Roof Replacement permits across Tennessee
Where each city draws the line on roof replacement work. Sort any column — useful if you build across several towns and need to know where the rules change.
The statewide starting point is International Residential Code, принятый Теннесси, 2018. Cities that changed the rule are the interesting rows below.
| Where the line falls | Fee | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville | 704,963 | Yes | Over 33 | Residential building permit fee is $5.00 per $1,000 of tota… |
| Memphis | 610,919 | Unconfirmed | — | — |
| Knoxville | 198,722 | Yes | Replacing or re-covering an existing roof is not on the s… | Building permit fees are set in the city Fee Schedule adopt… |
| Chattanooga | 191,496 | Yes | Replacing or re-covering an existing roof needs a buildin… | — |
| Clarksville | 185,690 | Yes | Over 25 | — |
| Murfreesboro | 168,387 | Depends | Roof-covering replacement is exempt from a permit if it d… | Permit fees are set by the City Council; no amount is liste… |
| Franklin | 89,142 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | — |
| Johnson City | 73,635 | Yes | Replacing or re-covering an existing roof needs a permit.… | The Board of Commissioners may set a permit fee schedule (S… |
| Jackson | 69,303 | Yes | replacing or re-covering an existing roof (roof covering … | — |
| Hendersonville | 63,947 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | — |
| Smyrna | 60,302 | Depends | Roof covering replacement (re-covering an existing roof) … | — |
| Kingsport | 57,109 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | — |
| Gallatin | 52,489 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | Current permit fee schedules are available in the Building … |
| Brentwood | 45,525 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | — |
| Mount Juliet | 44,066 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | — |
| La Vergne | 41,430 | Depends | roof-covering-only replacement is exempt; a permit is req… | Set by the fee schedule adopted with the annual budget. |
| Germantown | 40,128 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | — |
| Morristown | 32,994 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | — |
| Bristol | 27,867 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | Permit fees set by resolution of city council (§ 14-33(b));… |
| Farragut | 25,242 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | Permit fees set by the general fee schedule resolution adop… |
| Springfield | 19,842 | Yes | No size threshold in the code | — |
| Goodlettsville | 17,433 | Depends | re-roofing (re-covering an existing roof) is defined as n… | building permit fee required per Sec. 12-202 when a permit … |
| Nolensville | 15,809 | Depends | Roof covering replacement that does not involve the repla… | — |
“Unconfirmed” means the city's code doesn't state the rule plainly enough to publish. Those city pages link straight to the ordinance section instead.
Why neighboring cities disagree
Every city starts from a model code and then edits it. One town raises the shed cutoff, the next lowers the fence height, a third exempts the structure where its neighbor only exempts repairs to it. None of that is visible from a national article — you have to read each ordinance, which is what these pages do.