8. COMMON AREA EXPENSES.
8.A. Landlord shall be responsible for and pay for the following items (collectively, “Operating Expenses”):
1. All real estate taxes including assessments on the Project and any other improvements thereon.
2. Insurance costs for fire, extended coverage, liability, loss of rents, and any other insurance that Landlord deems necessary relating to the Project and any other improvements thereon.
3. All costs to service, maintain, repair and replace areas used in common by the tenants of the Project, including without limitation, the parking lots, sidewalks, driveways, handrails, ramps for the handicapped, trash enclosures and landscaping.
4. All costs of services for water, sewer, trash removal, electricity, gas, janitorial and all other services supplied to the common areas or for the common use of the tenants.
5. All costs of service and maintenance to conform to the requirements of the warranty and/or to perform preventive maintenance on all air-conditioning equipment: costs to maintain, repair and replace all air conditioning components or equipment; and costs to maintain and operate the central station tire alarm system. All costs to maintain, repair and replace all heating components or equipment, with respect to the Leased Premises.
6. Cost for utility services to provide gas, electricity, heating and air-conditioning to the Premises.
7. Reasonable reserves for replacement and repairs for the common areas.
8. Costs of property management for the supervision, administration, bookkeeping, and management of Items 1 through 7 above, such costs to be three and one-half percent (3.5%) of the sum of (i) the total rental income derived from the Project and (ii) the total costs of Items 1 through 7 above.
8.B. Tenant shall be responsible for and pay for the following items:
1. Tenant shall pay to Landlord an amount, apportioned in accordance with the total floor area of the Premises as it relates to the total leasable floor area of the Project of which the Premises area part, for any parking charges, utilities surcharges, or any other costs levied, assessed or imposed by, or at the direction of, or resulting from statutes or regulations, or interpretations thereof, promulgated by any governmental authority in connection with the use or occupancy of the Project or the parking facilities serving the Project. (As of the date of this Lease, there has never been such hereinabove described charges, surcharges or costs levied, assessed, or imposed on the Project.)
2. If, in the sole reasonable opinion of the Landlord, Tenant uses an excessive amount of any service for water, sewer, trash removal, electricity, gas, janitorial and any other services supplied to the common areas or for the common use of the tenants. Tenant shall pay an additional amount for such services, as reasonably determined by the Landlord either by (a) separate metering of such services (i.e.. water) at Tenant’s expense, or (b) as reasonably determined and apportioned by Landlord, or (c) Tenant to provide Tenant’s own services (i.e., trash removal).
3. Tenant’s proportionate share of Operating Expenses (defined as items 1 through 8 of Article 8.A. above, calculated on a square footage basis) which exceed Eighty cents ($0.80) per square foot per month for the Premises, throughout the term of this Lease or any extension thereof. However, with the exception of a property reassessment for real estate tax purposes, Tenant’s additional proportionate share of Operating Expenses shall not exceed Nine cents ($0.09) per square foot per month for the Leased Premises.
4. In the event of a property reassessment for real estate tax purposes, Tenant shall pay the additional proportionate share of the tax increase. However, such proportionate share attributed to real estate taxes shall not exceed Sixty-Nine cents ($.69) per square foot per month for the Premises, throughout the term of this Lease or any extension thereof.
9. USES PROHIBITED.
Tenant shall not do or permit anything to be done in or about the Premises nor bring or keep anything therein which will in any way increase the existing rate of or affect any tire insurance or other insurance upon the Project or any of its contents, or cause a cancellation of any insurance policy covering said Project or any part thereof or any of its contents. Tenant shall not do or permit anything to be done in or about the Premises which will in any way unreasonably obstruct or interfere with the rights of other tenants or occupants of the Project or injure or annoy them (including, but not limited to, allowing clients, customers or employees of the Tenant to loiter at any location of the Project) or use or allow the Premises to be used for any improper, immoral, unlawful or objectionable purposes, including, but not limited to: the sale and/or consumption of alcoholic beverages; sale, rental, and/or viewing of movies or videos; anything of any matter or nature concerning human abortion; hypnosis; or music or noise of any type which can be heard outside or adjacent to the Premises: nor shall Tenant cause, maintain or permit any nuisance in, on or about the Premises and Project. Tenant shall not, nor shall Tenant allow or permit any client, customer, or employee of Tenant to smoke any substance (including, but not limited to cigarettes, cigars, vaping devices, or pipes) in or near the Premises. Tenant shall not commit or allow to be committed any waste (including but not limited to toxic, non-toxic, hazardous, and non-hazardous waste) in, on, under, above, or about the Premises and Project.
10. COMPLIANCE WITH LAW.
Tenant shall not use the Premises, or permit anything to be done in or about the Premises, which will in any material way conflict with any applicable governmental law, statue, ordinance, rules, regulations or requirements now in force or which may hereafter be enacted or promulgated. Tenant shall, at its sole cost and expense, promptly comply with all applicable governmental law, statue, ordinance, rules, regulations or requirements now in force or which may hereafter be in force and with the requirements of any board of tire underwriters or other similar bodies now or hereafter constituted relating to or affecting the condition, use or occupancy of the Premises, excluding structural changes not related to or affected by Tenant’s Improvements or specific use of the Premises. The judgment of any court of competent jurisdiction or the admission of Tenant in any action against Tenant, whether Landlord be a party thereto or not, that Tenant has violated any law, statue, ordinance or governmental rule, regulation or requirement, shall be conclusive of the fact as between the Landlord and Tenant.