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accession: "0000037996-22-000085"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "F"
cik: "0000037996"
company_name: "FORD MOTOR CO"
filed_at: "2022-12-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T07:02:31.633612+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ford amends By-Laws to add advance notice provision for stockholder proposals

## Summary
- Adopted By-Law amendments effective December 8, 2022, primarily adding an advance notice requirement for stockholder nominations and proposals.
- Advance notice must be delivered between 120th and 90th day before anniversary of prior annual meeting.
- Updated provisions reflect changes in Delaware law, eliminate stockholder list availability requirement, and allow committee member substitution.
- Record date provisions aligned with Delaware General Corporation Law Section 213; other clarifying revisions made.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000037996-22-000085
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: F
- cik: 0000037996
- company_name: FORD MOTOR CO
- filed_at: 2022-12-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/37996/000003799622000085/0000037996-22-000085-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/37996/000003799622000085/f-20221208.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000037996-22-000085.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  FORD MOTOR CO: Amendments to By-Laws adopted on December 8, 2022, effective immediately, including addition of advance notice provision for stockholder nominations and proposals, updates for Delaware law changes, and other clarifying revisions (effective 2022-12-08).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2022-12-08
  source text: On December 8, 2022, the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company (the “Company”) adopted amendments to the Company’s By-Laws (the “By-Laws”), which became effective immediately, primarily to (i) add an advance notice provision setting forth timing and notice requirements for stockholders to make nominations or propose other business at meetings of stockholders (the “Advance Notice By-Law”), (ii) update certain provisions to reflect current Company practice and to account for recent changes in Delaware law, including by eliminating the requirement that the Company make available its stockholder list during stockholder meetings, (iii) add language allowing committees to appoint another member of the Board of Directors to act in place of any absent or disqualified committee member, (iv) align the provision regarding fixing record dates more closely to Section 213 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, and (v) make additional clarifying and refining revisions.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/37996/000003799622000085/0000037996-22-000085-index.htm

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