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• 4.4 No Waiver. The provisions of Section 4 apply only to Gas Facilities constructed in reliance on a franchise from City and Company does not waive its rights under an easement or prescriptive right or State or County permit. SECTION 5. TREE TRIMMING. Unless otherwise provided in any permit or other reasonable regulation required by the City under separate ordinance, Company may trim all trees and shrubs in the Public Ways and Public Grounds of City to the extent Company finds necessary to avoid interference with the proper construction, operation, repair and maintenance of any Gas Facilities installed hereunder, provided that Company shall save the City harmless from any liability arising therefrom. SECTION 6. INDEMNIFICATION. 6.1 Indemnity of City. Company shall indemnify and hold harmless the City from any and all liability on account of injury to persons or damage to property occasioned by the construction, maintenance, repair, inspection, the issuance of permits, or the operation of the Gas Facilities located in the Public Ways and Public Grounds. The City shall not be indemnified for losses or claims occasioned through its own negligence except for losses or claims arising out of or alleging the City's negligence as to the issuance of permits for, or inspection of, Company's plans or work. • 6.2 Defense of City. In the event a suit is brought against the City under circumstances where this agreement to indemnify applies, Company at its sole cost and expense shall defend the Citv 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 Company is required to indemnify and defend, it will thereafter have control of such litigation, but Company may not settle such litigation without the consent of the 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 the City, and Companv, in defending any action on behalf of the City, shall be entitled to assert in any action every defense or immunity that the City could assert in its own behalf. This franchise agreement shall not be interpreted to constitute a waiver by the City of any of its defenses of immunity or limitations on liability under Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 466. SECTION 7. VACATION OF PUBLIC WAYS. The City shall give 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 fust paid to Company. In no case, however, shall the City be liable to Company for failure to specifically preserve a right-of-way, under Minnesota Statutes, Section 160.29. In accordance with Minnesota Rules, Part 7819.3200, if the City's order directing vacation of the Public Way does not requite relocation of the Company's Gas Facilities, the vacation proceedings shall not be deemed to deprive Company of its right to continue to use the right-of-way of the former Public Way for its Gas Facilities installed prior to such order of vacation. WS -2234190 NE136-154 5