STATUS OF CONTRACTOR 21 CONTRACTOR is, and shall at all times be deemed to be, an independent contractor and shall be 22 wholly responsible for the manner in which it performs the services required of it by the terms of this 23 Agreement. CONTRACTOR is entirely responsible for compensating staff, subcontractors, and 24 consultants employed by CONTRACTOR. This Agreement shall not be construed as creating the 25 relationship of employer and employee, or principal and agent, between COUNTY and CONTRACTOR 26 or any of CONTRACTOR’s employees, agents, consultants, or subcontractors. CONTRACTOR 27 assumes exclusively the responsibility for the acts of its employees, agents, consultants, or 28 subcontractors as they relate to the services to be provided during the course and scope of their 29 employment. CONTRACTOR, its agents, employees, consultants, or subcontractors, shall not be 30 entitled to any rights or privileges of COUNTY’s employees and shall not be considered in any manner 31 to be COUNTY’s employees. 32
Status of Consultant It is the intent of the parties that Consultant shall be considered an independent contractor and that Consultant, and anyone else for whom it is legally liable, shall not be considered employees, servants or agents of the City for any purpose. Furthermore, this Agreement shall not be construed to create a partnership or joint venture between the Consultant and the City. Neither Consultant nor any of its employees or contractors shall be eligible to participate in City’s industrial insurance, unemployment, disability, medical, dental, life or other insurance programs, or any other benefit or program that is sponsored, financed or provided by City for its employees. Consultant agrees that it shall be Consultant’s exclusive responsibility to pay all federal, state, or local payroll, social security, disability, industrial insurance, self-employment insurance, income and other taxes and assessments related to this Agreement. Neither FICA (Social Security), FUTA (Federal Employment), nor local, state or federal income taxes will be withheld from payments to Consultant. Consultant shall at Consultant’s expense pay and be fully liable and responsible for, and indemnity and hold harmless City from, any assessments, fines or penalties relating to Consultant’s failure to uphold any of these responsibilities.
Reverse Engineering The Customer must not reverse assemble or reverse compile or directly or indirectly allow or cause a third party to reverse assemble or reverse compile the whole or any part of the software or any products supplied as a part of the Licensed System.
Appointment of Independent Engineer The Authority shall appoint a consulting engineering firm from a panel of 10 (ten) firms or bodies corporate, constituted by the Authority substantially in accordance with the selection criteria set forth in Schedule-P, to be the independent consultant under this Agreement (the “Independent Engineer”). The appointment shall be made no later than 90 (ninety) days from the date of this Agreement and shall be for a period of 3 (three) years. On expiry or termination of the aforesaid period, the Authority may in its discretion renew the appointment, or appoint another firm from a fresh panel constituted pursuant to Schedule-P to be the Independent Engineer for a term of 3 (three) years, and such procedure shall be repeated after expiry of each appointment.
Status of Parties The other party is not acting as a fiduciary for or an adviser to it in respect of that Transaction.
Status of IOM Nothing in or relating to the Agreement shall be deemed a waiver, express or implied, of any of the privileges and immunities of the International Organization for Migration as an intergovernmental organization.