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contract, to certify to the Contractor that the subcontractor does not knowingly employ or contact <br />with an unauthorized alien and that the subcontractor has enrolled and is participating in the E- <br />Verify program. The Contractor agrees to maintain this certification throughout the duration of <br />the term of a contract with a subcontractor. <br />The City may terminate for material breach if the Contractor fails to cure a breach of this <br />provision no later than thirty (30) days after being notified by the City. <br />Section 13. Minority and Women's Enterprise Diversity Development. Persons, <br />partnerships, corporations, associations, or joint ventures awarded a contract by the City of <br />South Bend through its agencies, boards, or commissions shall not discriminate against any <br />employee or applicant for employment in the performance of a City contract with respect to hire, <br />tenure, to Ms, conditions, or privileges of employment, or any matter directly or indirectly <br />related to employment because of race, sex, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, or <br />disability that does not affect that person's ability to perform the work. <br />In awarding contracts for the purchase of work, labor, services, supplies, equipment, <br />materials, or any combination of the foregoing including, but not limited to, public works <br />contracts awarded under public bidding laws or other contracts in which public bids are not <br />required by law, the City, its agencies, boards, or commissions may consider the Contractor's <br />good faith effortsto obtain participation by those Contractors celtified by the State of Indiana as <br />a Minority Business ("MBE") or as a Women's Business Enterprise ("WBE") as a factor in <br />determining the lowest, responsible, responsive bidder. <br />In no event shall persons or entities seeking the award of a City contract be required to <br />award a subcontract to an MBEIWBE; however, it may not unlawfully discriminate against said <br />WBE/MBE. A finding of a discriminatory practice by the City's MBE/WBE Utilization Board <br />shall prohibit that person or entity from being awarded a City contract for a period of one (1) <br />year from the date of such determination, and such determination may also be grounds for <br />terminating the contact for which the discriminatory practice or noncompliance pertains. <br />Notwithstanding the foregoing, the award and performance of all City contracts shall comply <br />with applicable federal, state, and local laws. <br />Section 14. Corporate Authority. The person signing on behalf of the Contractor <br />represents that he/she has been duly authorized to execute this Agreement on behalf of the <br />Contractor and has obtained all necessary and applicable approvals to make this Agreement <br />fully binding upon the Contractor after acceptance by the City. <br />Section 15. Title. Title to Municipal Solid Waste ( NSW") shall pass to Contractor when <br />received at the Transfer Station by Contractor. Title to and liability for any Excluded Waste shall <br />at no time pass to Contractor. <br />Section 16. Excluded Waste. Contractor has the rightto refuse, or to reject afteracceptance, <br />any load(s) of MSW delivered to its Transfer Station if it can demonstrate unequivocally to the City's <br />satisfaction that it contains Excluded Waste and was transported to the Transfer Station by the City or <br />on the City's behalf. The contractor shall have the right, but not the obligation, to inspect all vehicles <br />and containers brought to its Transfer Station in order to determine whether they contain Excluded <br />Waste. Contractor's exercise, or failure to exercise, its rights hereunder shall not operate to relieve City <br />of its obligation to deliver only Acceptable Waste to the Transfer Station or prevent Contractor from <br />