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City of Farrell - Office of Code Enforcement

The City of Farrell's Office of Code Enforcement, at 500 Roemer Blvd, administers the Uniform Construction Code in the City, with building permit applications taken through a third-party inspection firm's online form linked from the City's permit page. 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: Farrell, PA

ItemAnswerCode citeSourceVerified
Permit to replace a roofNot published
Repair permit thresholdPublishedpacodeandbulletin.gov2026-10-09
Layer limit / roof-overPublishedR908.3.1.1pacodeandbulletin.gov2026-10-09
Deck & sheathingPublishedR905.2.1pacodeandbulletin.gov2026-10-09
Drip edgeNot published
Ice & water shieldNot published
Mid-roof inspectionNot published
Impact-resistant (Class 4) roofingNopacodeandbulletin.gov2026-10-09
Wind design criteriaNot published
Adopted codePublishedSec. 162-10pacodeandbulletin.gov2026-10-09
Contractor license / registrationYespalegis.us2026-10-09
Sales & use taxPublishedpa.gov2026-10-09

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
City of Farrell, Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction type
city
Address
500 Roemer Blvd, Farrell, PA 16121
Contact
  • url: https://www.cityoffarrell.com/municipal/health-code-zoning-department/
  • phone: 724-983-2703
Contractor registration required
Required
Permit process note
The City of Farrell's pages read for this record do not say whether a house reroof needs a permit. Chapter 162 of the City Code, read in full, adopts the Uniform Construction Code "as amended from time to time" as the City's building code (Section 162-11, Ord. No. O-2-2004) and says permit applications are required "in accordance with the provisions of those other applicable codes and ordinances" the Office of Code Enforcement administers (Section 162-3A); it names no roof work. Section 162-14A keeps in force building code ordinances the City adopted "on or before July 1, 1999," which are not published in the City Code, so this record has not read them. The City's "Do I Need a Permit?" page says "Generally, a Permit is not required for most remodeling and repair projects. However, a Permit is required if:" the project cuts a structural beam, header or load-bearing wall, changes a means of egress, or involves the electrical service, lists "All NON STRUCTURAL residential alterations" among work for which "UCC (Building) Permits shall not be required," and says "IF IN DOUBT AS TO IF A PERMIT IS REQUIRED, PLEASE CALL AND ASK." Neither that page nor the City's posted permit instruction manual names roofing, and the online application's type-of-work list names no roof covering work (its roof entries are "Deck with Roof" and "Roof-Mounted Solar"). Under state law, Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6) list "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress" and "Repairs to residential buildings" among work the Act 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," and 34 Pa. Code 403.62(c) says "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." This record does not state whether the City requires a permit for a house reroof; ask the Code Office (724-983-2703, extension 105 or 106) before starting. Section 162-3C says "A permit may be issued only to bonded contractors or the owner/occupant," and the City's forms page carries contractor surety bond forms. Read for this answer: Chapter 162 of the City Code, Construction Codes (Articles I to III), in full; Chapter 192, Fees, in full, which sets no building permit fee (Section 162-15 leaves those fees to resolution, and no fee resolution is posted); every page of a search of the whole City Code for "roof" and for "reroofing"; the City's "Do I Need a Permit?", Health, Code and Zoning Department, forms and ordinances pages; the posted permit instruction manual and zoning permit application; and the online building permit application.
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, The City of Farrell administers the Uniform Construction Code itself: Section 162-10 of the City Code says the City "hereby elects to administer and enforce" the Act, Section 162-1 gives its Office of Code Enforcement "the responsibility for administering and enforcing" the codes adopted by the Uniform Construction Code, and Section 162-12 lets Council retain "one or more construction code officials or third party agencies to act on behalf of the City." The City's "Do I Need a Permit?" page links its Building Permit Application to a third-party inspection firm's online application, which lists Farrell among its municipalities, and says "Please Contact The Code Office to Schedule Your Inspection." Chapter 162 of the City Code, read in full, adopts the Uniform Construction Code "as amended from time to time" as the City's building code (Section 162-11, Ord. No. O-2-2004) and says permit applications are required "in accordance with the provisions of those other applicable codes and ordinances" the Office of Code Enforcement administers (Section 162-3A); it names no roof work. Section 162-14A keeps in force building code ordinances the City adopted "on or before July 1, 1999," which are not published in the City Code, so this record has not read them. No City page names a code edition.
Impact-resistant roofing
Not required — No impact-resistance requirement under state law. The State's adoption of the 2021 International Residential Code (34 Pa. Code 403.21) contains no hail or impact rule, and it makes no change to the code's roof assemblies chapter, which itself has no UL 2218, Class 4 or hail-impact requirement for roof coverings. A municipality could add one only by an ordinance that equals or exceeds the Uniform Construction Code under Act 45 section 503, filed with the Department of Labor and Industry; none of the filings on the Department's register of municipal code change ordinances mentions hail or impact resistance. An owner may still choose an impact-rated roof covering. Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, The City of Farrell administers the Uniform Construction Code itself: Section 162-10 of the City Code says the City "hereby elects to administer and enforce" the Act, Section 162-1 gives its Office of Code Enforcement "the responsibility for administering and enforcing" the codes adopted by the Uniform Construction Code, and Section 162-12 lets Council retain "one or more construction code officials or third party agencies to act on behalf of the City." The City's "Do I Need a Permit?" page links its Building Permit Application to a third-party inspection firm's online application, which lists Farrell among its municipalities, and says "Please Contact The Code Office to Schedule Your Inspection." Chapter 162 of the City Code, read in full, adopts the Uniform Construction Code "as amended from time to time" as the City's building code (Section 162-11, Ord. No. O-2-2004) and says permit applications are required "in accordance with the provisions of those other applicable codes and ordinances" the Office of Code Enforcement administers (Section 162-3A); it names no roof work. Section 162-14A keeps in force building code ordinances the City adopted "on or before July 1, 1999," which are not published in the City Code, so this record has not read them. No UL 2218, Class 4 or hail-impact requirement appears in Chapter 162, on the City's permit pages or in the online application.
Repair permit threshold
The City of Farrell's pages read for this record do not say whether a house reroof needs a permit. Chapter 162 of the City Code, read in full, adopts the Uniform Construction Code "as amended from time to time" as the City's building code (Section 162-11, Ord. No. O-2-2004) and says permit applications are required "in accordance with the provisions of those other applicable codes and ordinances" the Office of Code Enforcement administers (Section 162-3A); it names no roof work. Section 162-14A keeps in force building code ordinances the City adopted "on or before July 1, 1999," which are not published in the City Code, so this record has not read them. The City's "Do I Need a Permit?" page says "Generally, a Permit is not required for most remodeling and repair projects. However, a Permit is required if:" the project cuts a structural beam, header or load-bearing wall, changes a means of egress, or involves the electrical service, lists "All NON STRUCTURAL residential alterations" among work for which "UCC (Building) Permits shall not be required," and says "IF IN DOUBT AS TO IF A PERMIT IS REQUIRED, PLEASE CALL AND ASK." Neither that page nor the City's posted permit instruction manual names roofing, and the online application's type-of-work list names no roof covering work (its roof entries are "Deck with Roof" and "Roof-Mounted Solar"). Under state law, Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6) list "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress" and "Repairs to residential buildings" among work the Act 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," and 34 Pa. Code 403.62(c) says "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." 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, The City of Farrell administers the Uniform Construction Code itself: Section 162-10 of the City Code says the City "hereby elects to administer and enforce" the Act, Section 162-1 gives its Office of Code Enforcement "the responsibility for administering and enforcing" the codes adopted by the Uniform Construction Code, and Section 162-12 lets Council retain "one or more construction code officials or third party agencies to act on behalf of the City." The City's "Do I Need a Permit?" page links its Building Permit Application to a third-party inspection firm's online application, which lists Farrell among its municipalities, and says "Please Contact The Code Office to Schedule Your Inspection." No City text read for this record sets an 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, The City of Farrell administers the Uniform Construction Code itself: Section 162-10 of the City Code says the City "hereby elects to administer and enforce" the Act, Section 162-1 gives its Office of Code Enforcement "the responsibility for administering and enforcing" the codes adopted by the Uniform Construction Code, and Section 162-12 lets Council retain "one or more construction code officials or third party agencies to act on behalf of the City." The City's "Do I Need a Permit?" page links its Building Permit Application to a third-party inspection firm's online application, which lists Farrell among its municipalities, and says "Please Contact The Code Office to Schedule Your Inspection." Chapter 162 of the City Code, read in full, adopts the Uniform Construction Code "as amended from time to time" as the City's building code (Section 162-11, Ord. No. O-2-2004) and says permit applications are required "in accordance with the provisions of those other applicable codes and ordinances" the Office of Code Enforcement administers (Section 162-3A); it names no roof work. Section 162-14A keeps in force building code ordinances the City adopted "on or before July 1, 1999," which are not published in the City Code, so this record has not read them. The City'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, The City of Farrell administers the Uniform Construction Code itself: Section 162-10 of the City Code says the City "hereby elects to administer and enforce" the Act, Section 162-1 gives its Office of Code Enforcement "the responsibility for administering and enforcing" the codes adopted by the Uniform Construction Code, and Section 162-12 lets Council retain "one or more construction code officials or third party agencies to act on behalf of the City." The City's "Do I Need a Permit?" page links its Building Permit Application to a third-party inspection firm's online application, which lists Farrell among its municipalities, and says "Please Contact The Code Office to Schedule Your Inspection." Chapter 162 of the City Code, read in full, adopts the Uniform Construction Code "as amended from time to time" as the City's building code (Section 162-11, Ord. No. O-2-2004) and says permit applications are required "in accordance with the provisions of those other applicable codes and ordinances" the Office of Code Enforcement administers (Section 162-3A); it names no roof work. Section 162-14A keeps in force building code ordinances the City adopted "on or before July 1, 1999," which are not published in the City Code, so this record has not read them. No City page draws a line for roof sheathing.
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. The City of Farrell is in Mercer County. The City's permit pages and fee chapter say nothing on sales tax.

