Permit information for the City of El Paso
Website Directions – all permit requirements are on the City of El Paso Website under Municipal Code
El Paso IL – Official Website
- Home Page
- Below heading in small circles double click on Municipal Code
No Permits Required:
No building permit is required for routine maintenance or repairs of buildings, structures or equipment, such as painting, reroofing or replacing broken or deteriorated parts.
- No permit is need if you are replacing an exiting driveway and it is under 3000 square feet of cement or blacktop.
Permits Needed: (listed are the more common permits)
Chapter 138-1 Moving of Buildings
- Chapter 163-1 New driveways
- Chapter 171-3 Discharge of fireworks
- Chapter 203-3 Construction, alteration or extension of manufactured home park
- Chapter 203-36 Manufactured home installation
- Chapter 203-37 Install, remove, and placing of an addition or accessary structure to a manufactured home
- Chapter 227-5 Peddlers and Solicitors
- Chapter 232-3 Facility on the right-of-way
- Chapter 243-5 Signs
- Chapter 244-9 Solar energy systems
- Chapter 280-1 Planting any tree or shrub in any public street or parkway
- Chapter 280-2 Removing any tree or shrub from any public street or parkway
- Chapter 302-36 installing or repairing any building sewer
- Chapter 302-57 Any connection with the water system
- Chapter 315 Zoning
- No structure or building shall be erected or structurally altered without a permit
- Patios (cement, wood, building material)
- Accessory building
- Portable storage sheds over 288 square feet
- Car ports
- Any cement or blacktop work over 3000 square feet
- Fences
- Demolition of buildings