Lithia Motors Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year, Financial Statements and Exhibits
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (date of earliest event reported)
LITHIA MOTORS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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(541 ) 776-6401
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Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.
On July 25, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Lithia Motors, Inc. (the “Company”) approved and adopted amendments to the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (as amended and restated, the “Bylaws”), effective as of such date. The amendments to the Bylaws, among other things:
•Incorporate procedures for shareholders to call a special meeting permitted by the Company’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation;
•Clarify and update certain procedural and disclosure requirements in connection with shareholder nominations of directors and submissions of proposals regarding other business at an annual or a special meeting of shareholders including, among other things, updating required background information and disclosures regarding proposing shareholders and certain related persons and proposed nominees and business and requiring a shareholder seeking to nominate a director or submit proposals regarding other business to update and supplement its notice information at certain designated times;
•Update certain provisions relating to shareholder nominees for election as a director to address the universal proxy rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, among other things, requiring reasonable documentary evidence of compliance with Rule 14a-19 and requiring that any shareholder soliciting proxies from other shareholders use a proxy card color other than white;
•Add procedures permitting the postponement of an annual or a special meeting; and
•Designate the state courts of the State of Oregon, or in the event the state courts do not have jurisdiction, the federal district court for the District of Oregon, as the sole and exclusive forum for certain legal actions unless the Company consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum.
The Bylaws also incorporate other technical, ministerial, clarifying and conforming changes.
The foregoing description of the amendments to the Bylaws does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Bylaws, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 3.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d) Exhibits
| Exhibit No. | Description | ||||
| Bylaws as of July 25, 2024. | |||||
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Dated: | July 30, 2024 | LITHIA MOTORS, INC. | |||||||||
| By: | /s/ Tina Miller | ||||||||||
| Tina Miller | |||||||||||
| Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | |||||||||||