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Hail-Belt Jurisdictions on the 2024 I-Codes

Permitting authorities whose sourced adopted-code records cite the 2024 International Codes as adopted or in formal transition. Jurisdictions adopt code editions independently, so 2024-code cities sit next to neighbors still on 2006-2021 editions.

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Georgia (48)

Athens-Clarke County, Georgia - Building Permits & Inspections Department
The permitting authority for Athens-Clarke County, Georgia. Athens and Clarke County are one consolidated government - the Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County - so there is a single building department covering the county rather than a city department and a county department, and the Charter puts the unified government over the total area of Clarke County. The Building Permits & Inspections Department issues the building permits and runs the inspections. The one fact that changes how a roofer works here is that Athens-Clarke County does not require a building permit at all for replacing asphalt shingles or mineral-surfaced roll roofing, which is written into the exemption list in its own Code of Ordinances. Two small municipalities inside the county keep their own charters and are declared by the Charter to be outside the city part of the unified government - Winterville, whose own ordinance authorises the county building inspector to enforce the building codes inside the city, and Bogart, which titles its own website City of Bogart, Oconee County, Georgia and gives Oconee County Planning & Code Enforcement as its city inspector. Check with the town before assuming a job at either address is handled here.
Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia - Planning and Development Department
Augusta-Richmond County is a consolidated city-county government, one government rather than a city inside a separate county, and its Planning and Development Department issues and inspects residential building permits across the consolidated jurisdiction. Re-roofing is named on the Department's own online-permit list. The unusual thing about Augusta is how it classifies a roofer: roofing repair and replacement is SPECIALTY TRADE CONTRACTOR work, licensed locally without a Georgia state contractor licence, but with a hard line at structural work, so a roofer may replace water-damaged plywood decking and may not replace a rafter or truss. Augusta also requires a signed drip-edge acknowledgment memo with the permit application and will fail the roofing inspection without drip edge. The Charter expressly preserves the separate incorporation of the Town of Blythe, so a Blythe address is not automatically Augusta's to permit.
Bartow County, Georgia - Community Development Department, Building Inspections Division
The building-permit and inspection authority for Bartow County, Georgia, north-west of Atlanta on the I-75 corridor, with its county seat and offices at Cartersville. The Building Inspections Division sits inside Community Development at 135 West Cherokee Avenue, Suite 124, and states its mission as protecting the public "through the administration and enforcement of adopted building codes." For a roofer this is one of the plainest jurisdictions in Georgia, because the County publishes a handout that answers the permit question in a single line and answers it in the roofer's favour, including for an overlay. It is also unusually candid about where its authority comes from: its Code does not purport to adopt the state codes at all, it recites that they are in force in every Georgia county as a matter of law. The County writes no roofing technical rules of its own, and its Code switches the model codes' appendices off by default.
Carroll County, Georgia - Department of Community Development, Building Section
The building-permit and inspection authority for Carroll County, Georgia, west of metropolitan Atlanta, run out of the Community Development Department at 423 College Street in Carrollton. Two things set this county apart for a roofer. The first is that the County writes no roofing technical rule of its own at all: its building chapter is an administrative ordinance, and it adopts the state construction codes by a floating reference to whatever the Department of Community Affairs has adopted, so the roofing answers are the state's answers. The second is the permit question, which the County does answer for itself and answers in a way that catches people out: repairing the roof is named in the permit trigger, the list of work exempt from permit contains no roofing item, and the only route around a permit is an undefined ordinary-repairs clause. The County also inspects for four of its municipalities under agreement.
Chatham County, Georgia - Department of Building Safety & Regulatory Services
The building-permit and inspection authority for unincorporated Chatham County, Georgia - the coastal county that surrounds Savannah and runs out to Tybee Island. The Department of Building Safety & Regulatory Services works from 1117 Eisenhower Drive, Suite D, in Savannah, and it is one of the few permitting authorities in this corpus that publishes a permit application for roofing and nothing else. A reroof needs a permit here: the County lists re-roofing by name among the work that requires one, with no dollar or square-foot exemption attached. The County writes no residential roofing rules of its own - its building chapter adopts the state codes and says its residential amendments are those "adopted by the State" - but its inspection sheet does two useful things a roofer should read before bidding: it gives a hurricane connection wind-speed range for the county, and it prescribes a sheathing nail pattern that must pass inspection before anything covers it.
Cherokee County, Georgia - Building Inspections and Development Service Center
The building-permit and inspection authority for unincorporated Cherokee County, Georgia, in the northern Atlanta metro, and for the City of Waleska, which the County names as within its own permitting territory. That scope statement is the County's own and it does not reach Cherokee's other incorporated cities - Canton, Woodstock, Holly Springs, Ball Ground and Nelson. The one thing a roofer needs to know here is that Cherokee treats a covering replacement as an ordinary repair: the Building Department states in terms that a permit is not required to replace shingles, but that a structural change in roof design does need one. Permits and inspections both run through the County's CityView portal, and the County publishes a complete eleven-stage inspection schedule with no roof stage in it.
City of Albany, GA - Development Services (Permitting & Inspection)
Development Services is the permitting and inspection arm of Albany's Planning and Development Department, and it is not purely a city office: under the 1972 City-County Agreement on Functions and Services, still codified as Appendix A to the Dougherty County Code, Albany and Dougherty County combined their separate inspection departments into a joint city-county inspection department whose head is appointed by the City Manager and the County Administrator together, with permit fees for work inside the Albany city limits going to the City and fees for work outside them going to the County. That is why the Department's own handouts are headed City of Albany-Dougherty County Development Services. The thing a roofer most needs to know here is that Albany inspects a residential roof twice, not once: its inspection sheet states that residential roofs require a mid-roof inspection and a final, which is unusual in Georgia and means the job cannot be closed up before the first stop is called. Note also that there is no roofing category in the Albany Permit Center - a re-roof is filed under Addition, Remodels and Repair - and that the City's codified Code of Ordinances is not currently published on any code library reachable online, so the Department's own published handouts are the operative local source for what Albany requires.
City of Alpharetta, Georgia - Community Development Department, Building Division
