---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000863110-21-000039"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ARTNA"
cik: "0000863110"
company_name: "ARTESIAN RESOURCES CORP"
filed_at: "2021-11-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T11:50:30.528149+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Artesian Resources announces blackout period for retirement plan due to record-keeper change

## Summary
- Blackout period from Dec 8, 2021 to ~week of Dec 27, 2021 for Artesian Resources Retirement Plan.
- Empower Retirement replaces Newport Group as record-keeper effective Dec 15, 2021; transition requires blackout.
- Participants cannot check balances, transfer investments, or obtain loans/distributions during blackout.
- Directors and executive officers prohibited from trading compensatory shares under Sarbanes-Oxley.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000863110-21-000039
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ARTNA
- cik: 0000863110
- company_name: ARTESIAN RESOURCES CORP
- filed_at: 2021-11-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.04, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/863110/000086311021000039/0000863110-21-000039-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/863110/000086311021000039/8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000863110-21-000039
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000863110-21-000039.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000863110-21-000039.txt

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