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. 2. Applications for permits shall be made by the owner or their authorized agent and the party employed to do the work, and shall state the location, name of owner, street number of the building to be connected, and how occupied. No person shall extend any private building drain beyond the limits of the building or property for which the service connection permit has been given. 3. There shall be two (2) classes of building sewer permits: a. For residential and for commercial service; and, b. For service to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgement of the City. The industry, as a condition of permit authorization, must provide information describing its wastewater constituents, characteristics, and type of activity. . 4. All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne wholly by the property owner. The owner shall indemnify and hold harmless the City from any loss or damage to the public sewer that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer. After the initial connection to the main service stub, the property owner shall thereafter be liable for all maintenance and repairs to his sanitary sewer service line between the street main and the building being served. 5. A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building, except where two (2) or more buildings are situated on one (1) parcel such that the parcel may not be subdivided, a single private sewer may be extended to the rear building or buildings and the whole considered as one (1) joint use private sewer. Special variances will be considered by the City Council. 6. Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by a duly authorized City inspector, to meet all requirements of this ordinance 7. Unused septic tanks, cesspools, leaching pits and similar devices and structures shall be backfilled or made safe and unusable in a manner acceptable to the City. . 8. The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of a building sewer, and the method to be used in excavating, placing of pipe, jointing, tending and backfilling the trench shall conform to the requirements of this Code and all other applicable rules and regulations. In the absence of Code provisions or in amplification thereof, materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of Water Pollution Control Federation (WPCF) Manual of Practice No.9,