Martinsville Building and Planning Department

City of Martinsville, Indiana

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59 S Jefferson St, Martinsville, IN 46151

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STATE-SET, AND THE CITY'S OWN BUILDING CODE ORDINANCE IS NOT PUBLISHED ANYWHERE. Indiana's residential code is the state's. The rule is 675 IAC 14-4.4, which provides at 675 IAC 14-4.4-1 that the 2018 International Residential Code for One and Two Family Dwellings, first printing August 2017, "is hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set out in this rule save and except those revisions made in this rule", and that "This rule shall be known as the 2020 Indiana Residential Code." The Indiana State Building Commissioner states its reach in terms, in guidance of February 25, 2020: "The 2020 Indiana Residential Code is in full force and effect statewide." IC 22-13-2-3(a)(2) gives the commission's rules precedence over "any ordinance or other regulation adopted by a political subdivision that covers the same subject matter", and IC 22-13-2-3(c) provides that a city "may not adopt an ordinance that conflicts with or includes more stringent or detailed requirements than the commission's rules". WHAT THE CITY HAS CODIFIED, WHICH IS NOTHING ON THIS SUBJECT. Chapter 14, Buildings and Building Regulations, was read in full. Its five articles are designated fire limits, electrical permits and inspections, property maintenance, unsafe buildings and premises, and building numbering. Sections 14-4 through 14-95 are reserved, and there is no adoption of a building code anywhere in the chapter. Its only source note is Ord. No. 2018-1778 of 8-20-2018, so as recently as 2018 the City re-enacted this chapter and still codified no code adoption. Chapter 34, Fees, carries an Article V headed Buildings and Building Regulations whose sections 34-126 through 34-160 are reserved in their entirety, so the codified fee chapter contains no building permit fee either. THE INSTRUMENT THAT DOES ADOPT A CODE, AND WHY IT CANNOT BE QUOTED HERE. The City's building code is Ordinance 96-1389. The closing note to the section 94-240 fee table reads "Fees listed in this table supersede the fees given in the city's Building Code Ord. 96-1389", and section 94-198 refers to a "building permit required under the city's building code". Section 94-240 was last amended by Ord. No. 2025-1898 on 3-24-2025, in a codification current through 6-29-2026, so the City's own current enacted text treats Ordinance 96-1389 as a live instrument. Its text is published nowhere this record could reach: Municode's Code Comparative Table, which does list other ordinances of the same period, omits it under a general statement that unlisted ordinances "have been omitted as repealed, superseded or not of a general and permanent nature"; the City's document centre offers no ordinance archive and directs the public to Municode; and the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, which publishes the City's 2021 Fire Prevention Code ordinance, publishes no building ordinance for Martinsville. What edition it names, and whether it states any roofing provision, is therefore unknown rather than absent, and this record does not say the ordinance is displaced or spent. ONE CITY DOCUMENT NAMES AN EDITION, AND IT IS A HANDOUT. The three page Inspection List published by Building and Planning carries the page header "In Compliance with International Residential Code 2003 with Indiana Amendments 2005", and repeats it in its closing paragraph. The document is undated, is an inspection schedule rather than an adopting instrument, and names an edition the State superseded. It is reported here as the department's own statement, not as the governing edition, and no answer in this record is built on it. The City's Building Services page, read on 2026-09-19, names no edition at all.

Required — REQUIRED BY THE STATE CODE, WHICH APPLIES WITH OR WITHOUT A PERMIT. The Indiana State Building Commissioner's memo on ice and water shield and drip edge reproduces Section R905.2.8.5 of the 2020 Indiana Residential Code as adopted, and it opens: "A drip edge shall be provided at eaves and rake edges of shingle roofs." The memo sets out the provision in full, including its overlap, its extension below the sheathing and its fastener spacing; read those there rather than from this summary. None of the City's four codified chapters states a drip edge rule: "drip" occurs zero times across Chapters 14, 18, 34 and 94. IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars the City from an ordinance more stringent or more detailed than the commission's rules, and IC 22-13-2-3(a)(2) gives those rules precedence over a local ordinance on the same subject, so the state requirement reaches a Martinsville roof whatever Ordinance 96-1389 turns out to say. About drip edge

Not required — NOT REQUIRED BY THE STATE TABLE FOR MORGAN COUNTY, BUT READ THE MANUFACTURER'S INSTRUCTIONS. The Morgan County row of Table R301.2(1) in the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, as substituted by 675 IAC 14-4.4-5, reads ice shield underlayment required No. That row was read from the rendered table rather than from extracted text, because the table's termite column drops out of extraction and every column to its right then reads one place out. WHAT THAT No MEANS, IN THE STATE'S OWN WORDS. The State Building Commissioner's memo explains that Sections R903.1, R904.1 and R905.1 require roofing to be installed to the manufacturer's installation instructions, so there are counties where the barrier is always required and "specific counties in which it is required only when the roofing manufacturer's written installation instructions require it". Morgan County is in the second group. If the shingle manufacturer's instructions for the assembly being installed call for an ice and water membrane, the code requires it on that job. DO NOT CARRY THIS ACROSS THE STATE, OR EVEN ACROSS THE COUNTY LINE. Several northern Indiana counties answer Yes on the same table. The City's own codified chapters say nothing either way: "ice barrier", "ice and water" and "ice shield" each occur zero times across Chapters 14, 18, 34 and 94. About ice & water barrier

