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Do you need a permit to replace a roof in Johns Creek, GA?

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City of Johns Creek, Georgia - Community Development Department, Building Division

Yes, a permit is required to replace a roof in Johns Creek, GA, issued by City of Johns Creek, Georgia - Community Development Department, Building Division. Everything goes through the City's Customer Self-Service portal - there are no paper application forms for building or trade permits, and plans and documents are uploaded to the application as PDF attachments. A contractor must register its credentials in the portal under Contractor Registration before it can apply, and the registration runs until the underlying licences expire. Permits are issued to the contractor; a contractor may name an Authorized Permit Agent to apply on its licence, with a notarised affidavit, but the contractor stays responsible for the work. A homeowner may pull the permit as a Homeowner-Contractor, which requires an affidavit notarised in person at the permit counter at City Hall and makes the homeowner personally responsible for supervision, inspections and code compliance. Fees are invoiced by email after the application is submitted and are based on the project valuation under the adopted fee schedule; for permits needing plan review all fees must be paid before the plans are routed. Timing to watch: an application not issued within 180 days is deemed abandoned under Section 105-52(a)(5), and an issued permit becomes invalid if work does not start or ceases for 180 days, with extensions available in writing from the building official for good cause. Inspections are requested in the portal by 4:00 p.m. for the next business day, the contractor or job superintendent should be on site, the permit must be posted and the approved plans available, and a failed or not-ready inspection draws a re-inspection fee that must be paid before the next inspection can be scheduled. Contact is the Building Division at 678-512-3250 or BuildingPermits@JohnsCreekGA.gov, at 11360 Lakefield Drive, Johns Creek, GA 30097.

Roof code checklist: Johns Creek, GA

ItemAnswerCode citeSourceVerified
Permit to replace a roofYeslibrary.municode.com2026-09-23
Repair permit thresholdPublishedjohnscreekga.gov2026-09-23
Layer limit / roof-overPublisheddca.georgia.gov2026-09-11
Deck & sheathingPublisheddca.georgia.gov2026-09-04
Drip edgeYesR905.2.8.5dca.georgia.gov2026-09-06
Ice & water shieldNot published
Mid-roof inspectionNolibrary.municode.com2026-09-04
Impact-resistant (Class 4) roofingNodca.georgia.gov2026-09-04
Wind design criteriaPublisheddca.georgia.gov2026-09-04
Adopted codePublishedSec. 105-20(a)johnscreekga.gov2026-09-04
Contractor license / registrationNot published
Sales & use taxPublisheddor.georgia.gov2026-09-04

