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. . . Company because of such use by City. 3.6 Relocation of Electric Facilities. Except as provided in Section 3.7, if the City determines to vacate for a City improvement project, or to grade, regrade, or change the line involving any Public Ground, or construct or reconstruct any city utility System involving any Public Ground, it may order the Company to relocate its Electric Facilities at its own expense. The city shall give the Company reasonable notice of plans to vacate for a City improvement project, or to grade, regrade, or change the line involving any Public Ground or to construct or reconstruct any City utility system. if a relocation is ordered within five years of a prior relocation of the same Electrical Facilities, which was made at Company expense, the city shall reimburse the Company for non-betterment expenses on a time and material basis, provided that if a subsequent relocation is required because of the extension of a City utility System to a previously unserved area, the Company may be required to make the subsequent relocation at it expense. Nothing in this Ordinance requires the Company to relocate, remove, replace or reconnect at its own expense its facilities where such relocation, removal, replacement or reconstruction is solely for the convenience of the City and is not reasonably necessary for the construction or reconstruction of Public Ground or City utility System or other City improvement. Nothing herein relieves any person from liability arising out of the failure to exercise reasonable care to avoid damaging Electric Facilities while performing any activity. The city may further require the Company 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 of the public use to which the Public Ground is or will be put. The relocation or removal shall be at the Company's expense. 3.7 proiects with State or Federal Fundinq. Relocation, removal, or rearrangement of any Company facilities made necessary because of the extension into or through City 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 right herein granted to Company is a valuable right. city shall not order company to remove, or relocate its facilities when a Public Way is vacated, improved or realigned because of a renewal or a redevelopment plan 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 and the loss and expense resulting therefrom are first paid to Company, but the city need not pay those portions of such for which reimbursement to it is 4