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Franconia Township - Building & Zoning

Franconia Township's Building & Zoning office, at 671 Allentown Road, Telford, issues building permits, with its own building inspectors and Code Inspections, Inc. handling electrical and commercial work. 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: Township of Franconia, PA

ItemAnswerCode citeSourceVerified
Permit to replace a roofNot published
Repair permit thresholdPublishedpacodeandbulletin.gov2026-10-07
Layer limit / roof-overPublishedR908.3.1.1pacodeandbulletin.gov2026-10-07
Deck & sheathingPublishedR905.2.1pacodeandbulletin.gov2026-10-07
Drip edgeNot published
Ice & water shieldNot published
Mid-roof inspectionNot published
Impact-resistant (Class 4) roofingNot published
Wind design criteriaNot published
Adopted codePublishedSec. 48-1pacodeandbulletin.gov2026-10-07
Contractor license / registrationYespalegis.us2026-10-07
Sales & use taxPublishedpa.gov2026-10-07

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
Township of Franconia, Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction type
city
Address
671 Allentown Road, Telford, PA 18969
Contact
  • url: https://www.franconiatownship.org/township-basics/building-zoning/
  • phone: 215-723-1137
Contractor registration required
Required
Permit process note
No Franconia Township text read names reroofing as permit work or as exempt, and the building code Chapter 47 adopts was not read, so this record does not decide whether the Township requires a permit for an ordinary reroof. Call the Township at 215-723-1137 before work starts. The Township has published nothing on reroofing. Its Documents Required for Submission of Building Permits sheet names fences, sheds, patios, porches, decks, pools, gazebos and generators but not roofs, and says "If work is being done for an item not listed and you are uncertain or have any additional questions, please call the township at 215-723-1137 for direction." The Application for Plan Examination and Building Permit offers "Repair, replacement" as a type of improvement and has no roofing line, and the Township's fee schedule (Resolution No. 24-01-15-01) has no roofing line in its residential building permit section. Chapter 48 of the Township Code (Ord. No. 327, June 14, 2004) adopts the Uniform Construction Code, "as amended from time to time," as the Township's municipal building code, and Section 48-5 A keeps building code ordinances adopted on or before July 1, 1999 that equal or exceed it in force. Chapter 47, Building Construction (Ord. No. 50 of 1969, last amended by Ord. No. 273 of July 12, 1999), adopts the "BOCA Basic Building Code, Fourteenth Edition 1999" by reference as the Building Code of Franconia Township; Section 47-2 amends it, but the BOCA text itself, including its permit sections, is not published with the Township Code and was not read for this record. Neither chapter names roof work. 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." The Township says building, electrical and plumbing permit applications "MUST BE SUBMITTED IN PERSON OR MAILED TO FRANCONIA TOWNSHIP AT 671 ALLENTOWN ROAD, TELFORD, PA 18969 OR PLACED IN THE BLACK LOCK BOX LOCATED ON THE FRONT LEFT SIDE OF THE TOWNSHIP BUILDING. NO PERMIT APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED VIA EMAIL." The Documents Required sheet says that if a contractor can supply a PA Builder's License Number the Township does not require insurance, and otherwise asks for an insurance certificate naming Franconia Township as additional insured. Building & Zoning inspections run Monday to Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Read for this answer: Chapter 48 of the Township Code, Construction Codes, Uniform (Sections 48-1 to 48-6), and Chapter 47, Building Construction (Sections 47-1 to 47-7), in full; Chapter 71, Fees; every page of a search of the whole Township Code for "roof" and for "reroofing," which found no permit provision naming roof work; the Building & Zoning and Documents, Forms & Permits pages; the Documents Required sheet; the Building and Plumbing Codes sheet; the building permit application, a scanned form, whose first page was read from the page image; and the fee schedule, a scanned file, whose building permit section was read from the page images.
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, Franconia Township administers the code itself: Section 48-1 of the Township Code says "Franconia Township hereby elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act," and the Township's Building & Zoning page says its Building Inspectors/Code Enforcement Officers "inspect job sites for building and plumbing approval" and that "Code Inspections, Inc. handles all of Franconia Township's electrical reviews and inspections as well as commercial projects and new developments." Building permit applications go to the Township Building at 671 Allentown Road, Telford. Chapter 48 of the Township Code (Ord. No. 327, June 14, 2004) adopts the Uniform Construction Code, "as amended from time to time," as the Township's municipal building code, and Section 48-5 A keeps building code ordinances adopted on or before July 1, 1999 that equal or exceed it in force. Chapter 47, Building Construction (Ord. No. 50 of 1969, last amended by Ord. No. 273 of July 12, 1999), adopts the "BOCA Basic Building Code, Fourteenth Edition 1999" by reference as the Building Code of Franconia Township; Section 47-2 amends it, but the BOCA text itself, including its permit sections, is not published with the Township Code and was not read for this record. Neither chapter names roof work. Chapter 47 names the BOCA Basic Building Code of 1999, and the Township's Building and Plumbing Codes permit conditions sheet says it is "Based on Current International Building Code" and refers to egress "per 2006 International Building Code"; neither names a residential code edition; this record has not read the 1999 BOCA or 2006 editions' text and does not decide which edition the Township applies.
