SHOPPING AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTER AKROPOLIS

GENERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS

These General Rules and Regulations of the Shopping and Entertainment Center were developed by TAIKOS TURTAS UAB and apply to the Visitors of the Shopping Center, companies, institutions and organisations, initiative groups of citizens and other entities planning to carry out any activities and/or organise events at the Shopping Center, at the approaches to the Shopping Center or in any other place on the site of the Shopping Center. The application of these Rules and Regulations at the Shopping Center is based on the right of TAIKOSO TURTAS UAB as the owner of the Shopping Center to administer the property owned by it, to manage and dispose of it at its discretion, and TAIKOSO TURTAS UAB has the duty to ensure public order, the security of the Visitors and employees of the Shopping Center as well as the lawful interests of the persons who carry out economic-commercial activities at the Shopping Center.

1. DEFINITIONS

1.1. Shopping Center means the shopping and entertainment center AKROPOLIS located at Taikos ave. 61, Klaipeda. Unless otherwise provided by the Rules and Regulations, the definition of the Shopping Center shall include all buildings, outdoor areas as well as the whole territory of the site(s) of the Shopping Center. The Shopping Center can, in essence, hereinafter also be understood as a building or as an economic entity represented by the owner of the Shopping Center TAIKOSO TURTAS UAB and/or AKROPOLIS GROUP UAB providing the Shopping Center's development services. 

1.2. Site of the Shopping Center means the site(s) where the Shopping Center, its parking lots and entrances are located and which is (are) owned by, or is (are) otherwise managed by TAIKOS TURTAS UAB.

1.3. Administration of the Shopping Center means the director of TAIKOS TURTAS UAB, the director of AKROPOLIS GROUP UAB providing the Shopping Center's development services, the manager of the Shopping Center and/or other authorised administration employees of the Shopping Center. 

1.4. Employees of the Shopping Center mean the persons during their working hours at the Shopping Centre who are full-time employees at the Shopping Center, who work under employment and/or services contracts concluded with the owner of the Shopping Center and the persons who carry out lawful economic-commercial activities at the Shopping Center. These Rules shall apply to the Employees of the Shopping Center to the extent their rights and obligations are not otherwise defined by the House Rules of the Shopping Center and individual instructions of the Administration of the Shopping Center or agreements with the Shopping Center.

1.5. Rules and Regulations mean these General Rules and Regulations of the Shopping Center. 

1.6. Visitor(s) mean(s) any person (including the Employee of the Shopping Center outside his/her working hours) who is present at the Shopping Center (including the approaches to the Shopping Center and the Site of the Shopping Center), as well as companies, institutions, organisations, initiative groups of citizens or other persons and other subjects who are planning to carry out any activities at the Shopping Center, including the approaches to the Shopping Center and the boundaries of the Site of the Shopping Center. 

1.7. Event means any event, promotion, meeting, campaign (advertising, political, public, etc.) or any other organised or unorganised event, which pursues certain objectives and which is held at the Shopping Center, at the approaches to it or on the Site of the Shopping Center. 

2. GENERAL PROVISIONS

2.1. The present Rules and Regulations govern the principles and conditions of conduct of the Visitors of the Shopping Center at the Shopping Center, their rights and obligations. 

2.2. Vehicles shall be parked in the parking lots of the Shopping Center pursuant to the requirements and limitations of the signs installed in the parking lots. The traffic and parking of vehicles shall comply with the road traffic rules.

2.3. The purpose of these Rules and Regulations is to create such rights and obligations of the Visitors of the Shopping Center and/or the persons planning to carry out their activities at the Shopping Center which would ensure the maintenance of order and cleanliness at the Shopping Center, the security of the Visitors and the Employees of the Shopping Center, public order and would not violate the lawful interests of the Shopping Center and the Visitors of the Shopping Centre as well as the Employees of the Shopping Center.

3. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF VISITORS

3.1. The Shopping Center is open for the Visitors from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Individual entities providing services to the Visitors at the Shopping Center may be open for the Visitors for longer or shorter hours if it is coordinated with the Administration of the Shopping Center. The Administration of the Shopping Center shall publicly announce the days when the Shopping Center is closed. Such information shall be provided in conspicuous locations near the entrances to the Shopping Center.

3.2. The Visitors may only enter and exit the Shopping Center through the entrances designated for that purpose. It is not allowed for the Visitors to enter the Shopping Center through staff entrances, technological entrances, loading and unloading ramps.

3.3. The Visitors shall follow the instructions for the use of equipment located in the Shopping Center (e.g. escalator). 

3.4. The Visitors shall be prohibited from carrying the following items into the Shopping Center:

3.4.1. weapons, including cold weapons;

3.4.2. alcoholic beverages;

3.4.3. narcotic, psychotropic substances; 

3.4.4. combustible, explosive, toxic, radioactive substances, including other substances which may pose danger to other Visitors, the Employees of the Shopping Center or the Shopping Center itself;

3.4.5. the substances, which are susceptible to staining, have a pungent odour, unless such substances are carried to the seller of such substances operating at the Shopping Center in order to replace low quality goods and/or return such substances to their seller in the procedure laid down by legal acts; in that case, the Visitor shall notify the security officers of the Shopping Centre thereof and follow their instructions on the carriage of such substances through the premises of the Shopping Center.

3.5. It is not allowed to carry foodstuffs or products into the premises of the shops, catering establishments or service providing companies operating at the Shopping Center, including the foodstuffs or products bought in the shops or catering establishments operating at the Shopping Center.

3.6. It is not allowed to enter the Shopping Centre on a bicycle or scooters; they must be left in the places designated for that purpose near the entrances to the Shopping Centre. The Shopping Centre shall not be responsible for the security of the items left in the said places. The Visitors shall not be rollerblading, skateboarding and using other similar means of transport inside the Shopping Center. 

3.7. It is not allowed to take pets into the Shopping Center, except for guide dogs. The Visitor may also enter the Shopping Centre with a pet if the pet is carried in a special pet carrier/bag. On arrival at the Shopping Center with a pet, the Visitor shall be responsible for its care (including cases when the pet is left in the place designated for that purpose near the entrance to the Shopping Centre). In other cases pets shall tied up in the places designated for that purpose near the entrances to the Shopping Center. Pets shall be walked on the Site of the Shopping Centre in compliance with the requirements of the rules on pet keeping which apply in the territory of Klaipeda City.

3.8. While at the Shopping Centre, the Visitors shall not: 

3.8.1. smoke, except for the places designated for that purpose near the entrances to the Shopping Center;

3.8.2. consume alcoholic beverages in other places than catering establishments operating at the Shopping Centre;

3.8.3. litter;

3.8.4. otherwise disturb public order.

3.9. While at the Shopping Center, the Visitors shall not without the prior written consent from the Administration of the Shopping Center:

3.9.1. use devices causing noise, including but not limited to any sound reproducing devices, music instruments;

3.9.2. perform or retransmit in any form, otherwise display, render and present artistic works; 

3.9.3. organise and/or hold any Events;

3.9.4. organise any promotional or campaigning activities, including but not limited to the distribution of leaflets, flyers, dissemination of visual and audio information, public demonstration of advertising stands, signatures' campaigns, etc.;

3.9.5. photograph and film or otherwise capture video or audio material for commercial purposes;

3.9.6. leave a car in the parking lot of the Shopping Center for a period longer than 24 (twenty-four) hours (unless traffic signs provide for a shorter parking duration).

