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demands, suits, actions, judgments, or executions, for damages or any other relief, in any
administrative or judicial forum, against the City of Nashua or any of its officers or employees, in
either their official or individual capacity of the City of Nashua, for violations of or infringement
of the copyright or patent laws of the United States or of any other nation. Professional Engineer
agrees to indemnify, to defend, and to hold harmless the City of Nashua, its representatives, and
employees from any claim or action seeking to impose liability, costs, and attorney fees incurred
as a result of or in connection with any claim, whether rightful or otherwise, that any material
prepared by or supplied to Professional Engineer infringes any copyright or that any equipment,
material, or process (or any part thereof) specified by Professional Engineer infringes any patent.
Professional Engineer shall have the right, in order to avoid such claims or actions, to substitute at
its expense non-infringing materials, concepts, products, or processes, or to modify such
infringing materials, concepts, products, or processes so they become non-infringing, or to obtain
the necessary licenses to use the infringing materials, concepts, products, or processes, provided
that such substituted or modified materials, concepts, products, or processes shall meet all the
requirements and be subject to all the terms and conditions of this contract.
FINAL ACCEPTANCE Upon completion of all work under the contract, Professional Engineer
shall notify the City of Nashua in writing of the date of the completion of the work and request
confirmation of the completion from the City of Nashua. Upon receipt of the notice, the City of
Nashua shall confirm to Professional Engineer in writing that the whole of the work was
completed on the date indicated in the notice or provide Professional Engineer with a written list
of work not completed. With respect to work listed by the City of Nashua as incomplete,
Professional Engineer shall promptly complete the work and the final acceptance procedure shall
be repeated. The date of final acceptance of a project by the City of Nashua shall be the date upon
which the Board of Public Works or other designated official accepts and approves the notice of
completion.
TAXES Professional Engineer shall pay all taxes, levies, duties, and assessments of every nature
due in connection with any work performed under the contract and make any and all payroll
deductions required by Jaw. The contract sum and agreed variations to it shall include all taxes
imposed by law. Professional Engineer hereby indemnifies and holds harmless the City of Nashua
from any liability on account of any and all such taxes, levies, duties, assessments, and
deductions.
NON-WAIVER OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS None of the terms and conditions of this contract
shall be considered waived by the City of Nashua. There shall be no waiver of any past or future
default, breach, or modification of any of the terms and conditions of the contract unless
expressly stipulated to by the City of Nashua in a written waiver.
RIGHTS AND REMEDIES The duties and obligations imposed by the contract and the rights and
remedies available under the contract shall be in addition to and not a limitation of any duties,
obligations, rights, and remedies otherwise imposed or available by law.
PROHIBITED INTERESTS Professional Engineer shall not allow any officer or employee of the
City of Nashua to have any indirect or direct interest in this contract or the proceeds of this
contract. Professional Engineer warrants that no officer or employee of the City of Nashua has
any direct or indirect interest, whether contractual, noncontractual, financial or otherwise, in this
contract or in the business of Professional Engineer. If any such interest comes to the attention of
Professional Engineer at any time, a full and complete disclosure of the interest shail be
immediately made in writing to the City of Nashua. Professional Engineer also warrants that it '
presently has no interest and that it will not acquire any interest, direct or indirect, which would
conflict in any manner or degree with the performance of services required to be performed under
this contract. Professional Engineer further warrants that no person having such an interest shall
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