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11.5 Tests and Inspections: 11.5.1 CONTRACTOR shall give CITY timely notice of readiness of the work for all required inspections, tests or approvals. CONTRACTOR shall assume full responsibility, pay all costs in connection therewith and furnish CITY the required certificates of inspection, testing or approval for all materials, equipment or the Work or any part thereof unless otherwise specified herein. 11.5.2 Inspectors shall have no authority to permit deviations from nor to relax any of the provisions of the Contract Documents, nor to delay the Agreement by failure to inspect the materials and work with reasonable promptness. 11.5.3 The payment of any compensation whatever may be its character or form, or the giving of any gratuity or the granting of any favor by the CONTRACTOR to any inspectors, directly or indirectly is strictly prohibited and any such action on the part of the CONTRACTOR will constitute a breach of this Agreement. ARTICLE 12 - CONTRACT TIME 12.1 Change of Contract Time: ALL TIME LIMITS STATED IN THE CONTRACT DOCUMENTS ARE OF THE ESSENCE OF THE AGREEMENT. EXCEPT AS PROVIDED HEREIN, NO CLAIM FOR DAMAGES OR ANY CLAIM OTHER THAN FOR AN EXTENSION OF TIME SHALL BE MADE OR ASSERTED AGAINST THE CITY BY REASON OF ANY DELA YS. CONTRACTOR shall not be entitled to an increase in the construction cost or payment or compensation of any kind from CITY for direct, indirect, consequential, impact or other costs, expenses or damages including but no limited to costs of acceleration or inefficiency, arising because of delay, disruption, interference or hindrance from any cause whatsoever, whether such delay, disruption, interference be reasonable or unreasonable, foreseeable or unforeseeable, or avoidable or unavoidable; provided, however, that this provision shall not preclude recovery of damages by CONTRACTOR for hindrances or delays due solely to fraud, bad faith or active interference on the part of CITY or its agents. In addition, if CONTRACTOR is delayed at any time in the progress of the Work by an act or neglect of the CITY's employees, or by changes ordered in the Work, or by delay authorized by the CITY pending arbitration, then the Contract Time shall be reasonably extended by Change Order. Furthermore, if CONTRACTOR is delayed at any time in the progress of the Work by labor disputes, fire, unusual delay in deliveries, adverse weather conditions not reasonably anticipated, unavoidable casualties or other causes beyond the CONTRACTOR's control, or by other causes which the CITY and CONTRACTOR agree may justifY delay, then the Contract Time shall be reasonably extended by Change Order. Otherwise, CONTRACTOR shall be entitled only to extensions of the Contract Time as the sole and exclusive remedy for such resulting delay, in accordance with and to that extent specifically provided above. No extension of time shall be granted for delays resulting from normal weather conditions prevailing in the area as defined by the average of the last ten (10) years of weather data as recorded by the United States Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 24