3.10. The Visitors shall follow the instructions of the Administration of the Shopping Center and security officers. The Visitors who violate the provisions of the legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania or the provisions of these Rules and Regulations may, pursuant to the provisions of the Law on Security of Person and Property, be taken from the Shopping Centre (including the approaches to the Shopping Centre and the Site of the Shopping Centre) and/or prohibited from entering. The security officers of the Shopping Center shall be entitled to remove the property of the Visitors from the Shopping Center and/or the Site of the Shopping Center if it poses threat to other Visitors or is used/kept in violation of the requirements of legal acts and/or these Rules and Regulations as well as exercise other rights established by legal acts. 

4. ORGANISATION OF EVENTS

4.1. All and any Events (including meetings under the Law on Meetings of the Republic of Lithuania) may be held at the Shopping Centre, the approaches to it or on the Site of the Shopping Center upon receipt of the prior written consent from the Administration of the Shopping Center only.

4.2. The prior written consent of the Administration of the Shopping Centre is based on the duty of the owner of the Shopping Center and/or the manager of the Shopping Center to ensure public order as well as the lawful interests of the Visitors, the Employees of the Shopping Center and/or the persons carrying out economic-commercial activities at the Shopping Center.

4.3. A person or persons willing to organise the Event shall contact the Administration of the Shopping Center with a written request at least 5 (five) working days in advance. The request shall specify the following:

4.3.1. Event organiser(s) - name, surname, address, telephone, other contact information;

4.3.2. Event date, time;

4.3.3. Desired place of the Event;

4.3.4. Type of the Event;

4.3.5. Purpose of the Event;

4.3.6. Expected number of participants in the Event.

4.4. When considering the request on the organisation of the Event, the Administration of the Shopping Center shall take all important circumstances relating to the Event into account and consider their influence on the lawful interests of the Shopping Center, the Visitors, the Employees of the Shopping Center and/or the persons carrying out economic-commercial activities at the Shopping Center. When considering the request, the Administration of the Shopping Center shall pay special attention to the presence of armed security officers protecting the Shopping Center, the influence of the Event on the traffic of motor vehicles in the area of the Shopping Center and the assurance of security of work of the cash collectors providing services to the persons who carry out economic-commercial activities at the Shopping Center.

4.5. After examining the request, the Administration of the Shopping Center shall have a right to request the submission of additional information and/or guarantees concerning:

4.5.1. the security of the Event ensuring public order and the security of the participants of the Event, the Shopping Center, its Visitors and the Employees of the Shopping Center;

4.5.2. the clean-up of the place of the Event after the Event is over;

4.5.3. mandatory presence of a doctor, ambulance, fire brigade or other specialists in the venue of the Event;

4.5.4. the changes in the traffic of motor vehicles during the Event, the setting up of the required traffic detours and/or additional traffic signs.

4.6. Even with the written consent of the Administration of the Shopping Center concerning the organisation of the Event, the organisers of the Event shall in all cases be fully liable for the damage caused to the Shopping Center, the Visitors, the Employees of the Shopping Center and/or the persons who carry out economic-commercial activities at the Shopping Center, their property during the Event and/or their violated rights and any damage resulting therefrom.

5. FINAL PROVISIONS

5.1. These Rules and Regulations shall be binding to all the Visitors of the Shopping Center. Exceptions to the Rules and Regulations may only be made upon the prior consent of the Administration of the Shopping Center.

5.2. In cases where the consent of the Administration of the Shopping Center is required under the provisions of these Rules and Regulations, the interested person shall contact the Administration of the Shopping Center and submit the request in advance. 

5.3. In order to ensure the wellbeing of the Visitors, the Employees of the Shopping Center and/or the persons carrying out economic-commercial activities at the Shopping Center, the Administration of the Shopping Center shall be entitled to amend the Rules and Regulations, improve them and notify the interested persons thereof by presenting the Rules and Regulations or their principal provisions in conspicuous locations, on the website of the Shopping Center, and providing a full text of the Rules and Regulations when requested by the interested persons. 

5.4. The Rules and Regulations shall take effect from their approval by TAIKOS TURTAS UAB director's order and shall remain in force until they are amended or revoked by TAIKOS TURTAS UAB.