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19 <br />Section 16. Termination Provisions <br />a. Grantee may terminate this Franchise with 60 days written notice to <br />Grantor and the Grantor may revoke the Franchise in the event of <br />noncompliance with the provisions of the EMS Ordinance or this <br />Franchise Agreement. After a notice of services termination is given, the <br />Grantee may reapply for a franchise if a continued service is desired. <br />b. Upon suspension, revocation, termination or a stay by the Emergency <br />Services Director of this Franchise, Grantee shall immediately cease all <br />operations authorized by this Franchise. <br />c. Upon suspension, revocation, termination of a driver's license such person <br />shall cease to dive an ambulance or other EMS Service Vehicle. Upon <br />suspension, revocation or termination of an attendant's certificate (i.e., <br />Medical Responder, EMT, EMT-I or EMT-P) by the Office of Emergency <br />Medical Services or by the Medical Director, such person shall cease to <br />attend patients or otherwise provide medical care. Grantee shall not <br />permit the foregoing person to drive an ambulance or their EMS Service <br />Vehicle or provide medical care in conjunction with EMS Services, if <br />Grantee is found to have notice of or should have had notice of such <br />suspension, revocation or termination at the sole discretion of the Grantor <br />this shall terminate the Franchise and shall require a new application and a <br />new Franchise in conformance with all the requirements of the EMS <br />Franchise Ordinance, as amended and in effect at the time of franchising. <br />d. In the event that Grantee shall at any time during the Franchise desire to <br />sell any of the real or personal property identified in Exhibit B (hereinafter <br />"Asset" or "Assets"), which is hereby incorporated by reference, pursuant <br />to a bona fide offer to a bona fide offer which it shall have received, it <br />shall offer to sell any such Asset or Assets (hereafter "Asset or Assets for <br />Sale) to Grantor at the same process as that contained in such bona fide <br />offer. The offer to Grantor to sell an Asset shall be in writing and shall <br />include a copy of the bona fide offer. The offer to Grantor to ell an Asset <br />shall be in writing and shall include a copy of the bona fide offer for the <br />Asset received by the Grantee. Grantor shall have 60 days from and after <br />receipt thereof to decide whether or not to purchase the Asset or Assets for <br />Sale at such prove. If Grantor shall give notice of intent not to purchase or <br />shall give no notice within the time herein limited, Grantee may accept <br />such offer and proceed with the sale thereunder. If Grantor notifies <br />Grantee that it elects to purchase the Asset or Assets for Sale at such <br />prove, the parties shall enter into a contract of purchase and sale forthwith. <br />Such contract shall provide, among other things, for the conveyance of <br />good and marketable title b warranty deed. Upon dissolution of the <br />Grantee pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § SSA-14-1, et seq., the Assets shall <br />be either: (a) distributed to one or more appropriately receiving successor <br />Page 16 of23 <br />