No assignment of this Lease or acceptance of rent by Landlord from any assignee or other party shall discharge or release Tenant or any person, firm, or corporation which previously assumed Tenant's obligations hereunder, and Tenant and such persons, firms and corporations shall remain liable for the payment of rent due and to become due under this Lease and for the performance and observance of all of the terms, covenants and conditions of this Lease on the part of Tenant to be observed or performed for the balance of the term of this Lease as if no assignment has been effected. If this Lease is assigned, whether or not in violation of this Article, Landlord may collect rent from the assignee. If the demised Premises or any part thereof are sublet or occupied by anybody other than Tenant, Landlord, after any default by Tenant, may collect rent from the subtenant or occupant, and apply the net amount collected to the rent due hereunder. Such collection of rent by Landlord shall not be deemed or construed as a waiver of the provisions hereof, the acceptance of the assignee, subtenant or occupant as a tenant, or a release of Tenant from the further performance and observance by Tenant of the terms, covenants and conditions of this Lease. 



 (a)   Whether or not the proposed assignment or sublease is finalized, Tenant shall pay Landlord the minimum sum of $750.00 to reimburse Landlord for the administrative costs of review and processing of Tenant’s proposed assignment or sublease, in each instance; and if, in connection therewith, Landlord incurs expenses in excess of said $750.00 amount, including but not limited to reasonable expenses for attorneys’ fees and disbursements, architectural fees, engineering or other professional fees, then Tenant shall pay Landlord the amount of such excess fees as additional rent within ten (10) days of Landlord’s submission to Tenant of bills for same. Upon submission to Landlord of Tenant’s request for consent to an assignment or sublease, Tenant shall deliver to Landlord a bank check payable to Landlord in the sum of $3,500.00 (“Application Costs Prepayment”) which shall be applied to Landlord’s legal fees and other costs incurred in connection with Landlord’s review and processing of Tenant’s request for 









 consent to such assignment or sublease. In the event that Landlord’s costs in this regard are less than such Application Costs Prepayment, Landlord will refund to Tenant the difference between Landlord’s costs incurred and the amount of the Application Costs Prepayment. 





 (b)   In the event that this Lease is assigned or the Premises are sublet (except for any assignment or subletting which does not result in a change of beneficial ownership of this Lease, of in connection with an Assignment to an affiliate, successor or to a coporation intio which Tenant is merged or consolidated, or to an entity to which substantially all of the assets of Tenant are transferred), it shall be a condition of such assignment or subletting that Tenant shall deposit or arrange for the deposit with Landlord as security hereunder an additional amount equal to two (2) months fixed rent at the rate then in effect for the first assignment or subletting and an additional (2) months fixed rent at the rate then in effect for each and every subsequent assignment or subletting.

Section label: Assignment and Subletting