---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000928816-23-000266"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PMO"
cik: "0000900422"
company_name: "PUTNAM MUNICIPAL OPPORTUNITIES TRUST"
filed_at: "2023-02-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T23:09:12.563446+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust amends bylaws, exempts control share acquisitions

## Summary
- Bylaws amended to explicitly permit a Vice Chair of the Trustees, previously not referenced.
- Trustees may now fix a new record date for postponed or adjourned shareholder meetings.
- Proxies remain valid at postponed/adjourned sessions unless specifically limited, with new record date condition.
- Trustees voted to exempt all prior and future control share acquisitions from Article 16 of the bylaws.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000928816-23-000266
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PMO
- cik: 0000900422
- company_name: PUTNAM MUNICIPAL OPPORTUNITIES TRUST
- filed_at: 2023-02-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/900422/000092881623000266/0000928816-23-000266-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/900422/000092881623000266/a_mot8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000928816-23-000266.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  PUTNAM MUNICIPAL OPPORTUNITIES TRUST: Amended and restated bylaws to add Vice Chair references, fix new record date, and address validity of proxies at postponed/adjourned meetings (effective 2023-02-23).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-02-23
  source text: On February 23, 2023, the Board of Trustees (the “Trustees”) of Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust (the “Fund”) amended and restated the Bylaws of the Fund (the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/900422/000092881623000266/0000928816-23-000266-index.htm

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