Not required — NO ROOFING STAGE IN THE CITY'S PUBLISHED INSPECTION SCHEDULE, AND THE ONE PLACE ROOFING IS NAMED PUTS IT BEFORE AN INSPECTION RATHER THAN UNDER ONE. The City publishes a three page Inspection List through Building and Planning which sets out every stage it will attend: footer and trench inspections, foundation inspections for a slab, a crawl space, a basement in three separate visits and a monolithic footing, rough-in inspections, an air barrier and insulation inspection, final inspections, an electrical upgrade inspection, the modular and manufactured home sequence, and in-ground swimming pools. There is no dry-in, no underlayment and no mid-roof hold point anywhere in it. WHERE ROOFING DOES APPEAR, AND WHY IT IS NOT A ROOF INSPECTION. Under rough-in inspections the list requires that "All roofing complete" before the rough-in visit, alongside framing, mechanical, electrical, windows and doors and fire stopping. That makes a finished roof a precondition of a different inspection; it is not an inspection of the roof assembly, and it belongs to new construction rather than to a re-covering. So a roofer should not build a Martinsville schedule around an inspector attending before the covering goes on. TWO CAVEATS. The list is undated and is headed with a superseded code edition, so treat it as the department's administrative practice rather than as enacted law, and the City requires two working days' notice with a $50.00 charge for a cancelled inspection not called off before 9 A.M. If the deck should be seen, arrange it with Building and Planning on 765-349-4923 rather than expecting a published stage.

Not required — NOT ESTABLISHED AS A SOURCED AFFIRMATIVE ANYWHERE IN THE CHAIN, AND THE CODIFIED HALF OF THE CHAIN WAS READ IN FULL. Indiana's residential rule is 675 IAC 14-4.4, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, and it states no impact resistance requirement for roof coverings: the state rule contains no UL 2218 or FM 4473 class requirement, and the base 2018 International Residential Code it incorporates imposes none either. On the local side, Chapters 14, 18, 34 and 94 were fetched and counted, and "impact", "hail", "UL 2218", "Class 4" and "Class IV" each occur ZERO times across all four. IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars the City from adopting a more stringent or more detailed requirement than the commission's rules in any event. FIRE CLASS IS NOT IMPACT CLASS. Code section 14-2 requires that within the restricted fire limits described in section 14-1 "Any and all roof covering shall be composed of tile, slate, metal or asphalt", which is a fire provision limiting materials and says nothing about hail. An insurer may still offer a premium credit for an impact rated shingle in central Indiana; that is a contract between the owner and the insurer and not a code requirement.

NO PUBLISHED THRESHOLD, AND THE INSTRUMENT THAT WOULD SET ONE IS NOT PUBLISHED EITHER. The City's codified fee table, at Code section 94-240, is headed "Building permits, license fees and other permits" and lists every permit the City charges for: new single-family residential, duplex, multi-family, new business or industrial or commercial, accessory building, swimming pool, electrical residential and commercial, "Addition or remodel (residential)" at $150.00, additions and remodels on the commercial side, signs, advertising structures, re-inspection, underground tanks, adult entertainment, the improvement location permits, a cellular tower permit, demolition at $150.00 and a historic district permit at $75.00. There is no roofing or re-roofing category anywhere in it, and no dollar or square footage figure below which work is excused. A re-roof that needs a permit would fall under the residential addition or remodel line at $150.00. WHY THAT SILENCE CANNOT BE READ AS AN EXEMPTION. The fee table's own closing note says "Fees listed in this table supersede the fees given in the city's Building Code Ord. 96-1389", and section 94-198 provides that no improvement location permit "or building permit required under the city's building code" shall issue on property in violation of the zoning chapter. So a separate building permit exists under a building code ordinance that the City has never codified and does not publish. Whether that ordinance exempts a re-covering, and on what terms, cannot be read. This record therefore publishes no yes or no value on the roofing permit question rather than inferring one from a fee list's silence. WHAT IS SETTLED. Inside the historic downtown district the answer is not silent at all: section 94-228(A) provides that "A permit is required to construct, alter, change, improve or repair any lot, building or sign in the 'historic downtown district'", with the fee set at the accessory building rate. A roof replacement on a building inside that district is repair work to a building and needs that permit. Elsewhere in the city, settle the question with Building and Planning on 765-349-4923 before the tear off.

