0000038067-14-000003.txt : 20140218 0000038067-14-000003.hdr.sgml : 20140217 20140218082031 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000038067-14-000003 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20140213 ITEM INFORMATION: Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20140218 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20140218 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FOREST CITY ENTERPRISES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000038067 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: OPERATORS OF NONRESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS [6512] IRS NUMBER: 340863886 STATE OF INCORPORATION: OH FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-04372 FILM NUMBER: 14620426 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1100 TERMINAL TOWER STREET 2: 50 PUBLIC SQ CITY: CLEVELAND STATE: OH ZIP: 44113 BUSINESS PHONE: 216-621-6060 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1100 TERMINAL TOWER STREET 2: 50 PUBLIC SQUARE CITY: CLEVLAND STATE: OH ZIP: 44113 8-K 1 form8-kamemdment.htm 8-K Form 8-K Amemdment
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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Form 8-K
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CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): February 13 , 2014
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Forest City Enterprises, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Ohio
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
 
1-4372
(Commission
File Number)
 
34-0863886
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
 
 
 
 
 
Terminal Tower, 50 Public Square
Suite 1100, Cleveland, Ohio
 
44113
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
(Zip Code)
 
 
 
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 216-621-6060
 
 
 
 
 
Not Applicable
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
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Item 5.03 - Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

(a)     Effective February 13, 2014, the Board of Directors (“Board”) of Forest City Enterprises, Inc. (“Company”), amended Article I, Section 1 of the Company’s Code of Regulations to provide additional flexibility to the Board of Directors to set a time and date for annual meetings of shareholders unrestricted by a requirement that the annual meeting be held in June each year.

Item 9.01 - Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d)
Exhibits

Exhibit No.
Description
3.1
Amendment to Article I, Section 1 of the Forest City Enterprises, Inc. Code of Regulations





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.

 
 
FOREST CITY ENTERPRISES, INC.
 
 
 
 
Date:
February 18, 2014
By:
/s/ ROBERT G. O'BRIEN
 
 
Name:
Robert G. O’Brien
 
 
Title:
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
 
 
 
 





EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.
Description
3.1
Amendment to Article I, Section 1 of the Forest City Enterprises, Inc. Code of Regulations



EX-3.1 2 exhibit31-amendment.htm EXHIBIT Exhibit 3.1- Amendment
Exhibit 3.1

Amendment to Article I, Section 1 of the
Forest City Enterprises, Inc.
Code of Regulations

Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Company for the election of directors, the consideration of reports to be laid before the meeting, and the transaction of such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting shall be held in the place described in the Articles of Incorporation as the place where the principal office of the Company is or is to be located, or at such other place either within or without the State of Ohio as may be designated by the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, or the President and specified in the notice of the meeting at ten o’clock a.m., on the second Tuesday of June in each year, (or, if that be a legal holiday, on the next succeeding business day) or at such other a time and on such other a date (not, however, earlier than June 1 or later than June 30 in any year) as designated by the Board of Directors may determine and specified in the notice of the meeting. The Board of Directors may reschedule any previously scheduled annual meeting, subject to the restrictions in the immediately preceding sentence, to another place, time and date upon notice thereof. (Amended February 13, 2014)