Roofing in Malcolm, Nebraska

Not required

Required

Malcolm does not write its own technical code, and its codified Village Code has now been read for the section that says so. Village Code Sec. 9-101, "Standard Codes," was fetched directly from malcolm.municipalcodeonline.com's print endpoint (the site's normal content route requires an authenticated session and 500s on every scripted request, but its print and search endpoints answer a plain unauthenticated GET once the section's exact name key is known -- found here via the site's own search endpoint) and reads, in full: "To provide for the same construction of buildings in the Municipality and to provide minimum standards for the construction thereto for safe and stable design, methods of construction, and uses of materials, in all buildings hereafter erected, constructed, enlarged, altered, repaired, relocated, and converted, shall be subject to building and construction codes. The building and construction codes shall be the same as those adopted by the City of Lincoln, Nebraska, the building codes of which are hereby incorporated as if fully set forth." That wording is present-tense and ongoing ("shall be the same as those adopted by") rather than naming a dated edition, so on the codified text's own terms this is a FLOATING adoption that tracks whatever Lincoln's building code currently is, not an adoption frozen at a particular ordinance or date. The Village's separate Memorandum on Policy and Procedure for Re-Roofing Projects (approved by Village Board Chair David Rohe, effective January 8, 2020) names "the 2012 International Building Code (IBC) and 2012 International Residential Code (IRC)" as what Lincoln's adopted codes were understood to be as of that memo's writing, and says a Malcolm re-roofing project must comply with Chapter 15 of the IBC and Chapter 9 of the IRC. Two things a roofer needs are still not established in this record: first, whether Lincoln has since moved to a later IRC/IBC edition (Malcolm's own adopting text would carry that change automatically under Sec. 9-101's floating wording, but this record does not verify Lincoln's current edition); second, whether Lincoln's own local amendments to Chapter 9 -- which travel with the adoption, since Sec. 9-101 incorporates Lincoln's building codes "as if fully set forth" -- add or remove anything from the base IRC roofing provisions. Check the current edition and any Lincoln-specific roofing amendment with the Village Clerk (402-796-2250) or the City of Lincoln Building & Safety Department before quoting a section number.

Malcolm runs permits through the Village Clerk rather than a building department, and the Village describes the path on its Permits and Inspections page: "The Village of Malcolm will strive to assist you with your construction project in an efficient and accountable manner. The Village Clerk is responsible for processing all construction permits and plans for review by the Planning Commission and Village Board for approval. Inspections will be scheduled throughout the building process for all construction-related permits." Because the Planning Commission and the Village Board sit in the approval path, the practical lead time on a Malcolm permit is set by the meeting calendar rather than by a counter. The Village adds that forms can be downloaded from the same page "or give us a call and we will be happy to provide you with the necessary forms", on 402-796-2250. For a roof, the document to read before anything else is the Village's own Memorandum on Policy and Procedure for Re-Roofing Projects, published on that page as the Re-Roofing Policy - it is one page, it names the codes Malcolm has adopted, it confirms the permit exemption for roofing and it sets the Village's own underlayment, ice barrier and flashing requirement. The Village office is at 137 East 2nd Street, with a mailing address of PO Box 228, Malcolm, Nebraska 68402.