No person shall erect, construct, proceed or continue with the erection or construction of any building or structure or cause the same to be done in any newly annexed territory to the City without first applying for and obtaining a building permit or certificate of occupancy from the Building Official as may be required.

No permit for the construction of a building or use of land shall be issued by the Building Official other than a permit which will allow the construction of a building or use permitted in the “AG”, Agricultural District, unless and until such territory has been zoned with a classification other than the “AG”, Agricultural District, by the City Council in the manner prescribed by law.

Single-family or duplex industrialized housing must comply with all local permit and license requirements applicable to other single-family or duplex dwellings.

Any industrialized housing shall meet the following requirements:

Any person who intends to construct, erect, install, or move any industrialized housing into the City shall first submit all required applications to the building official and obtain all required permits.

The building official shall inspect all construction involving industrialized housing and buildings to be located in the City to ensure compliance with designs, plans, and specifications, including inspection of:

A modular home is a permitted use in any single-family or apartment zoning district provided that the following requirements are met:

The Building Official is so notified in writing for the purpose of establishing procedures for the inspection, issuing of building permits, and compliance with the Texas Manufactured Housing Standards Act (Tex. Occupations Code Chapter 1201).

A temporary certificate of occupancy may be issued for establishment of a temporary field office, which may be a mobile home or HUD-Code manufactured home, for office, professional and general administrative use only. The temporary certificate shall be issued for a temporary structure during construction or renovation of a principal structure and shall be valid for one year or until completion of construction or renovation, whichever shall come first.

This Section does not create an exemption to the applicable provisions of the City’s technical construction codes.

A person commits an offense if he establishes, operates or causes to be operated, or expands a sexually oriented business within eight hundred (800) feet of any of the following uses or locations within the city limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Red Oak:

A person commits an offense if he establishes, operates or causes to be operated, a sexually oriented business in any building, structure or portion thereof containing another sexually oriented business.

For the purposes of subsection A above, measurement shall be made in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest portion of the building or structure used as part of the premises where a sexually oriented business is conducted, to the nearest property line of the premises of a use listed in subsections A.1–7 of this section.