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Yes, a permit is required to replace a roof in Penndel, PA, issued by Penndel Borough - Building Permits. Penndel Borough's fee schedule lists "Roofing and Siding $360.00" among its building permit fees. The Borough's fee schedule (Resolution #2025-01, revised January 6, 2025, read October 12, 2026) lists, in its "BUILDING PERMITS" section, a separate line "Roofing and Siding $360.00" beside its rows for new construction, additions and "Alterations and repairs," and says "Any work that proceeds without permits will be charged double the applicable permit fee." Section 155-3 of the Borough Code (Chapter 155, Construction Codes, Uniform; read October 12, 2026) says "permits shall be required for:" "Replacement of existing siding" and an uncovered deck whose floor is "no more than 30 inches above grade," and names no roofing, and this record does not decide what that list implies for a reroof. Section 155-2 says the Uniform Construction Code "is hereby adopted and incorporated herein by reference as the" "Borough Construction Code." Chapter 160, the Borough's contractor licensing ordinance, names re-roofing only in defining a contractor as one who "undertakes or offers to perform construction, repair, re-roofing." The Borough's posted application lists "Alteration" among its types of proposed construction and has no roofing box, and the pages read contain no Borough statement on reroofing apart from the fee line. Under state law, Act 45 says the Act "shall not apply to" "Alterations to residential buildings which do not make structural changes or changes to means of egress, except as might be required by ordinances in effect pursuant to section 303(b)(1) or adopted pursuant to section 503" or to "Repairs to residential buildings, except as might be required by ordinances in effect pursuant to section 303(b)(1) or adopted pursuant to section 503" (section 104(b)(5) and (6)), and of a municipal ordinance that adds to the code, section 503(c) says "An ordinance under this subsection shall not be effective nor enforceable unless subsections (d), (e), (f), (g), (h) and (i) have been satisfied." This record does not decide whether the municipality's requirement is one adopted under section 503 or kept in effect by section 303(b)(1). In practice, expect the Borough to require a building permit for a reroof: its fee schedule prices "Roofing and Siding" at $360.00 and says "Any work that proceeds without permits will be charged double the applicable permit fee." Applications go to the Borough office at 300 Bellevue Ave., telephone 215-757-5152. Read for this answer: Chapter 155 of the Borough Code, Construction Codes, Uniform (Sections 155-1 to 155-7), in full; Chapter 160, Contractors, definitions and general provisions; every page of a search of the whole Borough Code for "roof" and for "reroofing," which found no permit provision naming roof work apart from the contractor definition; the Permits, Fee Schedule and Borough Code pages; the building permit application; the zoning application; and the fee schedule resolution, read in full for roofing lines. This hub aggregates roofing permit and contractor-registration requirements for Penndel, Pennsylvania, along with sourced roofing material references — every fact linked to its directory record.