City of Springfield, Ohio - Building Regulations Division

City of Springfield, Ohio

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76 East High Street, Springfield, OH 45502

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Springfield's Building Regulations Division is at 76 East High Street, Springfield, Ohio 45502 (937-324-7389), within the Community Development Department. The City is no longer accepting paper applications for zoning or building-regulation permits; all applications, including the Residential Re-roofing Affidavit Application, must be submitted through the CityWorks online portal. For a residential re-roof, the applicant checks one of three project-type boxes on the affidavit form (partial recover over one existing layer; full removal and replacement per new- roof code requirements; or full tear-off including new sheathing, felt paper, drip edge and roofing materials), pays a flat $32.00 fee, and both owner and contractor sign; the contractor must provide a copy of the signed application to the property owner. The form places responsibility for workmanship on the homeowner to oversee, states roofing materials may not be applied over an existing wood shake, slate, clay, cement, or asbestos-cement tile roof, and requires the owner to hire a licensed contractor if the owner is not doing the work personally. A separate permit is required for any other alteration/construction work, or for electrical, HVAC, sign, demolition, or fire detection/suppression installations performed alongside the reroof.

SET BY STATE RULE, with a Springfield-specific administrative and design- criteria layer confirmed this session. Ohio regulates one-, two- and three-family dwelling construction statewide through the Residential Code of Ohio (RCO), adopted by the Ohio Board of Building Standards under Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3781. Springfield's own "Current Adopted Ohio Building Codes / Required for Springfield, Ohio" document (a city- published .docx, read in full this session) names the 2019 Residential Code of Ohio (RCO), 2023 NFPA 70 (National Electric Code), and the 2018 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) as the residential codes in force, and separately names "CODIFIED ORDINANCES of Springfield: Part 13 - Building Code" as the city's own local layer under Ohio Rev. Code 3781.01(B) (which lets a municipal legislative authority add non- conflicting local building regulations). That same city document prints a complete, Springfield-specific "Design Criteria" table matching the RCO's Table 301.2(1) format, including the one cell the state table leaves for local fill-in (ground snow load = 20 lbs) -- see wind_design_criteria. Springfield's own Residential Re-roofing Affidavit Application further reproduces RCO Chapter 9 roofing-regulation text (Sections 803, 905, 907) directly on the permit form. Springfield's full codified Part 13 text (hosted at codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/springfield) could not be opened this session -- it returned a Cloudflare interstitial to every method attempted (see report) -- so whether Part 13 adds further roofing-specific technical provisions beyond what the city's own permit and code-adoption documents already establish has not been fully determined in this record.

Required — CITY-SPECIFIC affirmative, on top of a state floor that does not itself impose a numbered drip-edge spec. RCO Section 905.2.8.5 (OAC 4101:8-9-01, effective 7/1/2019, read in full this session) is only: "905.2.8.5 Drip edge. Refer to Sections 903.1 and 905.1," and neither 903.1 (general roof-covering securement) nor 905.1 (general application) contains a drip-edge specification. Springfield's own Residential Re-roofing Affidavit Application (read in full), however, lists "drip edge" by name as one of the components ("new sheathing, felt paper, drip edge and roofing materials") that "will be installed to meet requirement of residential building codes for new roofs" under the form's full-tear-off project-type option -- an affirmative, city-sourced drip-edge requirement for a full residential re-roof/replacement. About drip edge

Required — CITY-CONFIRMED, and independently required at the state level. Springfield's own Residential Re-roofing Affidavit Application (page 2, "Residential Roofing Regulations," read in full) states, verbatim: "Per Table 301.2(1) ice barrier underlayment is required in the state of Ohio." Springfield's own "Current Adopted Ohio Building Codes" document (read in full) prints a Springfield-specific Design Criteria table with "Ice Shield Underlayment Req." listed as "Yes." This matches RCO Table 301.2(1) (OAC 4101:8-3-01, effective 7/1/2019, read in full this session), which pre-fills "Ice Barrier Underlayment Required" as "Yes" statewide, with RCO Section 905.1.2 requiring the ice barrier to extend from the lowest roof edge to a point not less than 24 inches inside the exterior wall line (36 inches on slopes at or above 8:12). About ice & water barrier

Not required — Not established as a sourced affirmative. Springfield's own Residential Re-roofing Affidavit Application (2 pages, read in full) is the operative permit document for a residential re-roof and names no mid-roof, dry-in, or roof-covering inspection stage; it is a flat-fee affidavit-based permit with no inspection checklist attached. Springfield's separate "Requested Inspection Form" (read in full) is a code-compliance / certificate-of-occupancy inspection request unrelated to routine roofing-permit inspections. Recorded as a sourced negative -- required: false -- rather than asserting an inspection stage that was not found in the documents opened this session.

