Permitting Authorities / Township of Stockbridge - Building Department
Do you need a permit to replace a roof in Township of Stockbridge, MI?
Adopted code
Township of Stockbridge - Building Department
Yes, a permit is required to replace a roof in Township of Stockbridge, MI, issued by Township of Stockbridge - Building Department. In Stockbridge Township a reroof is priced as its own permit type: the Building Department's fee worksheet (revised 4/2025) carries a "SHINGLES" heading with "Administration" $70.00, "Rough (New Boards)" $70.00 and "Final" $70.00, and the department's page says "Prior to beginning a building, renovation, alteration, or repair, please contact the Building Department. We process all building permits for Stockbridge Township." The page says its inspection increase effective April 1, 2025 sets "Residential Inspections" at "$70/per Inspection", and the application says "Building Permit Fees are based on the sq. footage and an estimated number of inspections. If there are any additional inspections, you are responsible to pay for them." and that building permits "are good for one year", with a $125 renewal fee after a year of no activity. The township's Zoning, Building and Address Permit Application asks the applicant to circle the type of project (it lists alteration, repairs and renovations, with no roofing choice) and, under characteristics of the building, the roof coverage (asphalt, fiber glass, wood, steel or other). The application says "Zoning is required for all buildings", and the worksheet lists a zoning permit fee, so ask whether a reroof needs a zoning permit. The department is open Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to noon, at 125 S. Clinton Street, Stockbridge, MI 49285, and answers at (517) 851-9362; the page says "Please contact inspectors directly to schedule inspections." The department also processes permits for the Village of Stockbridge, whose forms are on the same page, and the page states that it enforces "Zoning Ordinance and State Building, Electrical, Mechanical, and Plumbing Codes.".
Roof code checklist: Township of Stockbridge, MI
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Jurisdiction
Township of Stockbridge, Michigan
Address
125 S. Clinton Street, Stockbridge, MI 49285
Contact
- url: https://www.stockbridgetownship.com/building-department/
- phone: 517-851-9362
Roofing permit required
Required
Contractor registration required
Required
Registration details
- state_level: Michigan licenses residential maintenance and alteration contractors under the Occupational Code, and that licence "includes the following crafts and trades" among which it names roofing (MCL 339.2404(3)); "A person shall not engage in or attempt to engage in the practice of an occupation regulated under this act" without the licence (MCL 339.601(1)). MCL 339.2403 lists who may work without one, including a project whose "aggregate contract price for the labor, material, and any other items for the undertaking or project is less than $600.00". This record does not decide whether a given roofer falls inside an exemption.
Permit process note
In Stockbridge Township a reroof is priced as its own permit type: the Building Department's fee worksheet (revised 4/2025) carries a "SHINGLES" heading with "Administration" $70.00, "Rough (New Boards)" $70.00 and "Final" $70.00, and the department's page says "Prior to beginning a building, renovation, alteration, or repair, please contact the Building Department. We process all building permits for Stockbridge Township." The page says its inspection increase effective April 1, 2025 sets "Residential Inspections" at "$70/per Inspection", and the application says "Building Permit Fees are based on the sq. footage and an estimated number of inspections. If there are any additional inspections, you are responsible to pay for them." and that building permits "are good for one year", with a $125 renewal fee after a year of no activity. The township's Zoning, Building and Address Permit Application asks the applicant to circle the type of project (it lists alteration, repairs and renovations, with no roofing choice) and, under characteristics of the building, the roof coverage (asphalt, fiber glass, wood, steel or other). The application says "Zoning is required for all buildings", and the worksheet lists a zoning permit fee, so ask whether a reroof needs a zoning permit. The department is open Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to noon, at 125 S. Clinton Street, Stockbridge, MI 49285, and answers at (517) 851-9362; the page says "Please contact inspectors directly to schedule inspections." The department also processes permits for the Village of Stockbridge, whose forms are on the same page, and the page states that it enforces "Zoning Ordinance and State Building, Electrical, Mechanical, and Plumbing Codes."
Adopted code
2015 Michigan Residential Code. This is state law and it is the same in every Michigan city, village, township and county: the state construction code act says "This act and the code apply throughout the state," and the Michigan Residential Code rule adopts "the international residential code, 2015 edition" with the state amendments in R 408.30500 to R 408.30547g. A 2021 edition was filed with the secretary of state in 2025 but has not taken effect. On July 7, 2025 the Michigan Court of Claims entered a stipulated order in Home Builders Assoc et al. v LARA et al., and the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) says that while that order remains in place "the 2015 versions of the IRC and residential provisions of the IECC standards currently adopted, in part, by each rule set will remain valid and in effect." LARA's Statewide Jurisdiction List names the Township of Stockbridge as its own building code enforcer. Ordinance No. 310 of the township, adopted April 18, 1994, designates "the Building Inspector of the Township of Stockbridge" as the enforcing agency under the state construction code act and names no edition, and the Building Department's page says it enforces "State Building, Electrical, Mechanical, and Plumbing Codes" with no edition named. No township document read for this record names a residential code edition, and this record states the 2015 Michigan Residential Code for the reasons above. Ordinance No. 212 adopts "The BOCA National Property Maintenance Cod, Fifth Edition, 1996" as the township's property maintenance code, which is a maintenance code and not a dwelling construction code.
Drip edge
Required — Required on asphalt shingle roofs by state law. Michigan makes no amendment to the drip edge rule of the 2015 International Residential Code, Section R905.2.8.5, which applies as published: "A drip edge shall be provided at eaves and rake edges of shingle roofs." Segments overlap by at least 2 inches, the drip edge extends at least 1/4 inch below the roof sheathing and at least 2 inches back onto the deck, it is fastened at no more than 12 inches on center, and underlayment goes over it at the eaves and under it at the rakes. A reroof is held to the same rule, because "Materials and methods of application used for re-covering or replacing an existing roof covering shall comply with the requirements of Chapter 9" (R908.1). The township's building ordinances, the Building Department page, the permit application and the fee worksheet were read for a local rule and state nothing further on drip edge.
