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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000776901-25-000230"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "INDB"
cik: "0000776901"
company_name: "INDEPENDENT BANK CORP"
filed_at: "2025-06-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T21:42:49.479503+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Independent Bank Corp amends by-laws, adds virtual meeting provision

## Summary
- Board amended and restated by-laws on June 18, 2025.
- New explicit provision for virtual shareholder meetings added.
- CEO will preside at shareholder meetings when Board Chair is absent.
- Officer election and removal provisions revised; bond requirement removed.
- Non-substantive technical and clarifying changes also made.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000776901-25-000230
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: INDB
- cik: 0000776901
- company_name: INDEPENDENT BANK CORP
- filed_at: 2025-06-25T23:59:59+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/776901/000077690125000230/0000776901-25-000230-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/776901/000077690125000230/indb-20250618.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000776901-25-000230
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000776901-25-000230.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000776901-25-000230.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  INDEPENDENT BANK CORP: Amended and restated by-laws to permit virtual shareholder meetings, update officer election and removal provisions, and make other changes (effective 2025-06-18).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-18
  source text: On June 18, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Independent Bank Corp. (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s by-laws (the “By-laws”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/776901/000077690125000230/0000776901-25-000230-index.htm

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