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4 3.5 Avoid Damage to Electric Facilities. Nothing in this Ordinance relieves any person from liability arising out of the failure to exercise reasonable care to avoid damaging Electric Facilities while performing any activity. 3.6 Notice of Improvements. The City must give Company reasonable notice of plans for improvements to Public Grounds or Public Ways where the City has reason to believe that Electric Facilities may affect or be affected by the improvement. The notice must contain: (i) the nature of the improvements, (ii) the Public Grounds and Public Ways upon which the improvements are to be made, (iii) the time when the City will start the work, and (iv) if more than one Public Ground or Public Way is involved, the order in which the work is expected to proceed. The Notice must be given to Company a sufficient length of time in advance of the actual commencement of the work to permit Company to make any necessary additions, alterations or repairs to its Electric Facilities. 3.7 Shared Use of Poles. Company shall make space available on its poles or towers for City fire, water utility, police or other City facilities upon terms and conditions acceptable to Company whenever such use will not interfere with the use of such poles or towers by Company, by another electric utility, by a telephone utility, or by any cable television company or other form of communication company. In addition, the City shall pay for any added cost incurred by Company because of such use by City. SECTION 4. RELOCATIONS. 4.1 Relocation of Electric Facilities in Public Ways. Company and City shall comply with the provisions of Minnesota Rules 7819.3100 and applicable law with respect to requests for the Company to relocate Electric Facilities located in Public Ways provided, however, that if a relocation is ordered within three (3) years of a prior relocation of the same Electric Facilities made at Company expense, the City shall reimburse the Company for non-betterment costs on a time and materials basis except for a relocation required to accommodate the extension of a City Utility System to serve an unserved area. 4.2 Relocation of Electric Facilities in Public Ground. City may require Company, at Company’s expense, to relocate or remove its Electric Facilities from Public Ground upon a finding by City that the Electric 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 Electric 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 Electric 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.