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 Johns Creek, Georgia
Jurisdiction type
city
Address
Johns Creek, GA
Contact
  • url: https://johnscreekga.gov/departments/community-development/building-permitting/
  • phone: 678-512-3250
Roofing permit required
Required
Registration details
  • state_level: STATEWIDE, AND IT TURNS ON WHAT KIND OF CONTRACTOR YOU ARE RATHER THAN ON THE TRADE. Georgia licenses residential and commercial general contractors through the State Licensing Board for Residential and Commercial General Contractors under O.C.G.A. Title 43, Chapter 41, created by House Bill 1003 of 2004 and amended since, including by Senate Bill 115 of 2007 and Senate Bill 503 of 2024. There is no Georgia licence titled roofer: the chapter creates residential-basic, residential-light commercial and commercial general contractor licences and no roofing class, and O.C.G.A. 43-41-17(e) names the Chapter 14 trades it deals with as plumbing, conditioned air contracting, utility contracting, electrical contracting and low-voltage contracting, which does not include roofing. Section 43-41-17(a) provides that "No person, whether an individual or a business organization, shall have the right to engage in the business of residential contracting or commercial general contracting without a current, valid residential contractor license or commercial general contractor license, respectively", a requirement in force since July 1, 2008. What pulls a roofing job inside that requirement is a definition rather than a trade: O.C.G.A. 43-41-2(9) makes a person a residential contractor where the work falls into the residential-basic or residential-light commercial category and "the total value of the work or activity or of the compensation to be received by the contractor for such activity or work, whichever is the higher, exceeds $2,500.00". That figure is per job, taken on the higher of work value or compensation; it is not an annual figure, not a materials-only figure, and not specific to roofing. TWO EXCEPTIONS REACH ROOFING AND NEITHER IS A DOLLAR TEST. The first is the specialty-contractor exception at O.C.G.A. 43-41-17(f), which begins "Nothing in this chapter shall preclude a specialty contractor from offering or contracting to perform or undertaking or performing for an owner limited, specialty, or specific trade contractor work". As Chapter 41 was first enacted in 2004 that sentence carried on to confine the exception to work that put no part of the job under anyone but the contractor's own direct employees; Senate Bill 115 struck that limitation out in 2007, so the exception no longer states a supervision test. In its place the same subsection directs that "The board shall, by rule or policy, identify specialty contractors or other criteria to determine eligibility under the exemption of this subsection." Senate Bill 115 set a January 1, 2008 deadline for that, which Senate Bill 503 of 2024 deleted. The second is the repair exception at O.C.G.A. 43-41-17(g): "Nothing in this chapter shall preclude a person from offering or contracting to perform or undertaking or performing for an owner repair work, provided that the person performing the repair work discloses to the owner that such person does not hold a license under this chapter and provided, further, that such work does not affect the structural integrity of the real property." The board defined repair at Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 553-8-.01 to mean "fixing, mending, maintenance, replacement or restoring of a part or portions of real property to good condition", on four conditions: written disclosure to the owner that the person is not licensed as a residential or general contractor, no delegation of supervision to anyone but employees, work that does not affect the life safety requirements or structural integrity of the property, and obtaining the permits and inspections the local authority requires. Whether a full tear-off and replacement is repair within that definition is a legal question neither the statute nor the rule answers. WHAT THE BOARD HAS SAID ABOUT ROOFERS, AND WHERE IT STOPS. No rule identifying specialty contractors was ever made: the board's regulations at Department 553 of the Georgia Administrative Code run twelve chapters - organisation, examination exemption, qualifications for licensure in each division, procedural rules, fees, written warranty, definitions, disciplinary action, inactive licence, changes in status, and licence renewal and continuing education - and not one of them names a trade. Since Senate Bill 115 the same subsection has also let an exempt specialty contractor take on work that would otherwise need a licence "where the total scope of the work to be performed is predominantly of the type for which such specialty contractor is duly recognized as exempt under this subsection by the board, provided that such other work involved is incidental to and an integral part of the exempt work performed by the specialty contractor and does not exceed the greater of $10,000.00 or 25 percent of the total value at the time of contracting of the work to be performed". The statute allowed policy as the alternative to a rule, and the board has published it on its own site, sos.ga.gov. Its "Traditional Specialty Contractors Policy Statements" (revised 03/06/20) list Flat Roofing, Sheet Metal Roofing, Shingles and Shakes, and Gutters and Downspouts among the specialty categories, and state that "Traditional specialty contractors will not be required to carry a residential or general contractor license but will be required to comply with all applicable national, state, and local codes and ordinances." Its "Limited Service Specialty Contractors Policy Statements" (revised 01/31/12) list "Re-Roofing of Existing Structures" as a separate limited-service category whose allowable work is rooftop equipment, demolition and remediation, adding: "You may be required to hold a contractor license if your company exceeds this scope of work." Both documents say "The following list is under development and subject to change." So a roofer whose job is predominately shingle, flat or sheet-metal roofing, with any other work incidental to it and inside the statute's $10,000.00-or-25-percent limit, is within the board's published specialty categories, which the board says do not require the residential or general contractor licence; a job that goes beyond that scope can bring the licence requirement back. The list is the board's policy rather than a rule and can change, so where a job is marginal, put its scope to the board before bidding. Two state publications say the same in general