Every permit office for a metal building in six Central Texas counties

It differs by county, which is why this sheet exists. Some counties here issue a building or development permit for work outside the city limits, one issues a fire code permit through its Fire Marshal for a commercial building, and one publishes no county building permit, building code or certificate of occupancy at all. The county column on this page gives each answer in that county's own words, with the office, the phone number, the page it was read from and the date.

No. A county that publishes no building permit still publishes other permits, and the state rules apply everywhere. On this footprint that can include a floodplain development permit, an on-site sewage facility permit through the county's authorized agent, a driveway permit for work in the county right of way, state accessibility registration above a cost threshold, and stormwater coverage by acreage. Each of those has its own row or its own column on this sheet.

The city permits the building and the county answer does not apply. The second table on this page carries the cities in these six counties whose own permit pages were read, with the department, the phone number and the date. A city that is not in that table still runs its own permits; the county page for that county names it, and the city is the office to confirm with before anything is designed.

Every cell carries its own read date, and the source link opens the exact page it was read from. Offices update fee schedules, adopt new code editions and reorganize their sites, so a cell is a record of what that page said on that day rather than a standing guarantee. When a date is old or the answer decides a real budget, call the office in the row and confirm it.