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City of Tioga, North Dakota - Building Department

Yes, a permit is required to replace a roof in Tioga, ND, issued by City of Tioga, North Dakota - Building Department. Permits and inspections in Tioga run through the Building Department at City Hall, 16 1st St NE, under Dan Larson, the Community Service Director, who is also the City Building Inspector. The office number is 701-664-2807 option 4 and the cell is 701-641-2461. "Building permit aplications and plans can be sent to communityservices@cityoftioga.com" - note that the City's website is at tiogand.net while its staff email is on a different domain, so send the application to the address the City publishes rather than to one built from the website name. THE APPLICATION IS A PLANNING AND ZONING FILING AS WELL AS A BUILDING ONE. The Planning and Zoning Committee is appointed by the Tioga City Council and meets on the second Monday of the month at 5:30pm at city hall, with applications due the Wednesday before at 5pm, and the City warns that dates are subject to change. A job that needs to go before the committee therefore has a calendar, not just a queue. WHAT THE PERMIT DOES NOT COVER. The application is headed "BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION RESIDENTIAL/ ACCESSORY (BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION DOES NOT INCLUDE PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL OR MECHANICAL)", and the Building Department page adds that "Plumbing and Electrical codes are inspected and enforced by the State of North Dakota Plumbing and Electrical boards." So the City is not the authority for those trades. WHO CARRIES THE RISK, IN THE CITY'S OWN WORDS. The application states that "The city encourages and recommends the permit applicant/holder/owner hire a private, on-site inspector, surveyor, or other professional as the applicant/holder/owner deems necessary in order to ensure that all aspects of the plans and/or construction comply with applicable codes and all other requirements. The City of Tioga will not provide continuous site observation of construction. The permit applicant/holder/owner at all times remains responsible for ensuring that the plans and specifications comply with all requirements of all Tioga City Codes and accepts full responsibility for all workmanship and construction." The applicant also indemnifies the City and certifies that they have located their own property lines, because the City states it does not locate them. FINISHING THE JOB. "Final Inspection shall be made after the permitted work is done and prior to occupancy", and "The City will issue a Certificate of Occupancy once all inspections (City & State) plumbing and electric have been performed, found to be code compliant and all City fees paid." Call for inspections at least 24 hours ahead; the permit holder is responsible for making the call. Fees are calculated from the bid or estimate entered on the application, and a separate gas inspection line is priced at $40.00.

Roof code checklist: Tioga, ND

ItemAnswerCode citeSourceVerified
Permit to replace a roofYestiogand.net2026-09-06
Repair permit thresholdPublishedtiogand.net2026-09-10
Layer limit / roof-overPublishedTioga_Ordinance_Book_Updated_6-03...2026-09-10
Deck & sheathingPublishedaccessory-structure-detached-gara...2026-09-10
Drip edgeNot published
Ice & water shieldYesR905.1.2tiogand.net2026-09-10
Mid-roof inspectionYestiogand.net2026-09-06
Impact-resistant (Class 4) roofingNot published
Wind design criteriaNot published
Adopted codePublishedSec. 13.0101Tioga_Ordinance_Book_Updated_6-03...2026-09-10
Contractor license / registrationYest43c07.pdf2026-09-06
Sales & use taxPublishedlocal-taxes-by-location.pdf2026-09-06

Each row comes from the sourced record on this page; full wording is in the table below. "Not published" means no official source for that item was found when the record was last verified.

