City of Shelbyville Planning and Building Department

City of Shelbyville, Indiana

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44 West Washington Street, Shelbyville, IN 46176

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WHERE. The Planning and Building Department is on the first floor of Shelbyville City Hall, 44 West Washington Street, Shelbyville, IN 46176, on 317-392-5102; the general City Hall line is 317-398-6624. Contractor registration questions go to the Permits and Licenses Administrator. Check the address first: the Shelby County Building Inspector, at the Courthouse Annex, serves the unincorporated county and the Town of Fairland, not the City. WHAT IS FILED. The City's combined Improvement Location and Building Permit application asks for the owner and registered contractor, a description of work with a box for remodeling, alteration or repair, the square footage and value of construction, and whether engineered lumber is used in the roof trusses, and it must be signed by a registered contractor or carry a homeowner's affidavit. The City says it is moving permits and contractor registrations onto an online Citizenserve platform alongside counter and phone service. TIME AND MONEY. The City's FAQ states: "Building, Improvement Location, and Right-Of-Way permits typically take 3 to 5 days, while most other permits are issued immediately." The Building Department fee schedule prices residential remodeling by value of construction, from $50 at $5,000 or below up to $250 over $100,000, and a residential Improvement Location Permit is $50; the schedule has no line for roofing, and its only occurrences of the word roof are rooftop mechanical units. Re-inspections are $50, then $25 more for each further failure of the same phase. Work without a permit is fined $200 plus the normal permit fees, $400 plus fees on a second offense, and a third offense brings a stop work order and a required appearance before the Building Commission.

THE CITY ADOPTS THE STATE CODE AND SAYS SO ON ITS OWN BUILDING CODES PAGE. That page reads: "The City of Shelbyville's Building Commission has adopted the building codes set forth by the Indiana State Department of Homeland Security." It then lists, under the words "As of January 2020, the current State building codes in effect are:", the residential code as "Indiana Residential Code 2020 Edition (International Residential Code 2018 Edition 1st Printing, With Indiana Amendments)". WHAT THAT STATE RULE IS. The 2020 Indiana Residential Code is 675 IAC 14-4.4, which adopts and amends the first printing of the 2018 International Residential Code, and the State Building Commissioner's own memo states: "The 2020 Indiana Residential Code is in full force and effect statewide." The rule was readopted by a filing of November 18, 2025, and its only amendments anywhere in the roof assemblies chapter delete the word "approved" from the asphalt-shingle attachment and flashing sections, delete "printed" from the other-flashing section and delete the last sentence of the rooftop photovoltaic section. Indiana law also limits what the City could add: IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars a city, town or county from adopting an ordinance "that conflicts with or includes more stringent or detailed requirements than the commission's rules". THE CITY'S CODIFIED ADOPTION TAKES IN LATER STATE AMENDMENTS. Section 152.05(A) of the City's Building Code incorporates by reference the "Building rules of the State Fire Prevention and Building Safety Commission as set out in the following Articles of Title 675 of the Indiana Administrative Code" and provides that the adoption "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". Its list names Article 14, One and Two Family Dwelling Codes, and still cites the residential rule by the older number 675 IAC 14-4.2 rather than the 675 IAC 14-4.4 now in force. Chapter 152 attaches no technical amendment to any rule it adopts: it was read in full, every section from 152.01 through 152.99 in the codification current through Ordinance 25-3050, passed December 15, 2025, and it contains no roofing provision.

Required — REQUIRED BY THE STATE CODE, WHICH THE CITY ADOPTS. The Indiana State Building Commissioner's memo on ice and water shield and drip edge reproduces section R905.2.8.5 of the 2020 Indiana Residential Code as adopted, and it opens: "A drip edge shall be provided at eaves and rake edges of shingle roofs." The memo sets out the provision in full, including its overlap, extension and fastening requirements; the builder should read those there rather than from this summary. 675 IAC 14-4.4 amends the flashing section above it only by deleting the word "approved" and makes no amendment to R905.2.8.5. The memo is also explicit that the requirement does not depend on local practice: "Regardless of any established local enforcement policies or practices to the contrary, or whether a local building authority even exists in any particular jurisdiction or location in the state, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code governs all Class 2 residential construction". The City's Building Code, Chapter 152, was read in full and contains no roofing provision, and IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars a city from adopting more stringent or detailed requirements than the state's rules. About drip edge

Not required — NOT REQUIRED BY THE TABLE, AND THE CITY SAYS SO IN TERMS, BUT READ THE MANUFACTURER'S INSTRUCTIONS. The City's Building Codes page states: "Shelbyville does not require ice shield underlayment on a roof, but it is highly recommended." The state table agrees: the Shelby County row of Table R301.2(1) in the 2020 Indiana Residential Code reads ice shield underlayment required No. WHAT THAT No MEANS, IN THE STATE'S OWN WORDS. The State Building Commissioner's memo explains that R903.1, R904.1 and R905.1 require roofing to be installed to the manufacturer's installation instructions, so there are counties where the barrier is always required and "specific counties in which it is required only when the roofing manufacturer's written installation instructions require it". Shelby County is in the second group. If the shingle manufacturer's instructions for the assembly being installed call for an ice and water membrane, the code requires it on that job. About ice & water barrier

