Restrictions on Use Tenant shall use the Premises and Landlord’s Equipment in a careful, safe and proper manner, shall not commit or suffer any waste on or about Landlord’s Property or with respect to Landlord’s Equipment, and shall not make any use of Landlord’s Property and/or Landlord’s Equipment which is prohibited by or contrary to any laws, rules, regulations, orders or requirements of public authorities, or which would cause a public or private nuisance. Tenant shall comply with and obey all laws, rules, regulations, orders and requirements of public authorities which in any way affect the use or operation of Landlord’s Equipment and the use, operation or occupancy of Landlord’s Property. Tenant, at its own expense, shall obtain any and all permits, approvals and licenses necessary for use of the Landlord’s Equipment and the Premises (copies of which shall be provided to the Landlord), provided that Landlord shall be responsible for obtaining a certificate of occupancy for the Building generally (i.e., as opposed to a certificate of occupancy for the Premises after the performance of any work by Tenant, which shall be Tenant’s responsibility) and any other permits, approvals and licenses necessary generally for the use of Landlord’s Equipment and Landlord’s Property. Tenant shall not overload the floors or other structural parts of the Building; and shall not commit or suffer any act or thing on Landlord’s Property which is illegal, unreasonably offensive, unreasonably dangerous, or which unreasonably disturbs other tenants. Tenant shall not knowingly do or permit to be done any act or thing on Landlord’s Property or with Landlord’s Equipment which will invalidate or be in conflict with any insurance policies, or which will increase the rate of any insurance, covering the Building. If, because of Tenant’s failure to comply with the provisions of this Section or due to any use of the Premises or activity of Tenant in or about Landlord’s Property, the Insurance Costs are increased, Tenant shall pay Landlord the amount of such increase caused by the failure of Tenant to comply with the provisions of this Section or by the nature of Tenant’s use of the Premises. Tenant shall cause any fire lanes in the front, sides and rear of the Building to be kept free of all parking associated with its business or occupancy and in compliance with all applicable regulations. Tenant shall conduct its business at all times so as not to annoy or be offensive to other tenants and occupants in Landlord’s Property. Tenant shall not permit the emission of any objectionable noise or odor from the Premises and shall at its own cost install such extra sound proofing or noise control systems and odor control systems, as may be needed to eliminate unreasonable noise, vibrations and odors, if any, emanating from the Premises being heard, felt or smelled outside the Premises. Tenant shall not place any file cabinets bookcases, partitions, shelves or other furnishings or equipment in a location which abuts or blocks any windows.
Restrictions on Liens The Company will not, and will not cause, permit, or suffer any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries to (a) create or incur, or cause, permit, or suffer to be created or incurred or to exist, any Lien upon any of its property or assets of any character whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or upon the income or profits therefrom; (b) transfer any of such property or assets or the income or profits therefrom for the purpose of subjecting the same to the payment of Indebtedness or performance of any other obligation in priority to payment of its general creditors; (c) acquire, or agree or have an option to acquire, any property or assets upon conditional sale or other title retention or purchase money security agreement, device, or arrangement; (d) suffer to exist any Indebtedness or claim or demand for a period of time such that the same by Government Mandate or upon bankruptcy or insolvency, or otherwise, would be given any priority whatsoever over its general creditors; or (e) assign, pledge, or otherwise transfer any accounts, contract rights, general intangibles, chattel paper, or instruments, with or without recourse, other than a transfer or assignment in connection with a Disposition permitted under Section 7.1 or Reorganization or Acquisition permitted under Section 7.2 or an Investment; provided that the Company and any Subsidiary of the Company may create or incur, or cause, permit, or suffer to be created or incurred or to exist:
(i) Liens imposed by Government Mandate to secure taxes, assessments, and other government charges in respect of obligations not overdue or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves are maintained in accordance with GAAP;
(ii) statutory Liens of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, suppliers, laborers, and materialmen, and other like Liens in the ordinary course of business, in each case in respect of obligations not overdue for a period of more than 30 days or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves are maintained in accordance with GAAP;
(iii) Liens arising out of pledges or deposits in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislation, other than any Lien imposed by ERISA;
(iv) Liens on deposits to secure performance of bids or performance bonds and other similar Liens, in the ordinary course of business;
(v) Liens on Real Estate consisting of easements, rights of way, zoning restrictions, restrictions on the use of real property, defects and irregularities in the title thereto, and other minor Liens, provided, none of such Liens in the reasonable opinion of the Company interferes materially with the use of the affected property in the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries;
