Roofing in Delran Township, New Jersey

Not required

Required

The 2024 International Residential Code, New Jersey edition, adopted by the State, with the Rehabilitation Subcode for work on existing buildings. New Jersey has one construction code, the Uniform Construction Code (N.J.A.C. 5:23), which every municipality enforces; municipalities do not adopt building codes of their own (N.J.S.A. 52:27D-123.1 and 52:27D-139). N.J.A.C. 5:23-3.21(a)1 adopts the International Code Council's "2024 International Residential Code known as the IRC/2024 as the one- and two-family dwelling subcode in New Jersey subject to the modifications stated at (c) below," and 3.21(b) applies it to "detached one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses not more than three stories above grade plane in height." The section was rewritten by R.2026 d.086, "effective August 17, 2026," in the Department of Community Affairs' print of the rules "adopted and published through the New Jersey Register, Vol. 58 No. 16," and the Department's Current Construction Codes page lists the "International Residential Code/2024, NJ ed" with an adoption date of Aug 17, 2026. Other buildings fall under the building subcode, the International Building Code/2024, NJ edition (N.J.A.C. 5:23-3.14). Roof work on an existing building is held to the Rehabilitation Subcode: "Existing structures, when repaired, renovated, altered or reconstructed, shall conform to the requirements of N.J.A.C. 5:23-6, Rehabilitation Subcode" (N.J.A.C. 5:23-2.4(a)). A six-month grace period follows the adoption. N.J.A.C. 5:23-1.6(a): "For a period of six months following the operative date of a subcode revision, applicants may submit a complete permit application, including all prior approvals, to be reviewed under the code in force immediately preceding the subcode revision." The rule history gives R.2026 d.086 no date other than its effective date, so on that reading the window runs from August 17, 2026 until about February 17, 2027: a complete application filed inside it may be reviewed under either the prior edition or the 2024 edition, at the applicant's choice, and one filed after it closes is reviewed under the 2024 edition. Everything above is New Jersey state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, Section 118-1 of the Delran Township Code names the Division of Inspection as the Township's construction code enforcing agency, and the Construction Office page sends readers to the State's codes site for the "Current Codes Adopted by the State of New Jersey."

No permit is needed under state law to reroof a detached one- or two-family house; a townhouse, other attached dwelling or any other building needs a permit from the Delran Construction Office, Delran Municipal Building, 900 Chester Avenue, 856-461-8667, open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The office asks owners to call it "BEFORE beginning any interior or exterior work, to find out what type of permits are required." Where a roof permit is required, Section 118-3 of the Township Code (last amended August 3, 2021 by Ord. No. 2021-15) sets "Fees for reroofing or residing on structures of Use Groups R-3 and R-5" at "a flat fee of $75 each"; other use groups pay the renovation rate, $40 per $1,000 of estimated cost for the first $50,000, $25 per $1,000 from $50,001 to $100,000 and $10 per $1,000 above $100,000. Permit applications are the State's forms, linked from the office page. Inspections are requested by email to [email protected], which the office prefers, by phone or in person, with the permit number, property address and type of inspection, and the office asks for 48 hours to process a request; building inspections run Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8 to 11 a.m. and Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Its list of required inspections includes a "Roofing Final," for which the ladder "must be supplied by contractor, setup and tied off when inspector arrives."