terms: the board's consumer handout "TIPS FOR CONSUMERS", which Cherokee County gives out at its permit counter, says specialty services "do not require that the person be licensed" and names roofers, and the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division says "certain specialty occupations such as roofers, painters, drywall contractors, and repair handymen are not required to be licensed by the state"; Johns Creek's building guidance notes "exceptions for limited specialty contractors such as pool and retaining wall installers, roofers, etc." THE SANCTION IS WHY THIS IS WORTH SETTLING BEFORE YOU SIGN. Under O.C.G.A. 43-41-17(b) a contract entered into on or after July 1, 2008 for work for which a licence is required, between an owner and a contractor who does not hold one, "shall be unenforceable in law or in equity by the unlicensed contractor", and "no lien or bond claim shall exist in favor of the unlicensed contractor for any labor, services, or materials provided under the contract". AND ONE THING THE STATE DOES TO THE LOCAL LAYER. O.C.G.A. 43-41-17(c) provides that "no municipality or county may require any such person licensed under this chapter to comply with any additional licensing requirements imposed by such municipality or county relative to the performance of construction work subject to the licensing requirements under this chapter", while preserving a local licence, registration or certification requirement already "in effect and operation as of the effective date of this chapter or July 1, 2004, whichever is earlier" - and even then the local requirement may not shut a state-licensed contractor out of the jurisdiction. So where a Georgia city or county credential is pressed against a state-licensed contractor, the date the local scheme was adopted is the test.
  • city_level: Johns Creek operates no contractor licence of its own and could not lawfully impose one on a state-licensed contractor. O.C.G.A. 43-41-17(c) bars a municipality from requiring a state-licensed contractor to meet additional local licensing requirements except under a scheme in effect on or before July 1, 2004, and Johns Creek did not exist then - it incorporated on December 1, 2006. Chapter 105 of its Code of Ordinances, read in full, imposes no licensing or registration requirement; Section 105-52(e) instead makes it the contractor's duty to comply with state or local licensing rules and provides that "In such case that the state requires a contractor to have obtained a state license before they are permitted to perform work, the contractor shall supply the local government with its license number before receiving a permit for work to be performed." In practice that is done through the City's Customer Self-Service portal: the City states that contractors "register their credentials in the CSS Portal under Contractor Registration" and that "The registration is valid until the related licenses expire", and that the Building Division "will not issue a permit to a contractor who is not properly licensed", verifying current state licences and business licences. That portal registration is a filing of the state credential rather than a local credential of its own, and a Johns Creek business licence is a generic occupational tax matter, not a roofing credential. Worth knowing when reading the City's own guidance: its Homeowner & Contractor FAQ page states that under state law a building or trade contractor must hold a professional licence and that "There are exceptions for limited specialty contractors such as pool and retaining wall installers, roofers, etc." That is the City's reading of the state specialty exception, not a Johns Creek rule, and it sits alongside the same page's statement that the City will not permit an improperly licensed contractor - so establish your own position under 43-41-17 before bidding.
Permit process note
Everything goes through the City's Customer Self-Service portal - there are no paper application forms for building or trade permits, and plans and documents are uploaded to the application as PDF attachments. A contractor must register its credentials in the portal under Contractor Registration before it can apply, and the registration runs until the underlying licences expire. Permits are issued to the contractor; a contractor may name an Authorized Permit Agent to apply on its licence, with a notarised affidavit, but the contractor stays responsible for the work. A homeowner may pull the permit as a Homeowner-Contractor, which requires an affidavit notarised in person at the permit counter at City Hall and makes the homeowner personally responsible for supervision, inspections and code compliance. Fees are invoiced by email after the application is submitted and are based on the project valuation under the adopted fee schedule; for permits needing plan review all fees must be paid before the plans are routed. Timing to watch: an application not issued within 180 days is deemed abandoned under Section 105-52(a)(5), and an issued permit becomes invalid if work does not start or ceases for 180 days, with extensions available in writing from the building official for good cause. Inspections are requested in the portal by 4:00 p.m. for the next business day, the contractor or job superintendent should be on site, the permit must be posted and the approved plans available, and a failed or not-ready inspection draws a re-inspection fee that must be paid before the next inspection can be scheduled. Contact is the Building Division at 678-512-3250 or BuildingPermits@JohnsCreekGA.gov, at 11360 Lakefield Drive, Johns Creek, GA 30097.
Adopted code
STATE-SET, LOCALLY ENFORCED. 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. Johns Creek does enforce it, and its own Code of Ordinances Section 105-20(a) declares the intention of the council to enforce "the latest edition of the following Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes, as adopted and amended by the state department of community affairs", listing the International Residential Code among eight. That is a floating adoption, so the City moved to the 2024 editions on January 1, 2026 without passing an ordinance of its own; the adopting section itself dates from Ordinance 2010-09-17, adopted September 27, 2010. The City's own Building Codes page lists the suite it is enforcing and confirms the one off-cycle member, the 2015 International Energy Conservation Code with Georgia supplements and amendments. Only two permissive codes are adopted, the 2018 International Existing Building Code and the 2018 International Property Maintenance Code. APPENDIX U IS NOT ADOPTED. Section 105-20(b) adopts exactly one appendix - "International Residential Code, Appendix G" - and the Building Codes page's permissive list carries no Disaster Resilient appendix, so the optional Appendix U "Disaster Resilient Construction" and its enhanced roof-deck sealing and shingle fastening rules do not apply in Johns Creek. The Code of Ordinances is codified through Ordinance No. 2025-06-18, adopted June 9, 2025.
