Is It Legal To Sit On Your Roof

A roof is a horrible thing to have damaged because suddenly the interior of the home is going to be damaged as well.

Is it legal to sit on your roof.

We have two windows that lead out directly to the roof and we walk around to the back of the house where no one can see us. I re roofed houses as a 16 year old. Me some of my siblings and my friends sometimes go out on my roof and just hang out. As my bullbar has an antenna mounted to the left of the bar i don t want it to sit behind the antenna as the chrome bits such as the spring would cause a reflection back to me.

My wife always said choose your battles. The infringement notice cited a clause of the building act that refers to using or permitting the use of a building for a use for which it is not safe. Is it legal to sit on your roof in ohio. Also my brother and sister were sitting out there a second ago and a police car.

You can call law enforc. Stuff is reporting that property owners have been fined 1500 for allowing people to sit on their roof and watch car races. You could be said to be spying on your neighbours if you look out of your. Just sitting on their own roof.

I m assuming for the sake of this answer the hypothetical roof sitter is not doing anything else such as using illegal drugs drinking underage threatening suicide etc. Getting on and of the ladder is probably the most dangerous part. My son is 28 and i am 56. You are just asking for conflict.

As far as i am aware it s perfectly legal to sit on your own roof. Are we putting ourselves through the trouble for nothing. A bit dangerous unless it s a flat roof so be careful. The hamilton city council s building safety manager says.

Districtio already answered the legal part of this but foot traffic on a roof is going to cause some damage. All building have access to the roof because that might be the best way to evacuate a building in the event of a fire. Sitting on the roof is not dangerous at all.