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No — Kindred, ND does not require a permit for like-for-like roof replacement (City of Kindred, North Dakota - Building Permits). KINDRED CONTRACTS OUT ITS BUILDING PERMITTING AND INSPECTIONS, SO THE PAPERWORK GOES TO TWO PLACES. The City states: "The City of Kindred contracts with Midwest Inspection Services for the city's building permitting and inspecting. Building permit applications are available at the links below, in the Auditor's office, or at Midwest Inspection Services." The building official is Michael Blevins, Midwest Inspection Services, 310 1st Ave SE, Mapleton, ND 58059, 701-532-1078, [email protected]. Residents file the Residential Building Permit Application with Midwest Inspection Services in person or by email; commercial applicants and contractors use the Commercial Building Permit Application. Fence and excavation permits go to Kindred City Hall instead. TIMING. "All applications are reviewed/routed within 7-10 business days. Approved building permits are typically issued with 2-3 business days upon receipt from Midwest Inspection Services." A fence permit goes on the next regular Planning and Zoning Commission agenda, so it runs on meeting dates. THE RULE THE CITY PUTS IN CAPITALS: "NO CONSTRUCTION/PROJECT WORK IS TO BEGIN ON ANY PERMIT BEFORE FIRST OBTAINING THE PERMIT JOBSITE/INSPECTION CARD." WHAT ELSE THE CITY PUBLISHES, and it is more than most cities this size: a Building Permit Fee Schedule; General Building Permit Information and Guidelines; Kindred Civil Site Plan Requirements; a Storm Water Management Policy referenced in Chapter 9-04; guidelines for remodeling a dwelling, building additions, a residential deck, egress window detail, a three-season porch, floating-slab and frost-protected accessory structures, and stairways and handrails; asbestos fact sheets and a letter from the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality; Kindred Standard Specifications for Construction with an Exterior Work Checklist and a Lot Grading sheet; and building permit fees for the local fire authority, the Kindred Fire Department. Read the asbestos material before tearing off an older roof. WHERE THE CODE LIVES. The City publishes its whole code as per-title PDFs on its Ordinances page, plus a single 519-page combined document. Kindred, North Dakota sits in one of the country's most hail-prone regions. This hub aggregates Kindred's roofing permit and contractor-registration requirements and impact-resistant material options — every fact linked to its sourced directory record.

Roofing permits & building code in Kindred

Roofing permit and contractor-licensing rules in Kindred are set locally by City of Kindred, North Dakota - Building Permits. North Dakota licenses contractors at the state level under N.D.C.C. 43-07-02, which bars acting as a contractor on work costing more than $4,000 without a licence, and cities stack their own licensing on top of it — the city requirement is usually the one that bites first — while the State Building Code adopted under N.D.C.C. chapter 54-21.3 is administered locally, so a city may carry its own adopted edition and amendments — always confirm the current requirements with the authority before starting work.

