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SECTION 4. RELOCATIONS. 4.1 Relocation of Gas Facilities in Public Ways. Company and City shall comply with the provisions of Minnesota Rules 7819.3100 with respect to requests for the Company to relocate Gas Facilities located in Public Ways. 4.2 Relocation of Gas Facilities in Public Ground. City may require Company, at Company's expense, to relocate or remove its Gas Facilities from Public Ground upon a finding by City that the Gas Facilities have become or will become a substantial impairment to the existing or proposed public use of the Public Ground. 4.3 Projects with Federal Funding. City shall not order Company to remove or relocate its Gas Facilities when a Public Way is vacated, improved or realigned for a right-of- way project or any other project which is financially subsidized in whole or in part by the Federal Government or any agency thereof, unless the reasonable non -betterment costs of such relocation are first paid to Company. The City is obligated to pay Company only for those portions of its relocation costs for which City has received federal funding specifically allocated for relocation costs in the amount requested by the Company, which allocated funding the City shall specifically request. Relocation, removal or rearrangement of any Company Gas Facilities made necessary because of a federally -aided highway project shall be governed by the provisions of Minnesota Statutes, Section 161.46, as supplemented or amended. It is understood that the rights herein granted to Company are valuable rights. SECTION 5. [INTENTIONALLY OMITTED] SECTION 6. INDEMNIFICATION. 6.1 Indemni , of CitX. Company shall indemnify, keep and hold the City free and harmless from any and all liability on account of injury to persons or damage to property occasioned by the construction, maintenance, repair, inspection, the issuance of permits, or the operation of the Gas Facilities located in the Public Grounds and Public Ways. The City shall not be indemnified for losses or claims occasioned through its own negligence except for losses or claims arising out of or alleging the City's negligence as to the issuance of permits for, or inspection of, Company's plans or work, nor for injury or damage resulting from the Company's performance in a proper manner, of acts reasonably deemed hazardous by Company and such performance is nevertheless ordered or directed by City after at least three (3) days' prior Notice of Company's determination is provided to the City. 6.2 Defense of City. In the event a suit is brought against the City under circumstances where this agreement to indemnify applies, Company at its sole cost and expense shall defend the City in such suit if written notice thereof is promptly given to Company within a period wherein Company is not prejudiced by lack of such notice. If Company is required to indemnify and defend, it will thereafter have control of such litigation, but Company may not settle such litigation without the consent of the City, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. This section is not, as to third parties, a waiver of any defense or immunity otherwise available to the City and Company, in defending any action on behalf of the City, shall be entitled to assert in any action every defense or immunity that the City could assert in its own behalf. This Franchise shall not constitute a waiver 4 DOCSOPEN\LA515\143\999832.v2-1 /7/25