Berthoud building permits

Tips & gotchas

• Berthoud straddles Larimer and Weld Counties — per the 2020 Census, 10,071 of the town's 10,332 residents are in Larimer County and 261 in Weld County. This file uses countySlug 'larimer-county' as Berthoud's primary/seat county, but confirm the specific parcel's county for property-tax and county-recorder purposes; the Town's own Planning & Building Department (807 Mountain Ave) issues ALL building permits townwide regardless of which county a given parcel sits in — county building departments have no jurisdiction over incorporated Berthoud parcels.
• Colorado is home-rule with no statewide-mandated building code edition — Berthoud's own 2024 I-Code Amendment ordinance (Berthoud Municipal Code Chapter 11) is the governing source for its adopted codes: 2024 IBC/IRC/IEBC/IECC/IPC/IMC/IFGC/ISPSC/IPMC plus 2023 NEC, all confirmed directly from the ordinance text rather than assumed from a peer jurisdiction.
• HB22-1362's statewide energy floor is satisfied through Berthoud's adoption of Appendix CK (commercial) and Appendix RM (residential) — the Colorado Energy Office's model Electric Ready / Solar Ready / EV Ready code — as an integral part of its 2024 IECC adoption. This means even non-solar new construction must provide labeled reserved panel space, dedicated branch circuits for future electric equipment, and EV-ready garage wiring.
• Colorado's HB19-1086 (plumbing) and SB19-156 (electrical) require local Inspecting Entities to post a standard contemporaneous-license-review procedure rather than run their own separate trade licensing board. Berthoud's own posted procedure confirms it relies on Colorado State Electrical Board / State Plumbing Board (DORA) licenses, verified at registration and via random job-site checks — consistent with this file's Colorado-specific rule #3 (state-default model). The Town's own 2026 Trade Contractor licensing ordinance (No. 1376) explicitly states 'Fee is not charged for Electrical or Plumbing Contractors per State Statutes,' confirming the Town does not duplicate state licensure with its own paid local license for those two trades specifically (though a $0-fee Town registration may still be a formality — the ordinance did not specify whether registration itself is waived or only the fee).
• The Town of Berthoud's own Planning & Building Department publishes NO numeric plan-review turnaround for ANY standard building-permit category anywhere on its site — not the Building Permits page, the 2024 IRC Building Guides, or the 2026 Fee Schedule. The ONLY published SLA found in this research is the Berthoud Fire Protection District's own 'general fifteen (15) business day turn around time' for ITS independent commercial fire-system plan review — a genuinely separate governmental entity from the Town Building Department, not interchangeable with it.
• 'Over the Counter One-Stop Fees' ($150 base + $25 Administration + $25 Technology = $200 total) apply to a specific, enumerated list of straightforward permit types: Air Conditioning, Demolition, Furnace Replacement, Gas Piping, Hot Water Boiler, Hot Water Heater, Roofing/Re-Roofing (Residential), Water Service Line Repair, and Wastewater Service Line Repair — all confirmed via direct visual render of the fee-schedule PDF (page 9 of 16) after the raw text extraction proved unreliable for this dense table. Standard valuation-based Building Permit Fees (new construction, additions, non-residential, basement finish) carry a DIFFERENT $50+$50 administration/technology surcharge instead.
• Larimer County levies an ADDITIONAL 1.05% use tax on top of the Town's own 4% use tax on construction materials/fixed equipment — confirmed from the Town's live, current 2026 fee schedule (DocumentCenter/View/7219), which supersedes an older cached copy of a same-titled document found during this research that stated an outdated 0.8% figure. Always verify against the Town's current live document, not an archived/cached copy, when a discrepancy is found.
• A Town of Berthoud contractor license (Ordinance No. 1376, Series 2026) is required by class — General Contractor A/B, Residential General Contractor C, General Contractor D, Trade Contractor, or Sign Contractor — with tiered general liability insurance requirements ($1,000,000 for General/Residential C classes, $300,000 for General Contractor D/Trade/Sign) and a Certificate of Insurance naming the Town as Certificate Holder. This is IN ADDITION to any Colorado state trade license (electrical/plumbing) required for the specific trade.
• Impact-resistant (Class 4, UL 2218) asphalt shingles are required on Berthoud re-roofs, with a stricter-than-typical trigger: if a repair exceeds 50% of the roof area, the ENTIRE roof must be upgraded to Class 4 shingles, not just the repaired section. Full tear-off to the deck is required and ice barrier must extend at least 24 inches inside the exterior wall line.
• This research relied on rendering several fee-schedule and ordinance PDFs as PNG images and reading them visually after plain-text extraction via pdftotext produced a garbled/misaligned table (numbers not reliably lined up with their row labels in the raw text stream) — consistent with this corpus's known dense-table-PDF extraction risk. All dollar figures in this file were cross-checked against the visual page render, not the raw text extraction alone.