Jurisdiction
City of Tioga, North Dakota
Jurisdiction type
city
Address
16 1st St NE, Tioga, ND 58852
Contact
  • url: https://tiogand.net/departments/building-department/
  • phone: 701-664-2807
  • email: communityservices@cityoftioga.com
Roofing permit required
Required
Contractor registration required
Required
Registration details
  • state_level: North Dakota requires a contractor licence from the Secretary of State, and the threshold is per job rather than per year. North Dakota Century Code Section 43-07-02(1): "A person may not engage in the business nor act in the capacity of a contractor within this state when the cost, value, or price per job exceeds the sum of four thousand dollars nor may that person maintain any claim, action, suit, or proceeding in any court of this state related to the person's business or capacity as a contractor without first having a license as provided in this chapter." Roofing is not named anywhere in the chapter, but a roofer falls inside the definition of contractor at Section 43-07-01(1), which covers "any person engaged in the business of construction, repair, alteration, dismantling, or demolition of ... buildings" and expressly "includes subcontractor, public contractor, and nonresident contractor", so a roofing sub needs a licence on its own account rather than riding on the general contractor's. THE CLASSES ARE VALUE TIERS, NOT TRADES, so there is no roofing classification to apply for. A class D licence covers a single contract project up to one hundred thousand dollars, class C up to three hundred thousand, class B up to five hundred thousand, and "The holder of a class A license is subject to no limitation as to the value of any single contract project." Application fees are $450 for class A, $300 for B, $225 for C and $100 for D, and renewals are $90, $60, $45 and $30. WHAT THE APPLICATION TAKES. Section 43-07-04(1) requires an applicant eighteen or older to file an application under oath stating their experience and qualifications, and "A copy of a certificate of liability insurance must be filed with the application and the contractor shall submit a statement from North Dakota workforce safety and insurance that the contractor has secured workforce safety and insurance coverage". The licence year is defined at Section 43-07-01(2) as "March second through March first", so renewal is on a fixed March cycle rather than on the anniversary of issue. THE PENALTY A ROOFER FEELS. Working unlicensed above the threshold is a class A misdemeanour under Section 43-07-02(2), and the second half of Section 43-07-02(1) bars an unlicensed contractor from maintaining any claim, action, suit or proceeding in a North Dakota court about the work, which includes a claim to be paid.
  • city_level: TIOGA'S CITY CONTRACTOR-LICENCE TERMS ARE NOW ESTABLISHED FROM THE CITY'S OWN APPLICATION FORM, though the licence itself is NOT written into any codified ordinance. The City's complete codified ordinance book, the 1999 Revised Ordinances of Tioga (updated through 6 June 2024), was read in full, all 25 chapters, and contains no general contractor-licensing chapter or article - Chapter Seven, Business Regulations and Licenses, licenses peddlers, alcoholic beverages and shows and carnivals but not contractors, and Chapter Fourteen's licensing article is confined to electricians. So the "Tioga Contractor License#" line on the City's residential and commercial building permit applications rests on an administrative practice rather than on an enacted ordinance. What that practice requires is stated on the City's own "CITY OF TIOGA GENERAL CONTRACTOR LICENSE APPLICATION": a contractor must already hold a North Dakota Contractors Licence - the form directs an applicant with no state licence to "STOP AND GO TO NORTH DAKOTA SECRETARY OF STATE" first - must be registered with the City, must show the City a certificate of insurance in the same form filed with the state, and pays a "CONTRACTORS FEE" of $25.00. The City-issued licence "expires the same date that the North Dakota general contractor's license expires", so it renews on the state's fixed March cycle rather than on its own date. Unlike Valley City's $1,000 threshold or Wahpeton's $2,000 threshold, Tioga's own form ties its registration to the same job-value trigger as the state licence (over $4,000, per NDCC 43-07-07) rather than setting an independent, lower one. WHAT REMAINS UNRESOLVED. Because the registration is administrative rather than ordinance-based, questions an enacted ordinance would normally answer - whether a roofing subcontractor needs its own registration apart from the general contractor's, whether an owner working on their own home is exempt, and what enforcement attaches to skipping it - are not addressed on the form and were not found anywhere else the City publishes. Confirm those with the Community Service Director, who is also the City Building Inspector, before bidding.
Permit process note
Permits and inspections in Tioga run through the Building Department at City Hall, 16 1st St NE, under Dan Larson, the Community Service Director, who is also the City Building Inspector. The office number is 701-664-2807 option 4 and the cell is 701-641-2461. "Building permit aplications and plans can be sent to communityservices@cityoftioga.com" - note that the City's website is at tiogand.net while its staff email is on a different domain, so send the application to the address the City publishes rather than to one built from the website name. THE APPLICATION IS A PLANNING AND ZONING FILING AS WELL AS A BUILDING ONE. The Planning and Zoning Committee is appointed by the Tioga City Council and meets on the second Monday of the month at 5:30pm at city hall, with applications due the Wednesday before at 5pm, and the City warns that dates are subject to change. A job that needs to go before the committee therefore has a calendar, not just a queue. WHAT THE PERMIT DOES NOT COVER. The application is headed "BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION RESIDENTIAL/ ACCESSORY (BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION DOES NOT INCLUDE PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL OR MECHANICAL)", and the Building Department page adds that "Plumbing and Electrical codes are inspected and enforced by the State of North Dakota Plumbing and Electrical boards." So the City is not the authority for those trades. WHO CARRIES THE RISK, IN THE CITY'S OWN WORDS. The application states that "The city encourages and recommends the permit applicant/holder/owner hire a private, on-site inspector, surveyor, or other professional as the applicant/holder/owner deems necessary in order to ensure that all aspects of the plans and/or construction comply with applicable codes and all other requirements. The City of Tioga will not provide continuous site observation of construction. The permit applicant/holder/owner at all times remains responsible for ensuring that the plans and specifications comply with all requirements of all Tioga City Codes and accepts full responsibility for all workmanship and construction." The applicant also indemnifies the City and certifies that they have located their own property lines, because the City states it does not locate them. FINISHING THE JOB. "Final Inspection shall be made after the permitted work is done and prior to occupancy", and "The City will issue a Certificate of Occupancy once all inspections (City & State) plumbing and electric have been performed, found to be code compliant and all City fees paid." Call for inspections at least 24 hours ahead; the permit holder is responsible for making the call. Fees are calculated from the bid or estimate entered on the application, and a separate gas inspection line is priced at $40.00.
Adopted code
