Roofing in Chubbuck, Idaho

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THE CITY'S OWN PAGE STATES A FLOATING REFERENCE TO WHATEVER THE STATE HAS ADOPTED. The Chubbuck Building Division page states, under "Overview/Codes": "The City has adopted the 2018 International Residential Code, 2018 International Building Code, 2018 Existing Building Code, and 2018 International Energy code, all as promulgated and amended by the State of Idaho." That "as promulgated and amended by the State of Idaho" language describes the same shape of adoption seen elsewhere in this state's cities: the City moves with whatever edition the State of Idaho has currently adopted rather than being frozen at a fixed year. WHAT THE STATE HAS CURRENTLY ADOPTED, READ DIRECTLY. IDAPA 24.39.30.600.03, the Idaho Building Code Board's own current rule, adopts "International Residential Code, 2018 Edition ... Parts I, II, III, and IX of the 2018 Edition for one (1)- and two (2)-family dwellings," together with a seventeen-item state amendment list, effective July 1, 2024. Roofing sits in Part III and is covered. The rule's only two amendments to Section R105.2 (the permit-exemption list) are a dimension change under item 7's "Building" subheading (replacing "24 inches (610 mm)" with "four (4) feet (1219) mm)") and adding a new exemption, "11. Flag poles" -- neither touches roofing. Section R301.2.1.2, Protection of Openings, is deleted statewide; that is a window and door wind-borne-debris provision, not a roofing one. THE CITY'S OWN CHAPTER, READ IN FULL, ADDS NOTHING TO IT. Chapter 15.04, "Codes Adopted," was fetched and read section by section -- all twelve numbered sections (15.04.010 through 15.04.110). Section 15.04.010, "Building Codes Adopted," names the same code list as the City's current webpage and closes: "The adopted versions of these codes shall be deemed superseded by successive versions of such codes as they are adopted or approved by the board, effective on the date any such codes are made effective by the board" -- confirming the floating reference. Section 15.04.020, "Exemptions," reads in its entirety "(Rep. by Ord. 754, 2016)" -- the City once had its own local permit-exemption list and repealed it outright, without replacement, so no Chubbuck-specific exemption from a building permit exists at all; the only exempt-work list in force is the residential code's own, as the State has amended it. Section 15.04.030, "Other Codes Adopted," adds only the uniform code for abatement of dangerous buildings. The remaining sections (copies available, hours of operation, handicapped accessibility, a repealed gravel-base section, building-department notification, permit fees, worker sanitary needs, and site refuse management) are administrative and touch nothing in Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, or the R105 permit provisions. Chubbuck has therefore made no amendment of its own to the adopted code's roofing provisions.