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No, High Point, NC does not require a permit for like-for-like roof replacement (City of High Point - Planning and Development Department, Inspections Services). G.S. 160D-1110(c) provides: "No permit issued under Article 9 of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes is required for any construction, installation, repair, replacement, or alteration costing forty thousand dollars ($40,000) or less and performed in accordance with the current edition of the North Carolina State Building Code in any single-family residence, farm building, or commercial building unless the work involves any of the following: (1) The addition, repair, or replacement of load-bearing structures. ... (4) The use of materials not permitted by the North Carolina State Building Code. (5) The addition of roofing, excluding replacement." The State's amendment to the 2018 North Carolina Residential Code adds: "R908.3 Roof replacement. Roof replacement shall include the removal of existing layers of roof coverings down to the roof deck and replacement of up to 15% of the total existing roof deck. Replacement of up to 15% of the total roof deck shall not be considered structural work." The statutory exclusion reaches a single-family residence; duplexes and multi-family buildings are outside it. G.S. 143-138(b5) says the same thing in the building code statute itself: "No permit shall be required under the Code or any local variance thereof approved under subsection (e) for any construction, installation, repair, replacement, or alteration performed in accordance with the current edition of the North Carolina State Building Code and costing forty thousand dollars ($40,000) or less in any single family residence, farm building, or commercial building unless the work involves any of the following". So a tear-off and reroof of a single-family house costing $40,000 or less, with no more than 15% of the deck replaced and no load-bearing work, needs no building permit under the statute; work outside those conditions does. High Point's own permit documents still print older, lower dollar lines that track the state's superseded permit threshold (the statutory figure rose to $40,000 for permit applications from October 1, 2023): its Over the Counter Permit Application lists, under BUILDING, "Re-roofing (>$20,000)*" with the footnote "*If less than $20,000, no permit is required." (the form's footer reads "Valid through December 2025"; it is the application the City links as read on September 26, 2026), and the City's FY 25-26 Comprehensive Fee Schedule prices a Residential Over-The-Counter "Re-Roofing (>$15,000 value)" permit at $75.00. These are the City's older figures; the statute's $40,000 line is the one stated above. The City's Permits Required page says "Please contact our office at (336) 883-3151 for additional information on if a permit is required for your project." Where a permit is needed, a residential reroof is a Residential Over-the-Counter permit, applied for through Accela Citizen Access or at the Development Services Center; the City states that "The permit lists all required inspections." For a house in a local historic district, the City's Residential Over-the-Counter page says a Certificate of Appropriateness "may be required if the structure is located in a local historic district or is a Guilford County Historic Landmark.". This hub aggregates roofing permit and contractor-registration requirements for High Point, North Carolina, along with sourced roofing material references — every fact linked to its directory record.