Drip edge
Required — STATE-GOVERNED, NOT LOCALLY SET, and it applies in Johns Creek 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 here whether or not the City elects to enforce it locally. The City Code says the same from the local side: section 105-20(a) declares the intention of the council to enforce "the latest edition of the following Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes, as adopted and amended by the state department of community affairs" and names the International Residential Code among them, so the adoption floats with the state list and the operative residential standard here is the 2024 edition with Georgia Amendments 2026. The Georgia Department of Community Affairs amendment packet for the 2024 Residential Code carries no amendment to Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies; the packet's full text is archived in this project and was measured rather than skimmed, at zero occurrences of any R9-hundred section number and zero of the phrase "Chapter 9". So the Chapter 9 drip-edge provision at Section R905.2.8.5 stands as written for Georgia. The City's own building instrument was re-opened in full for this entry rather than taken from an earlier report: Chapter 105, Buildings and Building Regulations, of the Code of Ordinances - all three articles and all of its sections from 105-19 through 105-131, some 65,000 characters - searched on anchored terms with zero hits for "drip", zero for "R905", zero for "Chapter 9" and zero for "shingle". The five occurrences of "roof" in the whole chapter are four identical framing and rough-in inspection descriptions and one irrigation rain-sensor rule. Chapter 105 is the only buildings and building regulations chapter in the Code; chapters 106 through 108 are reserved. The City writes no amendment to the Residential Code anywhere in it. APPENDIX U IS NOT ADOPTED, and the City's code answers that by enumeration rather than by silence. Section 105-20(b) adopts exactly one Residential Code appendix, "International Residential Code, Appendix G", and the City's own Building Codes page lists no Disaster Resilient appendix among the permissive codes it takes. The Department of Community Affairs adopts Appendix U, "Disaster Resilient Construction", as an optional permissive code that a local government must adopt for itself, and the appendix limits its own reach at AU101.3.1 to new development and to substantial improvements to existing development. Johns Creek has not adopted it. 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 Johns Creek unamended. One practical warning for a roofer: the City's permit checklist puts an ordinary roof replacement with no structural modification, and no more than 32 square feet of decking replaced, in the NO column of "Do I Need A Permit?", so most Johns Creek reroofs are never inspected by the City. The exemption removes the inspection, not the requirement - O.C.G.A. 8-2-25(a) makes the mandatory codes bind the work whether or not the local government enforces them, and Code section 105-52(a)(3) says the same of its own minor-repair exemption, which applies only "provided that such repairs shall not violate any of the provisions of the construction codes." About drip edge
Mid-roof inspection
Not required — No mid-roof, dry-in or in-progress roofing inspection is required, and on an ordinary reroof there is no City inspection at all, because a roof replacement with no structural work and no more than 32 square feet of new decking needs no permit in Johns Creek. Where a permit is required, the inspections are the ones the Code sets: Section 105-52(h)(6)a lists the required building inspections in full and there are five - foundation and foundation wall, slab, frame, moisture barrier, and final. None of them is a roofing stage. The same subsection lets the building official call for "such other inspections as necessary", and the City schedules from the inspection list attached to each permit in its Customer Self-Service portal rather than from a published list, so confirm the inspection sequence on the permit itself before covering work up.
Impact-resistant roofing
Not required — No impact-resistant or hail-rated roof covering is required in Johns Creek. Neither the Georgia State Amendments packet to the 2024 International Residential Code nor Chapter 105 of the Johns Creek Code of Ordinances 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 the City's own building chapter, read in full, carries no roofing provision of any kind. Johns Creek has also not adopted the optional Appendix U Disaster Resilient Construction, whose roofing content is about fastening and water barriers 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.
Repair permit threshold
A PERMIT IS THE ENACTED RULE; THE CITY'S CHECKLIST SAYS OTHERWISE. Johns Creek Code of Ordinances section 105-52(a)(1) (codified through Ordinance No. 2025-06-18, adopted June 9, 2025, Supp. No. 23, Update 1; read 2026-09-23) requires anyone who desires to "alter" or "repair" a building to "first make application to the building official and obtain the required permit for the work". The chapter contains no exemption list, Georgia deletes the model code's own Chapter 1 statewide, and the only enacted relief, section 105-52(a)(3), reaches "Ordinary minor repairs, with a value of less than $2,500.00", and only "with the approval of the building official", which a full reroof will ordinarily exceed. This record therefore publishes that a permit is required. The City's undated checklist, quoted below as its stated practice as read on 2026-09-23, puts a reroof with no structural work in its no-permit column; before relying on it, get the building official's approval in writing. CITY-SPECIFIC, and the controlling fact for a Johns Creek reroof. The City publishes a "Do I Need A Permit?" checklist as a web table and as a downloadable PDF footer-dated 1.09.2026. The PDF, under its Exterior Alterations heading, puts "Roof replacement – no structural modification (except up to 32 SF decking)" in the NO column and "New doors, windows, roofs, dormers, or siding requiring structural alterations" in the YES column; the web table says the same in slightly different words, "Roof replacement – no structural