Gulfport, MS Hurricane Preparedness: Roof Standards (2026)

The City of Gulfport adopted the International Code Council's ICC 600, 2014 edition, as its high-wind residential construction code at Code of Ordinances Sec. 3-34(a), governing the design and construction of residential buildings in high-wind regions and specifying prescriptive methods for wind-resistant designs and construction details, which necessarily reach roof framing, sheathing attachment and roof-to-wall connections since those are the assemblies ICC 600 is written to address. The city first adopted the 2008 edition of ICC 600 by Ordinance No. 2818 in 2014 and updated to the current 2014 edition by Ordinance No.

2968 on August 7, 2018, replacing an original 1994 adoption under Ordinance No. 1977. An editor's note to that 1994 ordinance preserves a conflicts rule still in force: where an existing city ordinance conflicts with the hurricane residential construction manual, the most restrictive code, standard or regulation controls. Compliance is checked through the same building permit and plan-review process required for any building permit under Sec. 3-31, which sets a base permit fee of thirty dollars plus a graduated fee schedule tied to the value of the work, with half paid at plan submission and the balance at permit issuance.

The Building Official administers the standard, and appeals from the Building Official's decisions go to the Construction Board of Adjustment and Appeals: a written notice of appeal must be filed within fifteen days, with the board certifying a transcript and the city council hearing the appeal within sixty days of receiving the record, per Sec. 3-36.