Roofing in Frankfort, Kentucky

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The 2015 International Residential Code as amended by the 2018 Kentucky Residential Code, Third Edition (August 2024), the mandatory statewide residential code under 815 KAR 7:125 section 2(1), effective 12-3-2024. Kentucky Residential Code R101.3 and R102.2 bar the City of Frankfort from adopting or enforcing any other building code, or any additional or contradictory building-construction standard, for one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses; only the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction may amend the code, and its amendments are effective statewide (KRS 198B.080(2)). Frankfort's own codified ordinance, Chapter 150.01 of the Frankfort Code of Ordinances (originally Ord. 27-66, passed 1966; last amended Ord. 4-88, 1988), independently confirms the same floating adoption in the City's own words: "The provisions of the Uniform State Building Code then in effect shall govern all construction, alteration or remodeling of buildings or dwellings in the City of Frankfort, as set forth in KRS 198B.110." Because the ordinance points to the Uniform State Building Code "then in effect" rather than naming a fixed edition, Frankfort's code content tracks the state's current edition automatically, with no lagging-codification question of the kind that arises in states where a city names a specific edition. One statewide carve-out applies here as everywhere in Kentucky: KRS 198B.010(4) excludes from "building" a farm dwelling or farm structure "located outside the boundary of a municipality" that is not retail, not a workplace for ten or more, and not timber storage -- this record does not decide whether any particular Frankfort-area farm structure qualifies.