City of Jackson, Tennessee - Building and Housing Codes Department

City of Jackson, Tennessee

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119 East Main Street, Suite 208, Jackson, TN 38301

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Building permit applications for the City of Jackson are submitted online through the Building and Housing Codes Department's permit portal ("Apply and Pay Online") or in person at 119 East Main Street, Suite 208, Jackson, TN 38301. Residential building permits are required for construction, alteration, or repair work valued at $100 or more. The department also offers plans review services and maintains a Code Advisory/Appeals Board that hears appeals of code interpretations and material/method rejections.

For a new-construction residential building permit, the City of Jackson's minimum required inspections are: footing, foundation, slab (if applicable), framing, insulation, and final. Inspection requests must be made at least one day before the requested inspection time, and by ordinance the inspector has 48 hours to respond. This list is the department's stated minimum for new construction; the guide does not separately spell out a distinct inspection sequence for repair or reroofing permits.

2018 International Residential Code (IRC), including Appendix Q, adopted by the City of Jackson, Tennessee via Ordinance No. 2021-7 (June 2021) and amended by Ordinance No. 2024-16 (May 2024); codified as City of Jackson, TN Code of Ordinances Title 12, Chapter 10, Section 12-1001. The city also separately adopts the 2018 International Building Code (Fourth Printing) at Section 12-201, same ordinance history.

Required — The City of Jackson adopts the 2018 IRC (Code of Ordinances Section 12-1001, Ord. #2021-7, June 2021; amended by Ord. #2024-16, May 2024). The city's own amendment text at Section 12-1001, read in full, and the city's separately published Construction Guide, whose fuller amendments section was also read in full, do not touch Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies. So the base 2018 IRC drip-edge provision, IRC Section R905.2.8.5, applies unmodified in Jackson. About drip edge

Required — The City of Jackson's local amendment to IRC Table R301.2(1) (Climatic and Geographic Design Criteria), printed in the city's Construction Guide (Building and Housing Codes Department) as part of the code amendments, fills the "Ice Barrier Underlayment Required" column with "Yes." The table's own footnote ties that column to IRC Sections R905.1.2, R905.4.3.1, R905.5.3.1, R905.6.3.1, R905.7.3.1, and R905.8.3.1, the ice-barrier-underlayment provisions for the applicable roof-covering types. About ice & water barrier

Not required — The City of Jackson's amendment to Section 12-1001 (Ord. #2021-7, June 2021; amended by Ord. #2024-16, May 2024), read in full, and the city's Construction Guide, whose own fuller amendments section was also read in full, contain no impact-resistant roof-covering requirement: no reference to UL 2218, Class 4, or hail appears in either. The one adjacent value in the amended Table R301.2(1) -- the "windborne debris zone" column -- is filled "No," which in any case governs opening/glazing protection under the wind-borne-debris provisions, not roof-covering impact rating.

Residential building permits are required for all construction, alteration, or repairs (including roofing repairs), fences, and accessory buildings when the total value of the work is $100.00 or more.

Per the City of Jackson's local amendment to IRC Table R301.2(1) (Climatic and Geographic Design Criteria), printed in the city's Construction Guide: basic wind speed 115 mph; topographic effects No; special wind region No; windborne debris zone No; ground snow load 10 psf; seismic design category D1. (A separate, older design-criteria summary elsewhere in the same guide states "90 MPH" -- this record uses the locally filled-in code table itself, not the surrounding prose summarizing it.)

The City of Jackson adopts the 2018 IRC (Code of Ordinances Section 12-1001, Ord. #2021-7, June 2021; amended by Ord. #2024-16, May 2024). The city's own amendment text at Section 12-1001, read in full, amends only electrical chapters (deleted in favor of the state electrical standard), one smoke-alarm exception, and residential energy-code tables; it does not touch IRC Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies. The city's separately published Construction Guide (Building and Housing Codes Department), whose own fuller "Amendments to the Adopted Codes" section was also read in full, likewise shows no amendment to Chapter 9. So the base 2018 IRC provision on roof layer limits, IRC Section R908.3, applies unmodified in Jackson.

The City of Jackson adopts the 2018 IRC (Code of Ordinances Section 12-1001, Ord. #2021-7, June 2021; amended by Ord. #2024-16, May 2024). The city's own amendment text at Section 12-1001, read in full, amends only electrical chapters, one smoke-alarm exception, and residential energy-code tables; it does not touch Chapter 8, Roof-Ceiling Construction, or Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies. The city's separately published Construction Guide, whose own fuller amendments section was also read in full, likewise shows no amendment there. So the base 2018 IRC provision on roof deck sheathing, IRC Section R803, applies unmodified in Jackson.

9.75%. The City of Jackson's Construction Guide (dated January 2022) states the current sales tax rate is 9.75 percent, consistent with the Tennessee Department of Revenue's published structure of a 7% state rate plus a local option rate capped at 2.75% (Madison County's local rate is the state maximum). The Tennessee DOR does not publish a static per-county rate table at its Local Sales Tax page; it points to a JS-rendered rate-lookup map, confirmed unreadable to fetch tooling this session, so the DOR page is cited here as the authority this figure mirrors rather than as the value's direct source.