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Roofing permits & building code in Mountain Home

Roofing permit and contractor-licensing rules in Mountain Home are set locally by City of Mountain Home - Building Services. Idaho roofers come under the Idaho Contractor Registration Act (Idaho Code 54-5201 et seq.), which makes it unlawful to work as a contractor without registering with the Idaho Contractors Board in the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses, exempts only a casual or minor job whose labour and materials together come to less than $2,000, and requires the contractor’s registration number on the building permit, while a city or county that issues building permits must adopt the residential code edition set by the Idaho Building Code Board and may amend its roofing provisions only on a finding of good cause for building or life safety after a public hearing — always confirm the current requirements with the authority before starting work.

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Adopted building code
THE 2018 EDITIONS SINCE THE END OF 2020, ON THE CITY'S OWN STATEMENT. The City of Mountain Home Building Services page states: "Keeping in line with the State of Idaho, the City of Mountain Home formally adopted the 2018 updates to the building codes currently in use by both the State and City. The changes became effective for all permits drawn from the City of Mountain Home Building Department on December 31, 2020." The City's own Current Building Codes handout puts the same thing as a list: "The City of Mountain Home is currently using; (As of January 1, 2021)", then the "2018 International Building Code", "2018 International Residential Code", "2018 International Energy Conservation Code", "2018 International Existing Building Code", "2018 International Fire Code", "1997 Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings", "2009 International Property Maintenance Code", "2012 International Mechanical Code (State Inspection)", "2015 Idaho (Uniform) Plumbing Code (State Inspection)", "2017 National Electrical Code (State Inspection)" and "2012 Fuel and Gas Code". A house is reroofed under the residential code in that list. A SECOND CITY PAGE STILL CARRIES THE OLDER LIST, AND IT IS DATED. The City's Land Use and Development page opens its own code list with "The City of Mountain Home is currently using: (As of January 1, 2018)" and then names the "2015 International Building Code", "2012 International Residential Code" and the rest of that generation. That list carries its own effective date of January 1, 2018 and is superseded by the December 31, 2020 adoption stated above. Both are set out here because both are published; use the 2018-edition list, and note that the design criteria quoted elsewhere in this record sit on that same Land Use and Development page and were not restated on the newer one. THE CODIFIED ADOPTING SECTION HAS NOW BEEN READ IN FULL, AND ITS OWN TERMS EXPLAIN WHY THE CITY'S PUBLIC PAGES CARRY A NEWER EDITION THAN THE CODE TEXT DOES. Mountain Home City Code section 5-1-1, "Adoption of Building Codes," was last recodified by Ordinance 1613 (enacted December 23, 2013, effective January 1, 2014) and its printed text still names the 2012 International Building Code and the 2009 International Residential Code by number. But the section's own chapeau makes the adoption a floating one rather than a frozen one: "the city hereby adopts the following documents and codes ... and as the international building codes and supporting documents are revised and republished from time to time, the current editions thereof shall become the building codes for the city, effective January 1 immediately following said publications." That is consistent with, not contradicted by, the City's newer statement that the 2018 suite took effect January 1, 2021. Section 5-1-1's own local amendments, as codified, are: a carbon monoxide alarm trigger for permitted work on existing dwellings (former IRC R315.2), which expressly exempts "replacement of roofing or siding" from that alarm requirement, and a fireplace flue-damper rule (IECC 402.4.3 / N1102.4.3). Neither amendment touches Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, of the residential code, and the word "roof" appears in section 5-1-1 only inside that carbon-monoxide exemption. So on the ordinance's own text, whichever edition currently governs under the self-updating clause, no local amendment to the roofing chapter has been made. STATE FRAMEWORK. Idaho's residential code is set by the Idaho Building Code Board, not by the city. IDAPA 24.39.30.600.03 adopts the "International Residential Code, 2018 Edition ... Parts I, II, III, and IX of the 2018 Edition for one (1)- and two (2)-family dwellings", effective July 1, 2024, with the state's own list of amendments; Idaho Code 39-4116(2) requires a local government that issues building permits and performs code enforcement to adopt the Idaho residential code parts I-III and IX by ordinance, and bars it from adopting provisions of a later IRC edition the Board has not adopted. Roofing sits in Part III and is included. Idaho Code 39-4116(6): "Permits shall be governed by the laws in effect at the time the permit application is received."
Registration details
  • state_level: STATEWIDE, AND INDEPENDENT OF WHATEVER THIS JURISDICTION REQUIRES. Idaho Code 54-5204(1), in the Idaho Contractor Registration Act (Title 54, Chapter 52): "On and after January 1, 2006, it shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of, or hold himself out as, a contractor within this state without being registered as required in this chapter." A roofer is inside the definitions rather than at their edge: "Construction" means "the performance of building, altering, repairing, adding to, subtracting from, improving, reconstructing, moving, excavating, wrecking or demolishing any building ... or improvement to real property, or to do any part thereof" (54-5203(2)), and "Contractor" means any person who "undertakes, offers to undertake, purports to have the capacity to undertake, or submits a bid to, or does himself or by or through others, perform construction" (54-5203(3)(a)). Roofing is not separately licensed in Idaho, so this registration is the whole of the state credential. THRESHOLD: 54-5205(2)(f) exempts