General Building Rules & Regulations
Please note “Rules and Regulations” may be specific to your lease so it is necessary to refer to it for direction.
The following Building Rules and Regulations have been established to provide a safe and well-maintained business environment for all Tenants. For the purpose of these Rules and Regulations, the term “Tenant” shall include Tenant and Tenant’s employees, agents, contractors, licensees, visitors, and invitees.
Building Rules & Regulations 121 Seaport Blvd, Boston MA 02210
Tenant shall not obstruct or encumber or use for any purpose other than ingress and egress to and from the Premises any sidewalk, entrance, passage, court, elevator, vestibule, stairway, corridor, hall or other part of the Building not exclusively occupied by Tenant.
No bottles, parcels or other articles shall be placed, kept or displayed on window ledges, in windows or in corridors, stairways or other public parts of the Building.
Landlord shall have the right to control and operate the public portions of the Building and the facilities furnished for common use of the tenants, in such manner as Landlord reasonably deems best for the benefit of the tenants generally. Tenant shall not permit the visit to the Premises of persons in such numbers or under such conditions as to interfere with the use and enjoyment of the entrances, corridors, elevators and other public portions or facilities of the Building by other tenants.
No sign, placard, picture, advertisement, name or notice shall be installed or displayed on any part of the outside or inside of the Building without the prior written consent of the Landlord. Landlord shall have the right to remove, at Tenant's expense and without notice, any sign installed or displayed in violation of this rule.
Tenant shall coordinate in advance with Landlord’s property management department all deliveries to the Building so that arrangements can be made to minimize such interference.
Tenant shall not permit its employees and invitees to congregate in the elevator lobbies or corridors of the Building. Canvassing, soliciting and peddling in the Building are prohibited, and Tenant shall cooperate to prevent the same. Public corridor doors, when not in use, shall be kept closed. Nothing, including mats and trash, shall be placed, swept or thrown into the corridors, halls, elevator shafts, stairways or other public or common areas.
Tenant shall not attach, hang or use in connection with any window or door of the Premises any drape, blind, shade or screen, without Landlord’s prior written consent.
Tenant shall not use the water fountains, water and wash closets, and plumbing and other fixtures for any purpose other than those for which they were constructed, and Tenant shall not place any debris, rubbish, rag or other substance therein (including, without limitation, coffee grounds). All damages from misuse of fixtures shall be borne by the tenant causing same.
Tenant shall not install any radio or television antenna, satellite dish, loudspeaker or other device on the roof or exterior walls of the Building except by virtue of a separate license negotiated with Landlord. Tenant shall not interfere with radio or television broadcasting or reception from or in the Building or elsewhere.
No electric heaters, electric fans or humidifiers are allowed on the Premises without the prior written consent of Landlord.
No animals are allowed in the Building with the exception of seeing-eye, hearing or other trained service animals. In the event any injuries are caused to Tenant's employees or invitees, the owner of said animal agrees to indemnify and hold the Landlord and its managing agent and all other tenants harmless from all costs (including reasonable attorneys' fees) with respect to the presence of said owner’s animal in the Building.
Tenants are not allowed to bring any bicycle or vehicle into the building, except bicycles in designated bike racks or bike room areas identified as such within the parking garage and perimeter. There shall be no parking of vehicles or other obstructions placed in the loading dock area.
No cooking shall be done or permitted by Tenant on the Premises, except in connection with the Cafeteria and microwave cooking, use of coffee machines and other equipment typically located in an office building pantry by Tenant’s employees for their own consumption. Such equipment and their use shall be in accordance with all applicable federal, state and city laws, codes, ordinances, rules and regulations.
Tenant shall not use, keep or permit to be used or kept any foul or noxious gas or substance in the Premises, or permit or suffer the Premises to be occupied or used in a manner offensive or objectionable to Landlord or other occupants of the Building by reason of noise, odors, or interfere in any way with other tenants or those having business therein.
Tenant shall not make any unseemly or disturbing noise or disturb or interfere with occupants of the Building, whether by the use of any musical instrument, radio, talking machine or in any other way.
Tenant shall not place on any floor a load exceeding the floor load per square foot which such floor was designed to carry, which in the case of the Premises is 100 pounds live load per square foot. Landlord shall have the right to prescribe the weight, position and manner of installation of safes and other heavy equipment and fixtures. Landlord shall have the right to repair at Tenant’s expense any damage to the Premises or the Building caused by Tenant’s moving property into or out of the Premises or due to the same being in or upon the Premises or to require Tenant to do the same. Tenant shall not receive into the Building or carry in the elevators any safes, freight, furniture, equipment or bulky item except as reasonably approved by Landlord, and any such furniture, equipment and bulky item shall be delivered only through the designated delivery entrance of the Building and the designated freight elevator at designated times. Tenant shall remove promptly from any sidewalk adjacent to the Building any furniture, furnishing, equipment or other material there delivered or deposited for Tenant. Landlord reserves the right to inspect all freight to be brought into the Building, except for government classified and confidential client materials, and to exclude from the Building all freight which violates any of these rules or the Lease.
Tenant shall not place additional locks or bolts of any kind on any of the doors or windows and shall not make any change in any existing lock or locking mechanism therein, without Landlord’s prior written approval, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed.
