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Morton Borough - Department of Code Enforcement

Morton Borough in Delaware County takes building permit applications at its Borough office, 500 Highland Avenue, through a Department of Code Enforcement, and posts a Building Permit Application and a 2026 Fee Schedule. The Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code applies statewide, but Act 45 section 104(b) lists "Repairs to residential buildings" and alterations that make no structural or egress change among work it does not apply to, "except as might be required by ordinances in effect pursuant to section 303(b)(1) or adopted pursuant to section 503."

Roof code checklist: Borough of Morton, PA

ItemAnswerCode citeSourceVerified
Permit to replace a roofNot published
Repair permit thresholdPublishedpacodeandbulletin.gov2026-10-10
Layer limit / roof-overPublishedR908.3.1.1pacodeandbulletin.gov2026-10-10
Deck & sheathingPublishedR905.2.1pacodeandbulletin.gov2026-10-10
Drip edgeNot published
Ice & water shieldNot published
Mid-roof inspectionNot published
Impact-resistant (Class 4) roofingNot published
Wind design criteriaNot published
Adopted codePublished§ 7210.503pacodeandbulletin.gov2026-10-10
Contractor license / registrationYespalegis.us2026-10-10
Sales & use taxPublishedpa.gov2026-10-10

Each row comes from the sourced record on this page; full wording is in the table below. "Not published" means no official source for that item was found when the record was last verified.

