City of Peru Building Department

City of Peru, Indiana

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35 S Broadway, Peru, IN 46970

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WHERE. The Building Department is at City Hall, 35 S Broadway, Peru, IN 46970, on (765) 473-4881, fax (765) 472-5815, open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Wednesday 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Bruce Carson is Building Commissioner. WHAT IS FILED. A reroof goes on the City's Roofing Only Permit form, which must be completed in full to be reviewed and asks for the address, owner, contractor, number of structures, square footage being roofed, tear-off or overlay, and roofing type. Applications can also be submitted through the City's online permit portal. Every contractor on the job must already hold a current registration. MONEY. The residential roofing fee is $40.00 flat per structure, within a residential cap of $500 per project, and fees are paid to the City Clerk-Treasurer. The City takes cash, check, money order or certified check, and a credit card by phoning the Clerk's office. Residential permits are good for one year. INSPECTIONS. Pre-felt or pre-metal and final, as described in this record's mid-roof field.

THE CITY ADOPTS NO EDITION OF ITS OWN; ITS ADOPTION IS EXPRESSLY FLOATING. Section 152.07(A) adopts the building rules of the Indiana Fire Prevention and Building Safety Commission in the listed articles of Title 675 of the Indiana Administrative Code, and says they "shall include later amendments to those articles as the same are published in the Indiana Register or the Indiana Administrative Code with effective dates as fixed therein". The list includes Article 14, the One and Two Family Dwelling Codes. The section was last amended by Ord. 29, 2011, passed December 5, 2011. So Peru tracks whatever Article 14 is as published from time to time. On the Indiana Register's listing of Article 14 as read on 2026-09-11, the rule in force is Rule 4.4, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, which adopts and amends the 2018 International Residential Code. Chapter 152 writes no roofing amendment to it: read in full, it contains no technical roof-covering provision at all, and its only roofing lines are fees. TWO OLDER ADOPTIONS SIT BESIDE IT. Section 152.07(A)(1)(e) lists the International Property Maintenance Code under Article 13, and section 152.40 adopts the Uniform Housing Code, 1988 Edition, by reference. Neither is the code a reroof is built to.

Required — REQUIRED, BY THE STATE RATHER THAN BY PERU. The Indiana State Building Commissioner's own memo on ice/water shield and drip edge sets out how the 2020 Indiana Residential Code regulates them, and reproduces R905.2.8.5: "A drip edge shall be provided at eaves and rake edges of shingle roofs." The memo also states that the code "governs all Class 2 residential construction" statewide. Peru has no drip-edge provision of its own: Chapter 152 was read in full and the word drip does not appear in it. Nor could the City subtract the requirement, because IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars a city from an ordinance that conflicts with the commission's rules. About drip edge

Required — REQUIRED IN MIAMI COUNTY BY THE STATE TABLE. The Indiana Residential Code's Table R301.2(1) runs county by county, and in the copy the State Building Commissioner's memo reproduces, the Miami County row reads Yes in the ice shield underlayment column. The memo explains what that means: "there are specific counties in which it is always required (per Table R301.2(1))", as distinct from counties where the membrane is required only when the manufacturer's written installation instructions call for it. Miami is one of the always counties. Peru writes nothing of its own on this: Chapter 152 contains no occurrence of ice or snow. So on a Peru shingle reroof the ice barrier is a code requirement, not a manufacturer or warranty option. About ice & water barrier

Required — REQUIRED, AND THE CITY PRINTS IT ON THE PERMIT ITSELF. The City's Roofing Only Permit form ends with a highlighted line: "REQUIRED INSPECTIONS: PRE-FELT & FINAL, OR PRE-METAL & FINAL". So on a shingle job the deck must be inspected after tear-off and before the underlayment goes on, and again at completion; on a metal job the first inspection comes before the metal is installed. The form also marks any structural reconfiguration or repair as an inspection item. Inspections are booked with the Building Department on 765-473-4881, and the form recommends calling at least 24 hours ahead and warns that a skipped inspection may mean fines or undoing completed work so it can be checked. By signing the form the owner also consents to inspection staff using a drone to inspect the permitted work.

A REROOF IS PERMIT WORK; A MINOR REPAIR IS NOT, AND THE CODE DOES NOT SAY WHERE ONE ENDS AND THE OTHER BEGINS. Section 152.16(A) of the Peru Code reads: "A permit shall be obtained before beginning construction, alteration or substantial repair of any building or structure, using forms furnished by the Building Commissioner. Exceptions to permit requirements: exact size window replacements, siding, floor covering, minor repairs and general maintenance." Roofing is not on that list of exceptions, and the fee section, 152.18(A), carries its own line for it: "Roofing - Overlay or Complete Tear Off" at $40.00. The Building Department's procedures page says the same thing in plain terms: "A Residential Permit is required for any new structure, accessory building, addition, electrical, roofing, plumbing or HVAC work being performed on a Residential Property." The City's roofing-only permit form offers complete tear off, partial tear off and overlay as the three project choices, so a partial tear-off is treated as permit work too. What Chapter 152 does not do is define "minor repairs": all twenty-three of its sections were read and none sets a square-footage or dollar line. A few replaced shingles may fall under the exception; anything the City's own form describes as a tear-off or overlay does not. Ask the Building Department on 765-473-4881 before assuming a repair is minor. Starting without a permit costs a $25 late filing fee on top of the permit fee under 152.98(A)(4), and each day of work before the permit is obtained counts as a separate violation carrying another $25.

THE FIGURES ARE THE STATE'S COUNTY-INDEXED TABLE, NOT A PERU ENACTMENT. Table R301.2(1) of the Indiana Residential Code, as reproduced in the State Building Commissioner's memo, gives the Miami County row as wind speed 115 mph, seismic design category A, ground snow load 20 psf, frost depth 36 inches, winter design temperature 1 degree Fahrenheit, decay slight to moderate, termite moderate to heavy, weathering severe, ice shield underlayment required Yes, air freezing index 2000 and mean annual temperature 49.4 degrees. The City publishes no design criteria of its own: Chapter 152 contains no occurrence of snow, seismic or frost, and its single "wind" hit is the word window.

TWO LAYERS MAXIMUM, SET BY THE STATE CODE; PERU WRITES NO LAYER RULE OF ITS OWN. Section 152.07(A) incorporates Article 14 of Title 675 of the Indiana Administrative Code with later amendments, and the rule in force in that article is 675 IAC 14-4.4, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, which adopts and amends the 2018 International Residential Code; the state rule makes no change to the reroofing section, and Chapter 152, read in full, contains no technical roof-covering provision; its only roofing lines are permit fees. Base-code rule, read at 2018 International Residential Code Section R908.3.1.1, Roof recover not allowed, and quoted here rather than left behind the ICC paywall: a roof recover "shall not be permitted" 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 means a tear-off to the deck.

7.00% in Peru, the Indiana state sales and use tax rate. The Department of Revenue's county tax information page states: "The sales tax for the entire State of Indiana is 7%." WHO PAYS IT ON A ROOF DEPENDS ON THE CONTRACT. The Department's Sales Tax Information Bulletin #60 explains that a contractor on a time and material contract "is a retail merchant that is selling the construction material that it incorporates into real property" and collects sales tax on the material portion, while a contractor on any other type of contract, such as a lump sum, "must pay sales or use tax on their construction material" and does not collect it from the customer. Read the bulletin, or ask an accountant, before pricing a job either way.