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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-23-001868"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AZO"
cik: "0000866787"
company_name: "AUTOZONE INC"
filed_at: "2023-03-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T19:53:19.493368+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AutoZone adopts Eighth Amended and Restated By-Laws effective March 21, 2023

## Summary
- Enhances procedural mechanics for stockholder nominations, including universal proxy rule compliance.
- Requires additional disclosures from nominating stockholders and proposed nominees.
- Requires nominees to be available for interviews within 10 days if requested by the Board.
- Requires proxy card color other than white for non-Board solicitations.
- Clarifies Board authority for remote shareholder meetings and record date procedures.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-23-001868
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AZO
- cik: 0000866787
- company_name: AUTOZONE INC
- 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/866787/000117184323001868/0001171843-23-001868-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866787/000117184323001868/f8k_032323.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  AUTOZONE INC: Adopted Eighth Amended and Restated By-Laws enhancing stockholder nomination procedures, proxy card rules, and other updates (effective 2023-03-21).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-03-21
  source text: On March 21, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of AutoZone, Inc. (the “Company”) adopted and approved amended and restated by-laws (the “Eighth Amended and Restated By-Laws”), effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866787/000117184323001868/0001171843-23-001868-index.htm

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