Jurisdiction
Borough of Morton, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction type
city
Address
500 Highland Avenue, Morton, PA 19070
Contact
  • url: https://www.mortonboropa.org/contact
  • phone: 610-543-4565
Contractor registration required
Required
Registration details
  • state_level: Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act, Act 132 of 2008, 73 P.S. 517.1 et seq.: registration with the Attorney General's Bureau of Consumer Protection before performing any home improvement over $500 (section 2, section 3(a)); persons whose home improvements totalled less than $5,000 in the previous taxable year are not "contractors" (section 2). Section 12 precludes local registration or licensing of home improvement contractors, with carve-outs for building permits, pre-existing tested trade licences, and local insurance standards adopted before January 1, 2006.
  • city_level: Morton Borough's Code, Chapter 5, Part 2 (Ord. 553, 1988, amended by Ord. 731, 2015) says in Section 5-201 that persons who engage in "construction, repairs, remodeling, rehabilitation or demolition" as "home improvement contractors, roofing contractors" and others "shall be required to obtain a license from the Borough," and in Section 5-207 that "no person shall act in the capacity of general contractor, subcontractor, specialty contractor or home improvement contractor unless authorized to do so by a subsisting license" with a decal on the contractor's vehicles; the Borough's 2026 Fee Schedule lists a "Contractor License" fee of "$125." Section 5-209 requires a certificate of insurance. This record does not decide how Section 12 of the Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act bears on that Borough licence.
Permit process note
Morton Borough's own pages and code name no roof work as permit work or as exempt. The Building Permit Application the Borough posts asks for "Below Please Provide a Brief Description of the Work" and names no roof work. Part 4 names no roof work and adds no permit clause of its own, and the Borough's eCode360 code, searched for "roof" and "reroofing," contains no section requiring or exempting a permit for roof work; its zoning chapter requires a use and occupancy permit for a building "erected or altered, for which a building permit is required" and names no roof work. The Department of Labor and Industry's register of municipal code change ordinances lists two Morton Borough filings that say "Requires a permit for renovations / repairs including replacement of roof, windows, gutters, siding, and general maintenance items"; one carries the status "Change found to be in compliance with 35 P.S. § 7210.503 (b); approval letter mailed 12 / 23 / 2014" and the other "Under review by L&I as of 9 / 8 / 2015," and neither shows an enacted status. No ordinance carrying that language appears in the Borough Code on eCode360 or on the Borough's website, and this record has not read one and does not decide whether such an ordinance is in force. The first filing also says "the Borough will enforce the Residential Code 2015, as it applies to the alteration and repair of residential buildings"; this record has not read the 2015 edition's text and does not decide which edition the Borough applies. Under state law, Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6) list "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress" and "Repairs to residential buildings" among work the Act does not apply to, "except as might be required by ordinances in effect pursuant to section 303(b)(1) or adopted pursuant to section 503," and 34 Pa. Code 403.62(c) says "A permit is not required for the exceptions listed in § 403.1(b) (relating to scope) and the following, if the work does not violate a law or ordinance." Ask the Borough office (610-543-4565) before starting, because the register lists a roof-permit filing this record could not tie to an ordinance in force. Read for this answer: the Borough's home, forms and contact pages; its Building Permit Application and 2026 Fee Schedule (read from the rendered page images); Chapters 4, 5, 11 and 13 and the table of disposition of ordinances on eCode360; and the code-wide searches for "roof," "reroofing," "re-roof," "renovations," "siding" and "building permit."
Adopted code
The 2021 International Residential Code, as adopted by the State in the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code (UCC). 34 Pa. Code 403.21(a)(7) adopts "The 'International Residential Code of 2021,' except that:" followed by the State's list of exclusions and modifications, effective January 1, 2026 (55 Pa.B. 7701). None of the State's changes touches Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, or Section R803, Roof Sheathing, so those apply as the International Code Council publishes them. Work on existing buildings is also pointed to the State's existing-building code: "The repair, alteration, change of occupancy, addition and relocation of existing buildings must comply with Chapter 34 of the 'International Building Code of 2021' or with the 'International Existing Building Code of 2021'" (34 Pa. Code 403.21(f)). The UCC is the minimum everywhere in the state: "no municipality may propose or enact any ordinance which is less than the minimum requirement of the Uniform Construction Code" (Pennsylvania Construction Code Act, Act 45 of 1999, section 503(b)). The Act also lists work it "shall not apply to", including "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress" or to "Repairs to residential buildings," in each case "except as might be required by ordinances" kept in force under section 303(b)(1) or adopted under section 503 (Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6); 34 Pa. Code 403.1(b)(8) and (9)). The Act defines a repair as "The reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing building for the purpose of its maintenance." So whether the code's roofing rules reach a given house reroof depends on the municipality's own ordinances. Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, Morton Borough takes building permit applications at the Borough office, 500 Highland Avenue, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (610-543-4565). The Borough posts a Building Permit Application and a 2026 Fee Schedule, both headed "Department of Code Enforcement," and its fee schedule lists "Building Permit (Residential)" at "$40 per $1,000." Chapter 5, Part 4 of the Borough Code (Ord. 643, March 10, 2004) says the Borough "hereby elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act" and adopts the Uniform Construction Code in 34 Pa. Code, Chapters 401-405, "as amended from time to time," by reference "as the municipal building code of Morton Borough." Part 4 names no roof work and adds no permit clause of its own, and the Borough's eCode360 code, searched for "roof" and "reroofing," contains no section requiring or exempting a permit for roof work; its zoning chapter requires a use and occupancy permit for a building "erected or altered, for which a building permit is required" and names no roof work. The Department of Labor and Industry's register of municipal code change ordinances lists two Morton Borough filings that say "Requires a permit for renovations / repairs including replacement of roof, windows, gutters, siding, and general maintenance items"; one carries the status "Change found to be in compliance with 35 P.S. § 7210.503 (b); approval letter mailed 12 / 23 / 2014" and the other "Under review by L&I as of 9 / 8 / 2015," and neither shows an enacted status. No ordinance carrying that language appears in the Borough Code on eCode360 or on the Borough's website, and this record has not read one and does not decide whether such an ordinance is in force. The first filing also says "the Borough will enforce the Residential Code 2015, as it applies to the alteration and repair of residential buildings"; this record has not read the 2015 edition's text and does not decide which edition the Borough applies.
Repair permit threshold
Morton Borough's own pages and code name no roof work as permit work or as exempt. The Building Permit Application the Borough posts asks for "Below Please Provide a Brief Description of the Work" and names no roof work. Part 4 names no roof work and adds no permit clause of its own, and the Borough's eCode360 code, searched for "roof" and "reroofing," contains no section requiring or exempting a permit for roof work; its zoning chapter requires a use and occupancy permit for a building "erected or altered, for which a building permit is required" and names no roof work. The Department of Labor and Industry's register of municipal code change ordinances lists two Morton Borough filings that say "Requires a permit for renovations / repairs including replacement of roof, windows, gutters, siding, and general maintenance items"; one carries the status "Change found to be in compliance with 35 P.S. § 7210.503 (b); approval letter mailed 12 / 23 / 2014" and the other "Under review by L&I as of 9 / 8 / 2015," and neither shows an enacted status. No ordinance carrying that language appears in the Borough Code on eCode360 or on the Borough's website, and this record has not read one and does not decide whether such an ordinance is in force. The first filing also says "the Borough will enforce the Residential Code 2015, as it applies to the alteration and repair of residential buildings"; this record has not read the 2015 edition's text and does not decide which edition the Borough applies. Under state law, Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6) list "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress" and "Repairs to residential buildings" among work the Act does not apply to, "except as might be required by ordinances in effect pursuant to section 303(b)(1) or adopted pursuant to section 503," and 34 Pa. Code 403.62(c) says "A permit is not required for the exceptions listed in § 403.1(b) (relating to scope) and the following, if the work does not violate a law or ordinance." State law sets no square-footage or percentage threshold for roof work; any threshold is set locally. The Uniform Construction Code "does not apply to" "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress, except as required by ordinances in effect under sections 303(b)(1) or 503 of the act" or to "Repairs to residential buildings, except as required by ordinances in effect under sections 303(b)(1) and 503 of the act" (34 Pa. Code 403.1(b)(8) and (9)), and "A permit is not required for the exceptions listed in § 403.1(b) (relating to scope) and the following, if the work does not violate a law or ordinance" (34 Pa. Code 403.62(c)). For houses the regulation adds: "An ordinary repair does not require a permit." Its list of work that is not an ordinary repair names cutting away a load-bearing wall, "The removal or cutting of any structural beam or load-bearing support," changes to a required means of egress, and new or relocated piping, wiring or mechanical work (34 Pa. Code 403.62(d)); roofing is not named. A municipality may require more: under Act 45 section 503(c) it "may enact ordinances pursuant to this section which adopt additional code requirements for alterations or repairs to residential buildings," after a public hearing and after filing the proposed ordinance with the Department of Labor and Industry. These rules concern a "Residential building," which the regulation defines as "Detached one-family and two-family dwellings and townhouses which are not more than three stories above grade plane in height with a separate means of egress and their accessory structures" (34 Pa. Code 401.1). Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, Morton Borough takes building permit applications at the Borough office, 500 Highland Avenue, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (610-543-4565). The Borough posts a Building Permit Application and a 2026 Fee Schedule, both headed "Department of Code Enforcement," and its fee schedule lists "Building Permit (Residential)" at "$40 per $1,000." Chapter 5, Part 4 of the Borough Code (Ord. 643, March 10, 2004) says the Borough "hereby elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act" and adopts the Uniform Construction Code in 34 Pa. Code, Chapters 401-405, "as amended from time to time," by reference "as the municipal building code of Morton Borough." No Borough text read for this record sets an area or cost threshold for roof work.
Roof layer limit / recover
