City of Peoria Building Safety Division

City of Peoria, Illinois

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419 Fulton Street, Peoria, IL 61602

Required

WHERE. Permits are issued from the Development Center on the second floor of City Hall, 419 Fulton Street, Peoria, IL 61602, 309-494-2273. MONEY. Residential permit fees are calculated as a percentage of the applicant's stated construction cost: Code of Ordinances Sec. 5-97 sets residential jobs valued at $5,000.00 or higher at a 0.008 multiplier of the job cost. All permit fees are tripled where work requiring a permit starts before the permit issues, except a bona fide emergency, which still needs a permit within two business days. WHO MUST PULL IT. Sec. 5-91(c) puts the duty on the general contractor where one is hired, and on the owner otherwise. LICENCE CHECK. Under state law the City may not issue a roofing permit without proof of the contractor's current Illinois roofing licence, as this record's registration details field describes.

THE CITY'S OWN ADOPTION, READ IN FULL, AND ITS AMENDMENTS DO NOT REACH ROOFING. Code of Ordinances Sec. 5-121 adopts the International Building Code, 2018 edition, by reference, and Sec. 5-123 adopts the International Residential Code for One- and Two-Family Dwellings, 2018 edition, by reference, both last amended by Ordinance No. 17833, adopted March 23, 2021. The City's own amendments to the residential code, at Sec. 5-124, were read in full: they rewrite the code's title section, add the swimming pool appendix, redirect board-of-appeals references to the City's own construction commission, set stair riser and tread dimensions, delete Sections R313.1 and R313.2 (the automatic fire sprinkler requirement), and replace the plumbing chapters with the state plumbing code. None of these touches the roof-assembly provisions of IRC Chapter 9 or the roof-covering provisions of IBC Chapter 15; the amendment ordinance never mentions a roof, a shingle, or a section number in either chapter. Illinois itself supplies no statewide residential code for an existing house, so there is no state instrument to check behind the City's own amendments. This is the City of Peoria only; Peoria County adopts and enforces its own building code for unincorporated county land, a separate authority from this record. Codified through Ordinance No. 18385, adopted July 14, 2026 (Supp. No. 119).

Required — REQUIRED BY THE UNAMENDED BASE 2018 IRC, WITH NO LOCAL RULE EITHER WAY. The City adopts the 2018 International Residential Code by reference (Sec. 5-123) and its own amendment ordinance (Sec. 5-124, read in full) does not touch the roof-assembly chapter, so the base 2018 IRC's drip-edge provision applies unmodified: a drip edge is required at eaves and rake edges of shingle roofs. The City's own permit guidance says nothing about drip edge either way. About drip edge

Not required

THE CITY DRAWS THE LINE AT ROOF SHEATHING, NOT AT COVERING. The City's own permit guidance page lists, under work that needs a permit, "Re-roofing if it involves replacement of wood roof sheathing (plywood or boards)", and lists, under work that does not need a permit, "Roofing (not including replacing roof sheathing lumber)". So an ordinary tear-off and shingle replacement that leaves the existing deck in place needs no permit, while a reroof that also replaces deck boards or plywood does. The codified basis is general rather than roofing-specific: Code of Ordinances Sec. 5-91(a) requires a permit to "construct, enlarge, alter or demolish a structure" or to work on anything the adopted codes regulate, and separately exempts "ordinary repairs which do not involve any violation of this Code". This record does not state a dollar-value threshold for roofing, because none was found in the codified chapter or the City's own guidance; the test the City states is the scope of the work (covering only, versus sheathing), not its cost.

THE UNAMENDED BASE 2018 IRC BARS A THIRD LAYER. The City adopts the 2018 International Residential Code by reference (Sec. 5-123) and its own amendment ordinance (Sec. 5-124, read in full) amends nothing in the reroofing section and does not except or delete it; Illinois supplies no state amendment to the IRC to check behind it. Section R908.3.1.1, Roof recover not allowed, of the 2018 IRC as published, bars a roof recover, among other conditions, "where the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering." One existing layer may be recovered; a second existing layer requires a full tear-off first.

NO LOCAL SHEATHING RULE; THE BASE 2018 IRC GOVERNS UNMODIFIED. The City adopts the 2018 International Residential Code by reference and its own amendment ordinance (Sec. 5-124, read in full) does not touch Chapter 8's roof sheathing provisions; Illinois supplies no state amendment to check behind it, since the State has adopted no residential building code reaching an existing house. So the unamended base 2018 IRC roof sheathing requirements apply. Separately, and only for the permitting question rather than the material requirement: the City's own permit guidance treats replacement of the wood roof sheathing as the dividing line between a permit-exempt reroof and one that needs a permit, as this record's repair permit threshold field describes.

THE RATE THAT MATTERS IS WHERE THE MATERIALS ARE BOUGHT, NOT THE JOB ADDRESS. Illinois treats a roofing contractor as the end user of the materials: 86 Ill. Adm. Code 130.1940(c) states that a construction contractor "does not incur Retailers' Occupation Tax liability as to receipts from labor furnished and tangible personal property ... incorporated into a structure," and instead "incurs Use Tax on the cost price of the tangible personal property that is incorporated into real estate," with "roofing materials" named among the examples. Repair and full replacement are taxed identically: 130.1940(a)(3) defines "construct" to include "repair." In practice the supply house charges the tax at its own counter, at the combined rate where the supplier or the contractor's own place of business sits, not at the homeowner's address (86 Ill. Adm. Code 130.2075). The State's own rate is 6.25%. The City of Peoria's own published combined general merchandise rate, for a purchase made inside the city, is 9.00% (6.25% State, 1.75% City, 1.00% County), rising to 10.00% inside the City's Hospitality Improvement Zone Business Development District. The authoritative current lookup for any specific address is the Illinois Department of Revenue's MyTax Illinois Tax Rate Finder.