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When a page on this site turns out to be wrong, we fix it and record the fix here: the date, the pages affected, what they said, and what they say now. An error is anything a reader could have acted on: a rule, a fee, a threshold, an office, a link to an official source, or a claim about what a law says. Typos and layout changes are not listed. Neither are changes to pages that had not yet been published.
This log was started on November 2, 2026. The entries before that date come from the dated change history we keep for every page, so they describe the same fixes in the same words the record does. Changes in the law itself, as opposed to our mistakes about it, are reported in the rule tracker.
Found something wrong? Send a correction with a link to the official page if you have one. How we check it is described on how we verify.
What was wrong. The guide said two county addresses, accelaaca.leegov.com and leefl.gov, both served an "Under Maintenance" page. On a recheck, leefl.gov is the county's main website: leegov.com now forwards to it.
What it says now. Only accelaaca.leegov.com is described as serving the maintenance page. The guide records what we rechecked on November 1, 2026 and keeps its August 8 verification date for the parts we did not reread.
What was wrong. The page said a permit was always required and quoted a $602 fee. The city's list of work that does not need a building permit exempts some roof repair, and the $602 figure was a minimum-fee footnote in the city's fee tables, not a stand-alone reroofing fee.
What it says now. The answer is conditional and follows the city's own wording: no permit to repair, recover or replace a roof with a pitch of at least 2:12 on a residential building up to four stories, or for a repair limited to 25% of a roof surface that cuts away no part of an exterior wall or roof; a permit for any structural repair and any work on a low-slope roof. The $602 figure is gone.
What was wrong. Both pages described every turnaround sample as residential permits. Chicago's sample is renovation and alteration permits from the city's open data, with no residential filter.
What it says now. Each sample is named by its own record kind, so Chicago's median is described as renovation and alteration permits, including in the downloadable data.
What was wrong. Spotsylvania County pages said the county had an online portal for applications, plan uploads and status checks. The county's own page says its website does not accept online submissions of any kind, and the portal address we linked no longer answered. Five official links across the site had stopped working, including a Stafford County page that now returned an error.
What it says now. The portal claim and the dead address are removed from all 13 Spotsylvania rows, and the permit-search page that existed only to send readers to it is withdrawn. Stafford's shed page cites the county's live accessory-structures page. Dead sources with no verifiable replacement were dropped rather than substituted. Verification dates were not moved, because the permit facts themselves were not rechecked.
What was wrong. The page said that violating a county or city construction ordinance is a Class 3 misdemeanor of up to $500 under G.S. 14-4(a). For ordinances adopted under Chapter 160D that route is closed: G.S. 160A-175(b1)(1) and its county mirror, G.S. 153A-123(b1)(1), bar a criminal penalty on them.
What it says now. The page states that local enforcement is by civil penalty, keeps the state-level Class 1 misdemeanor in G.S. 160D-1110(i), and adds the $40,000 cost threshold in G.S. 160D-1110(c), raised from $20,000 by S.L. 2023-108.
What was wrong. Broward pages linked a fee schedule the county had taken down, and Volusia pages linked a portal path that returned an error.
What it says now. Broward pages no longer link a fee schedule, and keep their dated fee notes. Volusia pages link the portal's working entry address.
What was wrong. Eleven permit pages sent readers to the official page for a different project. The water heater, bathroom remodel and EV charger pages for Montgomery County, Philadelphia and Prince William County linked each locality's fence page; Denver's fence and patio pages linked its deck page; Nashville's patio page linked its deck page.
What it says now. Each page links the official page for its own project, every replacement opened and checked the same day.
What was wrong. These pages described Florida's new under-$7,500 permit exemption (F.S. 553.79(1)(g), HB 803) as covering owner-requested, non-structural roof work. The enrolled bill does not name roofing at all, and it requires a written exemption request.
What it says now. The pages follow the enrolled text: work on a single-family dwelling valued at less than $7,500 qualifies on a written request documenting the nature and value of the work, electrical, plumbing, structural, mechanical and gas work and flood hazard properties are excluded, and a reroof qualifies only because roof covering is not an excluded trade.