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7. INDEMNIFICATION
<br />Consultant agrees to and shall indemnify and hold harmless the City, its officers,
<br />agents, employees, consultants, special counsel, and representatives from liability: (1) for
<br />personal injury, damages, just compensation, restitution, judicial or equitable relief
<br />arising out of claims for personal injury, including health, and claims for property
<br />damage, which may arise from the direct or indirect negligent performance of services of
<br />the Consultant or its contractors, subcontractors, agents, employees, or other persons
<br />acting on their behalf which relates to the services described in section 1 of this
<br />Agreement; and (2) from any claim that personal injury, damages, just compensation,
<br />restitution, judicial or equitable relief is due by reason of the terms of or effects arising
<br />from this Agreement. This indemnity and hold harmless agreement applies to all claims
<br />for damages, just compensation, restitution, judicial or equitable relief suffered, or
<br />alleged to have been suffered, by reason of the events referred to in this Section or by
<br />reason of the terms of, or effects, arising from this Agreement. The Consultant further
<br />agrees to indemnify, hold harmless, and pay all costs for the defense of the City,
<br />including fees and costs for special counsel to be selected by the City, regarding any
<br />action by a third party challenging the validity of this Agreement, or asserting that
<br />personal injury, damages, just compensation, restitution, judicial or equitable relief due to
<br />personal or property rights arises by reason of the terms of, or effects arising from this
<br />Agreement. City may make all reasonable decisions with respect to its representation in
<br />any legal proceeding.
<br />8. CONFIDENTIALITY
<br />If Consultant receives from the City information which due to the nature of such
<br />information is reasonably understood to be confidential and/or proprietary, Consultant
<br />agrees that it shall not use or disclose such information except in the performance of this
<br />Agreement, and further agrees to exercise the same degree of care it uses to protect its
<br />own information of like importance, but in no event less than reasonable care.
<br />"Confidential Information" shall include all nonpublic information. Confidential
<br />information includes not only written information, but also information transferred orally,
<br />visually, electronically, or by other means. Confidential information disclosed to either
<br />party by any subsidiary and/or agent of the other party is covered by this Agreement.
<br />The foregoing obligations of non-use and nondisclosure shall not apply to any
<br />information that (a) has been disclosed in publicly available sources; (b) is, through no
<br />fault of the Consultant disclosed in a publicly available source; (c) is in rightful
<br />possession of the Consultant without an obligation of confidentiality; (d) is required to be
<br />disclosed by operation of law; or (e) is independently developed by the Consultant
<br />without reference to information disclosed by the City.
<br />9. CONFLICT OF INTEREST CLAUSE
<br />Consultant covenants that it presently has no interests and shall not have interests,
<br />direct or indirect, which would conflict in any manner with performance of services
<br />specified under this Agreement.
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