City of St. George Building Department

City of St. George, Utah

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61 S Main St, St. George, UT 84770

Required

2021 IRC and 2024 IBC, applying statewide by force of state law, with no local adoption needed. Utah Code 15A-2-103(1) incorporates "the 2024 edition of the International Building Code" and, separately, "the 2021 edition of the International Residential Code," and 15A-1-204(1)(a) makes those codes "the construction codes ... that the state and each political subdivision of the state shall follow." Section 15A-1-204(1)(b) extends compliance to an owner "voluntarily engaged in ... the repair, renovation, remodeling, alteration ... or reconstruction of the building," so a reroof is covered. Section 15A-1-204(8) bars a political subdivision from adopting or enforcing anything "more restrictive than, the State Construction Code" on a subject the Code addresses, except "as expressly provided in state law." That express provision is Title 15A Chapter 4, Part 2, which is closed at exactly two named jurisdictions -- Park City (15A-4-206) and Sandy City (15A-4-207) -- and St. George is not one of them, so no codified local IRC amendment applies here. St. George's own Building Department page confirms it is tracking the current state edition rather than an older one, stating that "All design criteria must adhere to the currently adopted building codes, pursuant to Utah's House Bill 65 Construction Code Amendments" -- H.B. 65 (4th Sub.), 2026 General Session, is the act that re-enacted 15A-2-103 effective 2026-07-01 and kept the 2021 IRC. St. George's own adopting or amending ordinance could not be opened this session: both hosts the City's own site links for its municipal code, codepublishing.com/UT/StGeorge and stgeorge.municipal.codes, returned a Cloudflare challenge page rather than content (403 at roughly 5,700 and 95,000 bytes respectively). Separately, Utah Code 65A-8-203(9)(a) (H.B. 48, 2025, effective 2026-01-01) now requires every municipality to adopt and enforce the 2006 Utah Wildland Urban Interface Code in any area it designates wildland-urban-interface under that code, but adoption is not self-executing and no first-party St. George document describing a WUI ordinance or a declared WUI zone was found this session; this record does not assert either way whether St. George has adopted the UWUIC or declared a zone under it. Where that code does apply, its Section 507 pulls a roof-covering replacement of 25 percent or more within a 12-month period into the new-construction covering rules of Section 503, and the 2006 UWUIC is fire-only: a full count of its 118,402 characters returns zero hits for "UL 2218," "FM 4473," "Class 4," "Class IV," and "hail."

Not required — NOT REQUIRED, BY STATE STATUTE, THE STATEWIDE CODE, AND THE ONLY TWO LAWFUL LOCAL IRC AMENDMENTS THE STATE HAS EVER ENACTED. Utah Code 15A-1-204(8) bars any city from enforcing a building requirement "more restrictive than, the State Construction Code" except "as expressly provided in state law." The full text of that express provision, Title 15A Chapter 4 Part 2 (3,046 characters, counted), contains exactly two local IRC amendments -- Park City's 15A-4-206 and Sandy City's 15A-4-207 -- and both are wildfire wood-roof-covering rules, not impact ratings: "UL 2218," "Class 4," "Class IV," and "hail" each occur zero times in either section. St. George is not among the two named jurisdictions, so it could not lawfully add an impact-resistant mandate of its own even if it wished to. The statewide amendment package is likewise silent (zero hits for the same terms across 48,780 characters), as is the enrolled 2026 amending act, H.B. 65 (253,370 characters; its four "impact" hits are attack-resistant glazing under ASTM F3561, not roofing). Utah's now-mandatory 2006 Wildland Urban Interface Code, which may reach a St. George reroof if the City has designated a WUI area, is also fire-only: zero occurrences of "UL 2218," "FM 4473," "Class 4," "Class IV," and "hail" across its 118,402 characters. St. George's own building-code ordinance could not be opened this session (codepublishing.com and stgeorge.municipal.codes both returned a Cloudflare 403), but the ceiling statute and the closed registry make an additional local impact mandate legally unavailable to St. George regardless.

NO VALUATION FLOOR STATED FOR ROOFING; THE FEE SCHEDULE BEGINS AT ONE DOLLAR. The City's own Building Fee Sheet, headed "1997 Uniform Building Code - Building Fee Scale," is a continuous valuation table with no minimum-job exemption: its first tier is "$500.00" at "$23.50" and the table's own narrative confirms the schedule starts at "$1 to $500" for "$23.50." No roofing line item, square-footage threshold, or minor-repair carve-out appears anywhere in the six-page document. This record does not find, and does not assume, a small-job exemption for an ordinary residential reroof in St. George.

ONLY A GROUND SNOW LOAD FIGURE IS ESTABLISHED FOR ST. GEORGE; WIND SPEED IS NOT. Utah Code 15A-3-202(19) deletes the base IRC's Figure R301.2(3) and substitutes a 29-row "TABLE R301.2(3) GROUND SNOW LOADS FOR SELECTED LOCATIONS IN UTAH." That table's own row for St. George, Washington County, reads a ground snow load of 21 lb/ft-squared at an elevation of 2,585 feet. The state amendment package does not fill in a wind speed or ice-barrier column anywhere -- both terms return zero occurrences across the 48,780-character statewide IRC amendment set -- so those entries are left to the jurisdiction under the base 2021 IRC's own Table R301.2(1) mechanism. St. George's Building Department page states only that design criteria "must adhere to the currently adopted building codes" and posts no separate design- criteria document of its own among the files it publishes (checked against its full posted document list). This record does not state a wind speed or an ice-barrier trigger for St. George.

NO CLASSIFICATION PUBLISHED FOR THIS RECORD. The state's own Chapter 9 amendment package (Utah Code Title 15A Chapter 3 Part 2, all six sections, 48,780 characters counted) does not touch the reroofing section: "R908," "Chapter 9," and "shingle" each occur zero times. The complete statewide registry of codified local IRC amendments, Title 15A Chapter 4 Part 2, is closed at exactly two named jurisdictions, Park City and Sandy City, and St. George is not one of them, so no codified local amendment to the reroofing provisions applies here. St. George's own building-code adoption ordinance could not be opened this session: its municipal code is served only from codepublishing.com/UT/StGeorge and stgeorge.municipal.codes, and both returned a Cloudflare challenge page (403) rather than the code text. Because that instrument was not read, this record points at, and does not quote or state a number for, the base code's reroofing provision.

6.75% COMBINED, PER LOCATION, AND THE ROOFER PAYS IT ON MATERIALS, NOT THE HOMEOWNER ON THE JOB. Under Utah Admin. Code R865-19S-58(2)(a), "the contractor or repairman who converts the personal property to real property is the consumer" of the materials, so a St. George roofer under a furnish-and-install contract pays sales tax on the wholesale purchase of shingles and supplies, while the charge to the homeowner for the completed roof is not itself taxable, and labor on real property is not taxed. Utah Code 59-12-103(1)(g) taxes services on tangible personal property, not on real property, which is the statutory basis; the Tax Commission's own Publication 42 confirms the same rule for a furnish-and-install contract, but never names roofing (counted, zero hits). The State Tax Commission's Combined Sales and Use Tax Rates chart for the quarter in effect July 1, 2026 lists "St George" (location code 27-020, Washington County) at a combined 6.75%, built from: state 4.85% (59-12-103), local sales 1.00% (59-12-204), county option 0.25% (59-12-1102), Highways Tax 0.30% (59-12-2215), Transportation Infrastructure 0.25% (59-12-2219), and Botanical, Cultural, Zoo tax 0.10% (59-12-703). This record does not distinguish repair from replacement -- both convert materials to real property under the same rule.