THE FIGURES ARE THE STATE'S COUNTY-INDEXED TABLE, NOT A CITY ENACTMENT. Table R301.2(1) of the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, as substituted by 675 IAC 14-4.4-5, gives the Morgan County row as wind speed 115 mph, seismic design category B, ground snow load 20 psf, frost depth 30 inches, winter design temperature 2 degrees Fahrenheit, decay slight to moderate, termite moderate to heavy, weathering severe, ice shield underlayment required No, air freezing index 1500 or less, and mean annual temperature 51.5 degrees. Those values were read from the rendered table: the termite column drops out of text extraction, and when it does every column to its right reads one place out. TWO POINTS BEFORE REUSING A DETAIL FROM ELSEWHERE IN INDIANA. Morgan's seismic category is B where many Indiana counties print A, and its ground snow load of 20 psf and frost depth of 30 inches are the central Indiana figures rather than the 30 and 36 printed in the northern counties. Wind exposure category is still a site by site decision under Section R301.2.1.4, and the 115 mph figure is an ultimate design wind speed, so do not hand it to a method that expects a nominal speed. IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars the City from varying any of these figures by ordinance, and none of the City's four codified chapters states a wind or snow figure of its own.

THE STATE RULE SUPPLIES THE ANSWER AND THE CITY'S OWN BUILDING CODE ORDINANCE HAS NEVER BEEN READ BY ANYONE OUTSIDE CITY HALL, SO THIS RECORD DOES NOT CLASSIFY A MARTINSVILLE RULE. On the state side the position is clear. Indiana's residential rule is 675 IAC 14-4.4, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, incorporating the 2018 International Residential Code, and it makes no amendment to the model code's reroofing provisions: "R908" occurs zero times in the Indiana rule. The base provision is 2018 International Residential Code Section R908.3.1.1, Roof recover not allowed, under which a roof recover is barred where "the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering". One existing covering may be recovered over; two means a tear off to the deck. IC 22-13-2-3(c) provides that "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", and IC 22-13-2-3(a)(2) gives the commission's rules precedence over any local ordinance covering the same subject matter. WHY NO CLASSIFICATION IS PUBLISHED ANYWAY. The City's building code is Ordinance 96-1389. It is named as a live instrument in the City's own enacted text - the closing note to the section 94-240 fee table, a section last amended by Ord. No. 2025-1898 on 3-24-2025 in a codification current through 6-29-2026 - and it has never been codified. Its text has not been read, so whether it states a covering rule of its own is unknown rather than absent, and a ceiling statute establishes what a city may not do, never what its unread ordinance in fact says. The one City document that names an edition is an undated inspection schedule handout headed "In Compliance with International Residential Code 2003 with Indiana Amendments 2005", which is an administrative statement rather than an enacted adoption and is not the basis for any figure here. WHERE THE ORDINANCE WAS LOOKED FOR, so that nobody repeats the search. Municode publishes the City's code and its Chapter 14, Buildings and Building Regulations, contains no adoption section, sections 14-4 through 14-95 being reserved; Municode's Code Comparative Table lists ordinances from the same period, including 96-1369 of 1-16-1996 and 97-1391 of 1-6-1997, and does not list 96-1389, the table stating that ordinances not listed "have been omitted as repealed, superseded or not of a general and permanent nature"; the City's own document centre offers no ordinance archive and points the public back to Municode; the Building Services page names no code and links none; and the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, which publishes the City's Fire Prevention Code ordinance of 2021, publishes no building code ordinance for Martinsville. So count the layers already on the roof and work to the state rule, and ask Building and Planning on 765-349-4923 whether Ordinance 96-1389 says anything further.

NO CITY RULE IN ANY CODIFIED CHAPTER, AND THE STATE MAKES ONE CHANGE TO ROOF SHEATHING, A PAPERWORK ONE. Indiana's residential rule is 675 IAC 14-4.4, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, incorporating the 2018 International Residential Code. It makes exactly one amendment to the model code's roof sheathing provisions, at 675 IAC 14-4.4-82, which is headed "Section R803.2.1; identification and grade" and deletes from Section R803.2.1 the words "or certificate of inspection issued by an approved agency". That is an evidentiary change about how sheathing is identified, not a change to span, thickness or fastening, so the base 2018 International Residential Code Section R803 governs the material itself. WHAT WAS COUNTED ON THE CITY SIDE. The four codified chapters where a sheathing rule could live were fetched and searched in full: Chapter 14 Buildings and Building Regulations, Chapter 18 Businesses, Chapter 34 Fees and Chapter 94 Zoning and Subdivisions, the last running to about 404,000 characters on its own. "Sheathing" occurs ZERO times across all four, as do "shingle", "underlayment", "roof covering", "R908" and "R905". The chapter list was checked against the code's own table of contents, and Chapter 14 is the only buildings chapter, so no buildings chapter was missed. WHAT IS NOT CLAIMED. Ordinance 96-1389, the City's uncodified building code ordinance, has not been read, so this is a negative about the codified chapters rather than about every instrument the City has ever passed. IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars the City from a more stringent or more detailed requirement than the commission's rules in any event.

7% in Martinsville. The Indiana Department of Revenue's sales tax page states that a business selling goods or tangible personal property must "register to collect a seven percent sales tax", and it names no county or city sales tax on top of that rate, so a Morgan County address and a Martinsville address carry the same figure.