Roofing in Paducah, Kentucky

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The 2015 International Residential Code as amended by the 2018 Kentucky Residential Code, Third Edition (August 2024), mandatory statewide and uniform across every Kentucky jurisdiction, including Paducah. 815 KAR 7:125 Section 2(1) provides: "the 2015 International Residential Code for One (1) and Two (2) Family Dwellings (IRC) shall be the mandatory state residential building code for all single-family dwellings, two (2) family dwellings, and townhouses constructed in Kentucky, except that the Kentucky amendments in the 2018 Kentucky Residential Code shall supersede any conflicting provision in the 2015 IRC." The code's own R101.3 adds: "Local governments shall not adopt or enforce any other building code for detached single family dwellings, two-family dwellings and townhouses." Paducah's own Code of Ordinances Section 18-31 adopts "the Kentucky Building Code and the Kentucky Residential Code" by reference and makes the Residential Code "applicable to all one- and two-family dwellings and normally accepted accessory structures" - pointing at, and not varying from, the same statewide code. One statewide carve-out applies on some McCracken County properties: KRS 198B.010(4) excludes from the definition of "building" - and therefore from the code - "a farm dwelling or other farm buildings and structures incident to the operation and maintenance of the farm if the farm structures are located outside the boundary of a municipality" and are not retail, not a workplace for ten or more, and not timber storage; KRC R101.2 Exception 3 repeats it. A rural farmhouse outside a municipality's boundary can fall outside this code entirely; this record does not decide whether any particular property qualifies.