A. Indemnity Of City: Company shall indemnify, keep and hold the 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, inspection, the issuance of permits, or the operation of the gas facilities located in the public grounds and public ways. The city will 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. The city will not be indemnified if the injury or damage results from the performance in a proper manner of acts reasonably deemed hazardous by company, and such performance is nevertheless ordered or directed by the city after notice of company's determination.
B. 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 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 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 subsection is not, as to third parties, a waiver of any defense or immunity otherwise available to the city, and company, 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. (Ord. 2015-03, 2-9-2015)