Tioga's adopting ordinance is now identified and has been read in full, which was not true when this record was last written. WHAT WAS FOUND. The City publishes a complete codified ordinance book, the 1999 Revised Ordinances of Tioga (enacted by Ordinance No. 1, all 25 chapters, updated through 6 June 2024), at a document-cache URL rather than through a linked "code of ordinances" page - which is why an earlier search of the City's own building department page did not turn it up. Chapter Thirteen, "Building Code," was read in full and consists of exactly two sections. Section 13.0101, Adoption of Code, reads: "The erection, construction, enlargement, alteration, repair, moving, removal, demolition, conversion, occupancy, equipment, uses, height, area and maintenance of buildings or structures in the City of Tioga shall meet with the provisions of the rules and regulations of the North Dakota State Building Code, copies of which code are on file with the City Auditor and are hereby made a part of this chapter by reference with the exception of the sections hereinafter set forth affecting local conditions in the City, which are amended, deleted, or added to, for use and application in the City, and the City hereby adopts said code as so modified." Section 13.0102 is a penalty clause pointing to Chapter Two. NO LOCAL AMENDMENT IS ENUMERATED ANYWHERE IN CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Unlike Devils Lake, Dickinson, Horace or Watford City, whose equivalent sections carry a following numbered list of "amended, deleted, or added to" items, Tioga's codified Chapter Thirteen contains no such list at all - the adoption clause and the penalty clause are the whole chapter. The rest of the 25-chapter ordinance book was also checked for a building or contractor-licensing chapter that might carry a roofing-relevant amendment; none exists (the only related material is Chapter Fourteen's Electrical Code and its own licensing article, and Chapter Seven's general business-licence article, which does not mention contractors). So this is a FLOATING adoption of the North Dakota State Building Code with, on the face of the codified ordinances, NO enumerated local amendment of any kind. THE EDITION. That floating adoption tracks the state's current suite. The 2026 North Dakota State Building Code Book states that "Effective January 1, 2026, the North Dakota State Building Code consists of the 2024 International Building Code (IBC), International Residential Code (IRC), International Mechanical Code (IMC), International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC), International Energy Conservation Code, and the International Existing Building Code as published by the International Code Council (ICC)," matching what the City's own Building Department page separately states it has adopted. ONE CAVEAT. The ordinance book is dated as updated through 6 June 2024 and could theoretically be superseded by a later, uncodified ordinance the City has not posted; none was found in this reading, and Tioga is named as a code enforcing city on the North Dakota Department of Commerce's directory. Confirm with the Building Inspector whether any amendment has been adopted since the ordinance book's stated currency date.
Ice & water shield
Required — Tioga requires an ice and water barrier on its own published statement, not on any assumption about the North Dakota climate. The City's Building Department page lists the basic required building inspections the City Building Inspector performs, and one of them is "Roof / Ice & Water Barrier". A city does not inspect a component it does not require, and Tioga puts that inspection in the same list as its footing, framing and insulation inspections. Plan the job so the barrier is in and visible when the inspector comes, and remember that inspection appointments must be made at least 24 hours in advance and that it is the permit holder who has to call. WHERE THE DETAIL COMES FROM. The City's complete codified ordinance book, the 1999 Revised Ordinances of Tioga (updated through 6 June 2024), was read in full, and its building-code chapter (Chapter Thirteen, Sections 13.0101-13.0102) contains no climatic design-criteria table and no local amendment of any kind - it is a floating adoption of the North Dakota State Building Code with nothing else added. So the extent of the barrier - how far up the slope from the eave it must run, and how it is lapped and sealed - comes from the adopted residential code rather than from any City amendment, and the City's own current adoption is the 2024 International Residential Code. That base text is Section R905.1.2 of the 2024 International Residential Code, which requires the ice barrier to "extend 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", and on roofs with a slope of 8 units vertical in 12 units horizontal or steeper to be "applied not less than 36 inches (914 mm) measured along the roof slope from the eave edge of the building"; it may be two layers of underlayment cemented together or a self-adhering polymer-modified bitumen sheet, and detached accessory structures without conditioned floor area are exempt. WHAT NOT TO ASSUME. The same list also shows a separate "Insulation / Frost-proofing" inspection, so the roof inspection is not a catch-all; and because the City says the nature and scope of the project determines which inspections are required, a small repair may not draw the same sequence as a full tear-off. About ice & water barrier
Mid-roof inspection
Required — Tioga inspects the roof before the covering goes over it, and it names the inspection in its own published list. The City's Building Department page sets out "The following is a basic required building inspections performed by the City Building Inspector" and the list runs Footings / Piers; Foundation Walls / Re-Bar / Damp Proofing; Framing; "Roof / Ice & Water Barrier"; Insulation / Frost-proofing; Deck Construction; Floodplain / Elevation documentation; Fire-resistance; Finish Grade / Drainage; and Final Inspection / Certificate of Occupancy. An ice and water barrier inspection can only be made after the barrier is on and before it is covered, so on a job where it is called for the roof is looked at mid-course rather than only at the end. READ THE SCOPE CONDITION WITH IT. The same page states that "The nature and scope of a given project will determine the inspections required for each project", so whether a particular re-roof draws the roof inspection is a decision for the Building Inspector rather than something to be assumed either way from the list. HOW TO SCHEDULE IT. "Inspections are a required part of the permitting process. It is the responsibility of the permit holder: whether applicant, owner, or licensed contractor to notify the City when any such inspections need to be performed. Inspection appointments must be made at least 24 hours in advance." The City directs anyone asking whether a particular inspection is required to contact the City Building Inspector directly. Build the 24 hours into the schedule; on a small crew a missed call costs a day.
Repair permit threshold
TIOGA NAMES A RE-ROOF AS PERMIT WORK IN SO MANY WORDS, WHICH VERY FEW NORTH DAKOTA CITIES DO, and the City's own codified ordinance has now been read and confirms it writes no exemption of its own. The City's Building Department page describes its "Residential Building Permit Application" as an "Application for new construction, alteration, or remodel of a single family, two-family, or townhouse dwelling. This application is to be used for accessory structures, siding replacement, and window replacement, and shingle replacement (re-roof)." The same description continues: "This application is also to be used for all residential decks, attached and unattached." So a shingle replacement is filed on the residential building permit application, on the City's own instruction, and no dollar threshold or square-foot threshold is offered as an alternative to it. COMMERCIAL WORK IS NAMED THE SAME WAY. The "Commercial Building Permit Application" is described as an "Application for new construction, alteration, remodel, or roofing of a commercial structure." WHAT THE FORM ASKS FOR. The residential form has a "TYPE OF WORK" block with a ROOF column offering "Asphalt Shingles", "Built UP" and "Metal", so the covering type is declared on the face of the application. The form also collects the property address and legal description, the zoning, the contractor names, and both a "ND Contractor License #" and a "Tioga Contractor License#", and the fee is calculated from the bid or estimate. Two sets of blueprints appear on the permit checklist. ACCESSORY STRUCTURES. The Planning and Zoning page states that an accessory structure form must be submitted with the residential building permit application, and that "An accessory structure includes yard sheds over 120 sq. ft. and detached garages", with a site plan showing existing structures and their distance from the property lines. So re-roofing a detached garage is on the same application, and the property owner rather than the City is responsible for locating the property lines. WHAT IS NOW SETTLED RATHER THAN UNKNOWN. Chapter Thirteen of the City's codified 1999 Revised Ordinances of Tioga (updated through 6 June 2024), "Building Code," was read in full and is exactly two sections - an adoption clause and a penalty clause - with no enumerated local amendment of any kind, and in particular no permit-exemption list of the City's own. So the earlier reading (no small-repair exemption could be confirmed because no ordinance was located) reaches the same practical conclusion on firmer footing: there is no locally written repair exemption to weigh against the City's plain instruction that a re-roof is filed on the residential building permit application.
