Section 7 -7. Nondiscrimination in Employment
<br />Practices. A franchisee shall not refuse to hire or employ, nor bar
<br />nor isc arge from employment, nor discriminate against any person in
<br />compensation or in terms, conditions or privileges of employment
<br />because of sex, age, race, creed, color or national origin.
<br />Section 7 -8. Conditions of Street Occupancy.
<br />(a) All transmissions and distributions in distribution
<br />structures, lines, and equipment erected by the
<br />franchisee within the City shall be so located as to
<br />cause minimum interference with the proper use of all
<br />streets, alleys, and other public ways and public
<br />places, and to cause minimum interference with the
<br />rights and reasonable convenience of property owners
<br />who adjoin any of the said streets, alleys, or other
<br />public ways and public places.
<br />(b) In case of any disturbance of pavement, sidewalk,
<br />driveway, or other surfacing, the franchisee shall at
<br />its own cost and expense and in a manner approved by
<br />the Board replace and restore all pavement, sidewalk,
<br />driveway or surface of any street, or alley, or other
<br />public way or public place disturbed to as good a
<br />condition as before the disturbance.
<br />(c) If during the term of the franchise agreement the City
<br />lawfully elects to alter or change the grade or
<br />width of any street, alley, or other public way or
<br />public place, the franchisee, upon reasonable notice
<br />by the Board, shall remove, relay and relocate its
<br />poles, wires, cables, underground conduit, manholes
<br />and other system fixtures, at its own expense.
<br />(d) The franchisee shall, upon required notice by the
<br />holder of a moving permit issued by the City,
<br />temporarily raise or lower its wires to permit the
<br />moving of such building in accord with a plan approved
<br />by the Board. The expense of such temporary removal,
<br />raising or lowering of wires, shall be paid by the
<br />permit holder, and the franchisee shall have
<br />the authority to require such payment in advance.
<br />Section 7 -9. Indemnification. Insurance. Performance Bond.
<br />(a) The franchisee shall indemnify and save the City harm-
<br />less from all losses sustained by the City on account
<br />of any suit, judgment, execution, claim, damage or
<br />demand whatsoever occasioned by or arising out of the
<br />construction, erection, maintenance, repair or
<br />operation of the franchisee's CATV system in the City
<br />and from any suits, liabilities, obligations for
<br />liabilities, obligations for unfair competition, or
<br />obligations from suits of any kind whatsoever by third
<br />persons arising out of or incident to the exercise by
<br />the franchisee of the franchise rights granted by the
<br />City. For this purpose the franchisee, prior to
<br />construction, for the duration of the franchise and
<br />during all franchise renewal periods, shall present
<br />evidence of liability insurance covering personal and
<br />property damage and public liability from an insurance
<br />company or companies admitted to do business in the
<br />State of Indiana. The amounts of such insurance for
<br />liability due to damage to property shall be not less
<br />than Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) as to
<br />any one accident and against liability due to injury
<br />or death of persons, One Million Dollars
<br />($1,000,000.00) as to any one person and Five Million
<br />Dollars ($5,000,000.00) as to any one incident.
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