City of Sturgis, South Dakota - Building Inspector's Office

City of Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota

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1040 Harley-Davidson Way, Sturgis, SD 57785

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Permits are applied for through the CitizenServe portal at www2.citizenserve.com/sturgis; the Building Inspector's Office is at the Public Works Campus and is reached on 605-347-4422, option 4. The City describes the flow: "All building permits are obtained by using the Citizenserve web portal. Supporting documentation can be uploaded at the time of application ... Payments can only be made once the application is approved." Timing on an issued permit: "Construction must start within 180 days of issue. A permit is good for one year from the date of issue." THE FEE IS VALUATION-BASED and the published schedule begins at the same figure as the permit threshold: "$701 to $2,000 - $20.00 plus $2.50 for each additional $100 in valuation," then "$2,001 to $25,000 - $57.00 plus $10.50 for each additional $1,000," and upward from there. Inspection charges under Section 2.04.08 are $50 per hour for after-hours, holiday and re-inspections, and the ordinance requires "A minimum of twenty-four (24) hours' notice." STURGIS DELIBERATELY DOES NOT PUBLISH WHICH INSPECTIONS A JOB WILL DRAW, and that refusal is itself the answer to the question. Section 2.04.07, REQUIRED INSPECTIONS, provides: "Due to the fact that inspections vary depending on whether the project is or includes a structure, street, sewer, water, etcetera, contractors shall be required to contact the Building Inspector's Office to acquire a list of required inspections for each individual project. In the event any contractor fails to call for an inspection, the project may be stopped until an inspection can be made." It adds that "The specific inspections required for each project shall be determined by the Building Inspector's Office," which retains "the discretion and authority to require any necessary testing and/or inspections." So the inspection schedule for a reroof here is set per project by the Building Inspector's Office rather than published in advance, and the first call on any job should be to ask for it. The City also states that the 40 pound ground snow load is a local amendment to the adopted code, which is worth confirming against any structural work uncovered during a tear-off.

Sturgis Ordinances Title 2, Section 2.02.01, ADOPTION OF BUILDING CODE, adopts "(1) the 2021 (IRC) International residential Code Chapters 1-10, 12-16, 18 and 33 and appendices AB, AC, AE, AV, AQ, AJ, but not including section 313 in its entirety" and "(2) the 2021 (IBC) International Building Code Chapters 1-12, 14-26,28, 30-35 including appendix G Flood-Resistant Construction, appendix I patio covers, appendix J Grading," together with the 2021 International Fire Code and the 2021 International Property Maintenance Code with amendments. THE ADOPTED RANGE MATTERS FOR ROOFING: "Chapters 1-10" includes Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, and none of the excluded blocks reaches it. The City links the adopted editions directly from its Building and Inspections page, labelling them "as adopted by the City." THE ADOPTION CARRIES EXACTLY THREE LOCAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE RESIDENTIAL CODE and one of them is a roofing rule: the same subsection continues "The following portions as are herein modified and listed. Subsection 3.02 and the related information and explanation shown at figure 301.2(4) amended to require a structure be designed to meet or exceed a 40-pound ground snow load: and figure 302.13 residential basements finished less than 50% shall not be required to have 1/2" gypsum board installed on the lid throughout: and figure 905.1.2 Ice and water barrier membrane required." The word "figure" is the City's own usage in all three modifications and is reproduced rather than tidied; the provisions being pointed at are sections rather than figures. THE 40 POUND GROUND SNOW LOAD IS THE ONLY CELL OF THE CLIMATIC AND GEOGRAPHIC DESIGN CRITERIA TABLE STURGIS FILLS IN. It publishes no design wind speed anywhere: the phrase "wind speed" occurs zero times in the whole of Title 2, and the City's building pages carry no design criteria sheet. A roofer needing a wind figure for fastening or product selection has to ask the Building Inspector's Office for it. Title 2 itself carries its revision history on its face: "(This Title revised with Ordinance 2016-10, effective 12-28-2016) (This title revised entirely with Ordinance 2022-07, effective 5-17-2022)." SOUTH DAKOTA'S FRAMEWORK BEHIND THIS IS AN OPT-IN WITH A CEILING, which is the opposite of the arrangement in most states. There is no statewide residential building code at all: SDCL 11-10-6 sets a statewide 2024 International Building Code default and says it does "not apply to any residential structure." SDCL 11-10-12 makes residential adoption a municipal option, provides that a governing body "may enact requirements ... by adopting the 2024 edition of the International Residential Code," and bars it from imposing "any requirements that are more stringent than the requirements in the 2024 edition." That section did not exist before 2022-07-01, when SB 90 of 2022 created it naming the 2021 edition, and SL 2026 ch 59 raised the named edition to 2024 effective 2026-07-01. Sturgis' Ordinance 2022-07 took effect 5-17-2022, a few weeks before the statute existed, and it names the 2021 edition by name rather than floating with the statute, so it did not move when the statute did. Nothing in SDCL chapter 11-10 requires a municipality to refresh its edition and the chapter states no sanction for any departure.

