HOME OCCUPATION
DECLARATION
The City of Dallas requires a contractor to submit proof of an established place of business. If that place of business is within the
city, a certificate of occupancy must be secured as required in the Dallas Development Code. In lieu of a certificate of occupancy,
a contractor may declare that his residence is the place of business.
Home occupation definition: an occupation that is incidental to the primary use of the premises as a residence and conducted on
the residential premises by the resident of the premises.
Company Name
(as listed on the contractor’s registration application):
Address of residence:
51A – 4.217 - A person who engages in a home occupation shall not:
• use any advertisement, sign, or display relating to the home occupation on the premises;
• use the street address of the premises on any advertisement, sign, or display off the premises;
• employ more than one person on the premises, other than residents of the premises;
• have an employee, other than residents of the premises, who works on the premises more than four hours in any given
week.
• conduct any activities relating to the home occupation, including activities on any porch, deck, patio, garage, or
unenclosed or partially enclosed portion of any structure, unless conducted entirely inside the main structure;
• involve more than 3 people on the premises at one time, other than residents of the premises;
• generate loud and raucous noise that renders the enjoyment of life or property uncomfortable or interferes with public
peace and comfort;
• sell or offer products of the home occupation at or on the premises;
• generate vehicular traffic that unreasonably disrupts the surrounding residents’ peaceful enjoyment of the neighborhood;
or
• generate parking congestion that unreasonably reduces the availability of on-street parking spaces on surrounding
streets.
• A home occupation may not occupy more than 25 percent or 400 square feet of the total floor area of the main structure,
whichever is less.
I agree to the conditions of the home occupation as outlined below. Violation of the home occupation conditions may result in the
revocation of a contractor’s registration.
CONTRACTOR'S SIGNATURE DATECONTRACTOR'S NAME (PRINT)
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT w BUILDING INSPECTION DIVISION
OAK CLIFF MUNICIPAL CENTER, 320 E. JEFFERSON BLVD., ROOM 118; DALLAS, TX 75203 w TEL. NO. (214) 948-4480
REV 10-16-2017
State of Texas §
County of Dallas §
Before me, _____________________________________________
(notary), on this day personally appeared
____________________________________(Contractor/homeowner), known to me to be the person whose
name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the
purposes and consideration therein expressed.
_________________________________________________________
Notary Public
{Notary Public Stamp}
