Jurisdiction
Town of Simla, Colorado
Address
323 Pueblo Ave, Simla, CO 80835
Contact
- url: https://townofsimla.com/pages/building-and-land-use
- phone: 719-541-2468
- email: [email protected]
Roofing permit required
Required
Contractor registration required
Not required
Registration details
- license: The Building and Land Use page does not state a Town-level contractor-license or registration requirement, and the Town does not require contractor licensing or registration to obtain permits, so no Town contractor registration requirement is recorded here.
Permit process note
The page states: "Buildings or structures one hundred fifty (150) square feet or less...shall not require a building permit but must comply with appropriate setback regulations," and "All other buildings or structures must be issued a permit and pay the necessary fee prior to construction." No roofing-specific size exemption or carve-out is stated, so re-roofing on an existing structure falls under the general permit requirement. Complete Building Permit Applications and supporting documents are dropped off at Town Hall (323 Pueblo Ave, Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm); after Building Official review, the applicant is notified of permit cost, payable by cash, check, or credit card. The page states: "We only issue building permits for addresses located within our Municipal Town limits. Any addresses outside of the Town limits will need to get their permit through Elbert or El Paso Counties." The Town does not conduct electrical inspections; those are scheduled with the State of Colorado.
Inspection requirements
"The owner or contractor is RESPONSIBLE FOR CALLING FOR INSPECTIONS one (1) day in advance, before 4:00 p.m, Monday - Friday." Inspections are required at various phases of a project, and approval on all required inspections for a completed phase must be obtained before the next phase begins. The Building Official is Rick Stegmaier, available Tuesday - Thursday, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. No roofing-specific mid-roof or final-inspection protocol is stated on this page.
Adopted code
"The Town of Simla is on the 2006 version of the International Building Code." No separate IRC, IECC, or fire code edition is independently named on this page.
Mid-roof inspection
Not required — The Town's own "Residential Inspections" sheet (Simla Building Department, read in full, 3 pages) lists every required inspection stage by name: Foundation, Concrete Slab/Under-Floor, Framing, Lathe or Gypsum Board, and Final, plus rough plumbing, rough gas-air, rough electrical, service/meter release, rough heating and ventilation, residential insulation, and dry wall screw, followed by a three-step final-inspection process. Its Framing Inspection occurs "after roof, all framing, fire blocking and bracing are in place" as a whole- structure framing check, not a dedicated roof-covering or dry-in inspection. No separate mid-roof or roof-covering inspection stage is named anywhere on this instrument.
Impact-resistant roofing
Not required — The Town of Simla's Town Code, Title 7, Chapter 1, Building Regulations, was read in full across all nine of its sections. Section 7-1-1, enacted by Ordinance 332 on December 13, 2022, adopts by reference under Title 31, Article 16, Part 2, C.R.S. the International Building Code, 2006 edition, and the International Residential Code, 2006 edition, including the appendices published for both, with three copies on file in the office of the Town Clerk. The chapter's remaining sections establish the building official and inspector, set building permit, set-up, other-inspection, consultant- inspection and plan-review fees, provide for fee amendments, and set penalties for violation. The chapter states no amendment, deletion or addition to either adopted code, so the 2006 editions apply in Simla as published, and the other chapters of Title 7 govern electrical regulations, zoning, manufactured homes, annexation, flood damage prevention, shipping containers and recreational vehicle parks rather than the building codes. Neither the adopted codes nor any Town provision requires impact-resistant roof coverings or names a UL 2218 or Class 4 standard. The only statewide instrument reaching reroofing is the Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code, 8 CCR 1507-39, effective July 1, 2026 in areas designated wildland-urban interface under that code, which requires a Class A roof covering tested to ASTM E108 or UL 790 where 25 percent or more of the roof surface is replaced, at Sections 101.6 and 403.2; that is a fire classification independent of impact rating, and the code sets no impact-resistance requirement.
Repair permit threshold
The Town's Building and Land Use page states that buildings or structures 150 square feet or less (and pre-engineered temporary metal on-stall car ports) do not require a building permit but must comply with setback regulations, and that "all other buildings or structures must be issued a permit and pay the necessary fee prior to construction." The Town's 2025 Schedule of Fees for Building Permits prices every permit by a construction-valuation table (from $1.00-$500.00 up to $1,000,001 and above) rather than by a repair-specific dollar or percentage threshold, and the Town's Residential Inspections sheet describes inspection stages without stating a separate repair-vs-replacement threshold. No dollar or percentage threshold distinguishing minor roof repair from full replacement appears in any of these three Town-published instruments, all read in full.
Sales & use tax
7.9% combined (state 2.9% + Elbert County 1% + Town of Simla 4%; no RTD/SCFD/RTA district). Per Colorado Department of Revenue form DR 1002 (rev. 06/19/19, updated semi-annually): Elbert County's state-collected general county sales tax is listed at 1% (3.33% vendor service fee, exemptions A,B,C,D,E,G,H,K, use tax on motor vehicles and building materials), and the Town of Simla's own state-collected city rate is separately listed at 4% (3.33% service fee, exemptions A,B,C,K, no use tax). Simla is state-collected, not home-rule. 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.