Roofing in Minot, North Dakota

Not required

Minot is an electing jurisdiction under North Dakota law. North Dakota has no building code that binds every municipality: NDCC 54-21.3-03(6) provides that 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," and adds that "the state building code may be amended by cities, townships, and counties to conform to local needs." That amendment power carries no stringency limit and no state approval requirement, so state text alone never settles a Minot question - the City's own chapter does. Minot has elected, and its adoptions sit in Chapter 9 (Buildings and Housing), Article I (Building Codes) of the City of Minot Code of Ordinances. Section 9-5 provides that "The International Residential Code, 2024 Edition (published by the International Code Council, Inc. and as amended by the State of North Dakota), is by reference thereto incorporated herein as fully as though set out at length hereafter (except and to the extent that the provisions thereof are amended as provided in section 9-6 below)," and applies it "in the City of Minot, and within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Minot, in which the city has asserted its zoning powers pursuant to Section 40-47-01.1, N.D.C.C." The parallel adoptions are Section 9-1 (2024 International Building Code), Section 9-3 (2024 International Existing Building Code) and Section 9-7 (2024 International Energy Conservation Code), each in the same "as amended by the State of North Dakota" form and each carried by Ordinance No. 6150, adopted December 15, 2025. Houses and townhouses run under the IRC track, so Section 9-5 as amended by Section 9-6 is the operative code for a Minot reroof. The City's Building Safety division confirms the same edition on its own letterhead in its residential design-load guidance, which is written "Using the 2024 IRC & ASCE 7-22."

An ordinary reroof in Minot is handled outside the building-permit system altogether: Section 9-6 of the City of Minot Code of Ordinances adds "Re-roofing" and "Re-siding" to the International Residential Code Section R105.2 list of work exempt from permit. Consistent with that, the City's published Building Fees schedule carries no roofing, re-roofing or shingle permit fee of any kind. Work that does need a permit is applied for through the City's online portal at https://cityworks.minotnd.org/Portal/, and the Inspection Division is at 1025 31st St SE, telephone 701-857-4102. Two cautions. First, the City's Building Safety pages repeatedly direct applicants to a "Review, Permit and Inspection Guide" and to specific chapters of it - Chapter 2 for the adopted codes and Chapter 13 for contractor licensing - but the document behind that link is a single page reading only "Coming Soon," so the guide cannot be relied on and questions it would have answered should go to the Inspection Division directly. Second, Minot's building code reaches beyond the city limits: Sections 9-1 and 9-5 apply the adopted codes "within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Minot, in which the city has asserted its zoning powers pursuant to Section 40-47-01.1, N.D.C.C.," which the City describes as a two-mile jurisdiction, so a job just outside the city line may still be Minot's.