The permitting authority for the City of Alpharetta, Georgia (Fulton County), in the northern Atlanta metropolitan area. Alpharetta enforces the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes, which Georgia law applies statewide without local adoption (O.C.G.A. 8-2-25). The city's own role is permit administration, fees, inspections, local zoning, and any local amendment it has filed with the Georgia Department of Community Affairs; the technical content of the residential roofing code is set by the state, not by the city.
City of Atlanta, Georgia - Department of City Planning, Office of Buildings
The permitting authority for the City of Atlanta, Georgia. The city straddles Fulton County (the large majority) and DeKalb County. Atlanta enforces the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes, which Georgia designates as MANDATORY and which apply to construction statewide whether or not a local government elects to enforce them locally; Atlanta's own contribution is permit administration, fees, inspections, historic-district review, and the local administrative amendments collected in Appendix A (Building Code Amendments) of Part III of the Atlanta Code of Ordinances (Land Development Code). For roofing specifically, the technical requirements are state/IRC-governed but the permit trigger is local - see repair_permit_threshold.
City of Brookhaven, Georgia - Community Development Department, Building Division
The building-permit and inspection authority for the City of Brookhaven, Georgia, a city inside DeKalb County on the north-east side of Atlanta along Buford Highway. Community Development runs permitting from the PEP Building at 2665 Buford Highway, and every application, payment, inspection request and plan release goes through the City's Cityworks Project Portal. Brookhaven matters to a roofer more than its size suggests, because it is one of the very few Georgia jurisdictions that has written roofing requirements of its own into its ordinance and built a roofing stage into its inspection sequence. Its Code requires drip edges at all roofing edges and hurricane type connections tying roof framing to wall framing, and its inspection list carries a Roof felt and sheathing inspection performed after the roof felt is on. A reroof needs a permit here: the City's permit exemption is for ordinary repairs, and its own definition of that term excludes replacements and anything the codes address.
City of East Point, Georgia - Building Inspections and Permits Division
The building-permit and inspection authority for the City of East Point, Georgia, a Fulton County city on the south side of Atlanta next to Hartsfield-Jackson. Permitting and inspection sit in the Department of Planning and Community Development on the ground floor of City Hall, which runs its own BS&A online portal, its own plan review and its own inspection service. East Point is unusually good news for a roofer, because it answers the roofing questions on its own forms instead of leaving them to the code. It publishes a dedicated Roof Permit Application, it puts a roof on its own line in the permit-type chart and in the fee schedule, and its residential roofing permit is a flat fee. It also takes a published position on who may pull that permit, classing a roofer as a Specialty Trade rather than as a state certified Contractor. Two cautions. The City is mid-transition on code editions, and its own documents disagree about which editions are current. And there is no local climatic and geographic table here, so wind speed and the ice barrier question have to be settled with the Building Official rather than read off a City page.
City of Gainesville, Georgia - Building Inspection Division, Community and Economic Development
The building-permit and inspection authority for the City of Gainesville, Georgia, the seat of Hall County at the north end of Lake Lanier and the largest city in north-east Georgia. Building Inspection sits inside Community and Economic Development at 311 Henry Ward Way, and everything is filed and scheduled through the Accela Citizen Access portal. Gainesville is unusually direct about roofing: its published list of Projects Requiring Permits names "Roofing repairs and re-roofing" outright, so both ends of the work need a permit here and there is no dollar threshold to hide behind. Its building rules do not sit in the Code of Ordinances at all - they are Article 16 of the Unified Land Development Code - and the ULDC also carries two local roof rules a roofer will not find in the state code: a minimum roof pitch and a list of permitted roof-covering materials for detached houses, plus a metal-roof restriction inside the Gateway Corridor Overlay.
City of Johns Creek, Georgia - Community Development Department, Building Division
The building-permit and inspection authority for the City of Johns Creek, Georgia, a city of about 32 square miles in the north-eastern part of Fulton County, incorporated on December 1, 2006. The Building Division sits inside the Community Development Department, is led by a Chief Building Official, and takes every application through the City's Customer Self-Service portal. The rule a roofer needs to know first is the permit position: Johns Creek puts a straight roof replacement in the no-permit column of its own published checklist, and a permit becomes necessary only when the job turns structural or replaces more than 32 square feet of decking or sheathing. The City writes no roofing code of its own - it adopts the Georgia state minimum codes by floating reference and enforces them.
City of Marietta, Georgia - Development Services / Building Inspections
The permitting authority for the City of Marietta, Georgia, the county seat of Cobb County in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Marietta is an incorporated municipality that runs its own building-permit and inspection program; it is NOT served by Cobb County Community Development for permitting within the city limits. (This record covers Marietta, Georgia, not Marietta, Ohio.) Marietta enforces the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes, whose technical content is set by the state and applies statewide under O.C.G.A. 8-2-25(a) regardless of local adoption; the city's own levers are permit administration, fees, inspections, business licensing, and any local amendment it has filed with the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.
City of Newnan, Georgia - Building Department
The building-permit and inspection authority for the City of Newnan, Georgia, the seat of Coweta County on the south-west edge of metro Atlanta. The Building Department sits on the second floor of City Hall at 25 LaGrange Street under a named Chief Building Official, and in the City's own words it "provides for administration and enforcement of building, housing, plumbing, electrical, health, and zoning codes", issues the permits, examines the plans and inspects the work. Newnan is one of the better-documented small Georgia cities for a roofer, because it answers three questions that most Georgia jurisdictions leave to the state code. It publishes a dedicated Roofing Permit Application whose own checkbox caps asphalt shingles at two layers. It publishes a completed Residential Code climatic and geographic design criteria table, so the ice barrier and wind figures are City figures rather than guesses. And its fee schedule prices a residential roof by roof area and states how much sheathing replacement rides inside that fee before a further charge applies. Newnan also has a real permit-free band for small work, at a low dollar figure, and it is conditioned rather than automatic.
City of Peachtree City, Georgia - Building Department
The building-permit and inspection authority for the City of Peachtree City, Georgia, a city of roughly 38,000 in Fayette County, about 30 miles south of Atlanta. The Building Department sits inside Planning & Development and is reached at 153 Willowbend Road. The City's own permit page states plainly that "Building Permits are issued for new buildings, additions, interior alterations, siding, re-roof, demolitions, tenant build-outs. and parking lot lighting" - so, unlike some of its Georgia neighbours, Peachtree City puts an ordinary re-roof in the permit-required column rather than exempting it. The City writes no residential code of its own; Code of Ordinances Section 18-100 floats to "the latest edition as adopted and amended by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs," so the operative rule moves automatically as the state's mandatory code changes, and the City's own local amendment to that code removes wood shingles and shakes as an approved roof covering rather than touching the layer count, drip edge or ice-barrier provisions.