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When does a roof repair need a permit in Farrell, PA?

The City of Farrell's pages read for this record do not say whether a house reroof needs a permit. Chapter 162 of the City Code, read in full, adopts the Uniform Construction Code "as amended from time to time" as the City's building code (Section 162-11, Ord. No. O-2-2004) and says permit applications are required "in accordance with the provisions of those other applicable codes and ordinances" the Office of Code Enforcement administers (Section 162-3A); it names no roof work. Section 162-14A keeps in force building code ordinances the City adopted "on or before July 1, 1999," which are not published in the City Code, so this record has not read them. The City's "Do I Need a Permit?" page says "Generally, a Permit is not required for most remodeling and repair projects. However, a Permit is required if:" the project cuts a structural beam, header or load-bearing wall, changes a means of egress, or involves the electrical service, lists "All NON STRUCTURAL residential alterations" among work for which "UCC (Building) Permits shall not be required," and says "IF IN DOUBT AS TO IF A PERMIT IS REQUIRED, PLEASE CALL AND ASK." Neither that page nor the City's posted permit instruction manual names roofing, and the online application's type-of-work list names no roof covering work (its roof entries are "Deck with Roof" and "Roof-Mounted Solar"). Under state law, Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6) list "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress" and "Repairs to residential buildings" among work the Act 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," and 34 Pa. Code 403.62(c) says "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." 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, The City of Farrell administers the Uniform Construction Code itself: Section 162-10 of the City Code says the City "hereby elects to administer and enforce" the Act, Section 162-1 gives its Office of Code Enforcement "the responsibility for administering and enforcing" the codes adopted by the Uniform Construction Code, and Section 162-12 lets Council retain "one or more construction code officials or third party agencies to act on behalf of the City." The City's "Do I Need a Permit?" page links its Building Permit Application to a third-party inspection firm's online application, which lists Farrell among its municipalities, and says "Please Contact The Code Office to Schedule Your Inspection." No City text read for this record sets an area or cost threshold for roof work.

Can you roof over an existing roof in Farrell, 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, The City of Farrell administers the Uniform Construction Code itself: Section 162-10 of the City Code says the City "hereby elects to administer and enforce" the Act, Section 162-1 gives its Office of Code Enforcement "the responsibility for administering and enforcing" the codes adopted by the Uniform Construction Code, and Section 162-12 lets Council retain "one or more construction code officials or third party agencies to act on behalf of the City." The City's "Do I Need a Permit?" page links its Building Permit Application to a third-party inspection firm's online application, which lists Farrell among its municipalities, and says "Please Contact The Code Office to Schedule Your Inspection." Chapter 162 of the City Code, read in full, adopts the Uniform Construction Code "as amended from time to time" as the City's building code (Section 162-11, Ord. No. O-2-2004) and says permit applications are required "in accordance with the provisions of those other applicable codes and ordinances" the Office of Code Enforcement administers (Section 162-3A); it names no roof work. Section 162-14A keeps in force building code ordinances the City adopted "on or before July 1, 1999," which are not published in the City Code, so this record has not read them. The City's pages say nothing on roof layers.

Do roofing contractors need a license or registration in Farrell, PA?

Yes.

What building code does Farrell, 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, The City of Farrell administers the Uniform Construction Code itself: Section 162-10 of the City Code says the City "hereby elects to administer and enforce" the Act, Section 162-1 gives its Office of Code Enforcement "the responsibility for administering and enforcing" the codes adopted by the Uniform Construction Code, and Section 162-12 lets Council retain "one or more construction code officials or third party agencies to act on behalf of the City." The City's "Do I Need a Permit?" page links its Building Permit Application to a third-party inspection firm's online application, which lists Farrell among its municipalities, and says "Please Contact The Code Office to Schedule Your Inspection." Chapter 162 of the City Code, read in full, adopts the Uniform Construction Code "as amended from time to time" as the City's building code (Section 162-11, Ord. No. O-2-2004) and says permit applications are required "in accordance with the provisions of those other applicable codes and ordinances" the Office of Code Enforcement administers (Section 162-3A); it names no roof work. Section 162-14A keeps in force building code ordinances the City adopted "on or before July 1, 1999," which are not published in the City Code, so this record has not read them. No City page names a code edition.