Roofing in Martinsville, Indiana

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STATE-SET, AND THE CITY'S OWN BUILDING CODE ORDINANCE IS NOT PUBLISHED ANYWHERE. Indiana's residential code is the state's. The rule is 675 IAC 14-4.4, which provides at 675 IAC 14-4.4-1 that the 2018 International Residential Code for One and Two Family Dwellings, first printing August 2017, "is hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set out in this rule save and except those revisions made in this rule", and that "This rule shall be known as the 2020 Indiana Residential Code." The Indiana State Building Commissioner states its reach in terms, in guidance of February 25, 2020: "The 2020 Indiana Residential Code is in full force and effect statewide." IC 22-13-2-3(a)(2) gives the commission's rules precedence over "any ordinance or other regulation adopted by a political subdivision that covers the same subject matter", and IC 22-13-2-3(c) provides that a city "may not adopt an ordinance that conflicts with or includes more stringent or detailed requirements than the commission's rules". WHAT THE CITY HAS CODIFIED, WHICH IS NOTHING ON THIS SUBJECT. Chapter 14, Buildings and Building Regulations, was read in full. Its five articles are designated fire limits, electrical permits and inspections, property maintenance, unsafe buildings and premises, and building numbering. Sections 14-4 through 14-95 are reserved, and there is no adoption of a building code anywhere in the chapter. Its only source note is Ord. No. 2018-1778 of 8-20-2018, so as recently as 2018 the City re-enacted this chapter and still codified no code adoption. Chapter 34, Fees, carries an Article V headed Buildings and Building Regulations whose sections 34-126 through 34-160 are reserved in their entirety, so the codified fee chapter contains no building permit fee either. THE INSTRUMENT THAT DOES ADOPT A CODE, AND WHY IT CANNOT BE QUOTED HERE. The City's building code is Ordinance 96-1389. The closing note to the section 94-240 fee table reads "Fees listed in this table supersede the fees given in the city's Building Code Ord. 96-1389", and section 94-198 refers to a "building permit required under the city's building code". Section 94-240 was last amended by Ord. No. 2025-1898 on 3-24-2025, in a codification current through 6-29-2026, so the City's own current enacted text treats Ordinance 96-1389 as a live instrument. Its text is published nowhere this record could reach: Municode's Code Comparative Table, which does list other ordinances of the same period, omits it under a general statement that unlisted ordinances "have been omitted as repealed, superseded or not of a general and permanent nature"; the City's document centre offers no ordinance archive and directs the public to Municode; and the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, which publishes the City's 2021 Fire Prevention Code ordinance, publishes no building ordinance for Martinsville. What edition it names, and whether it states any roofing provision, is therefore unknown rather than absent, and this record does not say the ordinance is displaced or spent. ONE CITY DOCUMENT NAMES AN EDITION, AND IT IS A HANDOUT. The three page Inspection List published by Building and Planning carries the page header "In Compliance with International Residential Code 2003 with Indiana Amendments 2005", and repeats it in its closing paragraph. The document is undated, is an inspection schedule rather than an adopting instrument, and names an edition the State superseded. It is reported here as the department's own statement, not as the governing edition, and no answer in this record is built on it. The City's Building Services page, read on 2026-09-19, names no edition at all.