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Yes, a permit is required to replace a roof in Lebanon, PA, issued by City of Lebanon - Building and Zoning Division. The City of Lebanon's enacted fee schedule names roofing as permit work, but its permit guide and application list residential shingle replacement as exempt. Section 1701.06 of the City's Codified Ordinances, as amended by Ordinance 9-2024 (passed October 27, 2025), sets the building permit fees and lists, for residential one- and two-family dwellings, "Renovations/alterations (based on fair market value of project cost), Including roofing, electrical/heating/plumbing/solar and single trade miscellaneous," at $60 for a project of $1 to $10,000, $75 to $50,000, $100 to $100,000 and $125 above that; the fee line is not limited to any kind of roof work. The City's own guidance says otherwise for shingles: its Residential Permit Reference Guide (read October 6, 2026) lists under "No Permit Required" the item "Re-Roof (residential shingle replacement only)," and the exempt projects printed on its current Building Permit Application include "Residential shingle replacement." Article 1703 adopts the 2018 International Residential Code (Ordinance 11-2024, passed October 27, 2025) as the Residential Code of the City for the construction, alteration, replacement and repair of one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses, "providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefore"; the permit sections of the 2018 edition were not read for this record, and the only change Section 1703.02 makes that touches permits is to delete Appendix L, Permit Fees. Under state law, Act 45 says the Act "shall not apply to" "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress, except as might be required by ordinances in effect pursuant to section 303(b)(1) or adopted pursuant to section 503" or to "Repairs to residential buildings, except as might be required by ordinances in effect pursuant to section 303(b)(1) or adopted pursuant to section 503" (section 104(b)(5) and (6)), and of a municipal ordinance that adds to the code, section 503(c) says "An ordinance under this subsection shall not be effective nor enforceable unless subsections (d), (e), (f), (g), (h) and (i) have been satisfied." This record does not decide whether the municipality's requirement is one adopted under section 503 or kept in effect by section 303(b)(1). In practice, the City's enacted fee schedule prices roofing as permit work while its guide and application tell homeowners that residential shingle replacement needs no permit; the guide says "If in doubt call the City of Lebanon Zoning Officer" at 717-639-2800, option 4, and Section 1701.06 says "Work started (or signs installed) without a permit are subject to twice the regular permit fee." Permit applications are filed with the Zoning Office; before a permit issues, "the contractor must submit a copy of a Certificate of Liability Insurance and proof of Workers Compensation Insurance Coverage or a valid notarized exemption," and the City asks home improvement contractors for their Attorney General registration number. Plans and permits come back from the inspection company "for pickup and payment in the Department of Public Works, 2nd Floor at 735 Cumberland Street," and inspections are booked with the chosen company at least 24 hours ahead. Read for this answer: Article 1701 of the City's Codified Ordinances (Sections 1701.01 to 1701.07, including the fee schedule), in full; Article 1703, International Residential Code, in full; the adoption section and amendment list of Article 1702, International Building Code; a search of the whole Codified Ordinances for "roof," which found no other permit provision naming roof work; the Building and Zoning page; the Residential Permit Reference Guide; and the Building Permit Application. This hub aggregates roofing permit and contractor-registration requirements for Lebanon, Pennsylvania, along with sourced roofing material references — every fact linked to its directory record.