EX-99.1(Z) 2 d439733dex991z.htm ARTICLES SUPPLEMENTARY Articles Supplementary

BLACKROCK MUNICIPAL BOND FUND, INC.

ARTICLES SUPPLEMENTARY

BLACKROCK MUNICIPAL BOND FUND, INC., a Maryland corporation (the “Corporation”), hereby certifies to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of the State of Maryland that:

FIRST: The Corporation is registered as an open-end company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, with the authority to issue Six Billion Four Hundred Seventy-Five Million (6,475,000,000) shares of capital stock as follows:

 

Series and Classes

   Number of Authorized Shares  

BlackRock National Municipal Fund

  

Investor A Common Stock

     800,000,000  

Investor B Common Stock

     375,000,000  

Investor B1 Common Stock

     375,000,000  

Investor C Common Stock

     375,000,000  

Investor C1 Common Stock

     375,000,000  

Institutional Common Stock

     800,000,000  

Class K Common Stock

     375,000,000  

Service Common Stock

     375,000,000  

BlackRock Short-Term Municipal Fund

  

Investor A Common Stock

     150,000,000  

Investor A1 Common Stock

     150,000,000  

Investor B Common Stock

     150,000,000  

Investor C Common Stock

     150,000,000  

Institutional Common Stock

     150,000,000  

Class K Common Stock

     150,000,000  

Service Common Stock

     150,000,000  

BlackRock High Yield Municipal Fund

  

Investor A Common Stock

     100,000,000  

Investor C Common Stock

     100,000,000  

Institutional Common Stock

     100,000,000  

Common Stock

     1,275,000,000  

Total:

     6,475,000,000  

All shares of all classes of the capital stock of the Corporation have a par value of Ten Cents ($0.10) per share and an aggregate par value of Six Hundred Forty-Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($647,500,000).


SECOND: Pursuant to authority expressly vested in the Board of Directors of the Corporation by Section 2-105(c) of the Maryland General Corporation Law and the Corporation’s charter, the Board of Directors hereby (a) reclassifies One Billion Two Hundred Seventy-Five Million (1,275,000,000) authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock of the Corporation as Class K Common Stock of BlackRock High Yield Municipal Fund Series, (b) reclassifies Two Hundred Million (200,000,000) authorized but unissued shares of Investor B Common Stock of BlackRock National Municipal Fund Series as Class K Common Stock of BlackRock High Yield Municipal Fund Series, (c) reclassifies Three Hundred Seventy-Five Million (375,000,000) authorized but unissued shares of Investor B1 Common Stock of BlackRock National Municipal Fund Series as Class K Common Stock of BlackRock High Yield Municipal Fund Series and (d) reclassifies One Hundred Fifty Million (150,000,000) authorized but unissued shares of Investor B Common Stock of BlackRock Short-Term Municipal Fund Series as Class K Common Stock of BlackRock High Yield Municipal Fund Series.

THIRD: After the reclassification of authorized but unissued shares of capital stock of the Corporation, the Corporation will have the authority to issue Six Billion Four Hundred Seventy-Five Million (6,475,000,000) shares of capital stock as follows:

 

Series and Classes

   Number of Authorized Shares  

BlackRock National Municipal Fund

  

Investor A Common Stock

     800,000,000  

Investor B Common Stock

     175,000,000  

Investor C Common Stock

     375,000,000  

Investor C1 Common Stock

     375,000,000  

Institutional Common Stock

     800,000,000  

Class K Common Stock

     375,000,000  

Service Common Stock

     375,000,000  

BlackRock Short-Term Municipal Fund

  

Investor A Common Stock

     150,000,000  

Investor A1 Common Stock

     150,000,000  

Investor C Common Stock

     150,000,000  

Institutional Common Stock

     150,000,000  

Class K Common Stock

     150,000,000  

Service Common Stock

     150,000,000  

BlackRock High Yield Municipal Fund

  

Investor A Common Stock

     100,000,000  

Investor C Common Stock

     100,000,000  

Institutional Common Stock

     100,000,000  

Class K Common Stock

     2,000,000,000  

Total:

     6,475,000,000  

 

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All shares of capital stock of the Corporation will have a par value of Ten Cents ($0.10) per share and an aggregate par value of Six Hundred Forty-Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($647,500,000).

FOURTH: All of the shares of the Corporation’s capital stock continue to have the same preferences, conversion and other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends, qualifications, and terms and conditions of redemption as currently set forth in the Corporation’s charter.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, BLACKROCK MUNICIPAL BOND FUND, INC. has caused these Articles Supplementary to be signed in its name and on its behalf by the person named below who acknowledges that these Articles Supplementary are the act of the Corporation and that, as to all matters and facts required to be verified under oath and to the best of his knowledge, information and belief under the penalties of perjury, the matters and facts set forth herein are true in all material respects, as of this 25th day of January 2018.

 

ATTEST:         BLACKROCK MUNICIPAL BOND FUND, INC.

/s/ Benjamin Archibald

      By:  

/s/ John M. Perlowski

Benjamin Archibald         John M. Perlowski
Secretary         President and Chief Executive Officer

 

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