Two layers at most where the state code reaches the job. Pennsylvania adopts the 2021 International Residential Code without changing its reroofing section, R908 (34 Pa. Code 403.21(a)(7); the State's list of changes names no Chapter 9 section). Section R908.3.1.1 says "A roof recover shall not be permitted where any of the following conditions occur," and the third condition is "Where the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering." So one existing layer may be covered once, and a roof that already has two layers is torn off to the deck. The same section also bars a recover "Where the existing roof or roof covering is water soaked or has deteriorated to the point that the existing roof or roof covering is not adequate as a base for additional roofing" and "Where the existing roof covering is slate, clay, cement or asbestos-cement tile." The existing-building code the State also adopts, the 2021 International Existing Building Code (34 Pa. Code 403.21(f)), carries the same three conditions in Section 705.2.1.1. These rules bind work the Uniform Construction Code reaches. The Act does not apply to "Repairs to residential buildings" or to alterations that make no structural change, "except as might be required by ordinances" (Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6)), so whether R908 binds a particular house reroof turns on that exclusion and on the municipality's own ordinances. Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, Morton Borough takes building permit applications at the Borough office, 500 Highland Avenue, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (610-543-4565). The Borough posts a Building Permit Application and a 2026 Fee Schedule, both headed "Department of Code Enforcement," and its fee schedule lists "Building Permit (Residential)" at "$40 per $1,000." Chapter 5, Part 4 of the Borough Code (Ord. 643, March 10, 2004) says the Borough "hereby elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act" and adopts the Uniform Construction Code in 34 Pa. Code, Chapters 401-405, "as amended from time to time," by reference "as the municipal building code of Morton Borough." The Borough's pages and the code chapters read for this record change nothing in the code's reroofing provisions and say nothing on roof layers; this record has not read the 2015 edition's reroofing text named in the register filing and does not decide which edition the Borough applies.
Deck & sheathing requirements
State rules from the base code, where the state code reaches the job. Pennsylvania adopts the 2021 International Residential Code without changing Section R803, Roof Sheathing (34 Pa. Code 403.21(a)(7); the State's changes to Chapter 8 are to ridge framing and attic ventilation). Lumber roof sheathing follows Table R803.1: over rafters or beams 24 inches apart it must be at least 5/8 inch net thick. Wood structural panels "shall be identified for grade, bond classification and performance category by a grade mark or certificate of inspection issued by an approved agency," and their spans "shall not exceed the values set forth in Table R503.2.1.1(1) or APA E30." For shingles, "Asphalt shingles shall be fastened to solidly sheathed decks" (R905.2.1), and on any reroof "The structural roof components shall be capable of supporting the roof covering system and the material and equipment loads that will be encountered during installation of the roof covering system" (R908.2). These rules bind work the Uniform Construction Code reaches; the Act does not apply to "Repairs to residential buildings" or to alterations that make no structural change, "except as might be required by ordinances" (Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6)). Act 45 section 104(b)(5) excludes alterations "which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress" and says only that "a structural change does not include a minor framing change needed to replace existing windows or doors"; 34 Pa. Code 403.62(d)(2) lists "The removal or cutting of any structural beam or load-bearing support" as not an ordinary repair. Neither names roof sheathing; this record does not decide whether replacing it is either. Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, Morton Borough takes building permit applications at the Borough office, 500 Highland Avenue, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (610-543-4565). The Borough posts a Building Permit Application and a 2026 Fee Schedule, both headed "Department of Code Enforcement," and its fee schedule lists "Building Permit (Residential)" at "$40 per $1,000." Chapter 5, Part 4 of the Borough Code (Ord. 643, March 10, 2004) says the Borough "hereby elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act" and adopts the Uniform Construction Code in 34 Pa. Code, Chapters 401-405, "as amended from time to time," by reference "as the municipal building code of Morton Borough." The Borough's pages and the code chapters read for this record say nothing on roof sheathing; this record has not read the 2015 edition's sheathing text named in the register filing and does not decide which edition the Borough applies.
Sales & use tax
6% Pennsylvania sales and use tax, with a local tax added on purchases made in Allegheny County (1%) and Philadelphia (2%). On a reroof the roofer pays the tax on the materials and does not add it to the homeowner's bill. The Department of Revenue says: "The Pennsylvania sales tax rate is 6 percent. By law, a 1 percent local tax is added to purchases made in Allegheny County, and 2 percent local tax is added to purchases made in Philadelphia." Roof work is a construction activity: the rule's list of items "presumed to become a permanent part of real estate" includes "Roofing (repairs)" (61 Pa. Code 31.11). For construction activities, "A contractor shall pay tax upon the purchase price ... of all property, including materials, equipment, components and supplies, which he furnishes and installs" (61 Pa. Code 31.12(a)(1)), and the rule's example says the contractor "does not charge sales tax on this transaction to his customer. The contractor may include the tax he must pay in his bid proposal but not as a separately stated item." Apart from limited exceptions set out in the rule, the same holds on jobs for tax-exempt owners: "a contractor erecting a building, repairing a roof, replacing a door for a governmental agency, ... school district, charitable or religious organization, and the like, shall pay tax upon the property which he consumes" (61 Pa. Code 31.13(a)). Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Morton Borough is in Delaware County. The Borough's permit pages, application and fee schedule say nothing on sales tax.

