Do you need a permit to replace a roof in Township of Tyrone, PA?

Roofing questions: Township of Tyrone, PA

When does a roof repair need a permit in Township of Tyrone, PA?

Tyrone Township's codified ordinances adopt the Uniform Construction Code by reference and add no roofing rule of their own. Read for this answer: Chapter 2, Part 1 of the Township's codified ordinances (Sections 2-101 and 2-102), which adds no permit exemption or roofing rule of its own, and the Township's zoning ordinance, Section 1502, which requires "A zoning permit" "prior to the erection, addition, or alteration of any building or portion thereof" except "normal maintenance activities, minor repairs, and alterations which do not structurally change a building or structure." That zoning clause names no roof work, and this record does not decide whether a house reroof is an alteration, a minor repair or normal maintenance under it. The Alliance's supplemental fee schedule, posted on the Township's Document Center as "2025-Fee-Schedule-PMCA" (read October 12, 2026 from the rendered page of a scanned copy), lists "Residential Re-Roof" at "$160 (with structural repairs, framing & final)" and says its fees "are for inspections only." The Alliance's own website carries a letter that says "a residential Re-roof still requires compliance with the provisions of the UCC but does not require a building permit" and that "If structural work is required such as replacing studs, headers, rafters or trusses a permit would now be required"; the letter is dated July 20, 2018, is addressed to municipal officials generally, and names no municipality. This record does not decide whether the fee line or the letter states the Township's answer for an ordinary reroof. State law sets no square-footage or percentage threshold for roof work; any threshold is set locally. The Uniform Construction Code "does not apply to" "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress, except as required by ordinances in effect under sections 303(b)(1) or 503 of the act" or to "Repairs to residential buildings, except as required by ordinances in effect under sections 303(b)(1) and 503 of the act" (34 Pa. Code 403.1(b)(8) and (9)), and "A permit is not required for the exceptions listed in § 403.1(b) (relating to scope) and the following, if the work does not violate a law or ordinance" (34 Pa. Code 403.62(c)). For houses the regulation adds: "An ordinary repair does not require a permit." Its list of work that is not an ordinary repair names cutting away a load-bearing wall, "The removal or cutting of any structural beam or load-bearing support," changes to a required means of egress, and new or relocated piping, wiring or mechanical work (34 Pa. Code 403.62(d)); roofing is not named. A municipality may require more: under Act 45 section 503(c) it "may enact ordinances pursuant to this section which adopt additional code requirements for alterations or repairs to residential buildings," after a public hearing and after filing the proposed ordinance with the Department of Labor and Industry. These rules concern a "Residential building," which the regulation defines as "Detached one-family and two-family dwellings and townhouses which are not more than three stories above grade plane in height with a separate means of egress and their accessory structures" (34 Pa. Code 401.1). Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, Tyrone Township's officials page lists the Pennsylvania Municipal Code Alliance, in Chambersburg, as its "Building Code/Zoning & Code Enforcement Officer" (717-496-4996), its 2025 fee schedule lists the Alliance under "UCC Building, Zoning, & Code Enforcement Agency" and charges a record retention fee "for each Building Permit issued by PMCA," and Section 2-101 of its codified ordinances says the Township "hereby elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act" and adopts the Uniform Construction Code "as the municipal building code of the Township of Tyrone." The Township office is at 5280 Old Harrisburg Road, York Springs (717-528-4012). The Township's published ordinances state no square-footage or percentage threshold for roof work.

Can you roof over an existing roof in Township of Tyrone, PA?

Two layers at most where the state code reaches the job. Pennsylvania adopts the 2021 International Residential Code without changing its reroofing section, R908 (34 Pa. Code 403.21(a)(7); the State's list of changes names no Chapter 9 section). Section R908.3.1.1 says "A roof recover shall not be permitted where any of the following conditions occur," and the third condition is "Where the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering." So one existing layer may be covered once, and a roof that already has two layers is torn off to the deck. The same section also bars a recover "Where the existing roof or roof covering is water soaked or has deteriorated to the point that the existing roof or roof covering is not adequate as a base for additional roofing" and "Where the existing roof covering is slate, clay, cement or asbestos-cement tile." The existing-building code the State also adopts, the 2021 International Existing Building Code (34 Pa. Code 403.21(f)), carries the same three conditions in Section 705.2.1.1. These rules bind work the Uniform Construction Code reaches. The Act does not apply to "Repairs to residential buildings" or to alterations that make no structural change, "except as might be required by ordinances" (Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6)), so whether R908 binds a particular house reroof turns on that exclusion and on the municipality's own ordinances. Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, Tyrone Township's officials page lists the Pennsylvania Municipal Code Alliance, in Chambersburg, as its "Building Code/Zoning & Code Enforcement Officer" (717-496-4996), its 2025 fee schedule lists the Alliance under "UCC Building, Zoning, & Code Enforcement Agency" and charges a record retention fee "for each Building Permit issued by PMCA," and Section 2-101 of its codified ordinances says the Township "hereby elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act" and adopts the Uniform Construction Code "as the municipal building code of the Township of Tyrone." The Township office is at 5280 Old Harrisburg Road, York Springs (717-528-4012). Chapter 2 of the codified ordinances changes nothing in the code's reroofing provisions, and the Township's pages say nothing on roof layers. The Alliance's letter says "Metal roofing should not be installed over more than two layers of shingles without the authorization of a design professional."

Do roofing contractors need a license or registration in Township of Tyrone, PA?

Yes.

What building code does Township of Tyrone, PA use?

The 2021 International Residential Code, as adopted by the State in the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code (UCC). 34 Pa. Code 403.21(a)(7) adopts "The 'International Residential Code of 2021,' except that:" followed by the State's list of exclusions and modifications, effective January 1, 2026 (55 Pa.B. 7701). None of the State's changes touches Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, or Section R803, Roof Sheathing, so those apply as the International Code Council publishes them. Work on existing buildings is also pointed to the State's existing-building code: "The repair, alteration, change of occupancy, addition and relocation of existing buildings must comply with Chapter 34 of the 'International Building Code of 2021' or with the 'International Existing Building Code of 2021'" (34 Pa. Code 403.21(f)). The UCC is the minimum everywhere in the state: "no municipality may propose or enact any ordinance which is less than the minimum requirement of the Uniform Construction Code" (Pennsylvania Construction Code Act, Act 45 of 1999, section 503(b)). The Act also lists work it "shall not apply to", including "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress" or to "Repairs to residential buildings," in each case "except as might be required by ordinances" kept in force under section 303(b)(1) or adopted under section 503 (Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6); 34 Pa. Code 403.1(b)(8) and (9)). The Act defines a repair as "The reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing building for the purpose of its maintenance." So whether the code's roofing rules reach a given house reroof depends on the municipality's own ordinances. Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, Tyrone Township's officials page lists the Pennsylvania Municipal Code Alliance, in Chambersburg, as its "Building Code/Zoning & Code Enforcement Officer" (717-496-4996), its 2025 fee schedule lists the Alliance under "UCC Building, Zoning, & Code Enforcement Agency" and charges a record retention fee "for each Building Permit issued by PMCA," and Section 2-101 of its codified ordinances says the Township "hereby elects to administer and enforce the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act" and adopts the Uniform Construction Code "as the municipal building code of the Township of Tyrone." The Township office is at 5280 Old Harrisburg Road, York Springs (717-528-4012). The Township's pages name no code edition. Section 2-101 of the codified ordinances adopts the code "as amended from time to time" and changes nothing in its roofing provisions.