Roofing in Franklin, Indiana

Required

Not required

STATE-SET, AND FRANKLIN'S OWN LIST IS DECADES OUT OF DATE WHILE ITS OWN FLOATING CLAUSE FIXES THAT. The operative rule is 675 IAC 14-4.4, the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, whose opening section provides that "That certain document being titled the 2018 International Residential Code for One and Two Family Dwellings, first printing August 2017, published by the International Code Council ... is hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set out in this rule save and except those revisions made in this rule", and that "This rule shall be known as the 2020 Indiana Residential Code." It was filed November 26, 2019 and formally readopted November 18, 2025, and it is the newest rule in its article. WHAT FRANKLIN'S CODE SAYS. City Code 15.04.040(A) provides that "Building rules of the Indiana Fire Prevention and Building Safety Commission as set out in the following Articles of Title 675 of the Indiana Administrative Code are incorporated by reference in this chapter and shall include later amendments to those Articles as the same are published in the Indiana Register or the Indiana Administrative Code with effective dates as fixed therein", and then lists Articles 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20. READ THE ARTICLE 14 SUB-LIST WITH CARE RATHER THAN ACTING ON IT: it names the "Council of American Building Officials One and Two Family Dwelling Code", the "CABO One and Two Family Dwelling Code; Amendments" and the "Standard for Permanent Installation of Manufactured Homes". Those are the CABO-era rules; two of the three are repealed, and none of them is the residential code now in force. What controls is that the adoption is of the ARTICLE and expressly carries later amendments, so it reaches 675 IAC 14-4.4 as the current rule in Article 14. Indiana law reaches the same result independently: IC 22-13-2-3(b) provides that a local reference to the Indiana Administrative Code "shall be construed to include all amendments as of the date that the reference is written and any later amendments to that provision, unless accompanied by a reference to a specific edition or supplement to the Indiana Administrative Code." And no Indiana city could be on a different residential code in any event, because IC 22-13-2-3(c) provides that "A city, town, or county may not adopt an ordinance that conflicts with or includes more stringent or detailed requirements than the commission's rules", with IC 22-13-2-3(a)(2) giving those rules precedence over any local ordinance covering the same subject matter. So a roofer working in Franklin is on the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, whatever the sub-list says. SCOPE OF THE LOCAL CHAPTER, in its own words at 15.04.020(B): "The provisions of this chapter apply to the construction, alteration, repair, use, occupancy and addition to all buildings and structures, other than industrialized building systems or mobile structures certified under IC 22-15-4, in the city." VARIANCES are not a local matter: 15.04.030 closes "Any variance from adopted building rules are subject to approval under IC 22-13-2-7(b)." The code text used here is the Municipal Code as codified through Ordinance No. 2024-09, passed November 4, 2024. One vocabulary warning: "Class 2" in Indiana is a STRUCTURE class, broadly one and two family dwellings, and has nothing to do with a fire class or an impact class of roof covering.

WHERE AND HOW. Building permits and inspections sit with the City of Franklin's building inspector, administered through the Department of Planning and Economic Development at City Hall, 70 E. Monroe St., Franklin. Applications are filed through the City's online permitting portal. BOOKING AN INSPECTION HAS TWO WINDOWS, and the City states both: "All building inspections must be scheduled with the Department of Planning & Economic Development at least one (1) business day before the inspection is to be conducted. Inspections will not be scheduled for more than five (5) days in advance." So a re-roof cannot be booked a fortnight ahead, and it cannot be booked the same morning either. WHAT THE INSPECTOR MAY DO: under City Code 15.04.070(A), after a permit issues the building inspector "shall make, or shall cause to be made, inspections of the work being done as are necessary to insure full compliance with the provisions of this chapter and the terms of the permit", and re-inspections of work found incomplete or not ready attract a re-inspection fee. The chapter sets out no fixed schedule of inspection stages for a re-roof, so agree the inspection points with the department when the permit is issued. The inspector may also enter any building, structure or premises in the city at reasonable times on presentation of proper credentials. WHAT THE INSPECTOR MAY NOT DO is worth knowing: 15.04.030 gives the building inspector "only the discretion of determining whether this chapter has been complied with", and says expressly that no provision shall be construed as giving any officer "power to require conditions not prescribed by ordinances or to enforce this chapter in an arbitrary or discriminatory manner." A variance from the adopted state building rules is not the City's to grant and goes to the state under IC 22-13-2-7(b). PAYMENT: cash, money order, debit or credit; a card payment costs an extra "$4.00 PLUS 2%". STOP WORK: under 15.04.080 the building inspector may order the work stopped by written notice served on anyone doing or causing it, and the work must stay stopped until the inspector authorises it to proceed. APPEALS run under 15.04.120 and remedies under 15.04.130; a certificate of occupancy question is governed by 15.04.090, which matters on new construction rather than on a re-roof.