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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-23-002585"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JYNT"
cik: "0001612630"
company_name: "JOINT Corp"
filed_at: "2023-04-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T12:57:42.575582+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Joint Corp. adopts amended bylaws for DGCL updates and universal proxy rules

## Summary
- Board approved Third Amended and Restated Bylaws effective April 20, 2023.
- Updated advance notice provisions for stockholder nominations and business proposals to comply with Rule 14a-19.
- Revised proxy access section to address meeting date changes and exclusive method for including nominees.
- Removed requirement for voting list at meetings per recent DGCL amendments.
- Conforming and clarifying changes to adjournment notice and stockholder meeting procedures.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-23-002585
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JYNT
- cik: 0001612630
- company_name: JOINT Corp
- filed_at: 2023-04-26T23:59:59+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/1612630/000117184323002585/0001171843-23-002585-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1612630/000117184323002585/f8k_042623.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  JOINT Corp: The Board of Directors amended and restated the bylaws to update provisions regarding annual meetings, proxy access, voting list, and adjournments in light of recent changes to Delaware General Corporation Law and SEC universal proxy rules (effective 2023-04-20).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-04-20
  source text: On April 20, 2023, the Board of Directors of The Joint Corp. (the “Company”) approved certain amendments to, and the amendment and restatement of, the Company’s bylaws (the “Third Amended and Restated Bylaws”), which became effective the same day.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1612630/000117184323002585/0001171843-23-002585-index.htm

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