work (up to 32 square feet decking)". The checklist's own columns are headed YES and NO to the question "Do I Need A Permit?", so this is a permit-scope rule and not a fee bracket or an inspection stage. The City's Building Permit Submittal Requirements checklist states the trigger from the other side, giving as an example of work needing an Alterations - Exterior permit "re-siding or re-roofing that requires replacing more than 32 SF of sheathing/decking". THE CITY'S STATED PRACTICE, ON THE CHECKLIST'S OWN TERMS: a like-for-like asphalt-shingle reroof in Johns Creek needs no building permit, whatever it costs, as long as no structural work is involved and no more than 32 square feet of decking is replaced. Cross that line - truss or rafter repair, framing changes, or more than 32 square feet of new decking - and an Alterations - Exterior permit is required, with elevations, structural plans, truss layouts and roof plans among the documents the City may ask for. Separately, the codified Code of Ordinances Section 105-52(a)(3) provides that "Ordinary minor repairs, with a value of less than $2,500.00, may be made with the approval of the building official without a permit, provided that such repairs shall not violate any of the provisions of the construction codes", and the checklist repeats that rule under its own Repairs heading. That $2,500 allowance is a separate rule from the roof-replacement line and it is not automatic - it turns on the building official's permission. Neither exemption relaxes the construction code itself: the work must still be built to the adopted code even where no permit is pulled.
Wind design criteria
Johns Creek publishes no wind design criteria of its own, and neither does Georgia for one- and two-family dwellings. Chapter 105 of the Johns Creek Code of Ordinances was read in full and states no design wind speed, no exposure category and no wind-borne debris region, and the City publishes no filled-in copy of the Code's climatic and geographic criteria table. The Georgia State Amendments to the 2024 International Residential Code carry only one wind figure in the mandatory chapters, and it is not a design value: a new exception 3 to Section R403.1.6 on foundation anchorage that applies "Where the basic wind speed in accordance with Figure R301.2(4)A does not exceed 115 miles per hour (51 m/s), the seismic design category is A or B" and a particular braced wall method is used. Every other wind speed in the Georgia packet sits inside Appendix U Disaster Resilient Construction, whose Chapter AU4 offers a jurisdiction four options - minimum wind speeds of 100, 110, 120 or 130 miles per hour - and Johns Creek has not adopted that appendix, so none of those options applies. The governing figure is therefore the base Code's own wind map value read for the site. Ask the Building Division on 678-512-3250 for the wind speed and exposure category before designing fastening or uplift to a number.
Roof layer limit / recover
Set by the state code, not by Johns Creek. The residential code in force is the 2024 International Residential Code with the Georgia Amendments 2026, and the Georgia amendment packet touches no part of the Code's roofing chapter - it amends Chapters 1 through 6, 8, 16, 19, 24 and 44, and Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, is not among them - so the base International Residential Code reroofing and roof-recover provisions apply as published, with no Georgia layer cap of its own. Base-code rule, read at 2024 International Residential Code Section R908.4, Roof recover, Exceptions, and quoted here rather than left behind the ICC paywall: a roof recover "shall not be permitted" where "the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering." One existing layer may be recovered; a second existing layer means a tear-off to the deck. On the local side, Chapter 105 of the Johns Creek Code of Ordinances, Buildings and Building Regulations, was read in full across all three of its articles and every one of its sections, and it contains no roofing provision at all: its only local technical amendment is to the plumbing code. So no Johns Creek ordinance limits how many layers of roof covering may remain, and a roofer working here answers the layer question out of the base Code. Johns Creek has not adopted Appendix U Disaster Resilient Construction, which the Department of Community Affairs adopts as optional, so nothing in that appendix bears on the question either.
Deck & sheathing requirements
Set by the state code, not by Johns Creek. 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. The packet does reach the roof-ceiling chapter, but only to add a new Section R807.1.1 requiring attics that contain appliances or mechanical equipment needing service to be reachable by pull-down stairs or other permanent steps, which is not a sheathing rule. Chapter 105 of the Johns Creek Code of Ordinances was read in full and writes no roof-deck or sheathing provision. What the deck does change in Johns Creek is the permit position: the City's permit checklist exempts a roof replacement only where there is no structural modification and no more than 32 square feet of decking is replaced, and its submittal checklist treats re-roofing that replaces more than 32 square feet of sheathing or decking as an Alterations - Exterior permit. Open up more deck than that and the job needs a permit, plans and inspections. Johns Creek has not adopted Appendix U Disaster Resilient Construction, which the Department of Community Affairs adopts as optional and which carries the enhanced deck-sealing and shingle-fastening provisions, so those do not apply here.
Sales & use tax
7.75% in Johns Creek. The Georgia Department of Revenue's rate chart in force for July 1 through September 30, 2026 lists jurisdiction code 060 "Fulton*" at 7.75%, where the asterisk is the chart's own footnote for "Fulton County outside of Atlanta, Hapeville, College Park, and East Point". Johns Creek lies wholly within Fulton County and is none of those four cities, so 7.75% is its figure. That combines the 4% Georgia state rate with the local components the chart marks MARTA, LOST, Educational and Fulton TSPLOST. FULTON COUNTY IS SPLIT BY CITY, NOT BY COUNTY, so do not carry this number across the county line in your head: the same chart gives 8.9% inside the City of Atlanta and 8.75% in Hapeville, College Park and East Point. The Department of Revenue has already published the chart taking effect on October 1, 2026 and the Fulton rows are unchanged in it, so 7.75% holds through that reissue. For the roofer, 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.

