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No — Kokomo, IN does not require a permit for like-for-like roof replacement (City of Kokomo, Indiana Inspection Services Department). The Permit Office is on the first floor of City Hall at 100 South Union Street, Kokomo, IN 46901, inside the Inspection Services Department. The department head is Jason Alexander; the office takes permit questions on 765-456-7362 and at [email protected], and the City switchboard is 765-456-7444 with hours given as 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Code Enforcement is a separate division at Fire Station 2, 508 East Center Road. The department issues building, electrical, sewer tap, demolition, street cut and driveway or sidewalk permits and Certificates of Occupancy, and describes itself as processing more than a thousand building permits a year. Its own fee schedule states the boundary of its authority in one line: "The City of Kokomo Inspection Services Department includes the City of Kokomo only." The application is a printable PDF and the City publishes a four-step route for it -- complete the form, print it, sign it, and fax it to 765-456-7577 -- with the alternative of posting it to City of Kokomo, 100 South Union Street, Kokomo, IN 46901. A residential application is to be accompanied by the Improvement Location Permit and a plot plan; a commercial one by the improvement location permit, a plan view, plumbing and electrical plans and specifications. The City states that plan review "requires at least 2 working days to complete", that status inquiries go to the permit clerk on 765-456-7362, and that all fees must be paid before a permit issues, with permits picked up at the Wastewater Utility Office on the first floor of City Hall. Where a job does need a permit, two sequencing points matter. First, the Building Permits page states that the Permit Office works closely with the Howard County Plan Commission and that the Plan Commission must be notified for an Improvement Location Permit before a permit is requested. That commission is a joint city-county body, the Kokomo-Howard County Plan Commission, at 224 North Main Street, 765-456-2330, [email protected]; its Improvement Location Permit is a zoning approval concerned with lot lines, setbacks, height, coverage and floodplain. Its fee runs at 1 dollar per 1,000 dollars of estimated cost up to a 1,000 dollar maximum, with a surcharge of 10 dollars per 1,000 dollars where a stop-work order is issued or notice is sent for a project already under construction without one. Confirm the minimum with the Plan Commission before budgeting it, because the two documents the commission publishes do not agree -- its city-and-county information sheet gives a 15 dollar minimum and its own fee schedule gives 100 dollars. Second, an application asks for the address of the work, a residential drawing or a set of commercial plans, the improvement location permit if one is required, the estimated cost, the total square footage and, for commercial work only, a State design release. Building permit fees run on construction cost -- 75 dollars up to 15,000 dollars, 150 dollars to 50,000 dollars, 200 dollars to 100,000 dollars, and 500 dollars above that plus 50 cents per 1,000 dollars thereafter -- with inspections and re-inspections at 100 dollars each and a permit extension at 25 dollars. Inspections are scheduled and the Building Permits page states that "A 48 hour notice is required." A permit expires if active work does not commence within 6 months of issuance, and work suspended or abandoned for 6 months after starting may only be recommenced under a new permit. Two more lines a roofing crew will meet in practice: a dumpster permit is 50 dollars and expires after 30 days, and Code Enforcement lists "Scattered Demolition/Construction Materials" among the common nuisances under the City code. A nuisance draws an abatement notice to the owner or occupier giving ten days to comply, after which the City may fine between 100 and 1,000 dollars a day while the violation continues and may send its own crews in and bill for the clearance. So plan the skip and the clean-up, not just the roof, and remember the notice goes to the homeowner rather than to you. Kokomo, Indiana sits in one of the country's most hail-prone regions. This hub aggregates Kokomo's roofing permit and contractor-registration requirements and impact-resistant material options — every fact linked to its sourced directory record.