Roof layer limit / recover
Tioga's own codified building-code chapter has now been read, and it settles this field. Chapter Thirteen of the 1999 Revised Ordinances of Tioga (updated through 6 June 2024), "Building Code," is exactly two sections - Section 13.0101, which adopts the North Dakota State Building Code by floating reference "with the exception of the sections hereinafter set forth affecting local conditions in the City, which are amended, deleted, or added to," and Section 13.0102, a penalty clause - and no amendment is in fact enumerated anywhere in the chapter. No roof-covering, shingle, recover or re-roofing provision, and no section number in the residential code's R700, R800 or R900 series, appears anywhere in the City's 25-chapter ordinance book. The North Dakota amendments to the 2024 International Residential Code, published in the 2026 North Dakota State Building Code Book, were also read in full - thirty numbered section amendments running from Chapter 1 through a Chapter 21 hydronic-piping item - and none reaches Chapter 7, 8 or 9 either. So the base International Residential Code provisions on installing a new roof covering over an existing one apply in Tioga unmodified, with no local cap added and none removed. Tioga's Building Department page lists the 2024 International Residential Code among the codes it has adopted, matching the state suite effective 1 January 2026. Under that edition the base rule sits at Section R908.4 Roof recover, in an unnumbered Exceptions block: a roof recover is not permitted "Where the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering," among other conditions. One existing layer may therefore be recovered; a second existing layer forces a tear-off to the deck. TWO LOCAL FACTS THAT BEAR ON IT. A shingle replacement is permit work in Tioga on the City's own instruction, so the layer question will be asked at the counter rather than left to the contractor. And the City inspects the roof and the ice and water barrier, which constrains what can be left in place at the eave. Confirm the count of existing layers with the City Building Inspector before bidding an overlay.
Deck & sheathing requirements
Tioga publishes no roof sheathing standard of its own, and that is now established by reading the City's complete codified ordinance book rather than by failing to find one. WHAT THE CITY PUBLISHES INFORMALLY. The City's Accessory Structure and Detached Garage handout gives a fill-in submittal template with a line reading "Roof Sheathing:________________", and the worked example beside it reads "(example: 1/2" OSB) (H-Clips may be Required)". The handout says of itself that it "was developed as an example of a basic submittal under the current North Dakota Building Code" and that "It is not intended to cover all circumstances." So the H-clip note is a warning that the City may call for them, not a published rule that it always does, and the half-inch figure is an example of what an applicant might write on the form. The handout is dated 1/2023 and its code references are to the 2015 edition, while the City's Building Department page now lists the 2024 International Residential Code, so do not size a deck off the handout. WHAT IS NOW SETTLED RATHER THAN UNKNOWN. The City's complete codified ordinance book, the 1999 Revised Ordinances of Tioga (updated through 6 June 2024), was read in full, all 25 chapters. Its building-code chapter (Chapter Thirteen, Sections 13.0101-13.0102) is a floating adoption of the North Dakota State Building Code with no enumerated local amendment of any kind, and the word sheathing does not occur anywhere in it or in any other chapter of the ordinance book. The North Dakota amendments to the 2024 International Residential Code were also read in full, thirty numbered section amendments running from Chapter 1 through a Chapter 21 hydronic-piping item, and none reaches roof or ceiling construction. So the base residential code roof sheathing and decking provisions apply here unmodified, and there is no local span table, thickness minimum or fastener schedule to reconcile them against. THE CITY DOES INSPECT SHEATHING INDIRECTLY. Framing is one of the basic required inspections the City Building Inspector performs, and so is "Roof / Ice & Water Barrier", so an exposed deck can be looked at rather than taken on trust. Where a tear-off exposes deteriorated sheathing, agree the replacement with the City Building Inspector before it is covered, because the roof inspection is the point at which it will be seen.
Sales & use tax
8.50% on materials in Tioga - North Dakota state sales and use tax of 5%, plus the City of Tioga's 2.5% and Williams County's 1% local sales, use and gross receipts tax. THE COUNTY COMPONENT IS REAL HERE, AND IN MOST OF NORTH DAKOTA IT IS NOT. Only eight North Dakota counties impose a local tax at all, and Williams is one of them. The North Dakota Office of State Tax Commissioner's Local Taxes by Location Guideline, rates effective 1 July 2026, shades Tioga and prints "(Williams)" beside it to mark a city that also owes county tax, and it states the rule in terms: "The county sales, use, and gross receipts tax is in addition to state and city sales, use, and gross receipts tax." The guideline's own footnote records that "Williams County: Grenora, Ray, Tioga, and Williston have city taxes and are located within Williams County." The City's rate history in the same table runs 1% from 1-1-95, 1% from 1-1-13, 0.5% from 4-1-13, a 1% reduction on 12-31-20 and 1% from 1-1-21, giving the current 2.5%. THERE IS NO CAP ON THE LOCAL TAX ANY MORE, ON EITHER SIDE. Tioga's maximum tax column reads $25 per sale from 1-1-95 and then none from 7-1-17, and Williams County's reads $12.50 per sale from 10-1-06 and then none from 4-1-15. The last dated entry is the one in force, so neither the City nor the County caps the local tax on a transaction here. THAT MATTERS LESS THAN IT SOUNDS ANYWAY, and the Tax Commissioner says why: "the maximum tax (refund cap) is calculated on each material purchase a contractor makes to fulfill a construction contract, not on purchase orders or the entire construction contract itself. Accordingly, most construction activity which is subject to local sales or use tax will include more than the specified maximum tax in total local tax costs." A cap, where one exists, is per purchase and a roof is many purchases. WHO PAYS IT ON A ROOF. North Dakota treats a roofing contractor as the final consumer of the materials installed into real property: "A contractor or subcontractor entering any contract, except for a labor only contract, is regarded as the final user or consumer of all tangible personal property installed into real property." So the contractor pays the tax on its material purchases and does not charge the homeowner sales tax on an install-plus-materials re-roof, while selling materials without installing them is a taxable retail sale. A labour-only subcontract is not taxed to the sub. ONE TIOGA SPECIFIC WORTH KNOWING ON OIL-PATCH WORK. Tioga is NOT among the sixty jurisdictions whose local tax ordinance carries the limited exemption for materials bought inside the jurisdiction but installed outside it. Neighbouring Ray and Williston are on that list; Tioga is not. So where a contractor buys on a certificate of exemption in Tioga, the guideline's default applies and "use tax is due to the local jurisdiction where the materials were purchased regardless of where the materials were installed" - buying in Tioga and installing out in the county still carries the Tioga local tax.