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The building-permit and inspection authority for the City of Johns Creek, Georgia, a city of about 32 square miles in the north-eastern part of Fulton County, incorporated on December 1, 2006. The Building Division sits inside the Community Development Department, is led by a Chief Building Official, and takes every application through the City's Customer Self-Service portal. The rule a roofer needs to know first is the permit position: Johns Creek puts a straight roof replacement in the no-permit column of its own published checklist, and a permit becomes necessary only when the job turns structural or replaces more than 32 square feet of decking or sheathing. The City writes no roofing code of its own - it adopts the Georgia state minimum codes by floating reference and enforces them.

Hail reports near Johns Creek, GA

Reports, last 24 months
11
Largest, last 24 months
1.75 in Jun 26, 2025
Most recent
Jul 4, 2026 1.00 in
Reports, last 5 years
14
5 most recent reports, last 5 years
DateHail sizeDistance
Jul 4, 20261.00 in4 mi SE
Jun 27, 20251.00 in6 mi SW
Jun 26, 20251.75 in9 mi WNW
Jun 26, 20251.50 in6 mi WSW
Jun 26, 20251.00 in6 mi S

Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database and daily storm reports (reports since the start of the current year are preliminary), within 10 miles of Johns Creek, GA (Census point). Data through Oct 7, 2026, not updated since. A report is an observation, not a damage record.

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Roofing questions: Johns Creek, GA

Do you need a permit to replace a roof in Johns Creek, GA?

