El Paso County
El Paso County Food Safety Order, enforced by the City of El Paso Department of Public Health food inspection program
In short
El Paso County Food Safety Order, enforced by the City of El Paso Department of Public Health food inspection program issues 1 permit we publish for El Paso County, last verified 2026-09-29. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Food Establishment Permit (Food Safety Order, unincorporated area) | El Paso County Food Safety Order, enforced by the City of El Paso Department of Public Health food inspection program | No current county food permit fee schedule is published; the County Food Safety Order's 2007 figures are not presented as current. The County states the amount payable. | annual; renew at least 30 days before expiry; a temporary event permit lasts at most 14 consecutive days | 2026-09-29 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
County Food Establishment Permit (Food Safety Order, unincorporated area)
A food service establishment, retail food store or temporary food event in the unincorporated area of El Paso County needs a permit under the County Food Safety Order, which took effect on 1 January 2008. The Order names the El Paso Health Department as the regulatory authority, and the City of El Paso food inspection program (Open Stop Shop, 811 Texas Ave, (915) 212-6610) takes the applications. Nonprofit-only operations are exempt under section 2(b) of the Order. This record carries no fee figure: there is no current fee schedule published in any source. The 2007 Order's printed figures are not published as current, because the City's adopted FY2026 schedule differs and the Texas DSHS local fee registry has no El Paso County entry. SB 1008 (2025) caps a county food fee at the DSHS maximum. Contact the City food inspection program for the current amount before applying. Mobile food vendors are licensed by Texas DSHS from 1 July 2026, not by the county. Inside the City of El Paso and the other municipalities, their own rules apply instead.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- El Paso County
- Phone
- Not verified — use the website
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Court Orders (Commissioners Court orders index)El Paso County Commissioners Court · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
- El Paso County Food Safety Order (17 December 2007, effective 1 January 2008)El Paso County Commissioners Court · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
- Food Inspection (City of El Paso food permit program, which takes county and city food permit applications)City of El Paso · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
- SB 1008, 89th Legislature (enrolled) — county food fee cap and alcohol-fee exceptionTexas Legislature · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
- Texas DSHS Local Ordinance and Fee Schedule RegistryTexas Department of State Health Services · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-24
- Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 437, Regulation of Food Service Establishments, Retail Food Stores, Mobile Food Units, and Roadside Food VendorsTexas Legislature · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
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