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24 <br />(0°i°) alter fifty (50%) billing at the Owner's discretion provided the Project is on or ahead of schedule and the wank <br />has been determined to be satisfactory. On the completion of the work, the Contractor shall proceed with due <br />diligence to measure up the work and-materials and present his monthly pay request. With final payment, •the <br />Contractor will provide Orange County Consent of Surety Company to Final Payment and Contractor's Affidavit Qf <br />payment of Debts and Claims forms to the Engineer for review and approval, whereupon the -Owner shall pay, or <br />cause to be paid, such amount less payments previously made. The payment of such final amount shall release the <br />party of the first part from all claims for work done or materials furnished under this Contract. <br />SECTION kV: The party of the first part may at any time require full release of all claims- for materials or labor <br />famished for this work and may withhold payments of any estimate until same is produced. • <br />SECTION XV-I: The Contractor shall execute the work in~such a manner as to be of Least inconvenience to the <br />Owner and public He shall comply-with ail ordinances and regulations affecting in any manner his work, and all <br />sanitary rules and regulations, taking precaution to avoid creating unsanitary conditoons. The Contractor shall <br />acquire all permits necessary to complete the work specified in the Specifications. <br />SECTION XVII: The Contractor further agrees that if the work to be done under this Contract shall be abandoned, <br />or if the Contract shat] be assigned by the Contractor otherwise than as herein provided,-or if the Contractor should <br />become insolvent or have a Receiver appointed or voluntarily go into Banla-uptcy or be placed in bankruptcy, or if at <br />any time• the Engineer shall be- of_.the- opinion,_.and shall so certify in writing to said Owner that the work is <br />unnecessarily. or unreasonably delayed, or that said Contractor is willfully violating any terms or conditions of this <br />Contract, or is not executing the Contract in good faith, or is not making such progress in the execution of said work <br />as fo indicate its completion within the time specified; said party of the fast part shall have the right to notify said <br />Contractor to discontinue said work or such parts or parts thereof as said party of the first part may designate; and <br />subject to the Surety's rights hereunder said party of the first part shall thereupon have the power and the right to <br />employ by contract or otherwise, and in such mannrs and at such prices as it may determine, any persons, <br />implements, tools and other means of construction which it may deem necessary to work at and be used to complete <br />the work herein descn-bed or such part or parts of it as said party of the first part may have designated; -also the <br />power to_use such appliances, implements, tools and materials, and means of construction of every description as <br />may be found upon the line of said work, both such as enter into the completed work and such as are necessarily <br />-used in •and about the same and to procure other materials for the completion of the same, and for canying out the <br />terms of this Contract;, also to charge the expense of all said superintendence, labor, materials, trucks, machinery, <br />_appliances, implements, tools, and other means of construction to said Contractor; and the expense so Charged shall <br />be deducted and paid by said party of the first part out of such moneys as may be due or become due at any time <br />thereafter to said Contractor, it is agreed that said Contractor shall be entitled to receive the difference; and incase <br />such expense shall exceed the sum which would have been payable under this Contract, if the same had been <br />completed by said Contractor, then said Contractor shall pay the amount of such excess to the party of the first part <br />on notice from said party of the first part of the excess so due. <br />It is fiuther agreed that neither an extension of time. for any reason, beyond that fixed. herein for the completion of <br />such work; nor the. performance and the acceptance of any part of the work; nor delivery and acceptance of any <br />materials called for by this Contract, shall be deemed to be a waiver by said party of the first part of the right to <br />assume control of this Contract for the reason and in the manner hereinbefore provided. <br />SECTION XIII: The Contractor shalt be responsible for all fees or claims for any patented invented used by him, <br />and shall defend any suit that may be brought against the party of the first part and shall hold said parry of the first <br />part harmless for use or infringements of any patented thing or method used in connection with the work herein <br />specified. <br />SECTION XIX: The Contractor hereby agrees that he has read each and every clause of this Contract and fully <br />understands the meaning of same, and that he will comply with all of its terms. This Agreement is to be executed in <br />three (3) copies; one copy to be delivered to the Contractor, one to be retained by the party of the first part, and one <br />to be retained by the Engineer. <br />11~ <br />