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Yes, a permit is required to replace a roof in Eldred Township (Monroe County), PA, issued by Eldred Township (Monroe County) - Building Permits. Eldred Township's building permit application names roof repair or replacement as permit work. The Township's own Application for Building Permit (read October 12, 2026, transcribed from the rendered page image) lists under REQUIRED DOCUMENTS the line "Roof repair/replacement – full narrative of work or copy of contract. Any structural repair must submit plan," and the Township's 2026 fee schedule lists a building permit fee. The Township's zoning ordinance (compilation dated August 2015), Section 103.5, says "Ordinary repairs, structural strengthening, facade improvements and maintenance to existing structures that do not infringe upon a required setback may be made without a zoning permit"; that line speaks to the zoning permit, and this record does not decide whether a house reroof is an ordinary repair for zoning. 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). Eldred Township's ordinance adopting the Uniform Construction Code was not found on the Township's website, whose forms and ordinance pages list only its zoning and subdivision ordinances, and was not read for this record, so this answer rests on the Township's own application quoted above, not on that ordinance. In practice, expect the Township to ask for a building permit application with a narrative of the roof work or a copy of the contract. The application says failure to print legibly "may result in a denial, delay or rejection of this application," and the Township's pages read state no penalty for a reroof without a permit. The application also asks for the contractor's "PA Home Improvement Contractor (HIC) number" and says a "Certificate of Insurance naming the municipality as certificate holder must be provided annually or upon request." The Township office is open Monday through Friday, 9:00am to 4:00pm, at 610-381-4252. Read for this answer: the Township's Forms & Documents, Zoning, General Information, Administration and Contact pages; its Application for Building Permit (a scanned image, transcribed from the rendered pages); its 2026 fee schedule; and its zoning ordinance compilation, searched for roof and permit text. The Township's building ordinance was not found, so no code chapter was read. This hub aggregates roofing permit and contractor-registration requirements for Eldred Township (Monroe County), Pennsylvania, along with sourced roofing material references — every fact linked to its directory record.