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Do you need a permit to replace a roof in Tioga, ND?

Yes, a permit is required to replace a roof in Tioga, ND. TIOGA NAMES A RE-ROOF AS PERMIT WORK IN SO MANY WORDS, WHICH VERY FEW NORTH DAKOTA CITIES DO, and the City's own codified ordinance has now been read and confirms it writes no exemption of its own. The City's Building Department page describes its "Residential Building Permit Application" as an "Application for new construction, alteration, or remodel of a single family, two-family, or townhouse dwelling. This application is to be used for accessory structures, siding replacement, and window replacement, and shingle replacement (re-roof)." The same description continues: "This application is also to be used for all residential decks, attached and unattached." So a shingle replacement is filed on the residential building permit application, on the City's own instruction, and no dollar threshold or square-foot threshold is offered as an alternative to it. COMMERCIAL WORK IS NAMED THE SAME WAY. The "Commercial Building Permit Application" is described as an "Application for new construction, alteration, remodel, or roofing of a commercial structure." WHAT THE FORM ASKS FOR. The residential form has a "TYPE OF WORK" block with a ROOF column offering "Asphalt Shingles", "Built UP" and "Metal", so the covering type is declared on the face of the application. The form also collects the property address and legal description, the zoning, the contractor names, and both a "ND Contractor License #" and a "Tioga Contractor License#", and the fee is calculated from the bid or estimate. Two sets of blueprints appear on the permit checklist. ACCESSORY STRUCTURES. The Planning and Zoning page states that an accessory structure form must be submitted with the residential building permit application, and that "An accessory structure includes yard sheds over 120 sq. ft. and detached garages", with a site plan showing existing structures and their distance from the property lines. So re-roofing a detached garage is on the same application, and the property owner rather than the City is responsible for locating the property lines. WHAT IS NOW SETTLED RATHER THAN UNKNOWN. Chapter Thirteen of the City's codified 1999 Revised Ordinances of Tioga (updated through 6 June 2024), "Building Code," was read in full and is exactly two sections - an adoption clause and a penalty clause - with no enumerated local amendment of any kind, and in particular no permit-exemption list of the City's own. So the earlier reading (no small-repair exemption could be confirmed because no ordinance was located) reaches the same practical conclusion on firmer footing: there is no locally written repair exemption to weigh against the City's plain instruction that a re-roof is filed on the residential building permit application.