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Roofing questions: Borough of Morton, PA

When does a roof repair need a permit in Borough of Morton, PA?

Morton Borough's own pages and code name no roof work as permit work or as exempt. The Building Permit Application the Borough posts asks for "Below Please Provide a Brief Description of the Work" and names no roof work. Part 4 names no roof work and adds no permit clause of its own, and the Borough's eCode360 code, searched for "roof" and "reroofing," contains no section requiring or exempting a permit for roof work; its zoning chapter requires a use and occupancy permit for a building "erected or altered, for which a building permit is required" and names no roof work. The Department of Labor and Industry's register of municipal code change ordinances lists two Morton Borough filings that say "Requires a permit for renovations / repairs including replacement of roof, windows, gutters, siding, and general maintenance items"; one carries the status "Change found to be in compliance with 35 P.S. § 7210.503 (b); approval letter mailed 12 / 23 / 2014" and the other "Under review by L&I as of 9 / 8 / 2015," and neither shows an enacted status. No ordinance carrying that language appears in the Borough Code on eCode360 or on the Borough's website, and this record has not read one and does not decide whether such an ordinance is in force. The first filing also says "the Borough will enforce the Residential Code 2015, as it applies to the alteration and repair of residential buildings"; this record has not read the 2015 edition's text and does not decide which edition the Borough applies. Under state law, Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6) list "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress" and "Repairs to residential buildings" among work the Act does not apply to, "except as might be required by ordinances in effect pursuant to section 303(b)(1) or adopted pursuant to section 503," and 34 Pa. Code 403.62(c) says "A permit is not required for the exceptions listed in § 403.1(b) (relating to scope) and the following, if the work does not violate a law or ordinance." State law sets no square-footage or percentage threshold for roof work; any threshold is set locally. The Uniform Construction Code "does not apply to" "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress, except as required by ordinances in effect under sections 303(b)(1) or 503 of the act" or to "Repairs to residential buildings, except as required by ordinances in effect under sections 303(b)(1) and 503 of the act" (34 Pa. Code 403.1(b)(8) and (9)), and "A permit is not required for the exceptions listed in § 403.1(b) (relating to scope) and the following, if the work does not violate a law or ordinance" (34 Pa. Code 403.62(c)). For houses the regulation adds: "An ordinary repair does not require a permit." Its list of work that is not an ordinary repair names cutting away a load-bearing wall, "The removal or cutting of any structural beam or load-bearing support," changes to a required means of egress, and new or relocated piping, wiring or mechanical work (34 Pa. Code 403.62(d)); roofing is not named. A municipality may require more: under Act 45 section 503(c) it "may enact ordinances pursuant to this section which adopt additional code requirements for alterations or repairs to residential buildings," after a public hearing and after filing the proposed ordinance with the Department of Labor and Industry. These rules concern a "Residential building," which the regulation defines as "Detached one-family and two-family dwellings and townhouses which are not more than three stories above grade plane in height with a separate means of egress and their accessory structures" (34 Pa. Code 401.1). Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, Morton Borough takes building permit applications at the Borough office, 500 Highland Avenue, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (610-543-4565). The Borough posts a Building Permit Application and a 2026 Fee Schedule, both headed "Department of Code Enforcement," and its fee schedule lists "Building Permit (Residential)" at "$40 per $1,000." Chapter 5, Part 4 of the Borough Code (Ord. 643, March 10, 2004) says the Borough "hereby elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act" and adopts the Uniform Construction Code in 34 Pa. Code, Chapters 401-405, "as amended from time to time," by reference "as the municipal building code of Morton Borough." No Borough text read for this record sets an area or cost threshold for roof work.

Can you roof over an existing roof in Borough of Morton, PA?

