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bond for new Facilities installation,relocation,replacement, or repairs,when the Company's completion of its work is requ.ired in order for the City to proceed with its work for constructing a public improvement project to the Public Way. 3.5 Avoid Damage to Gas Facilities. Nothing in this Ordina.nce relieves any person, including the Company, from liability arising out of the failure to exercise reasona.ble caxe to avoid damaging Gas Facilities or other pexsons or property while perfort�iing any activity. 3.6 Notice of Im�xovements. The City will give the Company reasonable notice of plans for improvements to Public Grounds or Public Ways where the City has reason to believe that Ga.s Facilities may affect or be affected by the impxovement The notice must contain: � the nature and character of the improvements, (u) the I'ublic Grounds and I'ublic Ways upon which the improvements ate to be made,('iu�the extent of the impYovements, (iv)the time when the City will statt the work,and(v)if more than one I'ublic Ground or Public Way is involved,the order in which the work is to proceed. The notice must be given to the Company a sufficient length of time in aduauce of the actual commencement of the work to permit the Company to ma.ke any necessary additions,alterations or repairs to its Ga.s Facilities the Compa.ny deems necessary. 3.7. Ma�ing Information. Upon request, the Company must prompdy provide mapping information for any of it undergtound Gas Facilities in accordance with Minnesota Ru1es parts 7819.4000 and 7819.4100,as the same may be amended from time to time. SECTION 4. RELOCATIONS. 4.1 Relocation of Gas Facilities in Pu�lic Wavs. The Company shall comply with Minnesota Rules,part 7819.3100 and applica.ble law,and any applicable City ardina.nces consistent with law regatding relocation of Ga,s Facilities in Public Ways. 4.2 Relocation of Gas Facilities in Public Ground. The City ma,y require the Company at the Company's expense to reloca,te or remove_its Gas Facilities ftom Public Ground upon a finding by the City that the Gas Facilities have become or will become a substantial impa.itment to the exisring or proposed public use of the Public GYound. Such relocation shall comply with applica.ble oxdinances consistent with la,w. 4.3 Pro�cts with Federal Fundin�. The City shall not order the Company to remove or relocate its Gas Facilities when a Public Way is vacated,improved or realigned for a right-of-way project ox any other project which is fina.ncially subsidized in whole or in part by the Federal Government or any agency thereof,unless the reasonable non-betterment costs of such Yelocation axe fixst paid to the Company;provided however,that the City is obligated to pay the Company only for those portions of its relocation costs for which the City has actually received federal funding specifically allocated for the telocation costs in the amount requested by the Company for such relocation costs,which allocated funding as requested by the Company in writing to the City,the City shall thexeafter specifically request from the applicable federal government entity. Relocation, removal or rearrangement of any Company Gas Facilities made necessary 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 undexstood that the rights herein granted to the Company axe valuable rights. 4