Is ice & water shield required in Tioga, ND?

Yes. Tioga requires an ice and water barrier on its own published statement, not on any assumption about the North Dakota climate. The City's Building Department page lists the basic required building inspections the City Building Inspector performs, and one of them is "Roof / Ice & Water Barrier". A city does not inspect a component it does not require, and Tioga puts that inspection in the same list as its footing, framing and insulation inspections. Plan the job so the barrier is in and visible when the inspector comes, and remember that inspection appointments must be made at least 24 hours in advance and that it is the permit holder who has to call. WHERE THE DETAIL COMES FROM. The City's complete codified ordinance book, the 1999 Revised Ordinances of Tioga (updated through 6 June 2024), was read in full, and its building-code chapter (Chapter Thirteen, Sections 13.0101-13.0102) contains no climatic design-criteria table and no local amendment of any kind - it is a floating adoption of the North Dakota State Building Code with nothing else added. So the extent of the barrier - how far up the slope from the eave it must run, and how it is lapped and sealed - comes from the adopted residential code rather than from any City amendment, and the City's own current adoption is the 2024 International Residential Code. That base text is Section R905.1.2 of the 2024 International Residential Code, which requires the ice barrier to "extend 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", and on roofs with a slope of 8 units vertical in 12 units horizontal or steeper to be "applied not less than 36 inches (914 mm) measured along the roof slope from the eave edge of the building"; it may be two layers of underlayment cemented together or a self-adhering polymer-modified bitumen sheet, and detached accessory structures without conditioned floor area are exempt. WHAT NOT TO ASSUME. The same list also shows a separate "Insulation / Frost-proofing" inspection, so the roof inspection is not a catch-all; and because the City says the nature and scope of the project determines which inspections are required, a small repair may not draw the same sequence as a full tear-off.

