(o) advertising, marketing and promotion costs and leasing commissions;
(p) costs associated with the operation of the corporation or other entity which constitutes the Landlord, as distinguished from costs of operation of the Building, including accounting and legal costs, costs of defending lawsuits with any mortgagee, and the costs of selling, syndicating, financing, mortgaging or hypothecating any ownership interest in Landlord, or any of the Landlord’s interests in the Building;
(q) costs to the extent Landlord has the right to be reimbursed under any warranty or by insurance companies or other third parties (including other tenants and Tenant);
(r) reserves of any nature;
(s) the cost of Landlord’s removal from the Building or the Site of Hazardous Materials (defined below) not brought to the Premises, Building or the Site by Tenant, its agents, employees, contractors or invitees;
(t) costs fines and penalties incurred due to Landlord’s operation of the Building in violation of Laws (defined below), due to Landlord’s failure to timely pay real property taxes and/or arising out of the gross negligence or willful misconduct of Landlord, any Landlord Parties and their respective independent contractors; and
(u) any costs to remedy any noncompliance with Landlord’s express warranties set forth in Sections 7.1 (compliance with applicable building codes), 7.2 (existing Hazardous Materials) and 14.2 (Building Systems in good working order as of the Lease Commencement Date) below.
As used herein, the term “real property taxes” shall include any form of assessment, license fee, license tax, business license fee, tax, levy, charge, or similar imposition, imposed by any authority having the direct power to tax, including any city, county, state or federal government, or any school, agricultural, lighting, drainage or other improvement or special assessment district thereof, as against any legal or equitable interest of Landlord in the Building and/or Premises, including, but not limited to, the following:
(a) any tax on Landlord’s “right” to rent or “right” to other income from the Premises or as against Landlord’s business of leasing the Premises;
(b) any assessment, tax, fee, levy or charge in substitution, partially or totally, of any assessment, tax, fee, levy or charge previously included within the definition of real estate tax, it being acknowledged by Tenant and Landlord that Proposition 13 was adopted by the voters of the State of California in the June 1978 election and that assessments, taxes, fees, levies and charges may be imposed by governmental agencies for such services as fire protection, street, sidewalk and road maintenance, refuse removal and for other governmental services formerly provided without charge to property owners or occupants prior to “Proposition 13”. It is the intention of Tenant and Landlord that all such assessments, taxes, fees, levies and charges be included within the definition of “real property taxes” for the purposes of this Lease;
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