Not required — NOT REQUIRED. Chapter 152, the City's Building Code, was read in full, every section from 152.01 through 152.99 as codified through Ordinance 25-3050, and it contains no roofing provision of any kind; its adoption at section 152.05 incorporates the state rules without technical amendment. The state rule, 675 IAC 14-4.4, makes no impact-resistance amendment to the roofing chapter, and IC 22-13-2-3(c) would bar the City from enacting one. No UL 2218 or Class 4 impact requirement appears in the City's building code or in the state rule it adopts. Impact-resistant shingles are an insurance and warranty decision in Shelbyville, not a code requirement.

THE CITY'S CODE DRAWS THE LINE AT STRUCTURAL REPAIR AND DOES NOT NAME ROOFING. Section 152.06(A) of the City's Building Code reads: "A permit shall be obtained before beginning construction, alteration, or making structural repairs to any building or structure, and all fees required by this code shall be paid in the Building Department prior to any work being started." It then marks the other side of the line: "For the purpose of this section, ordinary repairs are nonstructural repairs". Chapter 152 was read in full, every section from 152.01 through 152.99 as codified through Ordinance 25-3050, passed December 15, 2025, and it states no dollar figure, no square-footage floor and no roofing entry of any kind. So whether a reroof needs a permit turns on whether the job is an alteration or a structural repair, or an ordinary nonstructural repair, and the chapter does not say which a like-for-like reroof is. The City's fee schedule has no roofing line either. Ask the Building Department before starting.

THE FIGURES COME FROM THE STATE'S COUNTY-BY-COUNTY TABLE. Table R301.2(1) of the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, as substituted by 675 IAC 14-4.4-5, gives the Shelby County row as wind speed 115 mph, seismic design category B, ground snow load 20 psf, foundation (frost) depth 30 inches, winter design temperature 2 degrees Fahrenheit, decay slight to moderate, termite moderate to heavy, weathering severe, ice shield underlayment required No, air freezing index 1500 or less and mean annual temperature 52.6 degrees. THE CITY'S OWN PAGE REPEATS MOST OF THEM. Its Building Codes page lists ground snow load 20 PSF, seismic design category B, weathering severe, frost line depth 30 inches, termite moderate to heavy, decay slight to moderate and winter design temperature 2 degrees, and states: "The air freezing index is 1393 and the Mean Annual Temperature is 52.6 degrees." The City's figure of 1393 sits inside the state table's 1500-or-less band. The City's page prints a Wind Speed (MPH) heading with no figure beside it, so the 115 mph wind speed is the state table's figure alone.

NO CITY RULE AND NO STATE AMENDMENT, SO THE BASE CODE APPLIES UNMODIFIED. Chapter 152 of the Shelbyville Code, the City's Building Code, was read in full, every section from 152.01 through 152.99, and it contains no rule on roof layers, overlays or tear-off; its one use of the word "recover" is in "an action to recover the penalties provided for in this code", which is an enforcement provision. Its adoption at section 152.05 attaches no technical amendment. On the state side, 675 IAC 14-4.4 makes no amendment to the model reroofing section; its only edits anywhere in the roof assemblies chapter delete the word "approved" from the asphalt-shingle attachment and flashing sections, delete "printed" from the other-flashing section and delete the last sentence of the rooftop photovoltaic section. Nor could the City write its own: IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars a city, town or county from an ordinance "that conflicts with or includes more stringent or detailed requirements than the commission's rules". So the answer on a Shelbyville job is the base International Residential Code rule on recovering an existing roof, in the 2018 edition, unchanged by Indiana and unchanged by the City. Base-code rule, read at 2018 International Residential Code Section R908.3.1.1, Roof recover not allowed: 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.

NO LOCAL SHEATHING RULE EXISTS, AND NONE COULD. Chapter 152, the City's Building Code, was read in full and contains no occurrence of "sheathing" and none of "deck". IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars the City from an ordinance more stringent or more detailed than the commission's rules, so it could not add one. The deck side of an asphalt reroof is therefore set by the state-adopted 2018 International Residential Code as incorporated by 675 IAC 14-4.4, whose roofing-chapter amendments are the word and sentence deletions (the four word or sentence deletions in the photovoltaic, asphalt-shingle attachment and flashing sections). Sec. 82 of 675 IAC 14-4.4 deletes the words "or certificate of inspection issued by an approved agency" from Section R803.2.1, the section headed identification and grade; otherwise the sheathing provisions apply as incorporated.

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