(vi) the rights and interests of landlords and lessors under leases of Real Estate leased by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, as lessee;
(vii) Liens outstanding on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 7.3;
(viii) Liens in favor of either the Company or a Consolidated Subsidiary on all or part of the assets of any Subsidiary of the Company securing Indebtedness owing by such Subsidiary to the Company or such Consolidated Subsidiary, as the case may be;
(ix) Liens on interests of the Company or its Subsidiaries in partnerships or joint ventures consisting of binding rights of first refusal, rights of first offer, take-me-along rights, third-party offer provisions, buy-sell provisions, other transfer restrictions and conditions relating to such partnership or joint venture interests, and Liens granted to other participants in such partnership or joint venture as security for the performance by the Company or its Subsidiaries of their obligations in respect of such partnership or joint venture;
(x) UCC notice filings in connection with non-recourse sales of 12b-1 Fees (other than sales constituting a collateral security device);
(xi) Liens securing purchase money Indebtedness so long as such Liens are only on the asset acquired with such purchase money Indebtedness and secure only the Indebtedness incurred to purchase such asset;
(xii) Liens incurred or otherwise arising in connection with the Securities Trading Activities of the Broker-Dealer Subsidiaries;
(xiii) Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent or any Bank to secure the Obligations;
(xiv) Liens arising by virtue of Uniform Commercial Code financing statement filings (or similar filings under applicable law) regarding operating leases entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(xv) banker’s Liens, rights of set off or similar rights and remedies as to deposit accounts or other funds maintained with depository institutions in the ordinary course of business; and
(xvi) Liens (in addition to those specified in clauses (i) through (xv) above) securing Indebtedness in an aggregate amount for the Company and all of its Consolidated Subsidiaries taken together not in excess of $80,000,000 outstanding at any point in time (but excluding from the amount of any such Indebtedness that portion which is fully covered by insurance and as to which the insurance company has acknowledged to the Administrative Agent its coverage obligation in writing).
Use Restrictions (a) Company will not do or attempt to do, and Company will not permit any other person or entity to do or attempt to do, any of the following, directly or indirectly:
(i) use any Proprietary Item for any purpose, at any location or in any manner not specifically authorized by this Agreement;
(ii) make or retain any copy of any Proprietary Item except as specifically authorized by this Agreement;
(iii) create, recreate or obtain the source code for any Proprietary Item;
(iv) refer to or otherwise use any Proprietary Item as part of any effort to develop other software, programs, applications, interfaces or functionalities or to compete with BNYM or a Third Party Provider;
(v) modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works based upon any Proprietary Item, or combine or merge any Proprietary Item or part thereof with or into any other product or service not provided for in this Agreement and not authorized in writing by BNYM;
(vi) remove, erase or tamper with any copyright or other proprietary notice printed or stamped on, affixed to, or encoded or recorded in any Proprietary Item, or fail to preserve all copyright and other proprietary notices in any copy of any Proprietary Item made by Company;
(vii) sell, transfer, assign or otherwise convey in any manner any ownership interest or Intellectual Property Right of BNYM, or market, license, sublicense, distribute or otherwise grant, or subcontract or delegate to any other person, including outsourcers, vendors, consultants, joint venturers and partners, any right to access or use any Proprietary Item, whether on Company’s behalf or otherwise;
(viii) subcontract for or delegate the performance of any act or function involved in accessing or using any Proprietary Item, whether on Company’s behalf or otherwise;
(ix) reverse engineer, re-engineer, decrypt, disassemble, decompile, decipher, reconstruct, re-orient or modify the circuit design, algorithms, logic, source code, object code or program code or any other properties, attributes, features or constituent parts of any Proprietary Item;
(x) take any action that would challenge, contest, impair or otherwise adversely effect an ownership interest or Intellectual Property Right of BNYM;
(xi) use any Proprietary Item to provide remote processing, network processing, network communications, a service bureau or time sharing operation, or services similar to any of the foregoing to any person or entity, whether on a fee basis or otherwise;
(xii) allow Harmful Code into any Proprietary Item, as applicable, or into any interface or other software or program provided by it to BNYM, through Company’s systems or personnel or Company’s use of the Licensed Services or Company’s activities in connection with this Agreement.
(b) Company shall, promptly after becoming aware of such, notify BNYM of any facts, circumstances or events regarding its or a Permitted User’s use of the Licensed System that are reasonably likely to constitute or result in a breach of this Section 2.12, and take all reasonable steps requested by BNYM to prevent, control, remediate or remedy any such facts, circumstances or events or any future occurrence of such facts, circumstances or events.
