---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-23-034449"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NJR"
cik: "0000356309"
company_name: "NEW JERSEY RESOURCES CORP"
filed_at: "2023-07-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T09:06:07.416040+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# NJR amends bylaws to implement Rule 14a-19 compliance and update advance notice provisions

## Summary
- Board approved amended and restated bylaws on July 12, 2023.
- New procedures require compliance with SEC Rule 14a-19 for director nominations.
- Advance notice provisions for shareholder proposals and nominations updated.
- Meeting chair granted authority to determine validity of nominations and other matters.
- Proxy card color restriction: solicitors must use a color other than white.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-23-034449
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NJR
- cik: 0000356309
- company_name: NEW JERSEY RESOURCES CORP
- filed_at: 2023-07-13T23:59:59+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/356309/000114036123034449/0001140361-23-034449-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/356309/000114036123034449/brhc20055670_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-23-034449.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  NEW JERSEY RESOURCES CORP: Amended and restated Bylaws to implement director nomination procedures under Rule 14a-19, update advance notice provisions, clarify meeting chair authority, require non-white proxy card color, and make other conforming changes (effective 2023-07-12).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-07-12
  source text: On July 12, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of New Jersey Resources Corporation (the “Company”), upon the recommendation of the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee of the Board, approved the amended and restated Bylaws of the Company, in order to, among other things: • implement procedural and other requirements for director nominations, including requiring compliance with Rule 14a-19 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; • update the advance notice provisions that apply where a shareholder intends to propose a director nomination (Article I, Section 4) or other business (Article III, Section 1) at a shareholder meeting; • clarify a meeting Chair’s authority to determine the validity of nominations or submission of other matters (Article I, Section 4); • require any person soliciting proxies from stockholders to use a proxy card color other than white (Article III, Section 6); and • include certain other conforming, technical, and non-material changes.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/356309/000114036123034449/0001140361-23-034449-index.htm

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