Permitting Authorities / Village of Lennon - Building Permits
Do you need a permit to replace a roof in Lennon, MI?
Adopted code
Village of Lennon - Building Permits
Yes, a permit is required to replace a roof in Lennon, MI, issued by Village of Lennon - Building Permits. The Village of Lennon's website posts an Application for Building Permit and Plan Examination, headed with the Village of Lennon, Genesee County and Shiawassee County and its phone (810) 621-4285 (the scan prints the ZIP unclearly; the village's pages give 48449). It asks for the owner, any architect or engineer and the contractor's license number, the type of improvement and the reviews to be performed (building, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, foundation), and says separate applications are required for plumbing, mechanical and electrical permits. The village's website lists the Village Government Center at 11904 Lennon Road, P.O. Box 349, Lennon, MI 48449, phone (810) 621-4285. No building fee schedule was read. The village's Ordinance 2011-03-04, titled Michigan Residential Building Code, designates the village's Building Official as the enforcing agency.
Roof code checklist: Lennon, MI
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Jurisdiction
Village of Lennon, Michigan
Address
11904 Lennon Road, Lennon, MI 48449
Contact
- url: https://villageoflennon.org/
- phone: 810-621-4285
Roofing permit required
Required
Contractor registration required
Required
Permit process note
The Village of Lennon's website posts an Application for Building Permit and Plan Examination, headed with the Village of Lennon, Genesee County and Shiawassee County and its phone (810) 621-4285 (the scan prints the ZIP unclearly; the village's pages give 48449). It asks for the owner, any architect or engineer and the contractor's license number, the type of improvement and the reviews to be performed (building, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, foundation), and says separate applications are required for plumbing, mechanical and electrical permits. The village's website lists the Village Government Center at 11904 Lennon Road, P.O. Box 349, Lennon, MI 48449, phone (810) 621-4285. No building fee schedule was read. The village's Ordinance 2011-03-04, titled Michigan Residential Building Code, designates the village's Building Official as the enforcing agency.
Adopted code
2015 Michigan Residential Code. This is state law and it is the same in every Michigan city, village, township and county: the state construction code act says "This act and the code apply throughout the state," and the Michigan Residential Code rule adopts "the international residential code, 2015 edition" with the state amendments in R 408.30500 to R 408.30547g. A 2021 edition was filed with the secretary of state in 2025 but has not taken effect. On July 7, 2025 the Michigan Court of Claims entered a stipulated order in Home Builders Assoc et al. v LARA et al., and the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) says that while that order remains in place "the 2015 versions of the IRC and residential provisions of the IECC standards currently adopted, in part, by each rule set will remain valid and in effect." LARA's Statewide Jurisdiction List names the Village of Lennon as its own building code enforcer, and lists it under both Genesee and Shiawassee counties. The village's Ordinance 2011-03-04, titled Michigan Residential Building Code and adopted April 11, 2011, says "Pursuant to the provisions of the 2009 Michigan Residential Building Code, in accordance with Section 8b(6) of Act 230, of the Public Acts of 1972, as amended, the Building Official of the Village of Lennon is hereby designated as the enforcing agency"; this directory has not read that 2009 text, and whether that reference has any effect today is not decided here. This record states the 2015 Michigan Residential Code, which the state construction code act applies throughout the state ("This act and the code apply throughout the state," MCL 125.1508a) and which LARA says remains in effect while the Court of Claims order of July 7, 2025 stands. The Village of Lennon has published no statement that it enforces the 2015 edition, and the base 2009 and 2015 editions are known to differ on the layer limit, so this record leaves out the drip edge, ice barrier and impact answers and states both editions' text on the layer limit.
Repair permit threshold
No size or cost threshold is published for roof work. The village's Application for Building Permit and Plan Examination says "AUTHORITY: P.A. 230 OF 1972, AS AMENDED", "COMPLETION: MANDATORY TO OBTAIN PERMIT" and "PENALTY: PERMIT WILL NOT BE ISSUED", and its types of improvement are new building, addition, alteration, repair, demolition, mobile home set-up, foundation only, premanufacture, relocation and special inspection, with no roofing item. The village has published nothing applying the state's relief for ordinary repairs to roof work, so the general permit rule applies to a reroof. Under state law, "A building permit is not required for ordinary repairs of a building or structure." (MCL 125.1510), without a definition of ordinary repairs. Ask the village office (810-621-4285) before starting a small roof repair.
Roof layer limit / recover
Not stated here as a single layer count, because the record does not settle which of two code editions answers the question in the Village of Lennon, and the two differ. Michigan builds one- and two-family homes to the 2015 Michigan Residential Code, which adopts the 2015 International Residential Code and makes no amendment to its reroofing section, Section R908; the Michigan rule set was searched in full and R908 does not appear in it. Under that code, Section R908.3.1.1 bars a new roof over an existing one in three cases, and the third is "Where the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering." One existing layer may be covered once; a roof that already carries two layers is torn off to the deck. The same section also bars covering a roof that is water soaked or too deteriorated to serve as a base, and covering "slate, clay, cement or asbestos-cement tile." The village's Ordinance 2011-03-04 says "Pursuant to the provisions of the 2009 Michigan Residential Building Code". The base 2009 text, Section R907.3 (Recovering versus replacement), carries the same three conditions, its second also naming wood shake, and a fourth: "For asphalt shingles, when the building is located in an area subject to moderate or severe hail exposure according to Figure R903.5." Under that text a single existing layer of asphalt shingles can call for a tear-off where the hail condition is met, so no layer count states the 2009 rule. The 2009 Michigan amendments to that code were not read, and whether that reference has any effect today is not decided here (see adopted_code). The village's building permit application and that ordinance state no layer rule of their own. Ask the Village of Lennon office, (810) 621-4285, before planning an overlay.
Sales & use tax
6%, statewide, with no local add-on. This is state law: the General Sales Tax Act sets the tax "equal to 6% of the gross proceeds of the business," the Use Tax Act sets "a total combined rate equal to 6%," and the Michigan Department of Treasury says "Michigan does not allow city or local units to impose sales tax." On a roofing job the roofer is the taxpayer on materials, because the Use Tax Act counts as a consumer "A person acquiring tangible personal property if engaged in the business of constructing, altering, repairing, or improving the real estate of others." Nothing in the village's Permits and Forms page, its Application for Building Permit and Plan Examination and its Ordinance 2011-03-04 changes this.
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The Village of Lennon, on the Genesee and Shiawassee county line, posts an Application for Building Permit and Plan Examination on its website, and its Village Government Center is at 11904 Lennon Road. Its 2011 ordinance designates the village's Building Official as the enforcing agency under the state construction code act. Michigan's single state construction code applies, and for houses that is the 2015 Michigan Residential Code.
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