City of Peachtree Corners, Georgia - Building and Permitting Division
The building-permit and inspection authority for the City of Peachtree Corners, Georgia, a Gwinnett County city on the Chattahoochee north-east of Atlanta, incorporated in 2012. The Building Division has its own Chief Building Official, plans coordinator and plans examiner, reviews plans, inspects residential and commercial work, and issues building, deck, pool and spa, demolition, interior finish, remodelling, retaining wall, roof and trade permits. It moved to the BS&A permitting platform in September 2025 and states that from January 1, 2026 the 2024 editions apply to all plans and applications. READ THE PERMIT ENTRY ON THIS RECORD BEFORE QUOTING A JOB: the City publishes two documents that do not agree about whether a residential re-roof needs a permit at all, and this record sets both out rather than choosing between them. Fire inspections here are Gwinnett County's, not the City's.
City of Rome, Georgia - Rome-Floyd County Building Inspection Department
The building-permit and inspection authority for the City of Rome, Georgia, the seat of Floyd County in the north-west corner of the state. ONE DEPARTMENT SERVES BOTH GOVERNMENTS, and a roofer working the area should know that before ringing round: the department describes itself as "The Rome-Floyd County Building Inspection Department" and says it "is responsible for the review, permitting, and inspection of all construction projects within the City of Rome", while Floyd County carries Building Inspection in its own departments menu and links it straight through to the City's page. The office is at 607 Broad Street. Rome is one of the few Georgia jurisdictions that publishes a re-roof requirement in words rather than leaving the whole question to the state code, and the requirement is a real one about rotten decking, fire class and product life. It also runs a separate roofing permit application, and its design criteria are published for the City and the County together.
City of Roswell, Georgia - Community Development, Building Division
The permitting authority for the City of Roswell, Georgia, a north Fulton County city in metro Atlanta. Roswell runs its own building permits, plan review and inspections through the Building Division of its Community Development Department, and everything moves through the Roswell Permitting & Licensing HUB - the Division states plainly that it takes neither permit applications nor inspection requests by email or phone. For a roofer the useful thing is that Roswell publishes a named permit work class for the job: Residential Building - Roof Covering, covering repair, replacement or recover of an existing roof covering on a dwelling or accessory building. The city also asks a contractor who is claiming a specialty exemption from the state residential contractor licence to file a notarised affidavit in person before the permit issues.
City of Sandy Springs, Georgia - Community Development Department, Building Division
The permitting authority for the City of Sandy Springs, Georgia, in north Fulton County just above Atlanta. Sandy Springs incorporated in 2005, having relied on Fulton County government for local services before that, and runs its own building permits and inspections through the Community Development Department, taking applications on the Build Sandy Springs portal. The thing a roofer needs to know is that the City draws its roofing permit line by roof type rather than by scope of work - its own permit pages put shingle work on a pitched roof outside the permit system and call for a Residential Roofing permit on a flat roof replacement. The City also warns that proximity to the Chattahoochee River Corridor, which takes in property within 2,000 feet of the river banks, can affect a construction project.
City of Savannah, Georgia - Development Services Department
The permitting authority for the City of Savannah, Georgia, the seat of Chatham County on the state's Atlantic coast. Savannah runs its own building-permit and inspection program through the Development Services Department and issues permits through its eTRAC online system. The unusual thing for a roofer is that Savannah splits the roof job in two: replacing roof shingles only, or patching under 100 square feet, needs no permit at all, while a full roof replacement that includes the underlayment needs a building permit. Savannah also has large local historic districts, and the Department's own permit sheets state that all exterior work in them must have Historic Review Board approval whether or not a permit is required.
City of South Fulton, Georgia - Development Services, Community Development and Regulatory Affairs
The building-permit and inspection authority for the City of South Fulton, Georgia, the large city formed in 2017 out of what had been unincorporated south Fulton County, west and south-west of Atlanta. Development Services sits inside Community Development and Regulatory Affairs and handles every residential, commercial and trade permit for the city; applications, plan review and inspection scheduling all run through the SagesGov portal rather than over a counter. The one thing a roofer needs to know before quoting here is the City ordinance permit floor: ordinary minor repairs valued under $2,500 may be made with the building official approval and no permit, which puts most small repairs outside the permit system and almost every replacement inside it. South Fulton adopts the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes by floating reference to the latest edition, so it moved to the 2024 editions on January 1, 2026 without passing an ordinance of its own.
City of Statesboro, Georgia - Building Inspections, Planning & Development Department
The building-permit and inspection authority for the City of Statesboro, Georgia, the seat of Bulloch County in the south-east of the state and home to Georgia Southern University. Building Inspections sits inside the City Planning & Development Department at 50 East Main Street under a named Chief Building Official, and the City runs its own permit counter, its own plan review and its own inspectors rather than contracting the function to Bulloch County. For a roofer Statesboro is unusually well documented, because the department publishes three working documents rather than leaving everything to the state code: a Vertical Construction Packet that lists by name the project types requiring a permit, a twelve-page Residential Inspection Reference Checklist that walks every inspection stage and cites the code section behind each item, and a Residential Code Updates sheet issued for the 2024 code cycle. Between them they answer the drip edge question outright, name the inspection stage a roof is checked at, and give the City figure for wind. Permits and inspection requests both run through the Community Core portal. The residential code in force is the 2024 International Residential Code with the Georgia Amendments, which the City states took effect on January 1, 2026.
City of Stonecrest, Georgia - Building and Permitting Division
The building-permit and inspection authority for the City of Stonecrest, Georgia, a city incorporated in 2017 on the east side of DeKalb County around the Mall at Stonecrest and Arabia Mountain. The Building and Permitting Division reviews plans and inspects residential and commercial work inside the city, and roofing is not an afterthought here: "Roof" is one of the permit types the Division lists as issuing in its own right. Two Stonecrest facts change how a roofer prices a job. First, the City publishes a Permit Required Checklist that answers the roofing question in both directions - a new roof covering or roof decking on a house needs a permit, minor repairs to a roof covering do not. Second, Stonecrest is one of the few Georgia jurisdictions that fills in the Residential Code climatic and geographic table for itself, and its own entry states that ice barrier underlayment is not required. Everything is filed and scheduled through the CitizenServe portal; the City stopped taking inspection requests by phone, text or email in June 2022.