Required — BASE-CODE GOVERNED, AND THE CITY DOES NOT AMEND IT. Sturgis adopts the 2021 International Residential Code, and its amendment list does not touch the drip-edge provision. IRC Section R905.2.8.5, Drip edge, reads in full: "A drip edge shall be provided at eaves and rake edges of shingle roofs. Adjacent segments of drip edge shall be overlapped not less than 2 inches (51 mm). Drip edges shall extend not less than 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) below the roof sheathing and extend up back onto the roof deck not less than 2 inches (51 mm). Drip edges shall be mechanically fastened to the roof deck at not more than 12 inches (305 mm) o.c. with fasteners as specified in Section R905.2.5. Underlayment shall be installed over the drip edge along eaves and under the drip edge along rake edges." THE ANSWER DOES NOT TURN ON WHICH EDITION GOVERNS: that section was read in the 2018, 2021 and 2024 editions and its text is word-for-word identical in all three. South Dakota supplies no competing rule - SDCL 11-10-6's statewide default expressly does not apply to any residential structure, so there is no state residential amendment to displace the adopted edition, and SDCL 11-10-12 lets a municipality adopt the named IRC edition but not impose requirements more stringent than it. The drip-edge requirement here is therefore the adopted code's own, not a local addition. Sturgis adopts Chapters 1-10 of the code, so Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, is within the adopted text. About drip edge

Required — Required, and it is one of only three local modifications Sturgis makes to the residential code. Section 2.02.01(1), inside the adoption itself, ends with the words "and figure 905.1.2 Ice and water barrier membrane required." The citation style is the City's own and is quoted as written: the provision it points at is Section R905.1.2 of the International Residential Code, Ice barrier, rather than a figure, and the same subsection uses "figure" the same loose way for its other two modifications. The requirement itself is unambiguous. Under the adopted 2021 code that means an ice barrier of at least two layers of underlayment cemented together, or a self-adhering polymer modified bitumen sheet, extending from the eave edge to a point at least 24 inches inside the exterior wall line of the building. Because Sturgis states the requirement in its own adopting ordinance rather than leaving it to the designation cell of Table R301.2, it does not depend on a climatic table the City has otherwise left largely blank. About ice & water barrier

Not required — Not required. Sturgis imposes no impact resistance rating, no Class 4 requirement and no hail rating on roof coverings. The whole of Title 2, which is the City's entire building and contractor law in a single instrument, was read and then measured: UL 2218 occurs zero times, "Class 4" zero times, "Class IV" zero times, FM 4473 zero times. The base 2021 International Residential Code imposes no impact requirement either. Keep the three roof performance questions separate: Sturgis does require an ice and water barrier membrane and does set a 40 pound ground snow load, and neither of those is an impact requirement. A hail-rated shingle may still be worth specifying on its own merits or for an insurance discount, but the City does not require one.

$700.00 of improvement value, WITH LABOUR INSIDE THE VALUATION, so an ordinary tear-off and replacement crosses the line almost at once. Section 2.03.07, PERMIT REQUIRED, provides: "Before any person may erect or cause to be erected or constructed a building or structure within the City or causes any alterations to any existing building or structure within the City including the demolition of a building or structure, they must obtain a Permit from the Building Inspector if improvements or alterations are valued more than Seven Hundred Dollars ($700.00). Labor costs for outside contractors are included in the valuation for building permits." It adds that "Labor costs involving a contractor consist of all estimated contractual labor costs associated with a project." STURGIS PUTS ROOF REPLACEMENT INSIDE ITS DEFINITION OF AN ALTERATION RATHER THAN IN A LIST OF PERMITTED WORK, which removes the ambiguity that catches roofers in jurisdictions whose permit lists name siding and omit roofing. The section continues: "An alteration of a building or structure shall for the purpose of this Title include but is not limited to a change to or removal of any partition, interior or exterior wall, ceiling, windows, structural member of roof system or floor, any roof replacement, any deck replacement, any siding replacement..." THE CITY PUBLISHES A SECOND, LOWER FIGURE AND IT IS THE ONE A ROOFER IS MORE LIKELY TO SEE. The Permit and Fee Information page states the rule as "(costing more than $300.00)," and its version of the alteration definition stops at "structural member of roof system or floor" without the words "any roof replacement." Two of the City's three sources support the $700 figure: the ordinance states it, and the City's own published Permit Fee Schedule opens its first band at "$701 to $2,000," which only makes sense if nothing below $701 needs a permit. The codified ordinance governs. In practice the difference rarely decides anything on a reroof, because a job of either size is above both figures, but a small patch repair between $300 and $700 is exactly where the two answers diverge - confirm that case with the Building Inspector's Office on 605-347-4422 before relying on either.

