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. 3 , . Subd. 3. Any 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; and further, it is expressly understood that the right herein granted to Company is a valuable property right and City shall not order Company to remove or relocate its facilities without compensation 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~betterrnent costs of such a relocation and the loss and expense resulting therefrom are first paid to Company. Subd. 4. Nothing contained herein shall relieve any person, persons or corporations from liability arising out of the failure to exercise reasonable care to avoid injuring Company's facilities while performing any work connected with grading, regrading, or changing the line of any public way, or with the construction of any City utility system. SECTION 6. Indemnification Company shall indemnify, keep, and hold 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, or operation of Company's . gas facilities located in, on, over, under, or acros s the public ways and public grounds of City, unless such injury or damage ,grows out of the negligence of City, its employees, or agents, or results from the performance in a proper manner of acts reasonably deemed hazardous by Company, but such performance is nevertheless ordered or directed by City after notice of Company's determination. In the event a suit shall be brought against City under circumstances where the above agreement to indemnify applies, Company at its sole cost and expense shall defend 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 such notice is not reasonably given as hereinbefore provided, Company shall have no duty to indemnify nor defend. If Company is required to indemnify and defend, it will thereafter have complete control of such litigation, but Company may not settle such litigation without the consent of 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 City; and Company, in defending any action on behalf of City shall be entitled to assert in any action every defense or immunity that City could assert in its own behalf. SECTION 7. Vacation of Public Ways The City shall give the Company at least two weeks' prior written notice of a proposed vacation of a public way. Except where required solely for a City improvement project, the vacation of any public way, after the installation of gas facilities, shall not operate to deprive Company of its . rights to operate and maintain such gas facilities. until the reasonable cost of relocating the same and the loss and expense resulting from such relocation are first paid to Company. In no case, however, shall Ci ty be liable to the Company for failure to specifically preserve a right-of-way, under Minnesota Statutes, Section 160.29. !