City of Tucker, Georgia - Building and Permitting Division, Community Development
The building-permit and inspection authority for the City of Tucker, Georgia, a DeKalb County city incorporated in 2016 inside I-285 north-east of Atlanta. The Building and Permitting Division is part of Community Development, has its own Building Official and plan reviewer, and takes all building and trade permits electronically at [email protected] or through its permit portal. For a roofer the operative rule is the City permit floor: ordinary minor repairs valued at less than $2,500 may be made with the building official approval and no permit, which leaves patch work outside the permit system and a replacement inside it. Tucker adopts the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes by floating reference to the latest edition, so it moved to the 2024 editions on January 1, 2026 without passing an ordinance of its own, and its only local amendments are to the Building Code sprinkler provision and to the Property Maintenance Code fill-in-the-blanks.
City of Valdosta, Georgia - Inspections Department
The building-permit and inspection authority for the City of Valdosta, Georgia, the seat of Lowndes County in the far south of the state on I-75. Permits are issued at the Permit Office in the Inspections Department at the City Hall Annex, 300 N. Lee Street, or bought online, and a contractor can schedule and track their own inspections through the City permitting portal. Two things set Valdosta apart for a roofer. The City answers the roofing question in plain words on its own page - a building permit is required to repair or alter a building and that "includes, but is not limited to, roofs" - so there is no small-job exemption to look for. And the department is a JOINT one: the City published Appendix J, its local administration and enforcement ordinance, is made under an intergovernmental agreement with Lowndes County, and the same contractor registration reaches Valdosta, Hahira, Lake Park, Dasher and the unincorporated county.
City of Warner Robins, GA - Building Inspections Department
The building permit and inspection authority for Warner Robins, Georgia, working out of 610B Watson Boulevard under a building official of its own. Two things about it catch roofers out. The first is that the city sits in two counties, Houston and Peach, and its own Code says so, so the sales tax on a job depends on which side of the line the house is. The second is that the operative list of codes the city enforces is not in any numbered section of its ordinances; it is in the editor's note attached to the title of Chapter 6, which is where the International Residential Code adoption actually appears. Georgia's mandatory state minimum codes bind construction here by operation of law whether or not the city enforces them, so the code is never a question of what Warner Robins adopted; what the city chooses is what it inspects. The city publishes no roofing permit form and names roofing nowhere on its permitting pages.
City of Woodstock, Georgia - Building & Safety Division, Community Development Department
The building-permit and inspection authority for the City of Woodstock, Georgia, a fast-growing city of Cherokee County on the north-west edge of metro Atlanta. The Building & Safety Division sits inside the Community Development Department at the City Hall Annex, 12453 Highway 92, under a named Building Official who is also the Deputy Community Development Director, and the City runs its own permit counter, plan review and inspections rather than routing them to Cherokee County. Woodstock is a useful record for a roofer chiefly for what it settles at the level of law rather than practice: its building ordinance enumerates exactly which codes it adopts and which it adds locally, which is a cleaner answer than most Georgia cities give, and the Building Department page publishes the edition of every code in force from January 1, 2026. What the City does not publish is roofing-specific: there is no roofing permit form, no re-roof line on any published list, no completed climatic and geographic design criteria table and no residential inspection checklist, and its fee schedule sits on a platform that will not serve a request. So several roofing questions here are answered by the adopted state code rather than by the City, and this record says which are which. Note also that a Woodstock mailing address does not mean a Woodstock jurisdiction - the City warns in terms that an address listed as Woodstock may be in unincorporated Cherokee County, and that decides who issues your permit.
Clayton County, Georgia - Community & Economic Development Department, Building Permits
The building-permit and inspection authority for Clayton County, Georgia, the county immediately south of Atlanta that contains Hartsfield-Jackson airport and has its seat at Jonesboro. Building Permits sits inside the Community & Economic Development Department at the P.K. Dixon Building Annex 2, 121 South McDonough Street, and the County describes its own work plainly: the section "issues building, mechanical, electrical and plumbing permits for residential and commercial remodels/repairs and new construction." For a roofer the important thing is that Clayton County has written the reroof permit question into its enacted ordinance rather than leaving it to a web page. Section 18-41 of the County Code exempts roof re-covering and replacement from the permit requirement, but only when none of three named conditions exists - and one of those three is that the roof already carries two or more applications of roof covering. So the answer here turns on what is already on the roof, and it is checkable before you bid.
Cobb County, Georgia - Community Development Agency, Development and Inspections Division
The building-permit and inspection authority for the UNINCORPORATED areas of Cobb County, Georgia, in the northwest Atlanta metro. It is not the authority inside Cobb's incorporated cities: Marietta, Smyrna, Kennesaw, Acworth, Powder Springs and Austell each permit their own limits, and Mableton began accepting its own building and development permits on March 1, 2025, with February 28, 2025 the last day the County accepted them for that territory. The one thing a roofer needs to know about Cobb is unusual for a metro county: the County's own published list of work exempt from residential permitting includes standard tab shingle replacement, so an ordinary residential shingle reroof in unincorporated Cobb is not permitted work, while the same job on a commercial building is.
Columbia County, Georgia - Development Services, Building Standards Department
The building-permit and inspection authority for Columbia County, Georgia, the suburban county immediately west of Augusta, with its administrative offices at Evans and its county seat at Appling. The Building Standards Department sits inside Development Services at 630 Ronald Reagan Drive, Building A. Two things set this county apart from most Georgia jurisdictions and both matter to a roofer. First, roofing is a permit type here in its own right, priced on the County's published fee schedule and listed by name on the County's own permit checklist, so there is no guessing about whether a reroof is inside or outside the permit system. Second, and rarer still in Georgia, Columbia County runs its own contractor registration and roofing is one of the four trades it names as a specialty contractor, which means a roofer working the unincorporated county needs a county certificate and bond on top of whatever the state requires. The County writes no roofing technical rules of its own; it enforces the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes by a floating reference to the latest editions the Department of Community Affairs adopts.
Columbus, Georgia - Department of Inspections and Code
The building-permit and inspection authority for Columbus, Georgia. Columbus and Muscogee County are one consolidated government, so this single department covers the whole county and there is no separate county building office behind it. The city's own Code recognizes the Department of Inspections and Code and calls its department head the building official, and the department enforces the International Codes as adopted by the State of Georgia. The Columbus rule most likely to surprise a roofer is not about permits at all: no more than 25 percent of a building's roof covering may be replaced in any 12-month period using the same kind of materials the building already has, unless the entire roof covering is brought up to what the code requires for new buildings.