Yes, a permit is required to replace a roof in Johns Creek, GA. A PERMIT IS THE ENACTED RULE; THE CITY'S CHECKLIST SAYS OTHERWISE. Johns Creek Code of Ordinances section 105-52(a)(1) (codified through Ordinance No. 2025-06-18, adopted June 9, 2025, Supp. No. 23, Update 1; read 2026-09-23) requires anyone who desires to "alter" or "repair" a building to "first make application to the building official and obtain the required permit for the work". The chapter contains no exemption list, Georgia deletes the model code's own Chapter 1 statewide, and the only enacted relief, section 105-52(a)(3), reaches "Ordinary minor repairs, with a value of less than $2,500.00", and only "with the approval of the building official", which a full reroof will ordinarily exceed. This record therefore publishes that a permit is required. The City's undated checklist, quoted below as its stated practice as read on 2026-09-23, puts a reroof with no structural work in its no-permit column; before relying on it, get the building official's approval in writing. CITY-SPECIFIC, and the controlling fact for a Johns Creek reroof. The City publishes a "Do I Need A Permit?" checklist as a web table and as a downloadable PDF footer-dated 1.09.2026. The PDF, under its Exterior Alterations heading, puts "Roof replacement – no structural modification (except up to 32 SF decking)" in the NO column and "New doors, windows, roofs, dormers, or siding requiring structural alterations" in the YES column; the web table says the same in slightly different words, "Roof replacement – no structural work (up to 32 square feet decking)". The checklist's own columns are headed YES and NO to the question "Do I Need A Permit?", so this is a permit-scope rule and not a fee bracket or an inspection stage. The City's Building Permit Submittal Requirements checklist states the trigger from the other side, giving as an example of work needing an Alterations - Exterior permit "re-siding or re-roofing that requires replacing more than 32 SF of sheathing/decking". THE CITY'S STATED PRACTICE, ON THE CHECKLIST'S OWN TERMS: a like-for-like asphalt-shingle reroof in Johns Creek needs no building permit, whatever it costs, as long as no structural work is involved and no more than 32 square feet of decking is replaced. Cross that line - truss or rafter repair, framing changes, or more than 32 square feet of new decking - and an Alterations - Exterior permit is required, with elevations, structural plans, truss layouts and roof plans among the documents the City may ask for. Separately, the codified Code of Ordinances Section 105-52(a)(3) provides that "Ordinary minor repairs, with a value of less than $2,500.00, may be made with the approval of the building official without a permit, provided that such repairs shall not violate any of the provisions of the construction codes", and the checklist repeats that rule under its own Repairs heading. That $2,500 allowance is a separate rule from the roof-replacement line and it is not automatic - it turns on the building official's permission. Neither exemption relaxes the construction code itself: the work must still be built to the adopted code even where no permit is pulled.

Is drip edge required in Johns Creek, GA?

Yes. STATE-GOVERNED, NOT LOCALLY SET, and it applies in Johns Creek 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 here whether or not the City elects to enforce it locally. The City Code says the same from the local side: section 105-20(a) declares the intention of the council to enforce "the latest edition of the following Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes, as adopted and amended by the state department of community affairs" and names the International Residential Code among them, so the adoption floats with the state list and the operative residential standard here is the 2024 edition with Georgia Amendments 2026. The Georgia Department of Community Affairs amendment packet for the 2024 Residential Code carries no amendment to Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies; the packet's full text is archived in this project and was measured rather than skimmed, at zero occurrences of any R9-hundred section number and zero of the phrase "Chapter 9". So the Chapter 9 drip-edge provision at Section R905.2.8.5 stands as written for Georgia. The City's own building instrument was re-opened in full for this entry rather than taken from an earlier report: Chapter 105, Buildings and Building Regulations, of the Code of Ordinances - all three articles and all of its sections from 105-19 through 105-131, some 65,000 characters - searched on anchored terms with zero hits for "drip", zero for "R905", zero for "Chapter 9" and zero for "shingle". The five occurrences of "roof" in the whole chapter are four identical framing and rough-in inspection descriptions and one irrigation rain-sensor rule. Chapter 105 is the only buildings and building regulations chapter in the Code; chapters 106 through 108 are reserved. The City writes no amendment to the Residential Code anywhere in it. APPENDIX U IS NOT ADOPTED, and the City's code answers that by enumeration rather than by silence. Section 105-20(b) adopts exactly one Residential Code appendix, "International Residential Code, Appendix G", and the City's own Building Codes page lists no Disaster Resilient appendix among the permissive codes it takes. The Department of Community Affairs adopts Appendix U, "Disaster Resilient Construction", as an optional permissive code that a local government must adopt for itself, and the appendix limits its own reach at AU101.3.1 to new development and to substantial improvements to existing development. Johns Creek has not adopted it. 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 Johns Creek unamended. One practical warning for a roofer: the City's permit checklist puts an ordinary roof replacement with no structural modification, and no more than 32 square feet of decking replaced, in the NO column of "Do I Need A Permit?", so most Johns Creek reroofs are never inspected by the City. The exemption removes the inspection, not the requirement - O.C.G.A. 8-2-25(a) makes the mandatory codes bind the work whether or not the local government enforces them, and Code section 105-52(a)(3) says the same of its own minor-repair exemption, which applies only "provided that such repairs shall not violate any of the provisions of the construction codes."