work on "one (1) undertaking or project considered casual, minor, or inconsequential, whether by one (1) or more contracts, the aggregate contract price of which, for labor and materials and all other items, is less than two thousand dollars ($2,000)" -- a per-project figure covering labour and materials together, not annual revenue, and the same paragraph voids the exemption where the work is part of a larger project or where one job is split into contracts of less than two thousand dollars. A residential reroof is rarely under $2,000. An owner working on his own residential property is exempt (54-5205(2)(l)), as is an owner who hires a registered contractor (54-5205(2)(k)); an employee on wages is exempt but an unregistered subcontractor is not (54-5205(2)(a)). CONSEQUENCES OF NOT REGISTERING, and a homeowner should check: an unregistered contractor "shall be deemed to have conclusively waived any right to place a lien upon real property" (54-5208); may not "bring or maintain any action in any court of this state for the collection of compensation" without proving registration throughout the work (54-5217(2)); and is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine up to $1,000, up to six months in county jail, or both (54-5217(1)). AT THE PERMIT COUNTER: 54-5209(1) requires every county, municipality or district that issues building permits to request the contractor's Idaho registration number and print it on the face of the permit, or else print "no contractor registration provided". WHAT IT TAKES: an application under oath, proof of worker's compensation coverage or a statement why it is not required, and a general liability policy including products and completed operations coverage of not less than $300,000 single limit (54-5210(1)). It is a registration, not a competency licence -- there is no examination. Administered by the Idaho Contractors Board within the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses (54-5206(1)); registrations can be checked by name at the Division's public search.
  • city_level: THE CITY CODE HAS NOW BEEN READ IN FULL ON THIS POINT, AND MOUNTAIN HOME MAKES THE STATE REGISTRATION A CITY OFFENSE, NOT JUST A FORM FIELD. Mountain Home City Code section 5-1-11, "Contractor's Registration Number," enacted by Ordinance 1438 (March 13, 2006), provides in its own words: "No building permit shall be issued without the contractor's registration number being presented by the contractor, except when the permit applicant provides evidence to the satisfaction of the city's building official that the applicant is exempt from the registration requirements pursuant to title 54, chapter 52 of the Idaho Code." The same section goes further than the permit counter: "It shall be unlawful for any contractor, as that term is defined by Idaho Code section 54-5203, unless exempt as provided in Idaho Code section 54-5205, to act as a contractor within the city limits of the city of Mountain Home or to conduct business as a contractor without first obtaining and maintaining a current contractor registration number." Violation is a municipal infraction punishable by a $100 fine, and "a second and any subsequent conviction of any violation of any of the provisions of this section within five (5) years shall constitute a misdemeanor." So in Mountain Home, working unregistered is a separate city-code violation in its own right, independent of the state penalties in Idaho Code 54-5217, and it applies to acting as a contractor anywhere within city limits, not only to the permit application. Title 4, Business Regulations, Chapter 1, Licenses, is a general municipal business-licence chapter (sections 4-1-1 through 4-1-12) that applies "whenever in this code a license is required for the maintenance, operation or conduct of any business" (section 4-1-2); it was read in full and names no separate roofing or contractor licence category of its own, and the City's own Building Services page confirms plumbing, electrical and mechanical trades are licensed by the State rather than the City. So Mountain Home imposes no CITY licence of its own beyond the state registration, but it does independently enforce that state registration as a matter of municipal law. The state registration above applies in Mountain Home regardless.
Permit process
A ROOF DECK INSPECTION IS THE ONE THING THE CITY WILL DROP EVERYTHING FOR, AND A REROOFING CREW SHOULD KNOW IT. The Building Services page states: "Inspections must be called in prior to 9:00 am for same-day inspections by calling the Building Department. Inspections called in after 9:00 am will be scheduled for the following day, with the exception of roof deck inspections." Roof deck inspections are the only category the City carves out of its own next-day rule, so a deck opened after the morning cut-off can still be looked at that day where nothing else can. The City adds: "Inspection times are for AM or PM. We do not make appointments for a specific time", and "Inspection requests called in to the cell phone number of the Building Official will not be scheduled" - call the office line, 208-580-2091. WHO INSPECTS WHAT. The City states that it "does not regulate these codes and is instead regulated by the State of Idaho's Division of Building Safety Department. Provisions of these codes relate to plumbing, electrical, and mechanical." So the City's own inspectors cover the building side, including the roof, while the trades are a State matter. APPLYING. Building permits are applied for through the City's online permit portal, and the City's paper Building Permit Application asks for the "Contractor Registration Number", the property and owner details, a description under "I Request a Permit For", and the "Valuation of Project". Its own header repeats the scheduling rule: "Inspection Requests must be called into our office prior to 9:00 am for same day inspections." LEAD PAINT ON PRE-1978 HOUSES. The City reproduces the federal rule on its own page: renovation, repair and painting projects that disturb lead-based paint in pre-1978 homes "must be performed by an EPA Certified Renovator working for an EPA Certified Firm". Tear-off work on an older Mountain Home house that disturbs painted trim or fascia can fall inside that rule.

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