Roofing in Upper Augusta 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, Upper Augusta Township's Officials page (read October 12, 2026) lists "BUILDING INSPECTIONS" as "Light-Heigel & Associates, Inc.", and the firm's page for the Township says "Upper Augusta Township contracts with Light-Heigel to provide the following services:" and lists "Building Permit" and "Residential Inspection"; the firm's local office is at 135 Walter Drive, Suite 3, Lewisburg (570-939-3199), and the Township office is at 2087 Snydertown Road, Sunbury (570-286-0912). The Township's pages and the firm's pages name no code edition, and no Township ordinance adopting the Uniform Construction Code was found published on the Township's ordinances page, so this record does not state any local amendment.

The Upper Augusta Township pages and the building inspections firm's pages read for this record do not say whether a reroof needs a permit. Upper Augusta Township's Officials page (read October 12, 2026) lists "BUILDING INSPECTIONS" as "Light-Heigel & Associates, Inc.", and the firm's page for the Township says "Upper Augusta Township contracts with Light-Heigel to provide the following services:" and lists "Building Permit" and "Residential Inspection"; the firm's local office is at 135 Walter Drive, Suite 3, Lewisburg (570-939-3199), and the Township office is at 2087 Snydertown Road, Sunbury (570-286-0912). The firm asks that inspections on an active permit be scheduled at 1-888-949-9728, and its page says "Upper Augusta Township - $5.00 required" as an administrative fee payable to the Township in a separate payment. Read for this record: the Township's Officials, Contact and Permits/Ordinances/Maps pages; its 2026 fee schedule; its zoning ordinance of March 29, 1973, amended July 1, 1991, which defines "BUILDING OFFICER" as the officer designated "for enforcing the Uniform Construction Code (UCC)" and names roofs only in height, sign and wind-turbine provisions; and the firm's Township page and UCC building permit application, whose residential fee sheet lists a "Roof/ground (res) mount Solar (max 60A)" permit and no reroofing line. The Township's ordinances page lists no ordinance adopting the Uniform Construction Code, and several documents posted there are image-only scans that were not read as text. No Township or firm page read says whether a reroof needs a permit or needs none.