---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001157523-23-001272"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JACK"
cik: "0000807882"
company_name: "JACK IN THE BOX INC"
filed_at: "2023-08-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-12T03:19:09.146916+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Jack in the Box amends bylaws with proxy card color rule and indemnification changes

## Summary
- Stockholder proxy solicitations must use a non-white proxy card; white reserved for Board use.
- Removed requirement to produce and keep a voting list at stockholder meetings.
- Stockholder notice must include representation on intent to solicit proxies under Rule 14a-19.
- Indemnification for agents and employees changed from mandatory to discretionary by the Board.
- Bylaws include additional administrative and clarifying amendments.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001157523-23-001272
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JACK
- cik: 0000807882
- company_name: JACK IN THE BOX INC
- filed_at: 2023-08-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- 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/807882/000115752323001272/0001157523-23-001272-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/807882/000115752323001272/a53512762.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-23-001272.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  JACK IN THE BOX INC: Amended and Restated Bylaws approved on August 3, 2023, including changes to proxy card color requirement, removal of voting list requirement, clarification of stockholder notice requirements under Rule 14a-19, and changes to indemnification provisions for agents and employees (effective 2023-08-03).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-08-03
  source text: On August 3, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Jack in the Box Inc. (the “Company”) approved Amended and Restated Bylaws for the Company (the “Bylaws”), effective as of that date. Amendments contained in the Bylaws include (i) requiring that any stockholder directly or indirectly soliciting proxies from other stockholders use a proxy card color other than white, which shall be reserved for the exclusive use by the Board; (ii) removing the requirement of producing and keeping a voting list at the time and place of each meeting of stockholders; (iii) clarifying that a stockholder’s notice to the Company must include a representation as to whether the proponent intends to solicit proxies from the required number of the Company’s voting shares in support of its proposal in accordance with and as required by Rule 14a-19 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and whether it intends to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at leas
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/807882/000115752323001272/0001157523-23-001272-index.htm

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