Two layers at most where the state code reaches the job. Pennsylvania adopts the 2021 International Residential Code without changing its reroofing section, R908 (34 Pa. Code 403.21(a)(7); the State's list of changes names no Chapter 9 section). Section R908.3.1.1 says "A roof recover shall not be permitted where any of the following conditions occur," and the third condition is "Where the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering." So one existing layer may be covered once, and a roof that already has two layers is torn off to the deck. The same section also bars a recover "Where the existing roof or roof covering is water soaked or has deteriorated to the point that the existing roof or roof covering is not adequate as a base for additional roofing" and "Where the existing roof covering is slate, clay, cement or asbestos-cement tile." The existing-building code the State also adopts, the 2021 International Existing Building Code (34 Pa. Code 403.21(f)), carries the same three conditions in Section 705.2.1.1. These rules bind work the Uniform Construction Code reaches. The Act does not apply to "Repairs to residential buildings" or to alterations that make no structural change, "except as might be required by ordinances" (Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6)), so whether R908 binds a particular house reroof turns on that exclusion and on the municipality's own ordinances. Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, Morton Borough takes building permit applications at the Borough office, 500 Highland Avenue, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (610-543-4565). The Borough posts a Building Permit Application and a 2026 Fee Schedule, both headed "Department of Code Enforcement," and its fee schedule lists "Building Permit (Residential)" at "$40 per $1,000." Chapter 5, Part 4 of the Borough Code (Ord. 643, March 10, 2004) says the Borough "hereby elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act" and adopts the Uniform Construction Code in 34 Pa. Code, Chapters 401-405, "as amended from time to time," by reference "as the municipal building code of Morton Borough." The Borough's pages and the code chapters read for this record change nothing in the code's reroofing provisions and say nothing on roof layers; this record has not read the 2015 edition's reroofing text named in the register filing and does not decide which edition the Borough applies.

Do roofing contractors need a license or registration in Borough of Morton, PA?

Yes.

What building code does Borough of Morton, PA use?

The 2021 International Residential Code, as adopted by the State in the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code (UCC). 34 Pa. Code 403.21(a)(7) adopts "The 'International Residential Code of 2021,' except that:" followed by the State's list of exclusions and modifications, effective January 1, 2026 (55 Pa.B. 7701). None of the State's changes touches Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, or Section R803, Roof Sheathing, so those apply as the International Code Council publishes them. Work on existing buildings is also pointed to the State's existing-building code: "The repair, alteration, change of occupancy, addition and relocation of existing buildings must comply with Chapter 34 of the 'International Building Code of 2021' or with the 'International Existing Building Code of 2021'" (34 Pa. Code 403.21(f)). The UCC is the minimum everywhere in the state: "no municipality may propose or enact any ordinance which is less than the minimum requirement of the Uniform Construction Code" (Pennsylvania Construction Code Act, Act 45 of 1999, section 503(b)). The Act also lists work it "shall not apply to", including "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress" or to "Repairs to residential buildings," in each case "except as might be required by ordinances" kept in force under section 303(b)(1) or adopted under section 503 (Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6); 34 Pa. Code 403.1(b)(8) and (9)). The Act defines a repair as "The reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing building for the purpose of its maintenance." So whether the code's roofing rules reach a given house reroof depends on the municipality's own ordinances. Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, Morton Borough takes building permit applications at the Borough office, 500 Highland Avenue, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (610-543-4565). The Borough posts a Building Permit Application and a 2026 Fee Schedule, both headed "Department of Code Enforcement," and its fee schedule lists "Building Permit (Residential)" at "$40 per $1,000." Chapter 5, Part 4 of the Borough Code (Ord. 643, March 10, 2004) says the Borough "hereby elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act" and adopts the Uniform Construction Code in 34 Pa. Code, Chapters 401-405, "as amended from time to time," by reference "as the municipal building code of Morton Borough." Part 4 names no roof work and adds no permit clause of its own, and the Borough's eCode360 code, searched for "roof" and "reroofing," contains no section requiring or exempting a permit for roof work; its zoning chapter requires a use and occupancy permit for a building "erected or altered, for which a building permit is required" and names no roof work. The Department of Labor and Industry's register of municipal code change ordinances lists two Morton Borough filings that say "Requires a permit for renovations / repairs including replacement of roof, windows, gutters, siding, and general maintenance items"; one carries the status "Change found to be in compliance with 35 P.S. § 7210.503 (b); approval letter mailed 12 / 23 / 2014" and the other "Under review by L&I as of 9 / 8 / 2015," and neither shows an enacted status. No ordinance carrying that language appears in the Borough Code on eCode360 or on the Borough's website, and this record has not read one and does not decide whether such an ordinance is in force. The first filing also says "the Borough will enforce the Residential Code 2015, as it applies to the alteration and repair of residential buildings"; this record has not read the 2015 edition's text and does not decide which edition the Borough applies.