Coweta County, Georgia - Building Permits & Inspections Division
The building-permit and inspection authority for Coweta County, Georgia, at the south-western corner of metropolitan Atlanta, with its county seat and offices at Newnan. The Building Permits and Inspections Division sits inside Community Development at 22 East Broad Street and contracts the private firm SAFEbuilt to conduct its inspections and review its plans. Coweta is a permit county for roofing: a reroof is not on its exemption list, its fee schedule prices a residential re-roof permit, and it publishes a dedicated homeowner guide whose first question is why a permit is needed to re-roof a house. That guide is the reason this record carries more roofing detail than most Georgia counties, and it is also the reason to read the fields carefully - the guide is a SAFEbuilt publication that the County serves from its own site, so it is the County's voice but not the County's enacted law, and where it and the Code differ the Code wins. The County writes no roofing amendment of its own, and its building chapter switches the model codes' appendices off unless they are specifically taken up.
DeKalb County, Georgia - Department of Planning & Sustainability, Permits, Plan Review & Inspections Division
The building-permit and inspection authority for the UNINCORPORATED areas of DeKalb County, Georgia, immediately east of Atlanta. It is not the authority inside DeKalb's incorporated cities: the County states on its own permits page that where a project sits inside one of them, primary permitting is handled by that city, not the County. What makes DeKalb unusual for a Georgia county is that it does not simply run the state code - Chapter 7 of its own Code adds a list of local supplemental residential requirements that reach the roof directly, including a drip edge at every roofing edge, hurricane-type connections tying roof framing to wall framing, flashing twelve inches either side of a valley, and a cricket behind every chimney. It also exempts ordinary repairs to a single-family home from permit where the wholesale cost does not exceed $3,000.
Douglas County, Georgia - Building Permits & Inspections Department
The building-permit and inspection authority for Douglas County, Georgia, immediately west of Atlanta along I-20, with its offices at 4655 Timber Ridge Drive in Douglasville and a chief building official and six trade inspectors of its own. Douglas is a permit county: it publishes that building permits are required for exterior and interior renovations of structures, and its Code makes it unlawful to commence the alteration of any building without one. Two things set this record apart. First, the County publishes its own current code list, adopted by the Board of Commissioners effective January 1, 2026, which names thirteen codes and does not include the optional Disaster Resilient appendix. Second, its codified building chapter is a survival from the 1980s and 1990s that still names the defunct Southern Standard Building Code, so the published list, not the codified section, is where a roofer should look for the editions in force. The County writes no roofing rule of its own.
Fayette County, Georgia - Department of Building Safety
The building-permit and inspection authority for unincorporated Fayette County, Georgia, on the southern edge of metropolitan Atlanta, and for the towns of Brooks and Woolsey, from offices at 140 Stonewall Avenue West in Fayetteville. This is one of the best-documented jurisdictions for roofing work in the state, and a roofer should read two things here before anything else. The first is the permit exemption: Fayette County has written a roofing exemption into its own enacted code, and it turns on two tests, whether the new covering matches the old and how much sheathing is being replaced. The second is the County's published climatic and geographic design criteria table, which most Georgia jurisdictions never fill in, and which settles the ice-barrier question and gives a wind speed with its basis stated. The County writes no roofing technical rules of its own beyond that table; it enforces the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes by a floating reference to the editions the state adopts, while substituting its own long administrative chapter for the codes' administrative provisions.
Forsyth County, Georgia - Department of Building and Licensing
The building-permit and inspection authority for Forsyth County, Georgia, on the north side of the Atlanta metro. Its territory is the county outside the City of Cumming, which runs its own Planning and Zoning department with its own chief building official and issues its own construction permits. The one thing a roofer needs to know here is unusual: the County's own published list of work needing a permit answers "Roofing, Re-Roof or Shingle Replacement" with a flat No, so an ordinary reroof in the County's territory is not permitted work and is never inspected - while the 2024 International Residential Code with Georgia Amendments still governs how the roof is built, because in Georgia the state codes apply whether or not a local government enforces them.
Glynn County, Georgia - Building Permitting and Inspections Department
The building-permit and inspection authority for unincorporated Glynn County, Georgia, on the Atlantic coast south of Savannah - the county that contains Brunswick, St. Simons Island, Sea Island and Jekyll Island. Two things shape a roofer's answers here. First, the County's own Code adopts only the commercial building code and does so in a 2006 edition, while the Department's own page says it enforces the 2024 International Residential Code, which is the mandatory state minimum standard; the residential answers therefore come from state law and not from anything the County has written. Second, the County has written nothing at all about roof coverings - its entire buildings-and-construction chapter contains no roofing provision, no drip-edge rule, no layer limit and no wind figure - so what applies is the state code, unamended, and the County's job is to administer it.
Gwinnett County, Georgia - Department of Planning and Development, Building Services
The building-permit and inspection authority for the UNINCORPORATED areas of Gwinnett County, Georgia, northeast of Atlanta. The Department states its own reach in its own words: it issues building permits for all construction projects located in the unincorporated areas of the county, and for all county-owned and Gwinnett County Board of Education projects wherever they are. Gwinnett is home to seventeen municipalities, and whether any given one of them permits its own roofing work is a question for that city rather than for the County. The unusual thing for a roofer here is what the County does NOT exempt: its Construction Code lists fourteen kinds of building work that need no permit, and roofing is not among them, so an ordinary residential reroof in unincorporated Gwinnett is permitted work.
Hall County, Georgia - Development Services Department, Building Inspections Division
The building-permit and inspection authority for unincorporated Hall County, Georgia, the county seat of which is Gainesville, at the head of Lake Lanier about fifty miles north-east of Atlanta. The Building Inspections Division sits inside Development Services on the third floor of the Hall County Government Center at 2875 Browns Bridge Road, and runs its applications and inspection scheduling through the Accela Citizen Access portal. Its writ stops at the city line: Braselton, Buford, Clermont, Flowery Branch, Gainesville, Gillsville, Lula and Oakwood each run their own permitting department, and Oakwood contracts its permitting and inspections to Gainesville. The County writes no roofing code of its own. Its building chapter adopts the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes by a floating reference and amends only their administrative chapter, so the roofing rules a Hall County job is built to are the state ones. The point to settle before quoting a reroof is the permit question, on which two of the County's own pages currently say opposite things.
