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

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Town of Palisade (permits via Mesa County Building Department)

Yes, a permit is required to replace a roof in Palisade, CO, issued by Town of Palisade (permits via Mesa County Building Department). The Mesa County Building Department performs inspections, issues permits, and applies current codes for construction in the towns of De Beque, Collbran, and Palisade, in addition to unincorporated Mesa County and the City of Grand Junction. Reroofing in Palisade also requires the Town's Basic Planning Clearance, listed as an activity that does not change the scale, use, or character of a structure or land use; its description of work must match the Mesa County building permit application.

Roof code checklist: Palisade, CO

ItemAnswerCode citeSourceVerified
Permit to replace a roofYesmesacounty.us2026-07-16
Repair permit thresholdNot published
Layer limit / roof-overNot published
Deck & sheathingNot published
Drip edgeNot published
Ice & water shieldNot published
Mid-roof inspectionNot published
Impact-resistant (Class 4) roofingNoOrdinance_2025-08 - Adopting Buil...2026-07-31
Wind design criteriaNot published
Adopted codePublishedOrdinance_2025-08 - Adopting Buil...2026-07-31
Contractor license / registrationNomesacounty.us2026-07-16
Sales & use taxPublishedtax.colorado.gov2026-08-27

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
Town of Palisade, Colorado
Jurisdiction type
city
Address
175 East 3rd Street, Palisade, CO 81526
Contact
  • url: https://palisade.colorado.gov/departments/community-development-planning
  • phone: 970-464-5602
  • email: [email protected]
Roofing permit required
Required
Contractor registration required
Not required
Registration details
  • license: Mesa County's contractor licensing program applies only within Grand Junction city limits; it is not a countywide requirement and does not apply to work performed in Palisade.
Permit process note
The Mesa County Building Department performs inspections, issues permits, and applies current codes for construction in the towns of De Beque, Collbran, and Palisade, in addition to unincorporated Mesa County and the City of Grand Junction. Reroofing in Palisade also requires the Town's Basic Planning Clearance, listed as an activity that does not change the scale, use, or character of a structure or land use; its description of work must match the Mesa County building permit application.
Adopted code
The Town of Palisade adopts its own building codes by ordinance: Ordinance 2025-08 (September 9, 2025) adopts the 2024 International Building Code and 2024 International Residential Code "together with amendments set forth below." The Town's tie to Mesa County is limited: the ordinance accepts the appeals procedures established in Mesa County ordinance and adopts the Mesa County Building Department Fee Schedule (its Exhibit A) as the Town's permit-fee table. Design criteria and code text are the Town's own adoption, not an incorporation of Mesa County's code.
Impact-resistant roofing
Not required — The Town of Palisade has its own building-code-adopting ordinance -- Ordinance No. 2025-08, "An Ordinance of the Town of Palisade, Colorado, Adopting the International Building Code, International Residential Code..." (effective 2025), which adopts the 2024 IBC and 2024 IRC by reference "together with amendments set forth below" and itemizes those amendments in full for both codes. Ordinance 2025-08 read in full (33 pages, all Building Code and Residential Code amendment sections) contains no provision addressing impact-resistant roofing, UL 2218, Class 4 shingles, or hail.
Sales & use tax
7.27% combined (state 2.9% + Mesa County 2.37% + Town of Palisade 2%; no RTD/RTA on the Western Slope). Palisade is a state-collected town; it carries its own independent 2% town rate on the state's DR1002 publication (not merely "the Mesa County rate") with no separate town-level use tax on construction materials. Sales-tax authority here is distinct from building-code administration — Palisade's building permits are administered by Mesa County (per the record's existing sourcing), but its sales tax remains its own state-collected line item alongside the County's. Re-verified 2026-08-27 against the January 2026 edition of Colorado Department of Revenue form DR 1002, read from a rendered image of its tables rather than from extracted text: the state, county and city figures above match that edition exactly. Where the text above names the June 19, 2019 revision of DR 1002, that describes the edition the figure was originally taken from and is not a current citation.

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The Town of Palisade does not run its own building department; building permits, inspections, and adopted codes for construction within Palisade are handled by the Mesa County Building Department. The Town separately requires a Basic Planning Clearance for most construction activity, including reroofing, whose description of work must match the Mesa County building permit application.

Hail reports near Palisade, CO

Reports, last 24 months
0
Largest, last 24 months
None
Most recent
None in 24 months
Reports, last 5 years
2
2 most recent reports, last 5 years
DateHail sizeDistance
Jun 27, 20240.88 in7 mi SW
May 12, 20240.88 in2 mi WSW

Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database and daily storm reports (reports since the start of the current year are preliminary), within 10 miles of Palisade, CO (Census point). Data through Oct 7, 2026, not updated since. A report is an observation, not a damage record.

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Roofing questions: Palisade, CO

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

Yes, a permit is required to replace a roof in Palisade, CO.

Do roofing contractors need a license or registration in Palisade, CO?

No. Mesa County's contractor licensing program applies only within Grand Junction city limits; it is not a countywide requirement and does not apply to work performed in Palisade.

What building code does Palisade, CO use?

The Town of Palisade adopts its own building codes by ordinance: Ordinance 2025-08 (September 9, 2025) adopts the 2024 International Building Code and 2024 International Residential Code "together with amendments set forth below." The Town's tie to Mesa County is limited: the ordinance accepts the appeals procedures established in Mesa County ordinance and adopts the Mesa County Building Department Fee Schedule (its Exhibit A) as the Town's permit-fee table. Design criteria and code text are the Town's own adoption, not an incorporation of Mesa County's code.