Madison County Planning Department

Madison County, Indiana

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16 East 9th Street, Anderson, IN 46016

WHERE, AND WHICH OFFICE. The Madison County Planning Department works out of the Madison County Government Center, 16 East 9th Street, Anderson, IN 46016. The planning office line is 765-641-9540, and the County says it is open 8 to 4 on all county working days. Driveway permits come from the Planning Department on 765-641-9544, unless the road is a state road, when INDOT issues them. Check the address before applying: the County's page defines the Planning Commission's jurisdiction as all unincorporated areas of Madison County plus the Town of Orestes, for which it serves as the Building Commission. A job inside the City of Anderson goes to the City's Permit Center instead. HOW TO APPLY. Applications are made through the County's iWorQ citizen portal, and a parcel number is mandatory: "Parcel ID #'s MUST be provided for building permit applications." The County will not accept partial submittals, and every building application needs building plans and a site plan drawn to scale at 1 inch to 10, 20 or 30 feet. On timing the portal says: "This process normally takes seven (7) to ten (10) business days." Payment is due when the permit is issued, by check, exact cash or credit card, with a 4% processing fee on card payments. WHAT IT COSTS. The fee schedule the Commissioners approved on November 1, 2022 has no roofing line. Its nearest residential category is remodeling of a one or two family dwelling at $100 plus $0.10 per square foot, and building inspector inspections and reinspections are $55 each. Starting without a permit carries an Early Bird charge of double the permit fee, with a stop work order. INSPECTIONS. Neither the fee schedule's list of $55 building inspector inspections, "Footing, underslab, foundation, rough-in, drywall, meter base/panel, final, other", nor the inspection choices on the online application, which combine electric, plumbing, HVAC, footer, foundation and underslab, names a roof, dry-in or underlayment stage, so ask on 765-641-9540 whether the office wants to see the deck on a job that exposes it. WHAT IS CHANGING. The County is replacing its 2002 zoning ordinance and subdivision regulations with a single Unified Development Ordinance. As read on 2026-09-11 the County had published no adoption of it: its page linked the ordinance as "Madison Co UDO Draft D", and the latest step it had published was the staff report for the Plan Commission's August 13, 2026 meeting, which recommends that the Commission forward it to the County Commissioners with a favorable recommendation.

STATE-SET, AND THE COUNTY PUBLISHES NO STATEMENT OF WHICH EDITION IT ENFORCES. The Indiana residential rule is 675 IAC 14-4.4, which incorporates the 2018 International Residential Code and provides in terms: "This rule shall be known as the 2020 Indiana Residential Code." It was filed November 26, 2019 and readopted November 18, 2025. The Indiana State Building Commissioner states its reach without regard to local practice: "The 2020 Indiana Residential Code is in full force and effect statewide. Regardless of any established local enforcement policies or practices to the contrary, or whether a local building authority even exists in any particular jurisdiction or location in the state, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code governs all Class 2 residential construction, and its requirements, by law, must be followed." Class 2 is Indiana's structure class for one and two family dwellings, not a rating of a roof covering. WHAT THIS RECORD DID NOT READ. The County does not publish a building ordinance of its own on its website, and none was found on Municode or American Legal Publishing, so no County building instrument was read for this record. Neither the County's fee schedule nor its online permit application names a code edition. So the edition stated here is the state's, and the County has published no statement of which edition it enforces. Any local rule the County does have is limited by IC 22-13-2-3(c): "A city, town, or county may not adopt an ordinance that conflicts with or includes more stringent or detailed requirements than the commission's rules."

Required — REQUIRED BY THE STATE, UNCONDITIONALLY ON A SHINGLE ROOF, AND THE COUNTY CANNOT REMOVE IT. The Indiana State Building Commissioner's guidance on ice/water shield and metal drip edge, published by the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, reproduces the adopted provision, Section R905.2.8.5, which opens "A drip edge shall be provided at eaves and rake edges of shingle roofs." and closes "Underlayment shall be installed over the drip edge along eaves and under the drip edge along rake edges." The same passage sets the minimum overlap of adjacent segments, how far the drip edge extends below the sheathing and back onto the deck, and the fastening interval; read the guidance for those figures. The state rule, 675 IAC 14-4.4, amends Section R905.2.8 only by deleting the word "approved" and does not touch R905.2.8.5. The County publishes no drip edge provision of its own, and IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars it from any rule that conflicts with the state's. About drip edge

