ABANDONED VEHICLE ABATEMENT PROGRAM Clause Samples

ABANDONED VEHICLE ABATEMENT PROGRAM. A. Under the terms of this Agreement, Operator will be responsible for providing the services of a driver and a tow truck for the removal of abandoned vehicles at such time as they are requested by City (the “Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Program”). It is anticipated that this service will be required at least one (1) day each week but not more than two (2) days each week for a maximum of eight (8) hours each day. B. Operator shall not remove any abandoned vehicles without first being instructed to do so by an authorized representative of the Beaumont Police Department. C. Vehicles removed by Operator pursuant to the Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Program shall be taken to a scrap yard or an auto dismantling yard and shall not thereafter be reconstructed or made operable. The payment for the salvage value of each removed abandoned vehicle shall be retained by Operator as total and final payment for Operator’s costs and services in connection with the removal of said vehicles and Operator shall receive no other compensation from the sale of such salvaged or abandoned vehicles. D. City shall indemnify, defend, and hold Operator harmless from any and all liability, claims, damages, or demands arising out of and in connection with City’s designation of vehicles to be towed pursuant to the Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Program. E. Refusal and/or failure by Operator to provide the aforementioned services shall be grounds for termination of this Agreement. However, an Operator may subcontract this service to another approved Operator under this agreement. Moral turpitude is an act or behavior that gravely violates moral sentiment or accepted moral standards of the community. It is also the violation of private and social duties which man owes to his fellow man or to society in general. It is an act that is contrary to accepted and customary rule of right and duty between persons. Refer to Black’s Law Dictionary for case citation and complete definition.