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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000943374-23-000151"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PGC"
cik: "0001050743"
company_name: "PEAPACK GLADSTONE FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2023-03-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T17:30:02.298089+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Peapack-Gladstone amends bylaws: meeting notices, board vacancies, inspectors

## Summary
- Special meeting notices must now include the date of the meeting.
- Inspectors of election duties expanded to include hearing and determining voting challenges.
- Board meeting notices also require the inclusion of the date.
- Board vacancies may be filled by majority of remaining directors, even if less than quorum.
- New bylaw section added on interpretation of terms and genders; other non-substantive edits.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000943374-23-000151
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PGC
- cik: 0001050743
- company_name: PEAPACK GLADSTONE FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2023-03-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050743/000094337423000151/0000943374-23-000151-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050743/000094337423000151/form8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000943374-23-000151.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  PEAPACK GLADSTONE FINANCIAL CORP: Amended and restated bylaws to revise notice provisions for special meetings, election inspector duties, board vacancy filling, and add interpretation section (effective 2023-03-23).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-03-23
  source text: On March 23, 2023, the Board of Directors of Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (the “Company”) amended the Company’s bylaws as follows (amendatory language is double underlined and deleted language is stricken ), and restated the bylaws to incorporate such amendments:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050743/000094337423000151/0000943374-23-000151-index.htm

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