Roofing in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin

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STATE CODE, ADOPTED BY THE VILLAGE AND EXTENDED TO PRE-1980 HOUSES. One- and two-family dwellings in Mount Pleasant are built to the Wisconsin Uniform Dwelling Code, chs. SPS 320 to 325 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code. That code is Wisconsin's own text rather than an adoption of the International Residential Code, which is why its roofing rules read differently from the IRC and why no IRC edition year applies to a house here. Municipal Code section 14-5 provides that "The Village Board hereby adopts following Wisconsin Administrative Codes and all amendments thereto by reference," listing at (e) "Chapters SPS 320-325 Uniform Dwelling Code (UDC)" along with SPS 302 fees, SPS 305 credentials, SPS 316 electrical, SPS 318 elevators, SPS 326 manufactured homes, SPS 328 smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, the commercial building code at SPS 361-366, SPS 371 solar energy systems, SPS 375-379 for buildings constructed before 1914 and SPS 390 public swimming pools. The words "and all amendments thereto" make the adoption a floating one rather than a frozen edition, and the same section sets the tie-breaker: "The Wisconsin Administrative Code shall apply when any conflict between this code and the Wisconsin Administrative Code arises." Section 14-6 then applies the Mount Pleasant Building Code to "new construction, additions, or alterations" of, among other things, one- and two-family dwellings, with express exceptions only for children's play apparatus and landscaping features. Commercial and multifamily buildings run on the separate Wisconsin Commercial Building Code and are not the subject of the residential fields recorded here. Article I of Chapter 14, which is the whole of the Village building code content, sections 14-1 through 14-40, was read in full, and it adds no roof-assembly requirement of its own - no layer rule, no ice barrier rule, no drip edge and no fastening schedule. The chapter was recodified by Ordinance No. 25-2021 on November 8, 2021.

Mount Pleasant takes permit applications online. The Village states that it "accepts online applications for building permits and inspections, and several other services," through a system built by BS&A Software, and that an applicant "must have an account with BS&A in order to use the Village's current system," with a free account created on the vendor's site; the Village publishes a walkthrough for it. The Roof-Siding-Window paper form is marked "For reference only" and points applicants to the online portal. Building Inspection is at 8811 Campus Drive on 262-664-7824 or 262-664-7825. On timing, Municipal Code section 14-8(n) provides that all work must begin within 180 days from the date the permit is issued or as otherwise stated on the permit approval, that an extension must be applied for to carry on past the permit's time limit and carries its own fee, and that additions and alterations to a one- or two-family dwelling must be finished within two years of issue. Permit fees are set by the Village Board under Chapter 30 of the Code, must be paid before the permit issues, and are nonrefundable. The permit card must be posted at the front of the property, visible from the public roadway and protected from deterioration, and where there are no visible address numbers the applicant must put up temporary numbers at least three inches tall. A property owner pulling the permit personally must include the cautionary statement the Village publishes for owners. Inspections are arranged by calling or emailing Building Inspection.