Can you roof over an existing roof in Johns Creek, GA?

Set by the state code, not by Johns Creek. The residential code in force is the 2024 International Residential Code with the Georgia Amendments 2026, and the Georgia amendment packet touches no part of the Code's roofing chapter - it amends Chapters 1 through 6, 8, 16, 19, 24 and 44, and Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, is not among them - so the base International Residential Code reroofing and roof-recover provisions apply as published, with no Georgia layer cap of its own. Base-code rule, read at 2024 International Residential Code Section R908.4, Roof recover, Exceptions, and quoted here rather than left behind the ICC paywall: a roof recover "shall not be permitted" where "the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering." One existing layer may be recovered; a second existing layer means a tear-off to the deck. On the local side, Chapter 105 of the Johns Creek Code of Ordinances, Buildings and Building Regulations, was read in full across all three of its articles and every one of its sections, and it contains no roofing provision at all: its only local technical amendment is to the plumbing code. So no Johns Creek ordinance limits how many layers of roof covering may remain, and a roofer working here answers the layer question out of the base Code. Johns Creek has not adopted Appendix U Disaster Resilient Construction, which the Department of Community Affairs adopts as optional, so nothing in that appendix bears on the question either.

What building code does Johns Creek, GA use?

STATE-SET, LOCALLY ENFORCED. 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. Johns Creek does enforce it, and its own Code of Ordinances Section 105-20(a) declares the intention of the council to enforce "the latest edition of the following Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes, as adopted and amended by the state department of community affairs", listing the International Residential Code among eight. That is a floating adoption, so the City moved to the 2024 editions on January 1, 2026 without passing an ordinance of its own; the adopting section itself dates from Ordinance 2010-09-17, adopted September 27, 2010. The City's own Building Codes page lists the suite it is enforcing and confirms the one off-cycle member, the 2015 International Energy Conservation Code with Georgia supplements and amendments. Only two permissive codes are adopted, the 2018 International Existing Building Code and the 2018 International Property Maintenance Code. APPENDIX U IS NOT ADOPTED. Section 105-20(b) adopts exactly one appendix - "International Residential Code, Appendix G" - and the Building Codes page's permissive list carries no Disaster Resilient appendix, so the optional Appendix U "Disaster Resilient Construction" and its enhanced roof-deck sealing and shingle fastening rules do not apply in Johns Creek. The Code of Ordinances is codified through Ordinance No. 2025-06-18, adopted June 9, 2025.

Is a mid-roof inspection required in Johns Creek, GA?

No. No mid-roof, dry-in or in-progress roofing inspection is required, and on an ordinary reroof there is no City inspection at all, because a roof replacement with no structural work and no more than 32 square feet of new decking needs no permit in Johns Creek. Where a permit is required, the inspections are the ones the Code sets: Section 105-52(h)(6)a lists the required building inspections in full and there are five - foundation and foundation wall, slab, frame, moisture barrier, and final. None of them is a roofing stage. The same subsection lets the building official call for "such other inspections as necessary", and the City schedules from the inspection list attached to each permit in its Customer Self-Service portal rather than from a published list, so confirm the inspection sequence on the permit itself before covering work up.