Not required — NOT REQUIRED BY THE TABLE IN MADISON COUNTY, AND THE SHINGLE MANUFACTURER CAN STILL REQUIRE IT. Indiana replaces the model climatic table with its own county-by-county table: 675 IAC 14-4.4-5 directs "Delete TABLE R301.2(1) and the corresponding footnotes and substitute to read as follows". Row 48 is Madison, and it reads "No" in the column headed Ice Shield Underlayment Required. Other Indiana counties carry "Yes" in that column, so an answer brought over from a job in one of them can be wrong here. The State Building Commissioner's guidance explains what the No means. Roofing must be installed to the manufacturer's installation instructions under Sections R903.1, R904.1 and R905.1, so "there are specific counties in which it is always required (per Table R301.2(1)), and specific counties in which it is required only when the roofing manufacturer's written installation instructions require it (per Sections R903.1, R904.1 and R905.1)." Madison County is in the second group. Read the shingle manufacturer's instructions for the assembly before treating the membrane as optional. The County publishes no ice barrier rule of its own, and IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars it from adding one. About ice & water barrier

Not required — NOT REQUIRED BY ANY INSTRUMENT READ FOR THIS RECORD. The state rule, 675 IAC 14-4.4, makes four amendments to the model roof assemblies chapter and none concerns impact. It deletes the last sentence of Section R902.4 on rooftop photovoltaic panel systems, the word "approved" from Sections R905.2.6 and R905.2.8, and the word "printed" from Section R905.2.8.4. No UL 2218, Class 4, Class IV or FM 4473 requirement appears anywhere in the rule. The County's own fee schedule and online permit application specify no roof covering at all. No County building ordinance is published on the County's website and none was read, but IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars a county from an ordinance more stringent or detailed than the state rules. Impact-resistant shingles are an insurance and warranty decision in Madison County, not a code requirement. Note that "Class 2" in Indiana's roofing guidance is a structure class for one and two family dwellings, not an impact or fire rating of the roof covering.

115 mph, FROM THE STATE'S COUNTY TABLE, NOT A COUNTY ENACTMENT. 675 IAC 14-4.4-5 substitutes Indiana's own Table R301.2(1), one row per county. Row 48, Madison, gives wind speed 115 mph, seismic design category A, ground snow load 20 psf, foundation depth 30 inches, winter design temperature 2 degrees Fahrenheit, decay slight to moderate, termite moderate to heavy, weathering severe, ice shield underlayment not required, and mean annual temperature 50.8 degrees. Wind exposure category is still set site by site; the table's footnote a reads "Wind exposure shall be determined on a site-specific basis in accordance with SECTION R301.2.1.4". The County publishes no design criteria of its own, and IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars it from varying these locally.

NO COUNTY RULE WAS FOUND AND INDIANA MAKES NO AMENDMENT, SO THE BASE CODE'S RECOVER RULE APPLIES UNMODIFIED. The state rule, 675 IAC 14-4.4, amends the model roof assemblies chapter in exactly four places, sections 84 to 87 of the rule. It deletes the last sentence of Section R902.4 on rooftop photovoltaic panel systems, the word "approved" from Section R905.2.6 on asphalt shingle attachment and from Section R905.2.8 on flashing, and the word "printed" from Section R905.2.8.4 on other flashing. It makes no amendment to Section R908, reroofing, which the rule does not mention at all. So the base International Residential Code rule on recovering an existing roof applies in Madison County as published. Base-code rule, read at 2018 International Residential Code Section R908.3.1.1, Roof recover not allowed, 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. The County could not vary it: IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars a county from an ordinance more stringent or detailed than the state rules, and IC 22-13-2-3(a)(2) gives the state rules precedence over a local ordinance covering the same subject matter. Establish the existing roof build-up and settle a recover with the Planning Department on 765-641-9540 before quoting one.

NO COUNTY SHEATHING RULE WAS FOUND, AND INDIANA'S ONE SHEATHING AMENDMENT CONCERNS PAPERWORK, NOT THE DECK. The state rule, 675 IAC 14-4.4, touches roof sheathing once. Section 82 of the rule directs: "Delete the words "or certificate of inspection issued by an approved agency" from the text of SECTION R803.2.1", the identification and grade provision. Its four amendments to the roof assemblies chapter, sections 84 to 87, do not reach the deck. So the sheathing requirements on a Madison County reroof are those of the 2018 International Residential Code as Indiana adopts it. Neither the County's fee schedule nor its permit application sets any deck or sheathing condition. The application's only roof question, "Roof Material Type", offers two answers, "Dimension Lumber" and "Trusses", which describe the roof framing rather than the deck or the covering. IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars the County from adding a more stringent or detailed rule.

7.00%, the single Indiana state rate, with no county or local add-on in Madison County. The Department of Revenue's county tax information page lists the taxes Indiana counties do levy and states: "The sales tax for the entire State of Indiana is 7%." WHO PAYS IT DEPENDS ON THE CONTRACT FORM. Department of Revenue Sales Tax Information Bulletin #60 (March 2024) names roofing among the contractor trades and splits on the contract. A contractor on a time and material contract, where material and labour are stated separately, sells the material at retail and collects tax on it. A contractor on any other form of contract "must pay sales or use tax on their construction material" and does not collect sales tax from the customer. Settle the contract form with an accountant.