Liability and indemnification.
Oklahoma City Municipal Code § 11-76
in effect§ 11-76. - Liability and indemnification.
(a) The City shall require a grantee to indemnify and hold harmless the City, its officers, boards, commissions, agents, and employees, against and from any and all claims, demands, causes of action, actions, suits, proceedings, damages (including but not limited to damages to City property and damages arising out of copyright infringements, and damages arising out of any failure by grantee to secure consents from the owners, authorized distributors or licensees of programs to be delivered by grantee's cable system), costs or liabilities (including costs or liabilities of the City with respect to its employees), of every kind and nature whatsoever, including but not limited to, damages for injury or death or damage to person or property, and regardless of the merit of any of the same, and against all liability to others, and against any loss, cost, and expense resulting or arising out of any of the same, including any attorney fees, accountant fees, expert witness or consultant fees, court costs, per diem expense, traveling and transportation expense, or other costs or expense arising out of or pertaining to the exercise or the enjoyment of any franchise hereunder by the grantee, or the granting thereof by the City, provided that the grantee shall not be liable for any such damages, fees or expenses where any lawsuit is based on the actions or omissions of the City but not on any act or omission by the grantee.
(b) The City shall require a grantee to maintain a general comprehensive liability insurance policy naming, as an additional insured, the City, its officers, boards, commissions, agents and employees, in a company mutually acceptable by the grantee and the City in a form satisfactory to the City protecting the City and all persons against liability for loss or damage for personal injury, death or property damage occasioned by the operations of the grantee under any franchise granted hereunder in the amount of:
(1) $500,000.00 for bodily injury or death to any one person, within the limit, however, of $1,000,000.00 for bodily injury or death resulting from any one accident.
(2) $500,000.00 for property damage resulting from any one accident.
(3) workmen's compensation insurance in such coverage as may be required by the workmen's compensation insurance and safety laws of the State and amendments thereto.
(c) Notice of cancellation and reduction of coverage. The insurance policies referred to above shall contain an endorsement stating that the policies are extended to cover the liability assumed by the grantee under the terms of this chapter and shall contain the following endorsement:
"It is hereby understood and agreed that this policy may not be canceled or the amount of coverage thereof reduced until 30 days after receipt by the City by registered mail, of written notice of such intent to cancel or reduce the coverage."
(Ord. No. 24484, § 2, 7-3-12, eff. 8-16-12)
Source: City of Oklahoma City, Municipal Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/ok/oklahoma_city/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=OKMUCO2020_CH11BRCATE_ARTVRUGOGR_S11-76LIINFetched: 10/28/2026