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as may hereafter become effective in the manner provided by law.
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<br /> Section 3. Laclede shall indemnify and hold said City harmless from all liability,
<br />damages, judgements, decrees, costs, expenses and attorney's fees incurred or imposed
<br />upon it on account of injury or damage to person or property caused by Laclede in the
<br />course of or in connection with any construction, reconstruction, excavation, placing,
<br />maintenance, operation or use of mains, service pipes, conduits, conductors or other
<br />equipment in, along, across, over or under any of the streets, roads, alleys, sidewalks,
<br />squares, bridges or other public ways and places in the City in the exercise of any of the
<br />rights and privileges conferred by this ordinance.
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<br /> Section 4. The rights, privileges and authority hereby granted shall inure to and be
<br />vested in Laclede, its successors and assigns, successively, subject to all of the terms,
<br />provisions and conditions herein contained, and each of the obligations hereby imposed
<br />upon Laclede shall devolve and be binding upon its successors and assigns, successively,
<br />in the same manner.
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<br /> Section ,5. Thi, s ordinance shall confer no right, privilege or authority on Laclede, its
<br />successors, licensees, transferees or assigns, unless Laclede shall within sixty (60) days after
<br />due notice to Laciede of the enactment of this ordinance, file with the City Clerk an
<br />acceptance of the terms and provisions hereof; provided, however, that if such
<br />acceptance be not so filed within said period of sixty (60) days, all rights, privileges and
<br />authority herein granted shall become null and void.
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<br /> Section 6. This ordinance, upon its enactment and its acceptance by Laclede as
<br />hereinbefore provided, shall continue and remain in full force and effect, as a renewal of
<br />the preceding franchise, for a period of ten (10) years from the effective date as
<br />determined in accordance with §88.251 RSMo.
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<br /> Section 7. Neither acceptance of, nor compliance with, the provisions of this
<br />ordinance nor exercise of any right granted hereby, shall in any wise impair or affect, or
<br />constitute or be construed as a relinquishment or waiver of, any right, permission or
<br />authority which Laclede, its successors or assigns, may have independently of this
<br />ordinance; nor shall any use by Laclede, its successors or assigns, of public property or
<br />places in the City, as authorized by this ordinance, or service rendered by said Company,
<br />its successors or assigns, in said City, be treated as use solely of the rights, permission and
<br />authority provided for by this ordinance or as service referable solely to this ordinance or
<br />to any obligation of service consequent upon acceptance thereof or as in any wise
<br />indicating non-use of, or non-compliance with, any obligation incident to, any right,
<br />permission or authority vested in Laclede, its successors or assigns, independently of this
<br />ordinance; and the acceptance provided for in Section 5 of this ordinance, and each and
<br />every compliance with the provisions of this ordinance or with any obligation arising from
<br />acceptance thereof, shall be subject to, and conditioned by, the provisions of this Section
<br />7, with the same ~orce and effect as though each of the provisions of this section were
<br />expressly incorporated in such acceptance and expressly declared by the acceptor, its
<br />successors or assigns, at and prior to the time of such compliance by it, as conditions of
<br />such compliance.
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