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

Town of Red Cliff, Colorado

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400 Pine Street, Red Cliff, CO 81649

The Building Permits page states: "The forms listed below are needed when applying for a building permit ... Upon completion of the proper form, please deliver to the Town Office or send via email so that the form can be submitted. The permit fee will be assessed after the form is submitted." It further notes: "***Effective 2023: The Town of Red Cliff will be working directly with the state for electrical permitting/inspections. This permit can be obtained directly through the State's website." The Town's posted "Work Exempt From Permit" document (standard IBC Section 105.2 exemption list) does not list roof covering or re-roofing among the exempt work items for Building, so roof work is not called out as exempt, but no page found uses the word "roof" or "roofing" directly, so no roofing-specific boolean is recorded here.

The Town of Red Cliff's Building Permits page states: Currently, the Town of Red Cliff has adopted: International Building Code IRC-2021 Edition International Residential Code 2021 Edition National Electrical Code as adopted by the State of Colorado International Fire Code 2021 Edition International Fuel Gas Code 2021 Edition International Plumbing Code 2021 Edition International Mechanical Code 2021 Edition Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings 1997 Edition All as published by the International Code Council, and directs readers to Ordinance 4, Series 2026. The Town's separately posted codification of Chapter 18 still carries the 2009-edition adoption made by Ordinance 2, Series 2014, and the only text of Ordinance 4 the Town publishes is the version approved on first reading March 3, 2026, which sets a second reading for March 17, 2026 and bears unsigned attestation blocks; the enacted text has not been published. An earlier reading of this record gave the 2018 editions the same page carried before Ordinance 4.

8.69% combined inside the Town of Red Cliff. The components are the Colorado state rate of 2.9%, Eagle County at 1.50%, the Eagle Valley Regional Transportation Authority at 0.50%, the Eagle River Fire Protection District at 0.79%, and the Town of Red Cliff at 3%. Red Cliff is named in the fire district boundary rather than swept in by proximity - the state rate tables give it as "Areas of Hwy 24 and I-70 in Eagle County including Avon, Edwards, Minturn, and Red Cliff. Excludes Beaver Creek area" - and the Eagle Valley authority covers "Eagle County except areas already within the Roaring Fork RTA and incorporated Gypsum." Do not add a separate mass transit line: the state tables note that Eagle Countys 1.50% "includes 0.5% Mass Transit System (MTS) in Eagle and Pitkin Counties." ON USE TAX, Red Cliff levies 3% and it applies to building materials, so materials brought into town without Colorado sales tax already paid attract the towns 3% on top of the states 2.9% use tax. Eagle County levies no use tax. Note for anyone comparing the two towns on the same corridor: Minturn sits a full point higher at 9.69%, entirely because its municipal rate is 4% rather than 3%.