Repair permit threshold
No Franconia Township text read names reroofing as permit work or as exempt, and the building code Chapter 47 adopts was not read, so this record does not decide whether the Township requires a permit for an ordinary reroof. Call the Township at 215-723-1137 before work starts. The Township has published nothing on reroofing. Its Documents Required for Submission of Building Permits sheet names fences, sheds, patios, porches, decks, pools, gazebos and generators but not roofs, and says "If work is being done for an item not listed and you are uncertain or have any additional questions, please call the township at 215-723-1137 for direction." The Application for Plan Examination and Building Permit offers "Repair, replacement" as a type of improvement and has no roofing line, and the Township's fee schedule (Resolution No. 24-01-15-01) has no roofing line in its residential building permit section. Chapter 48 of the Township Code (Ord. No. 327, June 14, 2004) adopts the Uniform Construction Code, "as amended from time to time," as the Township's municipal building code, and Section 48-5 A keeps building code ordinances adopted on or before July 1, 1999 that equal or exceed it in force. Chapter 47, Building Construction (Ord. No. 50 of 1969, last amended by Ord. No. 273 of July 12, 1999), adopts the "BOCA Basic Building Code, Fourteenth Edition 1999" by reference as the Building Code of Franconia Township; Section 47-2 amends it, but the BOCA text itself, including its permit sections, is not published with the Township Code and was not read for this record. Neither chapter names roof work. 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, Franconia Township administers the code itself: Section 48-1 of the Township Code says "Franconia Township hereby elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act," and the Township's Building & Zoning page says its Building Inspectors/Code Enforcement Officers "inspect job sites for building and plumbing approval" and that "Code Inspections, Inc. handles all of Franconia Township's electrical reviews and inspections as well as commercial projects and new developments." Building permit applications go to the Township Building at 671 Allentown Road, Telford. The Township's code chapters and pages read for this record set no area, percentage 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, Franconia Township administers the code itself: Section 48-1 of the Township Code says "Franconia Township hereby elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act," and the Township's Building & Zoning page says its Building Inspectors/Code Enforcement Officers "inspect job sites for building and plumbing approval" and that "Code Inspections, Inc. handles all of Franconia Township's electrical reviews and inspections as well as commercial projects and new developments." Building permit applications go to the Township Building at 671 Allentown Road, Telford. Chapter 48 of the Township Code changes nothing in the code's reroofing provisions, Chapter 47's amendments to the BOCA code it adopts touch no roof covering section, and the Township's pages say nothing on roof layers. Chapter 47 names the BOCA Basic Building Code of 1999, and the Township's Building and Plumbing Codes permit conditions sheet says it is "Based on Current International Building Code" and refers to egress "per 2006 International Building Code"; neither names a residential code edition; the text above is the 2021 edition's, the older editions' reroofing text was not read for this record, and this record does not decide which edition the Township applies.
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, Franconia Township administers the code itself: Section 48-1 of the Township Code says "Franconia Township hereby elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act," and the Township's Building & Zoning page says its Building Inspectors/Code Enforcement Officers "inspect job sites for building and plumbing approval" and that "Code Inspections, Inc. handles all of Franconia Township's electrical reviews and inspections as well as commercial projects and new developments." Building permit applications go to the Township Building at 671 Allentown Road, Telford. Chapter 48 of the Township Code changes nothing in the code's roof sheathing provisions, and the Township's pages draw no separate line for roof sheathing. Chapter 47 names the BOCA Basic Building Code of 1999, and the Township's Building and Plumbing Codes permit conditions sheet says it is "Based on Current International Building Code" and refers to egress "per 2006 International Building Code"; neither names a residential code edition; the text above is the 2021 edition's, the older editions' sheathing text was not read for this record, and this record does not decide which edition the Township 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. Franconia Township is in Montgomery County. The Township's permit pages and fee schedule say nothing on sales tax.

