMIT. The City's Roof Permit Application gives two residential options under the heading "ROOF REPLACEMENT(Shingles Only)" - "Shingles Only - no decking (75.00 fee)" and "Shingles Only - some decking (75.00 fee)", the second followed by "How much decking?" - so replacing sheathing does not need a separate permit, but the quantity must be declared on the application and the flat fee does not change. The City's Building Inspection Procedures, updated December 2025, also name sheathing in the inspection sequence, describing framing and then "insulation, plumbing final, electrical final, mechanical final, these inspections shall also include roofs, house wrap & siding". Declare the decking honestly at application; an inspector who finds more deck replaced than the permit describes can require the scope to be amended.

8.75% in East Point, and it is NOT the ordinary Fulton County rate. The Georgia Department of Revenue rate chart in force for July 1 through September 30, 2026 breaks four Fulton cities out of the county row, and East Point is one of them: jurisdiction code 802 "Fulton (East Point)" is listed at 8.75%, with the local components the chart marks MARTA, LOST, Educational, Other and Fulton TSPLOST. The county row, code 060, is carried at 7.75% and is expressly footnoted "*Fulton County outside of Atlanta, Hapeville, College Park, and East Point", so the 7.75% figure a roofer is likely to be quoted for Fulton is the wrong one inside East Point city limits. The other broken-out rows are code 060A Fulton (Atlanta) at 8.9%, 800 Fulton (Hapeville) and 801 Fulton (College Prk) at 8.75%, and 803 Fulton (Cent. Yards) at 3.9%. The chart states the state component in its own first line: "Code 000 - The state sales and use tax rate is 4%. Other than 803 Fulton (Cent. Yards), state tax is included in the jurisdiction rates below." The Department of Revenue has already published the chart taking effect on October 1, 2026 and the East Point row is unchanged in it at 8.75%, so the figure holds through that reissue. Both charts were read at their published rates and confirmed against a rendered image of the page rather than a text extraction. FOR THE ROOFER, WHO PAYS IT: Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 560-12-2-.26(1) makes anyone who contracts to furnish materials and perform services improving real property "the consumer of all tangible personal property used or consumed in performing such contract" and who "shall pay the tax thereon at the time of purchase, use, storage or consumption in this State, whichever occurs first" - so the tax on the shingles is the contractor's, paid at the supplier, and not a line the homeowner is charged as a resale item. The same rule requires every contractor improving real property in Georgia to file for a Certificate of Registration on Form CRF-002 before its first construction activity in the state, which is a tax registration and not a contractor credential.