El Paso City Code § 20.04.600 Building permits.
20.04.600 - Building permits.
A. All applications for a building permit shall require conformity with all relevant provisions of this Code.
B. The city engineer or the building official may require construction or reconstruction of sidewalks, curbs and gutters or street surfacing prior to issuance of a building permit or as a part of the issuance of the permit.
C. No building permit lawfully issued prior to the effective date of the ordinance codified herein, or of any amendment hereto, and which permit is in full force and effect at said date, shall be invalidated by the passage of the ordinance codified herein, or any such amendment, but shall remain a valid permit, subject only to its own terms and provisions and ordinances, rules and regulations pertaining thereto, and in effect at the time of the issuance of such permit; provided, that all such permits shall expire on the effective date of the ordinance codified herein, unless actual construction shall have heretofore begun and continued pursuant to the terms of the permit.
D. Whenever application for a building permit or certificate of occupancy is made for a use other than those specifically named as permitted uses, but being of a similar type of operation as those named, the zoning administrator shall have the authority, pursuant to Section 20.04.555, to make a determination as to whether or not the proposed use shall be permitted in the district.
(Ord. 16653 § 2 (part), 2007)