Henry County, Georgia - Building & Plan Review Department
The building-permit and inspection authority for Henry County, Georgia, on the southern edge of the Atlanta metropolitan area, with its county seat and offices at McDonough. The Building & Plan Review Department is at 140 Henry Parkway, McDonough. Its jurisdiction is narrower than the county's population suggests: the Unified Land Development Code (ULDC) that the Department enforces states its own scope in plain terms, and that scope is unincorporated Henry County, not the whole county. Henry County writes no roofing rules of its own. It enforces the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes by a floating reference to whatever edition the Department of Community Affairs currently approves, and its own building-code adoption clause makes no amendment anywhere in the Residential Code's roofing chapter.
Houston County, GA - Building Inspection, Planning & Zoning
The building-permit and inspection authority for the UNINCORPORATED area of Houston County, Georgia, in central Georgia south of Macon, working out of the Houston County Annex Building at 200 Carl Vinson Parkway in Warner Robins under Building Official Timothy Andrews. Houston County is not the only permitting authority inside its own boundary: the cities of Warner Robins, Perry and Centerville each run a building department of their own and issue their own permits inside their city limits, and the county's own Code of Ordinances says so in the opening sentence of the article that creates this office - Section 14-51 states plainly that its purpose is administration and enforcement of the state's mandatory codes "for unincorporated Houston County." A roofer needs to know which side of a municipal line a job sits on before calling this office; a job inside Warner Robins, Perry or Centerville is not this county department's business. Georgia's mandatory state minimum codes bind construction here by operation of law whether or not the county enforces them, and the county's own adoption clause floats to whatever edition the state currently designates rather than freezing an old one, so the code is not a question of what Houston County chose in any given year. The county publishes no dedicated reroof or homeowner roofing guide of the kind some Georgia counties serve, and names roofing nowhere on its own permitting page.
Macon-Bibb County, Georgia - Department of Building and Fire Safety
The permitting authority for Macon-Bibb County, Georgia. Macon and Bibb County are one consolidated government, not a city inside a county, and the charter establishes "a single county-wide government with powers and jurisdiction throughout the territorial limits of Bibb County" - so one building department covers the whole county and there is no second office to check. The Department of Building and Fire Safety issues the residential permits and runs the inspections, and permits are applied for through the Community Connect portal. What makes this jurisdiction unusually easy to work in is that it publishes a Residential Roofing question-and-answer page of its own, stating the department's position on drip edge, ice-and-water shield, valley flashing and flashing replacement instead of leaving a roofer to read the code cold - though that page is still written against an older edition of the Code than the one the department now enforces.
Newton County, Georgia - Development Services, Building Permits & Inspections Division
The building-permit and inspection authority for unincorporated Newton County, Georgia, east of Atlanta on the I-20 corridor, and for the City of Mansfield and the Town of Newborn, from Development Services at 1113 Usher Street in Covington. A roofer should come to this record for one thing above all: Newton County publishes two current statements about whether a reroof needs a permit and they do not agree, so the honest answer is to ring the Division before you quote the job. The record sets both statements out in full and does not choose between them. What is settled is the rest: the County enforces the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes, its enacted code enumerates which of them it takes and leaves the optional Disaster Resilient appendix out, it writes no roofing amendment of its own, and its published inspection sequence has no roofing stage.
Paulding County, Georgia - Community Development Department, Building & Permitting Division
The building-permit and inspection authority for Paulding County, Georgia, on the north-western edge of the Atlanta metropolitan area, with its county seat at Dallas. The Building & Permitting Division sits inside Community Development on the first floor of the Government Administrative Building at 240 Constitution Boulevard. Two things make this county unusually easy to work in. First, its answer on reroof permits is published in its own words and turns on one test: structural work. Second, and rarer, Paulding is one of the few Georgia jurisdictions that has filled in the residential code's climatic and geographic criteria table for itself, so the ice-barrier answer and a wind figure are local facts here rather than open questions. The County writes no roofing rules of its own beyond that table; it enforces the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes by a floating reference to the latest editions the Department of Community Affairs adopts.
Rockdale County, Georgia - Department of Planning and Development
The building-permit and inspection authority for unincorporated Rockdale County, Georgia, east of Atlanta, run by the Department of Planning and Development at 1117 West Avenue SW in Conyers. Rockdale is unusual among Georgia counties in two ways a roofer should know about. It has no buildings-and-building-regulations chapter at all: its construction codes are adopted inside its Unified Development Ordinance, and that adoption sweeps in each code's administrative chapter and, in terms, all of its appendices - which is the opposite of the default-off appendix rule most Georgia jurisdictions use, and it puts the optional Disaster Resilient Construction appendix in play here in a way it is not elsewhere. And its permit definition reaches repair by name. The County writes no roofing technical rule of its own.
Walton County, Georgia - Department of Planning and Development
The building-permit and inspection authority for Walton County, Georgia, east of metropolitan Atlanta, run by the Department of Planning and Development at 126 Court Street in Monroe. Three things here are worth a roofer's time. The County prices a re-roof on its own published fee schedule, so there is no doubt it permits them. It sets a rare, explicit dollar line under which no permit is needed. And it is one of the few Georgia jurisdictions that has filled in the residential code's climatic and geographic design criteria table, which is where its 90 mile per hour wind figure comes from - a figure that has to be read carefully, because the amendment carrying it dates from 2002 and names a code that has since been replaced. On the technical side Walton County writes nothing about roof coverings at all; those answers are the state's.
Whitfield County, Georgia - Inspections and Enforcement Division, Engineering Department
The building-permit and inspection authority for Whitfield County, Georgia, in the north-west corner of the state around Dalton, run by the Inspections and Enforcement Division of the County Engineering Department at 136 Gillespie Drive in Dalton. The County writes no roofing technical rule of its own: its building ordinance adopts whatever the state has adopted, keeps up with it automatically, and confines itself to permits, fees, inspections and enforcement. What a roofer needs from Whitfield County is therefore the permit answer, and that turns on a permit trigger that reaches repairs and an exemption list that names no roofing work. Note also that this Division's remit is wider than the unincorporated county - its own mission statement covers City of Dalton ordinances as well as the County's, and it publishes a separate permit application for other incorporated areas.

