Do you need a permit to replace a roof in Mineral County, CO?

Mineral County, Colorado

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Creede, CO

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Building permit information and permit applications are handled by the Mineral County Land Use Office at 1201 N. Main, P.O. Box 70, Creede, CO 81130 (719-658-2360). The State of Colorado requires all plumbing and electrical work to be inspected.

Mineral County has not adopted any International Building Codes; property owners and developers are encouraged to build in accordance with the standards of the International Residential Code. Construction consent is governed instead by Section 11.10 of the Mineral County Zoning Regulations, effective June 10, 2026, which requires a Land Use and Construction Consent for any building work costing more than five hundred dollars.

Not required — The Mineral County Land Use Office states on its own building permit page that the county has not adopted any International Building Codes and that property owners are encouraged, not required, to build to International Residential Code standards. The county's own Application for Land Use and Construction Consent repeats that those codes are not adopted by the county or the state and that an owner may make them applicable only by requiring compliance of a contractor by private agreement. Construction is governed instead by Section 11.10 of the Mineral County Zoning Regulations, effective June 10, 2026, which requires a Land Use and Construction Consent for work costing more than five hundred dollars; those regulations were read in full and set no roof-covering standard, their only roofing provision being a non-reflective roof requirement in the Airport Zone, which is a glare restriction. With no building code adopted, no UL 2218 Class 4 impact-resistance requirement attaches to a reroof. The only statewide instrument reaching reroofing is the Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code, 8 CCR 1507-39, effective July 1, 2026 in areas designated wildland-urban interface under that code, which requires a Class A roof covering tested to ASTM E108 or UL 790 where 25 percent or more of the roof surface is replaced, at Sections 101.6 and 403.2; that is a fire classification independent of impact rating, and the code sets no impact-resistance requirement. The Colorado Energy Office Statewide Building Code Adoption dataset, revised April 2, 2026, independently reports no adopted code for the county.

A Land Use and Construction Consent -- the county's building permit -- is required under Zoning Regulations Section 11.10(A) for any building or structure that is erected, constructed, reconstructed or altered where the cost exceeds $500, unless the structure is classified as portable; any addition to an existing structure also requires a Land Use and Construction Consent regardless of cost. Section 11.10(C) separately lists the Consent as required for new residential and commercial structures, exterior additions to existing structures, and onsite wastewater treatment systems. Section 11.10 exempts interior alterations to a single-unit dwelling, fences, and agricultural accessory buildings. No roofing-specific exemption is stated.

5.5% combined for unincorporated Mineral County: 2.9% Colorado state and 2.60% Mineral County, a rate that already includes a 0.6% Health Service District component per the state's own table note. This is the rate for the Mineral County Land Use Office's own permitting jurisdiction, outside the Town of Creede. Creede is separately incorporated and state-collected at its own 4% city rate, which combines to 9.5% inside Creede town limits.