0001144215-17-000059.txt : 20170602 0001144215-17-000059.hdr.sgml : 20170602 20170602170042 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001144215-17-000059 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20170601 FILED AS OF DATE: 20170602 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20170602 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ACUITY BRANDS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001144215 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRIC LIGHTING & WIRING EQUIPMENT [3640] IRS NUMBER: 582632672 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0831 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1170 PEACHTREE STREET, NE STREET 2: SUITE 2300 CITY: ATLANTA STATE: GA ZIP: 30309-7676 BUSINESS PHONE: 404-853-1400 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1170 PEACHTREE STREET, NE STREET 2: SUITE 2300 CITY: ATLANTA STATE: GA ZIP: 30309-7676 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: L&C SPINCO INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20010629 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: REECE RICHARD K CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001183411 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-16583 FILM NUMBER: 17888826 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O ACUITY BRANDS, INC. STREET 2: 1170 PEACHTREE STREET, NE CITY: ATLANTA STATE: 2Q ZIP: 30309 4 1 wf-form4_149643722530955.xml FORM 4 X0306 4 2017-06-01 0 0001144215 ACUITY BRANDS INC AYI 0001183411 REECE RICHARD K C/O ACUITY BRANDS, INC. 1170 PEACHTREE STREET, NE SUITE 2300 ATLANTA GA 30309 0 1 0 0 EVP/Chief Financial Officer Common Stock 2017-06-01 4 F 0 1645 166.99 D 128178 D The transaction(s) reported relate(s) to the vesting of restricted stock held by the reporting person. The total direct shares owned includes 25,477 time-vesting restricted shares and 1,351 shares held in the employee stock purchase plan. /s/ Jill A. Gilmer, under Power of Attorney for Richard K. Reece 2017-06-02 EX-24 2 ex-24.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR: RICHARD K. REECE EFF 3.30.17

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of C. Dan Smith, Senior Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary, Lisa Wyn, Vice President and Controller, and Jill A. Gilmer, Executive Compensation Director and Assistant Secretary, signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

1.  execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of Acuity Brands, Inc. (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

2.  do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

3.  take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 30th day of March, 2017.


/s/ Richard K. Reece

Richard K. Reece