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has received federal funding specifically allocated for relocation costs in the amount requested by <br />the Company. <br />4.4 No Waiver. By entering this or any prior franchise agreement with the City, <br />Company does not waive its rights under an easement or prescriptive right or State or County <br />p ermit. <br />SECTION 5. TREE TRIMMING. <br />Unless otherwise provided in any permit or other reasonable regulation requ,ired by the City under <br />separate ordinance, Company may trim all trees and shrubs in the Public Ways and Public Grounds <br />of City to �the extent Company finds necessary to avoid interference with the proper constxuction, <br />operation, repair and maintenance of any Electric Facilities installed hereunder, provided that <br />Company shall hold the City harmless from any liability arising therefrom. The Company shall <br />promptly cleanup and remove all debris related to the trimmi,�g activities. <br />SECTIDN 6. INDEMNIFICATION. <br />6.1. Indemnitv of Citv. Company shall indemnify and hold the City harmless from any <br />and all liability, on account of injury to persons or damage to property occasioned by the <br />. <br />construction, maintenance, repair, inspect�on, the issuance of permits, or the operation of the <br />Electric Facilities located in the Public Ways and Public Grounds. The City shall not be <br />indemnified for losses or claims occasioned through its own negligence except for losses or claims <br />arising out of or alleging the City's negligence as to the issuance of permits for, or inspection of, <br />Company°s plans or work. <br />6.2. Defense of Citv. In the event a suit is brought against the City under <br />circumstances where this agreement to indemnify applies, Company at its sole cost and expense <br />shall defend the City in such suit if written notice thereof is promptly given to Company within a <br />period wherein Company is not prejudiced by lack of such no�ice. If Company is requ,ired to <br />indemnify and defend, it will thereafter have control of such litigation, but Company may not settle <br />such litigation without the consent of the City, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. <br />This section is not, as to third parties, a waiver of any defense or inam.unity otherwise available to <br />the City; and Company, in defending any action on behalf of the City shall be entitled to assert in <br />any action every defense or i�nmunity that the City could assert in its own behalf. This franchise <br />agreement shall not be interpreted to constitute a waiver by the City of any of its defenses of <br />i.r�munity or limita�ions on liability under l�✓Iirinesota Statutes, Chapter 466. <br />SECTION 7. VACATION OF PUBLIC WAYS. <br />The City shall give Company at least two weeks prior written notice of a proposed vacation of a <br />Public Way. The City and the Company shall comply with Minnesota Rules, 7819.3200 and <br />applicable ordinances consistent with law. Except where required solely for a City improvement <br />project, the vacation of any Public Way, after the installation of Electric Facilities, shall not operate <br />to deprive Company of its rights to operate and maintain such Electric Facilities, until the <br />reasonable cost of relocating the same first paid to Company. In no case, however, shall the City <br />be liable to Company for failure to speci�ically preserve a right-of-way, under Minnesota Statutes, <br />5 <br />