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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-23-032802"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001820877"
company_name: "Apartment Income REIT Corp."
filed_at: "2023-09-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T09:50:30.306943+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AIRC shareholders approve charter amendments lowering removal threshold and amendment vote to simple majority

## Summary
- Stockholders approved lowering director removal threshold to simple majority of shares outstanding and removing 'cause' requirement.
- Vote required to amend Charter and Bylaws reduced to simple majority of shares outstanding.
- Obsolete language eliminated; Amended Charter effective Sept 21, 2023 after Maryland filing.
- Board had previously approved amendments subject to stockholder approval at annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-23-032802
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001820877
- company_name: Apartment Income REIT Corp.
- filed_at: 2023-09-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820877/000162828023032802/0001628280-23-032802-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820877/000162828023032802/airc-20230921.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Apartment Income REIT Corp.: Amended charter to lower director removal threshold to simple majority, eliminate cause requirement, reduce charter/bylaws amendment vote to simple majority, and remove obsolete language (effective 2023-09-21).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2023-09-21
  source text: On September 15, 2023, at the annual meeting of stockholders of Apartment Income REIT Corp. (the “Company”), the Company’s stockholders approved certain amendments to the Company’s Articles of Amendment and Restatement (the “Charter”) to (i) lower the threshold for stockholders to remove directors to a simple majority of shares outstanding and eliminate the requirement that such removal be for “cause,” (ii) reduce to a simple majority the shareholder vote required to amend the Company’s Charter and Amended and Restated Bylaws, and (iii) to eliminate language that is by its terms no longer applicable due to the passage of time (as amended and restated, the “Amended and Restated Charter”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820877/000162828023032802/0001628280-23-032802-index.htm

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