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Yes, a permit is required to replace a roof in Delaware Township (Pike County), PA, issued by Delaware Township - Building Department. Delaware Township's building permit fee schedule lists a roof covering replacement fee with no size threshold. The Township's building permit fee schedule, Resolution 2021-01, headed "Code Inspections Inc. Fee Schedule — Delaware Township" and signed by the Board of Supervisors (read October 9, 2026), lists "19. Roof Covering Replacement Fee: $120.00", and the Township's Amended Resolution 2024-01 fee schedule keeps "BUILDING PERMIT FEES" at Resolution 2021-01 and adds a "Municipal Administrative Fee for building permits" of 20%. Section 201.4 of Ordinance 201 (Amended June 22, 2005) says "Prior to the construction, structural alteration, replacement, or installation, a permit must be obtained from the Township," and then that no permit is required for listed small work and for residential and commercial alterations "if no structural changes or means of egress will occur"; it names no roof work either way. The Building Department page's list headed "Residential - What DOES require a Building Permit?" does not name roofing, and under the question "When does a project need to have an architect or engineer stamp the plans?" the page says "All commercial projects will require stamped plans. A few exceptions are items that do not need plans to confirm compliance, examples: changing furnace, new roofing, wire replacement, etc, it will still require a building permit, just not stamped plans." Under state law, Act 45 says the Act "shall not apply to" "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress, except as might be required by ordinances in effect pursuant to section 303(b)(1) or adopted pursuant to section 503" or to "Repairs to residential buildings, except as might be required by ordinances in effect pursuant to section 303(b)(1) or adopted pursuant to section 503" (section 104(b)(5) and (6)), and of a municipal ordinance that adds to the code, section 503(c) says "An ordinance under this subsection shall not be effective nor enforceable unless subsections (d), (e), (f), (g), (h) and (i) have been satisfied." This record does not decide whether the municipality's requirement is one adopted under section 503 or kept in effect by section 303(b)(1). In practice, expect the Township's building code official to require a permit, and the fee, for a roof covering replacement. Section 201.25 of Ordinance 201 sets, for a violation, "a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.)". The Building Department page says the Township's third-party agency "will not issue a building permit until authorized to do so by the municipality, most of the time it is by us receiving a copy of the Municipal Permit." The Building Code Official keeps office hours at the Township office on Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to noon, and Fridays, noon to 2 p.m.; the Township office is at 570-828-2347. Read for this answer: Ordinance 201, Regulating Building/Building Code (as amended June 22, 2005), in full, a scanned document read from its page images; the Zoning Ordinance (Ordinance 110), searched for "roof"; the Township's Ordinances page; the Building Department and Township Office pages; the building permit fee schedule, Resolution 2021-01, and the Township fee schedule, Amended Resolution 2024-01, both scanned and read from their page images; and the residential building permit application. This hub aggregates roofing permit and contractor-registration requirements for Delaware Township (Pike County), Pennsylvania, along with sourced roofing material references — every fact linked to its directory record.