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City of Mitchell, South Dakota - Building Inspection (Public Works Department)

Adopted code

The City of Mitchell's Building Inspection division, part of the Public Works Department, reviews building plans and issues building permits within the city. South Dakota does not impose a single mandatory statewide residential building code; SDCL ch. 11-10 sets up a local-option framework under which a municipality that chooses to adopt a construction code does so on its own. The city's own FAQ page states that Mitchell "currently follows the 2012 International Building Code," with plumbing and electrical work separately governed by the current State of South Dakota plumbing and electrical codes. The city's codified Code of Ordinances (hosted on American Legal Publishing) carries a dedicated Building Codes chapter that would state the precise adopted edition(s) and any local amendments, but that page could not be opened this session (see report).

Jurisdiction
City of Mitchell, South Dakota
Jurisdiction type
city
Address
612 N Main, Mitchell, SD 57301
Contact
  • url: https://www.cityofmitchellsd.gov/407/Building-Inspection
  • phone: (605) 995-8433
Registration details
  • license: STATE LEVEL: South Dakota's Department of Labor and Regulation "Boards & Commissions" / "Find a Form" index (read in full) lists the state's occupational boards - Abstracters, Accountancy, Appraiser/Appraisal Management, Architect, Athletic Competition, Banking, Barbers, Cosmetology, Electrical, Engineer, Landscape Architect, Land Surveyor, Money Lender/Transmitter, Mortgage Broker/Lender, Nail Salon, Plumbing, Real Estate, Securities, and Trust Company - and none of them is a general or roofing contractor board. The only state-level registration required of a roofer is the tax-registration Contractor's Excise Tax Licence issued by the South Dakota Department of Revenue under SDCL ch. 10-46A - a tax filing requirement, not a trade credential. CITY LEVEL: NOT FULLY VERIFIED. The city's own "Licenses & Permits" landing page lists only three categories - 911, Special Events, and Medical Cannabis - with no general or roofing contractor category visible, but this is a top-level directory widget rather than the full business-licensing ordinance chapter, and that chapter (part of the same codified Code of Ordinances covering building codes) could not be opened this session because the hosting site returned a Cloudflare access-challenge response to every request method tried.
Adopted code
CITY-SET, not state-mandated. The City of Mitchell's own FAQ page (under its Building Inspection category) states directly: "Which building code does the city follow? The city currently follows the 2012 International Building Code." The same FAQ separately states that plumbing and electrical work is "govern by the current State of South Dakota plumbing and electrical codes" rather than a city-adopted edition. This is a local adoption made under South Dakota's local-option framework (SDCL 11-10-12 for residential structures) - South Dakota has no single mandatory statewide residential building code, so the edition in force in Mitchell is the city's own choice. The city's codified Code of Ordinances (American Legal Publishing) contains a dedicated "Building Codes" chapter (Chapter 2) that would state the adoption in ordinance form, including whether the International Residential Code is adopted as a distinct instrument from the International Building Code named on the FAQ page, but that chapter could not be opened this session (Cloudflare-protected host returned HTTP 403 to every access method attempted).
Sales & use tax
South Dakota taxes roofing work as a realty improvement under the contractors' excise tax rather than as a retail sale of the finished job, so the rate that governs a Mitchell roofing contract is the state contractors' excise tax: SDCL ch. 10-46A imposes a 2% excise tax on the gross receipts of prime contractors and subcontractors on construction services and realty improvement projects (non-qualified-utility projects), and every contractor must hold a Contractor's Excise Tax Licence from the South Dakota Department of Revenue. This excise-tax regime is statewide and applies in Mitchell identically to everywhere else in South Dakota.

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