About drip edgeIce & water shield
Required — Required everywhere in Michigan by state law. Michigan fills in the climatic design table of the 2015 code once for the whole state (Rule 516, Table R301.2(1)), and its ice barrier underlayment column reads Yes. The state footnote calls for Yes "for areas where the average daily temperature in January is 25 degrees Fahrenheit" or less, or where ice damming has caused damage. The base code then requires an ice barrier "for asphalt shingles, metal roof shingles, mineral-surfaced roll roofing, slate and slate-type shingles, wood shingles and wood shakes," running "from the lowest edges of all roof surfaces to a point not less than 24 inches (610 mm) inside the exterior wall line of the building" (R905.1.2). Detached accessory structures without conditioned floor area are exempt. On a tear-off, an existing ice barrier that is adhered to the deck may stay and be covered with an additional layer (R908.3, Exception). The township's building ordinances, the Building Department page, the permit application and the fee worksheet were read for a local rule and state nothing further on ice barrier.
About ice & water barrierImpact-resistant roofing
Not required — No impact-resistance requirement under state law. The 2015 Michigan Residential Code was searched in full and has no hail or impact rating rule for roof coverings: the words hail, impact and UL 2218 do not appear in it, and none of them appears in the roof assemblies chapter of the base 2015 International Residential Code either. Michigan applies one code statewide ("This act and the code apply throughout the state."), and the act gives the power to amend it to the state director, who adopts the model codes "with amendments, additions, or deletions as the director determines appropriate." The township's building ordinances, the Building Department page, the permit application and the fee worksheet were read for a local rule and state nothing further on impact resistance.
Repair permit threshold
The Stockbridge Township Building Department's fee worksheet (revised 4/2025) lists "SHINGLES" as its own heading, with "Administration", "Rough (New Boards)" and "Final" lines of $70.00 each, separate from its "RENOVATION" heading, and the department's page says "Prior to beginning a building, renovation, alteration, or repair, please contact the Building Department." The worksheet and the page state no size, square or dollar point below which roof work needs no permit, so they leave open whether a small roof repair needs one. The only size exemption the township prints is for new construction: its application says "a Building Permit is not required when building an accessory building of 200sq ft or less." The state part: Michigan's construction code act says "A building permit is not required for ordinary repairs of a building or structure" and does not define ordinary repairs. The township has published nothing applying that relief to roof work.
Roof layer limit / recover
Two layers at most, under state law. Michigan builds one- and two-family homes to the 2015 Michigan Residential Code, which adopts the 2015 International Residential Code and makes no amendment to its reroofing section, Section R908; the Michigan rule set was searched in full and R908 does not appear in it. The base section therefore applies as the International Code Council publishes it. Section R908.3.1.1 lists the conditions under which a new roof may not be laid over an existing one, and the third is "Where the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering." One existing layer may be covered once; a roof that already carries two layers is torn off to the deck. The same section also bars covering a roof that is water soaked or too deteriorated to serve as a base, and covering "slate, clay, cement or asbestos-cement tile." Locally, the township's building instruments listed on its Ordinances page were read in full: Ordinance No. 310 (designating the enforcing agency), Ordinance No. 211 (civil infraction fines for the building code ordinance), Ordinance No. 330 (floodplain management, enforcing Appendix G of the Michigan Building Code), Ordinances No. 216, 325 and 72 (designating the mechanical, plumbing and electrical enforcing agencies) and Ordinance No. 212 (a property maintenance code). None contains a reroofing provision or amends anything in Section R908. The Building Department's page, the permit application and the fee worksheet state no layer rule.
Deck & sheathing requirements
State law, from the base code. Michigan makes no amendment to the roof sheathing section of the 2015 International Residential Code, Section R803, which does not appear in the Michigan rule set, so it applies as published. Lumber roof sheathing follows Table R803.1: over rafters or beams 24 inches apart it must be at least 5/8 inch net thick. Wood structural panels must be identified "for grade, bond classification and performance category by a grade mark or certificate of inspection issued by an approved agency," and their spans may not exceed "the values set forth in Table R503.2.1.1(1), or APA E30." For a shingle roof the base code adds that "Asphalt shingles shall be fastened to solidly sheathed decks" (R905.2.1), and on any reroof "The structural roof components shall be capable of supporting the roof covering system" (R908.2). The township's building ordinances, the Building Department page, the permit application and the fee worksheet were read for a local rule and state nothing further on roof sheathing.
Sales & use tax
6%, statewide, with no local add-on. This is state law: the General Sales Tax Act sets the tax "equal to 6% of the gross proceeds of the business," the Use Tax Act sets "a total combined rate equal to 6%," and the Michigan Department of Treasury says "Michigan does not allow city or local units to impose sales tax." On a roofing job the roofer is the taxpayer on materials, because the Use Tax Act counts as a consumer "A person acquiring tangible personal property if engaged in the business of constructing, altering, repairing, or improving the real estate of others." Nothing on the Stockbridge Township Building Department page or in its fee worksheet changes this.
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The Stockbridge Township Building Department, at 125 S. Clinton Street in Stockbridge, processes building permits for the township and, from the same office, for the Village of Stockbridge. Ordinance No. 310 designates the township's building inspector as the enforcing agency under the state construction code act, and the State of Michigan's jurisdiction list names the Township as its own building code enforcer. Michigan's single state construction code applies, and for houses that is the 2015 Michigan Residential Code.
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