Roofing in Rome, Georgia

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STATE-SET AND LOCALLY ENFORCED, ON A FLOATING ADOPTION, AND ROME PUBLISHES THE CURRENT EDITIONS ITSELF. 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 Rome enforces. The City's adoption floats: Code section 5-2 adopts "that certain state minimum standard codes known as the International Residential Code, as adopted and as amended by the State of Georgia, except such portions as are deleted, modified, or amended in this article", and closes "The provisions of this section shall be controlling in construction of one- and two-family dwelling buildings within the corporate limits of the City." Section 5-75 does the same for the International Building Code. So the City moved to the 2024 editions on January 1, 2026 by operation of its own ordinance. UNUSUALLY FOR GEORGIA, THE DEPARTMENT ALSO STATES THE CURRENT EDITIONS ON ITS OWN PAGE, and the list is current rather than stale. Its published answer to "What are the codes and design criteria for the City of Rome and Floyd County?" gives "2024 International Building, Residential, Mechanical, Fuel Gas, Plumbing, 2015 Energy Code, and 2023 National Electrical Code", adds that "City/County codes, except for fire sprinkler requirements, mirror Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes listed on the Georgia Department of Community Affairs website", and warns that "Codes include Georgia amendments made by the state and amendments supersede the codes". Read the fire sprinkler carve-out as what it says: on that one subject the City does not merely mirror the state codes. APPENDIX U IS NOT ADOPTED, AND ROME ANSWERS THE QUESTION BY ENUMERATION RATHER THAN BY SILENCE. Appendix U Disaster Resilient Construction is adopted by the Department of Community Affairs as optional, and by its own terms it binds only where an adopting ordinance specifically references it. Rome's adopting sections say which appendices they take and take no others: section 5-2 adds to the Residential Code only "Chapter 1 and any appendix or other section addressing Manufactured Housing Used as Dwellings of the International Residential Code, including but not limited to Appendix E of the 2018 edition of such code", and section 5-75 adds to the Building Code only "Chapter 1 and Appendix B Board of Appeals". Chapter 5 was read in full and names no other appendix and never names Appendix U or the Disaster Resilient appendix. WHAT ROME AMENDS is a single administrative point: section 5-76 deletes and replaces Section B101.2.2 to fix the Board of Appeals at five members and one alternate. There is no local amendment to the Residential Code's technical chapters at all. CURRENCY: the Code is codified through Ordinance No. 26-01-02, adopted January 26, 2026, and section 5-2 was last amended by Ordinance No. 24-10-01, adopted October 14, 2024.

ONE DEPARTMENT SERVES ROME AND FLOYD COUNTY, SO CHECK WHICH GOVERNMENT YOUR ADDRESS SITS IN BUT RING THE SAME OFFICE. The department describes itself as "The Rome-Floyd County Building Inspection Department" and says it "is responsible for the review, permitting, and inspection of all construction projects within the City of Rome", also enforcing nuisance abatement, zoning compliance, historic preservation, land disturbance permits, sediment and erosion control and floodplain management. Floyd County's own site carries Building Inspection in its departments menu and links it to the same City page. The City's Permits page confirms the split of functions: "The City of Rome manages permits for building inspection, business license, alcohol license, rezoning and special use permits", routing Building Permits to Building Inspection, and it is careful to add that "the city does not manage the county departments that provide these permits" for driver's licences, firearm permits and marriage licences. THE ROOFING PATH. Rome publishes a "PERMIT APPLICATION ROOFS OR MISC.", a one-page form asking for the date, project address, property owner name, address, mobile number and email, the contractor's details where different from the owner, a job description and the job cost. The form directs the applicant to email it to two named departmental addresses and gives a postal address for a cheque. The Department states that permits are issued at 607 Broad Street, that the office is open Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and that "On some simple jobs, a permit can be obtained during the first visit", with more time needed where plans must be reviewed. FEES are on the Rome/Floyd County Building Inspection Department fee schedule and run off the cost of the job under a Remodels/Buildouts table, with the payment of fees due when the permit is applied for, any fee not in the schedule set by the Director, a doubled fee where work starts before the permit issues, permits valid for six months from the issue date, and a $60.00 re-inspection fee. INSPECTIONS need a minimum of 24 hours' notice, are scheduled through the Building Inspection office, and require the address, permit number and inspection type when booked; none is made if erosion control measures are not in place. Contact the Department on 706-236-4480, or customer service on 706-236-4481; the Chief Building Official is James Martin, and the mailing address is P.O. Box 1433, Rome, GA 30162.