EX-99.A CHARTER 2 f8078d2.htm ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT

  

PRUDENTIAL SHORT-TERM CORPORATE BOND FUND, INC. 

  

ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT 

  

Prudential Short-Term Corporate Bond Fund, Inc., a Maryland corporation registered as an open-end management investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Corporation”), hereby certifies to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland that: 

  

FIRST:  The charter of the Corporation (the “Charter”) is hereby amended to change the names of the following classes of common stock, $0.01 par value per share, of the Corporation, as set forth below: 

  

Current NameNew Name 

Class A Common Stock-PGIM Short-Term Corporate Bond Fund Class A  

Common Stock 

Class B Common Stock-PGIM Short-Term Corporate Bond Fund Class B  

Common Stock 

Class C Common Stock-PGIM Short-Term Corporate Bond Fund Class C  

Common Stock 

Class Q Common Stock-PGIM Short-Term Corporate Bond Fund Class R6  

Common Stock 

Class R Common Stock-PGIM Short-Term Corporate Bond Fund Class R  

Common Stock 

Class Z Common Stock-PGIM Short-Term Corporate Bond Fund Class Z  

Common Stock 

Class T Common Stock-PGIM Short-Term Corporate Bond Fund Class T  

Common Stock 

Class R2 Common Stock-PGIM Short-Term Corporate Bond Fund Class R2  

Common Stock 

Class R4 Common Stock-PGIM Short-Term Corporate Bond Fund Class R4  

Common Stock 

  

SECOND:  The foregoing amendment to the Charter was approved by a majority of the entire Board of Directors of the Corporation and was limited to a change expressly authorized by Section 2-605(a)(2) of the Maryland General Corporation Law without action by the stockholders.  

  

THIRD:  These Articles of Amendment shall become effective at 12:01 a.m. on June 11, 2018. 

  

FOURTH:  The undersigned officer of the Corporation acknowledges these Articles of Amendment to be the corporate act of the Corporation and, as to all matters or facts required to be verified under oath, the undersigned officer acknowledges that, to the best of such officer’s knowledge, information and belief, these matters and facts are true in all material respects and that this statement is made under the penalties for perjury. 

  

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused these Articles of Amendment to be signed in its name and on its behalf by its Vice President and attested by its Assistant Secretary as of this 14 day of May, 2018. 

  

ATTEST:

PRUDENTIAL SHORT-TERM CORPORATE BOND FUND, INC. 

  

  

  

  

/s/ Claudia DiGiacomo___________By: /s/Scott E. Benjamin____________(SEAL) 

Name:  Claudia DiGiacomo       Name: Scott E. Benjamin 

Title:  Assistant Secretary       Title:  Vice President