Illinois (5)

Indiana (1)

City of Fishers, Indiana - Community Development Department
The building and planning office for the City of Fishers, one of the nine planning jurisdictions that make up Hamilton County, Indiana, north-east of Indianapolis. Hamilton County publishes a map of those nine areas and a sheet for each one naming the office that serves it; the sheet for the City of Fishers area names the Fishers Community Development Department at 1 Municipal Drive and gives its telephone number. The County Plan Commission does not permit inside this area, and note that the nine areas are drawn on township lines rather than corporate limits, so a rural address near Fishers is not automatically a County address. This record is deliberately thin on the City's own rules. The City's website (fishersin.gov) answers automated requests with a bot-challenge page rather than its content. The City's Code of Ordinances is published by American Legal Publishing, and a single chapter fetch succeeded and named the City's own building-permit structure - Chapter 154 (Building Code) is organized into General Provisions, Regulatory Codes (adoption of building rules by reference), Permit Requirements, and Administration and Enforcement, and its own cross-reference line states "Registration of building contractors, see Ch. 115" - so Fishers does register building contractors locally. Those sections have now been read. Section 154.15(A) requires a permit "before beginning construction, alteration, repair, or demolition of any building or structure", with fees set in Chapter 35, and none of the Chapter 154 sections read carries a repair or re-roof exemption or mentions roofing at all. Chapter 115 requires a contractor "seeking to perform work on residences and businesses" in the City to register for a one-year term at a $100 fee, with a general liability certificate of at least $500,000 per occurrence for bodily injury and $100,000 for property damage (or a $500,000 combined single limit); only a homeowner doing all of the work themselves, and change-of-use applicants, are excepted. What is stated is the part Indiana settles for every jurisdiction in the state, because the residential code is written by the state and a city may not vary it.

