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6 <br /> the first day of each month in advance to Lessor at Lessor's address as specified in paragraph 16 <br /> below. Rent shall be increased on the anniversary of the Commencement Date by one and one-half(1.5%) <br /> over the Rent payable during the immediately preceding year. <br /> As further consideration for Lessor to enter into this Lease, Lessee shall pay to Lessor within ten <br /> (10) days of the Effective Date of this Lease, a one-time signing bonus of Five Hundred <br /> DOLLARS ($500). <br /> 6. Improvements; Utilities; Access. <br /> (a) Lessee shall have the right, at Lessee's sole cost and expense, to erect and <br /> maintain on the Premises improvements, personal property and facilities necessary or desired for <br /> its Intended Use(collectively the"Improvements"). The Improvements shall remain the exclusive <br /> property of the Lessee throughout the term and after the termination of this Lease. Lessee may <br /> construct, alter, demolish, reconstruct, restore, replace, supplement, modify and reconfigure the <br /> Improvements at any time during the Term or any Renewal Term of this Lease. Lessee shall <br /> remove all of the above-ground portions of the Improvements not later than one hundred eighty <br /> (180) days following any termination of this Lease. Lessor grants Lessee the right to clear all <br /> trees, undergrowth, or other obstructions and to trim, cut, and keep trimmed and cut all tree limbs <br /> which may interfere with or fall upon the Improvements or Premises. Lessor grants Lessee a non- <br /> exclusive easement in,over,across and through other real property owned by Lessor as reasonably <br /> required for construction, installation, maintenance, and operation of the Improvements. In the <br /> event that a guyed tower is constructed on the Premises, Lessor also grants Lessee an easement in, <br /> over, across and through Lessor's real property during the Term and any Renewal Term of this <br /> Lease for the installation and maintenance of and reasonable access to the guy wires and guy wire <br /> anchors. <br /> (b) Lessee shall have the right to install power, telecommunications, cables, <br /> conduit, and any other utilities, including cabinets, vaults and improvements directly related to <br /> such utilities, in an exclusive easement on the Premises, at Lessee's expense, and to improve <br /> present utilities on the Premises (including but not limited to the installation of emergency power <br /> generators). Lessee shall have the right to permanently place utilities on(or to bring utilities across <br /> or under) the Premises and the Improvements. In the event that utilities necessary to serve the <br /> equipment of Lessee or the equipment of Lessee's licensee(s) or sublessee(s) cannot be located <br /> within the Premises, Lessor agrees to cooperate with Lessee and to act reasonably in allowing the <br /> location of utilities on the Parent Parcel or other real property owned by Lessor without requiring <br /> additional compensation from Lessee or Lessee's licensee(s) or sublessee(s). Lessor shall, upon <br /> Lessee's request, execute within fifteen (15) days a separate written easement to the utility <br /> company providing the service or Lessee in a form which may be filed of record evidencing this <br /> right. <br /> (c) Lessor grants to Lessee, its officers, agents, employees, sublessees, <br /> licensees and their independent contractors, the right and privilege to enter upon the Premises and <br /> the Parent Parcel, to perform or cause to be performed test borings of the soil, environmental <br /> audits, engineering studies and to conduct a survey of the Premises and all or part of the Parent <br /> Parcel. Lessor grants Lessee and its sublessees and licensees a license to use such portion of <br /> Lessor's property contiguous to the Premises on a temporary basis as reasonably required during <br /> the Term or any Renewal Term of this Lease for the construction, installation, maintenance or <br /> 2 <br /> TowerCo Site Name:Kenion Road <br /> TowerCo Site Number:NC0326 <br />