Not required — Neither RCO Chapter 9 (OAC 4101:8-9-01, "Roof Assemblies," 30 pages, read in full) nor RCO Table 301.2(1) and its surrounding design-criteria chapter (OAC 4101:8-3-01, 99 pages, read in full) contains a UL 2218 or Class 4 impact-resistance provision -- no occurrence of "UL 2218" or "Class 4" appears in either instrument. Springfield's own Residential Re-roofing Affidavit Application and its "Current Adopted Ohio Building Codes" document (both read in full) likewise contain no impact- resistance or hail-rating requirement.

CITY-SPECIFIC: no minor-repair or minimum-valuation exemption was identified. Springfield's own Building Permits page states, verbatim, that "Separate permits are required for, but not limited to: Residential projects (including reroofing...)," with the only stated carve-out being "basic cosmetic changes, such as painting." Springfield's own "Residential Re-roofing Affidavit Application" (Building Regulations Division form, read in full) is the operative document for any residential re-roof regardless of job size or value: it charges a single flat fee of $32.00 with no valuation tiering, and requires the applicant to check one of three project-type boxes (partial recover over one existing layer; full tear-off and replacement per new-roof code requirements; or full tear-off including new sheathing, felt paper, drip edge and roofing materials).

CITY-CONFIRMED, matching the state floor. Springfield's own "Current Adopted Ohio Building Codes" document (read in full this session) prints a Springfield-specific "Design Criteria: City of Springfield, Ohio" table: Roof Snow Load 20 lbs., Wind Speed 115 mph, Seismic Design Category A, Weathering Severe, Frost Line Depth 32 inches, Winter Design Temperature 5 degrees F, Ice Shield Underlayment Required Yes, Flood Hazard "see local F.P. Admin.," Air Freezing Index less than 1,500, Termite Damage Moderate to Heavy, Decay Slight to Moderate, and Mean Annual Temperature 50 degrees F. This matches RCO Table 301.2(1) (OAC 4101:8-3-01, effective 7/1/2019, read in full this session), which pre-fills a 115 mph ultimate design wind speed, "severe" weathering, and "Yes" ice barrier underlayment statewide, while leaving ground snow load for local fill-in (RCO footnote (o)): here Springfield's own document supplies that local figure directly as 20 lbs.

CITY-SPECIFIC, confirmed via Springfield's own Residential Re-roofing Affidavit Application (read in full): the form's three checkbox project types allow "one layer of roofing material... applied over one existing layer of roofing material" (i.e., a maximum of two total layers) as a recover job, but require full removal of the present roofing material where the project falls under the form's project-type (2), citing as its own example "where the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering." The same form's page-2 "Residential Roofing Regulations" excerpt (Section 907, Reroofing -- Recovering versus Replacement) states this as a rule, verbatim: new roof covering shall not be installed without first removing existing roof coverings "Where the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering," subject to an exception for complete, separate roofing systems (e.g., standing-seam metal) that transmit loads directly to the structure without relying on the existing roof for support.

CITY-CONFIRMED, matching the state floor. Springfield's own Residential Re-roofing Affidavit Application (page 2, "Residential Roofing Regulations," read in full) states, verbatim, under "SECTION 803 ROOF SHEATHING": "Roof sheathing shall comply with Table 803.1[.] Wood structural panels shall comply with Table 503.2.1.1(1)[.] The roof covering shall be applied only when the supporting roof construction is clean and dry." The same document's "SECTION 905" excerpt states asphalt shingles "shall be fastened to solidly sheathed decks." This mirrors RCO Section 905.2.1 (OAC 4101:8-9-01), which independently requires asphalt shingles to be "fastened to solidly sheathed decks."

SET BY STATE RULE. RCO Section 905.2.5 (OAC 4101:8-9-01, effective 7/1/2019, read in full this session) requires fasteners for asphalt shingles to be galvanized steel, stainless steel, aluminum, or copper roofing nails, minimum 12-gage shank with a minimum 3/8-inch-diameter head, complying with ASTM F1667, of a length to penetrate not less than 3/4 inch into the roof sheathing (through the sheathing where it is thinner than 3/4 inch). RCO Section 905.2.6 requires not less than four fasteners per strip shingle or two fasteners per individual shingle, per the manufacturer's approved installation instructions. Springfield's own Residential Re-roofing Affidavit Application and its code-adoption document (both read in full this session) do not add a further local fastening specification beyond this state floor. About roofing nails

Clark County's combined state-and-local sales and use tax rate is 7.25%, per the Ohio Department of Taxation's Sales and Use Tax Rate Map (dated March 31, 2026, reflecting rates in effect as of October 2025): a 5.75% state rate (per the map's own note 3, "The current state rate is 5.75%") plus a 1.50% Clark County permissive rate with no transit add-on, printed in the map's own county table as "Clark 1.50% N/A 7.25%."