Two layers maximum - one overlay is permitted, and a second existing layer forces a tear-off to the deck. Sturgis adopts Chapters 1-10 of the 2021 International Residential Code, which puts Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, inside the adopted range, and its adoption carries only three modifications to the residential code, of which the only roofing one is the ice and water barrier requirement. The whole of Title 2 was read and then measured across its 109,137 characters: R908 occurs zero times, R905 zero times, R903 zero times, and the phrase "two or more applications" zero times. Section R908 is therefore unamended and the base code text governs. Section R908.3.1.1 of the 2021 International Residential Code provides that a roof recover shall not be permitted where any of three conditions occur, the third being "Where the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering." The other two conditions apply whatever the layer count: a covering that is water soaked or has deteriorated to the point that it is not an adequate base for additional roofing, and an existing covering of slate, clay, cement or asbestos-cement tile. Note that South Dakota's statutory ceiling at SDCL 11-10-12 bars a municipality from imposing requirements "more stringent than" the edition the statute names, so a South Dakota city's local drift on a rule like this one runs toward the permissive rather than the strict. Sturgis has not drifted at all here.

SOUTH DAKOTA DOES NOT PUT A SALES TAX ON THE ROOFING CONTRACT, and the figure a customer sees on the invoice is 2.041%, not a municipal rate. SDCL 10-45-12.1 exempts construction services from the retail sales tax. In their place SDCL 10-46A-1 imposes "an excise tax upon the gross receipts of all prime contractors engaged in realty improvement contracts, at the rate of two percent," and SDCL 10-46A-3 applies that two percent to "the total contract price including all labor and materials. Materials include those purchased by the contractor and those purchased by the person who let the contract or his designee" - so a homeowner who buys their own shingles does not shrink the base. SDCL 10-46A-12 lets a contractor list the tax as a separate line item and makes that line "collectible from all entities," public and private. THE BILLED FIGURE IS 2.041% AND NOT 2%, because the tax is charged on gross receipts and the tax collected is itself part of those receipts. The Department of Revenue publishes a bid factor of 2.041% for use "when preparing a bid or bill," while "a straight 2% is used when calculating tax due on the excise tax return." The arithmetic is 0.02 divided by 0.98, which is 2.0408%. Both numbers are correct and they are not interchangeable. A REBILLED PERMIT FEE SITS INSIDE THE BASE, which matters in Sturgis because its permit fee is valuation-based and can be substantial: the Department's guide directs a contractor to "include amounts received for all licenses or permits required for a project." THE EXCISE IS IN ADDITION TO, NEVER INSTEAD OF, TAX ON MATERIALS. ARSD 64:07:01:13 makes the contractor the consumer of its own materials: contractors "are the consumers of materials and supplies purchased by them for use in their contract work ... the contractor may not purchase for resale supplies and materials and must pay sales or use tax on the purchases." So the roofer pays the 4.2% state rate plus Sturgis' 2.00% municipal sales or use tax on what it buys, 6.2% in total, as a cost of goods rather than as a line on the customer's bill. DO NOT READ THAT 6.2% AS A TAX ON THE REROOF; it is what the roofer pays on materials, and the customer's invoice carries a 2.041% excise line instead. The material rate follows where the material is used rather than where it was bought, so buying at a yard outside the city and installing in Sturgis still owes Sturgis its 2.00% as use tax. THE MUNICIPAL FIGURE, read cell exact from the Department of Revenue's own municipal tax schedule for the edition effective July 1 to December 31, 2026: Sturgis 2.00% municipal sales and use tax, city code 341-2. The city also levies a 1.00% municipal gross receipts tax, code 341-1, AND THAT TAX DOES NOT REACH ROOFING: SDCL 10-52A-2 enumerates a closed list of lodging, alcoholic beverages, eating establishments and admissions, and the Department's own rate table carries exactly those four columns and no construction column. A roofer who adds that one percent overcharges the customer. STURGIS ALSO HAS A SEPARATE MOTORCYCLE RALLY TAX REGIME WITH ITS OWN DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE PAGE AND RATES. It is a rally-period retail regime and it is not the contractors' excise tax; it is mentioned here only so that a roofer who meets it does not assume this record has missed something that applies to roofing work. SOUTH DAKOTA LEVIES NO COUNTY SALES TAX, so there is no Meade County component to add; the local hazard is the city limit rather than a county line. THE STATE RATE IS SCHEDULED TO RISE AND THAT IS ALREADY LAW RATHER THAN A PROPOSAL: SDCL 10-45-2 is codified in two versions, the current one imposing "a tax of four and two-tenths percent" and a second headed "Effective July 1, 2027" imposing "a tax of four and one-half percent," both sourced to SL 2023 ch 32, which is HB 1137. Material costs rise by three tenths of a point on that date. ON PROVENANCE, no Department of Revenue publication names roofing. The determination runs through law rather than guidance - SDCL 10-46A-2 reaches contractors "enumerated in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual of 1987 ... construction (division c)," and ARSD 64:07:01:01.01 provides that "the gross receipts resulting from the services performed by a contractor listed in Division C of the SIC manual are subject to the contractor's excise tax, whether or not the results of such services constitute a fixture."