180-26 Agreement for 2025 CDBG Standish Avenue and Fremont Place-Final.pdf

8 22. CONFLICT OF INTEREST The Contractor acknowledges that the nature of the service to be performed requires that the Contractor must not have or appear to have a conflict of interest with any potentially adversarial party. The Contractor agrees that: (a) It will not accept any assignments, compensation, consideration or gratuities from any other party with an interest in the subject matter of this Agreement that shall conflict or shall have the appearance of conflicting with the interest of the Township relative to the purposes of this Agreement. (b) In the event that a conflict or potential conflict of interest arises, the Contractor shall notify the Township in writing within three (3) days of becoming aware of the conflict or the potential conflict. Failure to provide such notice may be grounds for termination of this Agreement for cause. (c) In the event that the Township receives timely notice of an actual or potential conflict, the Contractor and the Township shall attempt to reach an agreement on a course of action in response to the actual or potential conflict. If such an agreement cannot be reached, the Township has the right to terminate the Agreement for convenience. 23. INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR The Contractor shall be and remain an independent contractor with respect to all services performed hereunder and agrees to and does hereby accept full and exclusive liability for the payment of any and all contributions or taxes for social security, unemployment insurance or old age retirement benefits, pensions or annuities now or hereafter imposed under any state or federal law which are measured by the wages, salaries or other remuneration paid to persons employed by the Contractor for work performed under the terms of this contract and further agrees to obey all lawful rules and regulations and to meet all lawful requirements by all duly authorized state or federal officials, and said Contractor agrees to indemnify and save harmless the Township from any such contributions or taxes or liability therefore.