Can you roof over an existing roof in Tioga, ND?

Tioga's own codified building-code chapter has now been read, and it settles this field. Chapter Thirteen of the 1999 Revised Ordinances of Tioga (updated through 6 June 2024), "Building Code," is exactly two sections - Section 13.0101, which adopts the North Dakota State Building Code by floating reference "with the exception of the sections hereinafter set forth affecting local conditions in the City, which are amended, deleted, or added to," and Section 13.0102, a penalty clause - and no amendment is in fact enumerated anywhere in the chapter. No roof-covering, shingle, recover or re-roofing provision, and no section number in the residential code's R700, R800 or R900 series, appears anywhere in the City's 25-chapter ordinance book. The North Dakota amendments to the 2024 International Residential Code, published in the 2026 North Dakota State Building Code Book, were also read in full - thirty numbered section amendments running from Chapter 1 through a Chapter 21 hydronic-piping item - and none reaches Chapter 7, 8 or 9 either. So the base International Residential Code provisions on installing a new roof covering over an existing one apply in Tioga unmodified, with no local cap added and none removed. Tioga's Building Department page lists the 2024 International Residential Code among the codes it has adopted, matching the state suite effective 1 January 2026. Under that edition the base rule sits at Section R908.4 Roof recover, in an unnumbered Exceptions block: a roof recover is not permitted "Where the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering," among other conditions. One existing layer may therefore be recovered; a second existing layer forces a tear-off to the deck. TWO LOCAL FACTS THAT BEAR ON IT. A shingle replacement is permit work in Tioga on the City's own instruction, so the layer question will be asked at the counter rather than left to the contractor. And the City inspects the roof and the ice and water barrier, which constrains what can be left in place at the eave. Confirm the count of existing layers with the City Building Inspector before bidding an overlay.