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Roofing questions: Township of Franconia, PA

When does a roof repair need a permit in Township of Franconia, PA?

No Franconia Township text read names reroofing as permit work or as exempt, and the building code Chapter 47 adopts was not read, so this record does not decide whether the Township requires a permit for an ordinary reroof. Call the Township at 215-723-1137 before work starts. The Township has published nothing on reroofing. Its Documents Required for Submission of Building Permits sheet names fences, sheds, patios, porches, decks, pools, gazebos and generators but not roofs, and says "If work is being done for an item not listed and you are uncertain or have any additional questions, please call the township at 215-723-1137 for direction." The Application for Plan Examination and Building Permit offers "Repair, replacement" as a type of improvement and has no roofing line, and the Township's fee schedule (Resolution No. 24-01-15-01) has no roofing line in its residential building permit section. Chapter 48 of the Township Code (Ord. No. 327, June 14, 2004) adopts the Uniform Construction Code, "as amended from time to time," as the Township's municipal building code, and Section 48-5 A keeps building code ordinances adopted on or before July 1, 1999 that equal or exceed it in force. Chapter 47, Building Construction (Ord. No. 50 of 1969, last amended by Ord. No. 273 of July 12, 1999), adopts the "BOCA Basic Building Code, Fourteenth Edition 1999" by reference as the Building Code of Franconia Township; Section 47-2 amends it, but the BOCA text itself, including its permit sections, is not published with the Township Code and was not read for this record. Neither chapter names roof work. 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, Franconia Township administers the code itself: Section 48-1 of the Township Code says "Franconia Township hereby elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act," and the Township's Building & Zoning page says its Building Inspectors/Code Enforcement Officers "inspect job sites for building and plumbing approval" and that "Code Inspections, Inc. handles all of Franconia Township's electrical reviews and inspections as well as commercial projects and new developments." Building permit applications go to the Township Building at 671 Allentown Road, Telford. The Township's code chapters and pages read for this record set no area, percentage or cost threshold for roof work.

Can you roof over an existing roof in Township of Franconia, 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, Franconia Township administers the code itself: Section 48-1 of the Township Code says "Franconia Township hereby elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act," and the Township's Building & Zoning page says its Building Inspectors/Code Enforcement Officers "inspect job sites for building and plumbing approval" and that "Code Inspections, Inc. handles all of Franconia Township's electrical reviews and inspections as well as commercial projects and new developments." Building permit applications go to the Township Building at 671 Allentown Road, Telford. Chapter 48 of the Township Code changes nothing in the code's reroofing provisions, Chapter 47's amendments to the BOCA code it adopts touch no roof covering section, and the Township's pages say nothing on roof layers. Chapter 47 names the BOCA Basic Building Code of 1999, and the Township's Building and Plumbing Codes permit conditions sheet says it is "Based on Current International Building Code" and refers to egress "per 2006 International Building Code"; neither names a residential code edition; the text above is the 2021 edition's, the older editions' reroofing text was not read for this record, and this record does not decide which edition the Township applies.

Do roofing contractors need a license or registration in Township of Franconia, PA?

Yes.

What building code does Township of Franconia, 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, Franconia Township administers the code itself: Section 48-1 of the Township Code says "Franconia Township hereby elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act," and the Township's Building & Zoning page says its Building Inspectors/Code Enforcement Officers "inspect job sites for building and plumbing approval" and that "Code Inspections, Inc. handles all of Franconia Township's electrical reviews and inspections as well as commercial projects and new developments." Building permit applications go to the Township Building at 671 Allentown Road, Telford. Chapter 48 of the Township Code (Ord. No. 327, June 14, 2004) adopts the Uniform Construction Code, "as amended from time to time," as the Township's municipal building code, and Section 48-5 A keeps building code ordinances adopted on or before July 1, 1999 that equal or exceed it in force. Chapter 47, Building Construction (Ord. No. 50 of 1969, last amended by Ord. No. 273 of July 12, 1999), adopts the "BOCA Basic Building Code, Fourteenth Edition 1999" by reference as the Building Code of Franconia Township; Section 47-2 amends it, but the BOCA text itself, including its permit sections, is not published with the Township Code and was not read for this record. Neither chapter names roof work. Chapter 47 names the BOCA Basic Building Code of 1999, and the Township's Building and Plumbing Codes permit conditions sheet says it is "Based on Current International Building Code" and refers to egress "per 2006 International Building Code"; neither names a residential code edition; this record has not read the 1999 BOCA or 2006 editions' text and does not decide which edition the Township applies.