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accession: "0001999371-24-001736"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000890447"
company_name: "Vertex Energy Inc."
filed_at: "2024-02-09T23:59:59+00:00"
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event_type: "other_material"
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# Vertex Energy adopts amended bylaws with procedural updates to meetings and proposals

## Summary
- Board approved Second Amended and Restated Bylaws effective February 6, 2024.
- Clarifies virtual meeting authority and email notice provisions for stockholders.
- Updates director nomination requirements including Rule 14a-19 compliance evidence.
- Reserves white proxy card for Board use; other solicitations must use different color.
- Makes conforming changes and technical edits to prior bylaws.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001999371-24-001736
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000890447
- company_name: Vertex Energy Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-02-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/890447/000199937124001736/0001999371-24-001736-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/890447/000199937124001736/vertex-8k_020624.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Vertex Energy Inc.: Approved and adopted Second Amended and Restated Bylaws, effective February 6, 2024, making various changes including clarifying virtual stockholder meetings, electronic notice, director nomination procedures, proxy card color, and other updates (effective 2024-02-06).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-02-06
  source text: approved and adopted Second Amended and Restated Bylaws
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/890447/000199937124001736/0001999371-24-001736-index.htm

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