Roofing permit
Not required
Contractor registration
Required
Adopted building code
KINDRED IS ON THE 2009 I-CODES BY NAMED EDITION, NOT ON THE CURRENT NORTH DAKOTA STATE BUILDING CODE, AND THAT IS THE FIRST THING TO KNOW BEFORE QUOTING A JOB HERE. Title V of the Kindred City Ordinances, Buildings, has nine chapters: 5-01 International Building Code, 5-02 Dangerous Buildings, 5-03 Moving Buildings, 5-04 Floodplain Management, 5-05 Minimum Housing Standards, 5-06 International Property Maintenance Code, 5-07 International Residential Code, 5-08 International Existing Building Code and 5-09 International Energy Conservation Code. THE RESIDENTIAL ADOPTION. Section 5-0701, sourced to Ordinance 2011-34, adopts by reference "that certain code known as the International Residential Code, recommended and compiled by the International Code Council, being particularly the 2009 edition thereof, as the same are now established in said code, a copy of which is on file in the office of the Building Administrator for the City of Kindred, with the exception of the sections hereinafter set forth affecting local conditions of the City of Kindred," and it applies that code "within the city limits of Kindred, North Dakota, as well as for any area within the extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction of the City." The commercial adoption at Section 5-0101, sourced to Ordinance 2011-33, is the 2009 International Building Code on the same terms. Both sections add that "any amendments of the 2009 edition of the Code may be adopted by the City by resolution." THAT IS A DATED ADOPTION, NOT A FLOATING ONE. It names an edition and takes it "as the same are now established in said code," so a change at state level does not reach Kindred by itself. THE STATE POSITION, STATED FOR CONTEXT AND NOT ADJUDICATED HERE. North Dakota Century Code Section 54-21.3-03(6) provides: "The governing body of a city, township, or county that elects to administer and enforce a building code shall adopt and enforce the state building code. However, the state building code may be amended by cities, townships, and counties to conform to local needs." The 2026 North Dakota State Building Code Book states that "Effective January 1, 2026, the North Dakota State Building Code consists of the 2024 International Building Code (IBC), International Residential Code (IRC), International Mechanical Code (IMC), International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC), International Energy Conservation Code, and the International Existing Building Code as published by the International Code Council (ICC)" and that "NO APPENDICES ARE ADOPTED." This record does not decide what follows from the gap between Kindred's 2011 ordinance and the 2026 state edition - that is a legal question, not a sourceable fact. What it records is that Kindred's own enacted text names the 2009 editions and that the City's published permit material is written to them. ASK THE BUILDING OFFICIAL WHICH EDITION YOUR PERMIT WILL BE WRITTEN TO before you order materials to a detailing standard. THE SUBSTITUTIONS THE CITY MAKES. Section 5-0702 provides that wherever the International Residential Code says "International Plumbing Code" or "International Private Sewage Disposal Code" it means the North Dakota State Plumbing Code, and wherever it says "ICC Electrical Code" it means the National Electrical Code together with the North Dakota State Wiring Standards.
Registration details
  • state_level: North Dakota requires a contractor licence from the Secretary of State above a dollar threshold, and the threshold is per job rather than per year. NDCC 43-07-02(1): "A person may not engage in the business nor act in the capacity of a contractor within this state when the cost, value, or price per job exceeds the sum of four thousand dollars nor may that person maintain any claim, action, suit, or proceeding in any court of this state related to the person's business or capacity as a contractor without first having a license as provided in this chapter." Roofing is not named in the chapter, but it falls inside the definition of contractor at 43-07-01(1), which covers "any person engaged in the business of construction, repair, alteration, dismantling, or demolition of ... buildings" and expressly "includes subcontractor," so a roofing sub is covered on its own account. The classes are value tiers rather than trades, so there is no roofing classification, and the licence year runs "March second through March first" under 43-07-01(2). Working unlicensed above the threshold is a class A misdemeanour under 43-07-02(2) and bars the contractor from maintaining a court claim in North Dakota arising from the work, including a claim to be paid.
  • city_level: Kindred runs no contractor registration of its own, and that is established by reading the two titles that would carry one rather than by failing to find a form. Title X, Business Licenses and Regulations, was read in full - its chapters are Alcoholic Beverages, Gambling, Pawn Brokers, Sunday Opening of Food Stores, and Tobacco Licensing - and it contains no contractor, building trade or roofing licence. Title V, Buildings, was also read in full across all nine chapters and imposes no contractor credential on the person doing building work; the one licensing provision in it is Chapter 5-03, which requires a housemover's bond. WHAT KINDRED DOES REQUIRE OF A CONTRACTOR IS PAPERWORK RATHER THAN A LICENCE. The City publishes a separate Commercial Building Permit Application for "Commercial/contractors", a set of Standard Specifications for Construction with an Exterior Work Checklist and a Lot Grading sheet, and a Civil Site Plan requirement, and it warns that no work is to begin on any permit before the jobsite and inspection card is in hand. On an excavation permit the contractor must attend a construction meeting with the Public Works Superintendent or the City Engineer. Electrical and plumbing are separate: the City states that "Separate plumbing and electrical permits may be required for the installation, alteration, repair, relocation, replacement and/or addition to any electrical or plumbing systems," and its adopted code substitutes the North Dakota State Plumbing Code and the National Electrical Code with the North Dakota State Wiring Standards for the model codes.
Permit process
KINDRED CONTRACTS OUT ITS BUILDING PERMITTING AND INSPECTIONS, SO THE PAPERWORK GOES TO TWO PLACES. The City states: "The City of Kindred contracts with Midwest Inspection Services for the city's building permitting and inspecting. Building permit applications are available at the links below, in the Auditor's office, or at Midwest Inspection Services." The building official is Michael Blevins, Midwest Inspection Services, 310 1st Ave SE, Mapleton, ND 58059, 701-532-1078, [email protected]. Residents file the Residential Building Permit Application with Midwest Inspection Services in person or by email; commercial applicants and contractors use the Commercial Building Permit Application. Fence and excavation permits go to Kindred City Hall instead. TIMING. "All applications are reviewed/routed within 7-10 business days. Approved building permits are typically issued with 2-3 business days upon receipt from Midwest Inspection Services." A fence permit goes on the next regular Planning and Zoning Commission agenda, so it runs on meeting dates. THE RULE THE CITY PUTS IN CAPITALS: "NO CONSTRUCTION/PROJECT WORK IS TO BEGIN ON ANY PERMIT BEFORE FIRST OBTAINING THE PERMIT JOBSITE/INSPECTION CARD." WHAT ELSE THE CITY PUBLISHES, and it is more than most cities this size: a Building Permit Fee Schedule; General Building Permit Information and Guidelines; Kindred Civil Site Plan Requirements; a Storm Water Management Policy referenced in Chapter 9-04; guidelines for remodeling a dwelling, building additions, a residential deck, egress window detail, a three-season porch, floating-slab and frost-protected accessory structures, and stairways and handrails; asbestos fact sheets and a letter from the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality; Kindred Standard Specifications for Construction with an Exterior Work Checklist and a Lot Grading sheet; and building permit fees for the local fire authority, the Kindred Fire Department. Read the asbestos material before tearing off an older roof. WHERE THE CODE LIVES. The City publishes its whole code as per-title PDFs on its Ordinances page, plus a single 519-page combined document.

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Impact-resistant roofing materials for Kindred hail

Kindred, North Dakota sits in one of the country's most hail-prone regions. For hail exposure, the highest impact rating a roof covering can earn is UL 2218 Class 4. These cataloged material categories reach Class 4:

Class 4 impact-resistant materials

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Browse every option on the Class 4 impact-resistant materials hub, and read the Class 4 impact-resistant shingles buyer's guide. Many insurers offer premium credits for a documented Class 4 roof — confirm terms with your carrier.

Local permitting authority

City of Kindred, North Dakota - Building Permitscity

Roofing guides

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