Do you need a permit to replace a roof in Kankakee, IL?

City of Kankakee, Illinois

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295 N Harrison Ave., Kankakee, IL 60901

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The department's page says "For Building & Code Enforcement, Building Codes and Permit questions and information, Call 815-936-7390." The City's fee schedule in Article XII of Chapter 8 sets the building permit fee for one and two-family dwellings at a "Minimum fee of $35.00 plus $10.00 per thousand (or 1%) of valuation of work. Maximum fee not to exceed $5,000.00," with "$50.00" for a re-inspection or extra inspection. Section 109.8 says anyone who starts work "before obtaining necessary permits shall be subject to a fee that is double the original fee." The City's residential code amendments delete five of the IRC's building permit exemptions, but neither the chapter nor the department page names roof replacement in terms, so this listing does not state a yes or no answer for a re-roof.

THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL CODE WITH CITY AMENDMENTS, PER CHAPTER 8 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE AS THE CITY POSTS IT. Section 8-06 adopts the code "designated as the International Residential Code , 2018 edition (Excluding Appendices A through J)" as "the Residential Code of the City of Kankakee." Section 8-07 sets the City's revisions, enacted by Ordinance 2020-08 of January 21, 2020. They insert the City's own Table R301.2(1) values, including "Ice Shield Underlayment Required =Yes," and do not otherwise amend the IRC's roofing chapter.

Required — REQUIRED, IN THE CITY'S ENACTED AMENDMENTS. The Table R301.2(1) values Section 8-07 inserts into the 2018 International Residential Code include "Ice Shield Underlayment Required =Yes." This rests on the text of Chapter 8 as the City posts it on its own site. About ice & water barrier

Not required — NOT REQUIRED BY THE CITY'S BUILDING CHAPTER. Chapter 8 of the Kankakee Municipal Code, as the City posts it, was read in full, including every amendment to the building, residential, mechanical, fuel gas, property maintenance, plumbing and electrical codes, and contains no UL 2218, Class 4, hail or impact resistance requirement for roof coverings.

The City's Table R301.2(1) values, inserted by Section 8-07 of the Municipal Code, read "Ground Snow Load = 15, Wind Speed = 90 mph, Seismic Design Category = B, Weathering = Severe, Frost Line Depth = 42 inches." The table as the City posts it gives no wind exposure category and does not say whether the 90 mph figure is an ultimate or a nominal design wind speed.

Illinois taxes the roofer, not the job, and the operative rate is not keyed to the Kankakee job address. Under 86 Ill. Adm. Code 130.1940(c), a construction contractor "does not incur Retailers' Occupation Tax liability as to receipts from labor furnished and tangible personal property (materials and fixtures) incorporated into a structure," but "incurs Use Tax on the cost price of the tangible personal property that is incorporated into real estate," with "roofing materials" named in the rule's own list of examples. Repair and replacement are taxed identically: 130.1940(a)(3) defines "construct" to include "repair, renovate or remodel." The Illinois Department of Revenue states the Use Tax rate as "6.25% of the purchase price or fair market value, whichever is greater." Where the contractor buys for resale, the local tax follows "the place of business at or from which the contractor or builder handles the transaction" (130.2075(b)(3)), so the combined rate on materials is the supply house's or the contractor's, which this record does not pin down. The authoritative lookup is the Illinois Department of Revenue's MyTax Illinois Tax Rate Finder.