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accession: "0001193125-23-075473"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RFI"
cik: "0000891290"
company_name: "COHEN & STEERS TOTAL RETURN REALTY FUND INC"
filed_at: "2023-03-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T22:46:18.142059+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund adopts amended bylaws effective March 15, 2023

## Summary
- Board approved amended and restated bylaws effective March 15, 2023.
- Updates add disclosure on virtual meetings and shareholder proxy proposals.
- Amendments conform to updated Maryland law and current best practices.
- No change to fiscal year or other material terms.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-075473
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RFI
- cik: 0000891290
- company_name: COHEN & STEERS TOTAL RETURN REALTY FUND INC
- filed_at: 2023-03-21T23:59:59+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/891290/000119312523075473/0001193125-23-075473-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/891290/000119312523075473/d480356d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  COHEN & STEERS TOTAL RETURN REALTY FUND INC: Amended and restated Bylaws to reflect current best practices and new provisions of Maryland law, including virtual meetings and shareholder proxy proposals (effective 2023-03-15).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-03-15
  source text: The Board of Trustees of Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund, Inc., a registered closed-end management investment company (the “Fund”), has approved amended and restated Bylaws for the Fund (the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”), effective as of March 15, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/891290/000119312523075473/0001193125-23-075473-index.htm

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