Tenant shall not install any equipment of any type or nature that will or may necessitate any changes, replacements or additions to, or changes in the use of, the water system, heating system, plumbing system, air-conditioning system or electrical system of the Premises or the Building, without obtaining Landlord’s prior written consent, which consent may be granted or withheld in Landlord’s sole and absolute discretion. If any machine or equipment of Tenant causes noise or vibration that may be transmitted to such a degree as to be objectionable to Landlord or any tenant in the Building, then Landlord shall have the right to install at Tenant’s reasonable expense vibration eliminators or other devices sufficient to reduce such noise and vibration to a level reasonably satisfactory to Landlord or to require Tenant to do the same.
Landlord shall have the right, upon reasonable prior notice to Tenant (except in event of an emergency), to interrupt telecommunications facilities as necessary in connection with any repairs or with installation of other telecommunications equipment; provided, however, Landlord shall use reasonable efforts to minimize interference with Tenant’s normal business operations in the Premises.
No portion of Tenant's Premises or any other part of the Building shall at any time be used or occupied as sleeping or lodging quarters or for any immoral or unlawful purposes.
Landlord will not be responsible for lost or stolen personal property, equipment, money or jewelry from Tenant's area or any public rooms regardless of whether such loss occurs when such area is locked against entry or not.
Landlord reserves the right to exclude from the Building at all times any person who does not properly identify himself to the Building Management or attendant on duty. Landlord shall have the right to exclude any undesirable or disorderly persons from the Building at any time. Landlord may require all persons admitted to or leaving the Building to show satisfactory identification and to sign a register. Tenant shall be responsible for all persons for whom it authorizes entry into the Building and shall be liable to Landlord for all acts of such persons. Landlord has the right to evacuate the Building in the event of emergency or catastrophe or for the purpose of holding a reasonable number of fire drills.
Tenant shall not use in the Premises or in the public halls of the Building any hand trucks except those equipped with the rubber tires and side guards or such other material-handling equipment as Landlord may approve. Tenant must not utilize any elevator other than the designated freight elevator: i) for deliveries requiring hand trucks or other material-handling equipment, or ii) for moving furniture, equipment or other personal property into or out of the Building.
The requirements of Tenant will be attended to only upon appropriate application to the Building Management by an authorized individual. Employees of Landlord shall not perform any work or do anything outside of their regular duties unless under special instruction from Landlord, and no employee of Landlord will admit any person (Tenant or otherwise) to any office without specific instructions from Landlord.
Tenant shall not bring or keep anything within the building premises, that will in any way increase the possibility of fire or other casualty or obstruct or interfere the rights of, or otherwise injure or annoy, other tenants, or do anything in conflict with the valid pertinent laws, rules, or regulations of any governmental authority.
Tenant shall cooperate with the Building employees in keeping the Premises neat and clean.
Unless otherwise expressly provided in the Lease, Tenant shall not use, occupy or permit any portion of the Premises to be used or occupied for the storage, manufacture, distribution or sale of liquor, marijuana or cannabis or any products containing marijuana or cannabis or any derivative thereof.
Tenant shall not remove, alter or replace the ceiling light diffusers, ceiling tiles or air diffusers in any portion of the Premises without the prior written consent of Landlord, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed.
Tenant shall not purchase water, ice, coffee, soft drinks, towels, or other merchandise or services from any company or person whose repeated violation of Building regulations has caused, in Landlord’s reasonable opinion, a hazard or nuisance to the Building and/or its occupants.
Tenant shall not use the Premises as headquarters for large scale employment of workers for other locations.
Landlord shall have the right, upon written notice to Tenant, to require Tenant to refrain from or discontinue any advertising by Tenant which, in Landlord’s reasonable opinion, tends to impair the reputation of the Building or its desirability for offices.
Tenant shall give prompt notice to Landlord of any accidents to or defects in plumbing, electrical fixtures~ or heating apparatus so that such accidents or defects may be attended to promptly.
Tenant shall not in any manner deface any part of the Premises or the Building. Other than ordinary office decorations, no stringing of wires, boring or cutting shall be permitted except with Landlord’s prior written consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed.
Tenant shall not bring or keep, or permit to be brought or kept, in the Building any weapon or flammable, combustible or explosive fluid, chemical or substance, except as otherwise expressly permitted in the Lease.
The Building (including the Parking Facility) is a non-smoking facility. There shall be no smoking (or any use of e-cigarettes, vapor pens, etc.) in the Building, in any sidewalk area, or in the Parking Facility, within 25 ft. of the building.
All wiring and cabling installed by Tenant shall be marked and coded, in a manner reasonably acceptable to Landlord, to identify such facilities as belonging to Tenant and the point of commencement and termination of such facilities.
These Rules and Regulations are in addition to and shall not be construed to in any way modify or amend, in whole or in part, the terms, covenants, agreements and conditions of any lease of premises in the Building.
Landlord reserves the right to make such other reasonable rules and regulations, or to amend and revise the foregoing rules and regulations as in its judgment may from time to time be needed for the safety and security, for the care and cleanliness of the Building and for the preservation of good order in and about the Building. Tenant agrees to abide by all such rules and regulations and any additional or modifications to these rules and regulations which are adopted from time to time by Landlord.
Tenant shall be responsible for the observance of all the foregoing rules by Tenant's employees, agents, clients, customers, invitees and guests.