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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-112594"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVB"
cik: "0000915912"
company_name: "AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES INC"
filed_at: "2023-10-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-09T06:31:29.548526+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AvalonBay amends bylaws to adopt universal proxy rule compliance requirements and other updates

## Summary
- Board amended and restated Bylaws effective October 30, 2023.
- Updates stockholder nomination requirements to align with SEC Rule 14a-19 universal proxy rules.
- Requires stockholder nominating directors to represent intent to comply with Rule 14a-19 and provide evidence.
- Requires stockholders soliciting proxies to use a proxy card color other than white.
- Includes technical updates for virtual meetings per Maryland law changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-112594
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVB
- cik: 0000915912
- company_name: AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES INC
- filed_at: 2023-10-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/915912/000110465923112594/0001104659-23-112594-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/915912/000110465923112594/tm2329082d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES INC: Amended and restated bylaws to update stockholder nomination and proposal requirements, including universal proxy rules, and make technical updates (effective 2023-10-30).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-10-30
  source text: Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year. On October 30, 2023, the Board of Directors of AvalonBay Communities, Inc. (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (as so amended and restated, the “Bylaws”), effective immediately, to, among other changes: · update the requirements for stockholder nominations of directors and proposals of business for consideration at meetings of stockholders, including with respect to Rule 14a-19 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), relating to the universal proxy rules; · add a requirement that any stockholder submitting a director nomination notice make a representation as to whether such stockholder intends to comply with Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act , and a requirement that a stockholder submitting such a director nomination notice deliver reasonable evidence that it has complied with the requirements of Rule 14a-19 of
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/915912/000110465923112594/0001104659-23-112594-index.htm

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