City of North Little Rock, Arkansas - Planning Department (Department of Community Planning)

City of North Little Rock, Arkansas

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700 W 29th Street, North Little Rock, AR 72114

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The Planning Department is located at 700 W 29th Street, North Little Rock, AR 72114 (City Services Building), main phone 501-975-8835. Chapter 4, Sec. 1.2.1 sets general fees: an inspection fee of $25.00 (other than an individual apartment unit), a re-inspection fee of $40.00 (Sec. 1.2.2), and a $30.00 minimum permit fee (Sec. 1.2.3). Sec. 1.1.12 provides permits expire one year from issuance unless otherwise noted, and become invalid if work is not commenced within 180 days or is suspended/ abandoned for 180 days; a residential remodel/repair permit specifically is valid for 180 days from issuance. A one-time extension (30/60/90 days, $30.00 per 30-day period) is available per Sec. 1.1.13, and an expired permit may be renewed within 30 days of expiration for half the original fee (Sec. 1.1.14). Work performed without a required permit triples the fee (Sec. 1.1.11). Work located outside City limits is charged an additional 50% surcharge (Sec. 1.1.19). The Argenta Historic District is exempt from Chapter 4's building permit fees for work on historic buildings within the district (Sec. 1.1.16), though exterior changes there still require review by the North Little Rock Historic District Commission per the City's Permits page. No online permit-payment portal was found on the City's own site for building permits (contrast Little Rock's permitpayment.littlerock.gov); applications appear to be handled directly through the Planning Department using downloadable forms.

North Little Rock's current Chapter 4 (Buildings and Building Regulations) of the North Little Rock Municipal Code - adopted by Ordinance No. 8855 (11-14-16), most recently amended by Ordinance No. 9555 (03-14-23) - states at Sec. 1.1.1, verbatim: "Codes and Standards adopted. (A) 2021 Arkansas Fire Prevention Code (B) 2020 National Electrical Code (C) 2018 Arkansas Plumbing Code (D) 2018 Arkansas Fuel Gas Code (E) 2021 International Mechanical Code (F) 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act (G) American National Standards Institute (ANSI) 117 Standards (H) North Little Rock Electric Department Construction Standards (I) Administrative Rules of the Arkansas Board of Electrical Examiners State of Arkansas. Ref. - Ord. 9473 adopted 06-27-22; Ord. 9477 adopted 07-11-22; Ord. 9507 adopted 09-26-22; Ord. 9555 adopted 03-14-23." This confirms North Little Rock currently enforces the 2021 Arkansas Fire Prevention Code (2021 IRC base for one- and two-family residential construction), consistent with - not a substitute for - Arkansas's statewide floor code under AFPC [A] 101.2.2. The City's own Planning Department "Current Codes" page independently corroborates this, listing "2021 AR Fire Prevention Code, International Building Code" among the codes currently active in North Little Rock. SOURCING NOTE: North Little Rock is also a Municode client (productId 10180, jobId 63040), but that hosted Code of Ordinances text is codified only through Ordinance No. 7866 (2006, Supplement 20) and is marked unpublished by Municode; its own building-code-adoption section, Sec. 18-36, names the "Standard Building Code, 1988 edition, as published by Southern Building Code Congress International, Inc." - a model code superseded decades before the 2021 AFPC existed. That stale Municode text is not the basis for this field; it is superseded by the City's own current Chapter 4 PDF cited above.

Not required — Checked at both layers North Little Rock residential roofing actually runs through. STATE LAYER: the 2021 Arkansas Fire Prevention Code Rules Changes document's Volume III (Residential) chapter disposition list prints, verbatim, "Chapter 8, Roof-Ceiling Construction-No Changes" and "Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies-No Changes" - Arkansas amends nothing in the IRC's roofing chapters, and the document was grepped in full for "UL 2218" and "Class 4" with zero matches. CITY LAYER: North Little Rock's current Chapter 4 (Buildings and Building Regulations, Ordinance No. 8855 as amended through Ordinance No. 9555, six Articles, roughly 1,039 lines of extracted text covering Regulations, Building, Electrical, Plumbing and Gas, Mechanical, and Development Fees and Permits) was read in full and grepped for "UL 2218" and "Class 4" with zero matches anywhere. Its only roof-adjacent provision is Sec. 2.1.2(7), a condition for issuing a siding permit on a substandard structure: "The structure's roof shall not sag and must not give indication of leaks to the interior" - a general structural- soundness condition, not an impact-resistance/hail rating mandate. Neither layer imposes an impact- resistance requirement on North Little Rock residential roofing as adopted.

North Little Rock does not gate the permit REQUIREMENT for roofing/repair work by a dollar threshold; it gates the permit FEE. Chapter 4, Sec. 1.1.3(A) states, verbatim: "It shall be unlawful for any person to install, repair, remodel, replace or perform any work in the City without a permit from the Planning Department, except: (1) Painting, interior or exterior (2) Any floor covering." Roofing is not among these two named exceptions. Sec. 1.1.3(E) then states, verbatim: "A no charge building permit shall be required for a repair/remodel, when such repair/remodel cost less than $3,500 and the work is done by the owner of the property. This provision shall apply to all one or two family dwellings regardless of whether or not they are owner occupied. This provision is not meant to exempt any person from complying with State and Federal Laws." - i.e., below $3,500 and done by the owner personally, a permit is still required but issued free of charge; it is not a fee-only waiver for hired-contractor work. Where a fee does apply, Sec. 1.2.7(C) sets the residential fee for "Remodel, repairs, decks, accessory structures, others not listed above (no increase in square footage of area under roof of residence)" - the category a routine re-roof falls under - at "0.006 x value," with a $30.00 minimum.

9.500% combined (state 6.5% + City of North Little Rock 2.000%, effective 01/01/18 + Pulaski County 1.000%), per the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration's July-September 2026 quarterly "List of Cities and Counties with Local Sales and Use Tax" table, which prints North Little Rock's row as "60-01 01/01/18 2.000% Pulaski 1.000% 3.000%" (3.000% combined local, plus the 6.5% state rate).