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bond for new Facilities installation,relocation,repla,cement,or repa.irs,when the Company's completion of its work is required in order for the City to proceed with its woxk for constructing a public impYovement project to the Public Way. 3.5 Avoid Damage to Gas Facilities. Nothing in this Ordinance relieves any person, including the Company, f�om lia,bility arising out of the failuxe to exercise reasonable care to avoid damaging Gas Facilities or other persons ox property while perfor��ing any acrivity. 3.6 Notice of Im�rovements. The City will give the Companp reasona,ble notice of plans for improvements to Public Grounds or I'ublic Ways where the City has reason to believe thax Gas Facilities may affect or be affected by the improvement The notice must contain: ('i) the riature and chaYacter of the improvements, ('u) the Public Grounds and Public Waps upon which the improvements are to be ma,de,(iu�the extent of the improvements,('iv)the time when the City will start the work,and(v)if more tha,n one Public Ground or Public Way is involved,the order in which the work is to proceed. The notice must be given to the Companp a sufficient length of time in adua�ce bf the actual commencement of the work to permit the Company to ma.ke any necessary addi�ians,alterations or repaits to its Gas Facilities the Company deems necessary. 3.7. Ma��ing Information. Upon request, the Campany must promptly provide mapping infom�ation for any of it underground Gas Facilities in accordance with Minnesota,Ru1es parts 7819.4000 and 7819.4100,as the same ma,y be amended from time to time. SECTION 4. RELOCATIONS. 4.1 Reloca,tion of Gas Facilities in Public Wa�s. 'I�ie Company shall comply with Minnesota Ru1es,part 7819.3100 and applicable law,and any applicable City ordinances consistent with law rega.tding relocation of Gas Facilities in Public Ways. 4.2 Reloca,tion of Gas Faciiities in Public Ground. The City may require the Companp at the Compa.ny's e�ense to reloca,te or remv�e_its Gas Fac�lities from Public Ground upon a finding by the City that the Gas Facilities ha,ve become or wi1l become a substantial impa.irment to the egisting or proposed public use of the Public G�ound Such reloca,tion shall complp with applicable ordinances consistent with la,w. 4.3 Projects with Fedexal Funding. The City shall not order the Company to remove or relocate its Ga.s Facilities when a Public Way is vacated,improved or realigned for a right-of-wap project or any other project which is financially subsidized in whole or in part by the Federal Government or any agencp thereof,unless the reasonable non-betterment costs of such relocation a.te first paid to the Company;provided however,tha,t the City is obligated to pay the Companp only for those portions of its relocation costs for which the City ha,s actually received federal funding specifically alloca,ted for the relocation costs in the amount xequested by the Company for such relocation costs,which allocated funding as requested by the Company in writing to the City,the City shall thereafter specifically request from the applicable federal government entity. Relocation, removal or rearta.ngement of any Company Ga,s Facilities ma,de necessafy because of the extension into or through the City of a federally-aided highway project shall be govemed by the provisions of Minnesota Statutes,Section 161.46,as supplemented or amended. It is understood that the rights herein granted to the Company are valuable rights. 4