Warrick County Building Commission

Warrick County, Indiana

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107 West Locust St, Suite 208, Boonville, IN 47601

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WHERE, AND WHICH OFFICE. The Building Commission is at 107 West Locust St, Suite 208, Boonville, IN 47601, on 812-897-6188, fax 812-897-6109, email [email protected], Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with Jeff Daily as Building Inspector and Angie Lutz as Office Administrator. Check the address first. The City of Boonville runs its own Building Department on 812-897-6557 and states that "The City of Boonville now has online permitting." The Town of Newburgh issues its own Site Improvement Permit, whose fee list includes "Roof Repair/Replacement" at $30.00, and keeps its own contractor listing, which asks for $500,000 of liability insurance naming the Town as additional insured and carries a $25 listing fee. The Town of Chandler's Planning and Zoning Department, on 812-925-6882, "also handles/issues any applicable Building Permits and required inspections for such projects." Neither the County's Building Department page nor its Area Plan Commission page says whether this office permits work in the Towns of Lynnville and Elberfeld or in Tennyson, which sit inside the Area Plan Commission's zoning area, so ask. WHAT IS SUBMITTED. The Remodeling Permit Application asks for the Improvement Location Permit, the zoning clearance issued by the Area Plan Commission at Suite 201 of the same building, on 812-897-6190. Where plans are needed, the Building Department's page warns: "Residential & Commercial drawings/plans cannot be larger than 11 x 17 for us to be able to scan them." MONEY. The re-roof fee is a flat $30 under Exterior Remodeling. A re-inspection is $25, and "Re-Inspection fees are assessed when an additional inspection is required, which deviates from the normal sequence of inspections". INSPECTIONS. The inspection sheet requires twenty-four hours' notice and a final on every job. The Remodeling Permit Application names a different inspector, Dennis Lockhart, on the same call-in number the inspection sheet gives, 812-431-4391, so confirm the inspection line with the office when the permit issues.

THE COUNTY'S OWN ADOPTION TEXT WAS NOT OPENED, AND THE STATE SAYS THE ANSWER DOES NOT DEPEND ON IT. Warrick County publishes its Code of Ordinances on a vendor platform that refuses automated access, so its building chapter could not be read for this record, and the Building Department's page names no code edition. The County's inspection instruction sheet says its inspection list is "in compliance with the Warrick County Commissioners Ordinance No. 2003-14 & 2006-11"; those ordinances were not opened either. The County has published no statement of which edition it enforces. WHAT APPLIES IN ANY CASE. The Indiana State Building Commissioner's memo of February 25, 2020 states that the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, 675 IAC 14-4.4, "adopts, and amends, the first printing of the 2018 International Residential Code", and that it "is in full force and effect statewide. Regardless of any established local enforcement policies or practices to the contrary, or whether a local building authority even exists in any particular jurisdiction or location in the state, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code governs all Class 2 residential construction, and its requirements, by law, must be followed." The state's own rule list, read in 2026, still carries Rule 4.4, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, as the current residential rule, with the 2005 edition repealed. And IC 22-13-2-3(c) provides that a city, town or county "may not adopt an ordinance that conflicts with or includes more stringent or detailed requirements than the commission's rules".

Required — REQUIRED, BY THE STATE RATHER THAN BY THE COUNTY. The Indiana State Building Commissioner's memo reproduces the provision as adopted in the 2020 Indiana Residential Code: "R905.2.8.5 Drip edge. 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)." The same provision goes on to set how far the edge extends below the sheathing and up the deck, a maximum fastener spacing, and the lapping of underlayment over the edge at eaves and under it at rakes. The memo also states that the 2020 Indiana Residential Code "is in full force and effect statewide", whether or not a local building authority exists. Warrick County's own building chapter was not opened for this record, so this record does not say whether the County restates the requirement; it is in force here as a state requirement either way. About drip edge

