Roofing in Newnan, Georgia

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STATE-SET AND LOCALLY ENFORCED, ON A FLOATING ADOPTION, AND NEWNAN DOES NOT PUBLISH AN EDITION OF ITS OWN - WHICH HERE IS A GOOD THING. Georgia has no local code adoption to look up. The International Residential Code, 2024 Edition, with Georgia Amendments 2026 is a mandatory state minimum standard code adopted by the Department of Community Affairs and effective January 1, 2026, and under O.C.G.A. 8-2-25(a) it binds any structure built in Georgia whether or not the local government chooses to enforce it locally. Compliance is therefore statewide and automatic; what is local is enforcement, and Newnan enforces. The City's adoption floats by design. Code section 5-3 applies each construction code "as adopted and amended by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs" without naming an edition anywhere, and section 5-3(a)(9) does exactly that for houses: "The provisions of the International Residential Code, as adopted and amended by the state department of community affairs, shall apply to the construction, alteration, repair, equipment, use and occupancy, location, maintenance, of every one- and two-family dwelling or any appurtenances connected or attached to such buildings or structures." The City's own Current Codes page carries no local list at all: it says "View the Current Codes as Adopted by DCA Mandatory Codes and Permissive Codes and Amendments website" and links straight to the Department of Community Affairs, then warns "Please Note: There are Georgia Amendments to all of the codes." So unlike several Georgia jurisdictions, Newnan has no stale edition list of its own to trip over, and it moved to the 2024 editions on January 1, 2026 without passing anything. WHAT NEWNAN DOES AMEND, in Chapter 5 Article VII, is short and nowhere near a roof: section 5-70 rewrites footnote (n) to Table R703.4 on the substrate for vinyl siding; section 5-71 amends the electrical code for its two fire districts; section 5-72 amends a plumbing table footnote; and section 5-73 adds R312.1.1.1 on guards at retaining walls attached to a house and R403.1.1.1 on footing reinforcement. The City publishes that same amendment list as a standalone Building Code Amendments sheet dated January 1, 2021, and it matches the codified text. APPENDIX U WAS NOT ESTABLISHED EITHER WAY. Appendix U Disaster Resilient Construction is adopted by the Department of Community Affairs as optional, and by its own scope clause it is "not mandatory unless specifically referenced in an adopting ordinance" of the jurisdiction. Chapter 5 was read in full and nowhere names Appendix U or the Disaster Resilient appendix. What it has instead is a general clause, section 5-3(d): "Appendices. Appendices referenced in the text of the construction codes shall be considered an integral part of the construction codes." Whether a general clause of that kind reaches an appendix the State adopts as optional is not settled here. Ask the Chief Building Official. CURRENCY: the Code of Ordinances is codified through Ordinance No. 2025-28, enacted December 9, 2025.

Newnan issues a dedicated roofing permit on its own one-page form. The Building Department is on the second floor of City Hall, 25 LaGrange Street, and describes itself as providing "for administration and enforcement of building, housing, plumbing, electrical, health, and zoning codes", issuing the permits, examining the plans and inspecting the work. The City has moved its building forms to an online forms portal reached from the Building Permits page, where a form can be completed, documents attached and the fee paid online; the printable Roofing Permit Application remains available beside it. WHAT THE ROOFING APPLICATION ASKS: the property address, the applicant's name and whether the applicant is a contractor or the homeowner, the proposed roof covering as one of "Asphalt Shingles (2 layers max)", "TPO, PVC or EPDM (overlay only - if exposing roof deck or adding roof structure, commercial permit required)" or "Other", an email address, the cost of the project, and the square footage or squares of the project. The fee follows the roof area: a residential roof of 0 to 10,000 square feet is $100.00 and over 10,001 square feet is $200.00, including sheathing repair or replacement up to 128 square feet, with half the roof fee again beyond that. A commercial roof or reroof runs from $100.00 plus $25.00 for up to 5,000 square feet to $500.00 plus $25.00 over 60,001 square feet. Where the job is small enough to be an ordinary minor repair valued at $1,000.00 or less, section 5-30(b) allows it without a permit but only with the Chief Building Official's approval. TIMING AND CONDITIONS: a permit becomes invalid if work is not commenced within 180 days of issue or is suspended or abandoned for 180 days, extensions must be requested in writing with justifiable cause, and the permit card must be posted conspicuously on site, protected from the weather, until the certificate of occupancy or completion issues. Starting before the permit issues doubles the fee. Re-inspection is $50.00 per visit. A notarised Authorized Permit Agent Form is available where someone else pulls the permit, and an Owner Builder Affidavit where an owner-occupant does the work. Contact the Building Department on 770-253-8433 or permits@newnanga.gov; the Chief Building Official is Bryan Partin.