Roofing in North Annville Township, Pennsylvania

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The 2021 International Residential Code, as adopted by the State in the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code (UCC). 34 Pa. Code 403.21(a)(7) adopts "The 'International Residential Code of 2021,' except that:" followed by the State's list of exclusions and modifications, effective January 1, 2026 (55 Pa.B. 7701). None of the State's changes touches Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, or Section R803, Roof Sheathing, so those apply as the International Code Council publishes them. Work on existing buildings is also pointed to the State's existing-building code: "The repair, alteration, change of occupancy, addition and relocation of existing buildings must comply with Chapter 34 of the 'International Building Code of 2021' or with the 'International Existing Building Code of 2021'" (34 Pa. Code 403.21(f)). The UCC is the minimum everywhere in the state: "no municipality may propose or enact any ordinance which is less than the minimum requirement of the Uniform Construction Code" (Pennsylvania Construction Code Act, Act 45 of 1999, section 503(b)). The Act also lists work it "shall not apply to", including "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress" or to "Repairs to residential buildings," in each case "except as might be required by ordinances" kept in force under section 303(b)(1) or adopted under section 503 (Act 45 section 104(b)(5) and (6); 34 Pa. Code 403.1(b)(8) and (9)). The Act defines a repair as "The reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing building for the purpose of its maintenance." So whether the code's roofing rules reach a given house reroof depends on the municipality's own ordinances. Everything above is Pennsylvania state law, the same in every municipality. Locally, The Lebanon County Planning Department's Building Code Administration sheet (Room 206, Lebanon County Courthouse, 400 S. 8th Street, Lebanon; 717-228-4444) says the Department is "a Pennsylvania Certified 3rd Party Inspection Agency" under contract with listed Lebanon County municipalities "to administer and enforce the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code," and the list includes North Annville Township. The Township's own page gives its municipal office as the North Annville Township Building, 1020 North State Route 934, Annville, and lists no building permit office of its own. The County sheet says "The current i-codes adopted are: -The 2021 series of i-codes, as amended by the PA UCC," and the Township's own pages name no code edition. North Annville Township's ordinance adopting the Uniform Construction Code is not published on the Township's website, whose ordinances page lists zoning, solar, data center, nuisance, road and other ordinances but not that one, and this record did not find it in a search of the online code libraries of General Code (eCode360), American Legal Publishing, Municode or Code Publishing, so it was not read. The Township's zoning ordinance is posted as a scanned image with no text layer and was not read for this record.