Not required — NOT REQUIRED BY THE TABLE IN WARRICK COUNTY, AND THAT IS NOT THE END OF THE QUESTION. The Indiana Residential Code's Table R301.2(1), as amended by 675 IAC 14-4.4-5, runs county by county, and the Warrick row reads No in its ice shield underlayment column. WHAT THE STATE'S OWN MEMO SAYS THE No MEANS: "there are specific counties in which it is always required (per Table R301.2(1)), and specific counties in which it is required only when the roofing manufacturer's written installation instructions require it (per Sections R903.1, R904.1 and R905.1)." Warrick is in the second group. So where the shingle manufacturer's instructions call for an ice-and-water membrane on the assembly being installed, that requirement applies to the job regardless of the table. Warrick County's own building chapter was not opened for this record. About ice & water barrier

Not required — NO ROOFING STAGE APPEARS IN THE COUNTY'S PUBLISHED REQUIRED-INSPECTION LIST, WHICH IS ITEMISED RATHER THAN SILENT. The Building Commission's inspection instruction sheet lists its required inspections as open footer and postholes, foundation, basement walls, waterproofing of basement walls, the framing, electrical, plumbing and heating and air rough-in before insulating, insulation before drywall, gas and electrical hook-up, and the final. No roof, deck or underlayment stage is among them. The same sheet is emphatic about the last one: "When the job is completed, regardless of what it is, it is MANDATORY to call for a FINAL INSPECTION." So a permitted re-roof has no mid-roof hold point to schedule around but does need a final; arrange with the inspector if the deck should be seen before it is covered. The sheet says it follows Commissioners Ordinance No. 2003-14 and 2006-11, which were not opened for this record.

THE COUNTY'S OWN PERMIT TABLE NAMES THE RE-ROOF AND SETS NO SIZE FLOOR FOR IT. The Building Department's Residential Permit Uses sheet lists, under Accessory Use, "Exterior Remodeling (re-roof, windows, siding, doors, guttering, foundations, etc..)" at a flat fee of $30, and it states no square-footage or dollar threshold below which that work escapes a permit. The County's Remodeling Permit Application carries the matching boxes, EXTERIOR and RESIDENTIAL, and asks for the Improvement Location Permit, the building contractor, a description of the improvement and its estimated cost. WHAT IS NOT ESTABLISHED. The ordinance that creates the permit requirement sits in the Warrick County Code of Ordinances, which the County publishes on a vendor platform that refuses automated access, so it was not opened for this record. Whether it carves out minor repairs is therefore unknown, and the fee sheet is the County's statement of practice rather than the enacted text. For a patch smaller than a full re-roof, ask the Building Department on 812-897-6188 before starting.

THE FIGURES ARE THE STATE'S COUNTY-INDEXED TABLE, NOT A COUNTY ENACTMENT. Table R301.2(1) of the Indiana Residential Code, as substituted by 675 IAC 14-4.4-5, gives the Warrick County row as wind speed 115 mph, seismic design category C, ground snow load 20 psf, foundation depth 24 inches, winter design temperature 9 degrees Fahrenheit, decay slight to moderate, termite moderate to heavy, weathering severe, ice shield underlayment required No, air freezing index 1500 or less and mean annual temperature 56.2 degrees. The table's own footnotes say that "Wind exposure shall be determined on a site-specific basis" and that the foundation figure is the minimum depth in inches from the finish grade to the bottom of the footing. NOTE THE SEISMIC CATEGORY. Warrick prints C, as does neighbouring Vanderburgh, while counties such as Tippecanoe print A, so a structural detail carried in from central or northern Indiana should be checked against category C. The County publishes no design criteria of its own on its Building Department page, and its building chapter was not opened for this record.

7.00% in Warrick County, the Indiana state sales tax rate. The Department of Revenue's sales tax page tells a business selling goods or tangible personal property that it will need "to register to collect a seven percent sales tax", and it states no county or city add-on rate, so 7.00% is the rate a roofing contractor pays on materials bought here.