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

Town of Minturn, Colorado

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302 Pine St., Minturn, CO 81645

The town advises builders and property owners that permits and plan reviews may be required for building or remodel projects in Minturn, to contact the Building Department before starting a project, and that fines are doubled for those not in compliance. Building permit applications are available online, with a fee estimator that includes a construction use tax estimator; the town also publishes online contractor license applications. Roofing is not called out as its own permit type on the building page.

Building inspections are contracted through Shums Coda Associates; inspections are scheduled by phone (call prior to 3 p.m. for next-day inspection). Electrical inspections and permitting are handled through the State of Colorado.

Not required — The Town of Minturn adopts the 2021 International Building Code and the 2021 International Residential Code, and its building chapter is codified through Ordinance No. 3-2026 adopted April 15, 2026, so the codified text postdates Colorado's 2026 adoption cycle. The Colorado Energy Office's statewide building code adoption record lists the same 2021 edition. The amendment lists were reviewed in full. The Town's wildfire provisions, added by that same 2026 ordinance, require roof coverings to have a Class A rating tested by ASTM E108 or UL 790 or to be of noncombustible material, prohibit wood shake on new construction and on replacements exceeding twenty-five percent of the roof area, and require corrosion-resistant metal valley flashing. Class A, ASTM E108 and UL 790 are fire classifications and are independent of impact rating. The chapter defines roof assembly and roof covering but requires no impact resistance, and contains no reference to UL 2218 or Class 4 roof coverings.

9.69% combined inside the Town of Minturn, and the fire district and the transit authority are the two pieces most easily dropped. The components are the Colorado state rate of 2.9%, Eagle County at 1.50%, the Eagle Valley Regional Transportation Authority at 0.50%, the Eagle River Fire Protection District at 0.79%, and the Town of Minturn at 4%. Each of the last three is named to Minturn rather than inferred: the Eagle River district boundary in the state rate tables reads "Areas of Hwy 24 and I-70 in Eagle County including Avon, Edwards, Minturn, and Red Cliff. Excludes Beaver Creek area," and the Eagle Valley authority covers "Eagle County except areas already within the Roaring Fork RTA and incorporated Gypsum," which reaches Minturn on both counts. Do not add a separate mass transit line on top: the state tables note that Eagle Countys 1.50% "includes 0.5% Mass Transit System (MTS) in Eagle and Pitkin Counties," so that component is already inside the county figure. USE TAX MATTERS HERE AS MUCH AS SALES TAX. Minturn levies a 4% use tax that applies to building materials, so materials brought into town without Colorado sales tax already paid on them attract the towns 4% on top of the states own 2.9% use tax. Eagle County levies no use tax. Minturn is also allowed no vendor service fee, where most Colorado jurisdictions allow 3.33%.