Do roofing contractors need a license or registration in Tioga, ND?

Yes.

What building code does Tioga, ND use?

Tioga's adopting ordinance is now identified and has been read in full, which was not true when this record was last written. WHAT WAS FOUND. The City publishes a complete codified ordinance book, the 1999 Revised Ordinances of Tioga (enacted by Ordinance No. 1, all 25 chapters, updated through 6 June 2024), at a document-cache URL rather than through a linked "code of ordinances" page - which is why an earlier search of the City's own building department page did not turn it up. Chapter Thirteen, "Building Code," was read in full and consists of exactly two sections. Section 13.0101, Adoption of Code, reads: "The erection, construction, enlargement, alteration, repair, moving, removal, demolition, conversion, occupancy, equipment, uses, height, area and maintenance of buildings or structures in the City of Tioga shall meet with the provisions of the rules and regulations of the North Dakota State Building Code, copies of which code are on file with the City Auditor and are hereby made a part of this chapter by reference with the exception of the sections hereinafter set forth affecting local conditions in the City, which are amended, deleted, or added to, for use and application in the City, and the City hereby adopts said code as so modified." Section 13.0102 is a penalty clause pointing to Chapter Two. NO LOCAL AMENDMENT IS ENUMERATED ANYWHERE IN CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Unlike Devils Lake, Dickinson, Horace or Watford City, whose equivalent sections carry a following numbered list of "amended, deleted, or added to" items, Tioga's codified Chapter Thirteen contains no such list at all - the adoption clause and the penalty clause are the whole chapter. The rest of the 25-chapter ordinance book was also checked for a building or contractor-licensing chapter that might carry a roofing-relevant amendment; none exists (the only related material is Chapter Fourteen's Electrical Code and its own licensing article, and Chapter Seven's general business-licence article, which does not mention contractors). So this is a FLOATING adoption of the North Dakota State Building Code with, on the face of the codified ordinances, NO enumerated local amendment of any kind. THE EDITION. That floating adoption tracks the state's current suite. The 2026 North Dakota State Building Code Book states that "Effective January 1, 2026, the North Dakota State Building Code consists of the 2024 International Building Code (IBC), International Residential Code (IRC), International Mechanical Code (IMC), International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC), International Energy Conservation Code, and the International Existing Building Code as published by the International Code Council (ICC)," matching what the City's own Building Department page separately states it has adopted. ONE CAVEAT. The ordinance book is dated as updated through 6 June 2024 and could theoretically be superseded by a later, uncodified ordinance the City has not posted; none was found in this reading, and Tioga is named as a code enforcing city on the North Dakota Department of Commerce's directory. Confirm with the Building Inspector whether any amendment has been adopted since the ordinance book's stated currency date.

Is a mid-roof inspection required in Tioga, ND?

Yes. Tioga inspects the roof before the covering goes over it, and it names the inspection in its own published list. The City's Building Department page sets out "The following is a basic required building inspections performed by the City Building Inspector" and the list runs Footings / Piers; Foundation Walls / Re-Bar / Damp Proofing; Framing; "Roof / Ice & Water Barrier"; Insulation / Frost-proofing; Deck Construction; Floodplain / Elevation documentation; Fire-resistance; Finish Grade / Drainage; and Final Inspection / Certificate of Occupancy. An ice and water barrier inspection can only be made after the barrier is on and before it is covered, so on a job where it is called for the roof is looked at mid-course rather than only at the end. READ THE SCOPE CONDITION WITH IT. The same page states that "The nature and scope of a given project will determine the inspections required for each project", so whether a particular re-roof draws the roof inspection is a decision for the Building Inspector rather than something to be assumed either way from the list. HOW TO SCHEDULE IT. "Inspections are a required part of the permitting process. It is the responsibility of the permit holder: whether applicant, owner, or licensed contractor to notify the City when any such inspections need to be performed. Inspection appointments must be made at least 24 hours in advance." The City directs anyone asking whether a particular inspection is required to contact the City Building Inspector directly. Build the 24 hours into the schedule; on a small crew a missed call costs a day.