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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-023942"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CPK"
cik: "0000019745"
company_name: "CHESAPEAKE UTILITIES CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T02:22:49.972670+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chesapeake Utilities shareholders approve board declassification, share increase, officer exculpation

## Summary
- Shareholders approved declassification of Board over three years, with full annual election starting 2028.
- Authorized common shares increased from 50M to 75M; 21.2M votes for, 0.2M against.
- Officer exculpation amendment approved (17.0M for, 2.8M against), limiting officer liability under DGCL.
- Directors Jeffry M. Householder and Lila A. Jaber elected to three-year terms ending 2028.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-023942
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CPK
- cik: 0000019745
- company_name: CHESAPEAKE UTILITIES CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19745/000162828025023942/0001628280-25-023942-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19745/000162828025023942/cpk-20250507.htm

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