Iowa (15)

Kansas (13)

Maryland (23)

Michigan (5)

Missouri (2)

New Hampshire (136)

New Jersey (462)

New York (58)

North Carolina (58)

North Dakota (32)

Ohio (2)

Oklahoma (51)

Oregon (73)

Other (3)

Pennsylvania (1)

Tullytown Borough - Building & Zoning Department
Tullytown Borough's Building & Zoning Department, at 500 Main Street, accepts building permit applications, and the Borough's 2026 fee resolution lists a $100 fee for roofing replacement on existing residential structures. The Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code applies statewide, but Act 45 section 104(b) lists "Repairs to residential buildings" and alterations that make no structural or egress change among work it does not apply to, "except as might be required by ordinances in effect pursuant to section 303(b)(1) or adopted pursuant to section 503."

Hail-Belt Jurisdictions on the 2024 I-Codes

Colorado (55)

Adams County - Building Safety Division

City and County of Broomfield - Building Division

City of Arvada - Building Division

City of Brush Community Development Department

City of Cherry Hills Village Building Department

City of Dacono - Community Development Department (Building Division)

City of Durango - Building Division

City of Fort Morgan Building Department

City of Fruita - Building Division

City of Glendale Building & Permits Department

City of Golden - Building Division

City of Grand Junction - Building Department

City of Littleton - Building and Code Compliance Division

City of Longmont - Building Inspection Division

City of Louisville - Building Safety Division

City of Loveland - Building Division

City of Wheat Ridge - Building Division

Clear Creek County Building Department

Gilpin County Community Development - Building Division

Jefferson County - Building Division

La Plata County Community Development Department - Building Division

Lake County Community Planning and Development

Larimer County - Building Division

Mesa County Building Department

Summit County Building Inspection Department

Town of Alma - Building Department

Town of Ault Building Department

Town of Bennett Building Department

Town of Berthoud - Planning and Building Department

Town of Blue River - Building Department

Town of Breckenridge Building Division - Community Development

Town of Castle Rock - Building Division

Town of Columbine Valley Building Department

Town of Crested Butte Building Department

Town of De Beque - Building Safety and Permitting

Town of Eaton - Building & Permitting

Town of Gilcrest Planning & Zoning Department

Town of Hudson - Building Department

Town of Johnstown - Building Department

Town of Kersey Building Inspection Department

Town of Lochbuie - Building Department (permits via SAFEbuilt)

Town of Lyons - Building Department

Town of Mead - Building Division

Town of Milliken (permits via SAFEbuilt)

Town of Nederland Building, Planning & Zoning Department

Town of Pagosa Springs Building Division

Town of Palisade (permits via Mesa County Building Department)

Town of Parker - Building Division

Town of Pierce Building Permit Department

Town of Severance Building Department

Town of Superior - Planning and Building Department

Town of Telluride Building Department

Town of Timnath - Building Services

Town of Vail Building Department - Community Development

Town of Windsor - Building Department

California (442)

Amador City - Building Department

City and County of San Francisco - Department of Building Inspection

City of Adelanto - Building & Safety

City of Agoura Hills - Building and Safety Division

City of Alameda - Permit Center

City of Albany - Building Division

City of Alhambra - Building Division

City of Aliso Viejo - Building & Safety

City of American Canyon - Building Division

City of Anaheim - Building Division, Planning & Building Department

City of Anderson - Building Department

City of Angels - Building Department

City of Antioch - Building Division

City of Arcadia - Building Services Division

City of Arcata - Building Division

City of Arroyo Grande - Building Division

City of Artesia - Building & Safety

City of Arvin - Building Division

City of Atascadero - Building Services Division

City of Atwater - Building Division

City of Auburn - Building Division

City of Avalon - Planning & Building Department