Company: GTY
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-008521
Chunk: 18

Company: GETTY REALTY CORP /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 18
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 responsibilities, the Board of Directors has adopted Corporate Governance Guidelines on significant corporate governance issues. The Corporate Governance Guidelines address, among other things, the size and composition of the Board of Directors, director independence, committee membership and structure, meetings and executive sessions, and director selection and training. The Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee is committed to ensuring the Board of Directors has the skills, experience, and perspectives necessary to fulfill its responsibilities in overseeing Getty’s business and affairs and providing strategic guidance to management. In evaluating potential director candidates, the Committee will consider multiple factors, including independence, knowledge and judgment, financial literacy, breadth of skills, industry experience, leadership background, and the ability to contribute to a qualified, well-rounded and effective Board. The Committee does not assign specific weight to any particular criteria; its goal is to identify nominees who, collectively, enhance the Board’s overall effectiveness. Consistent with this approach, the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee remains committed to identifying and prioritizing independent, highly qualified candidates in accordance with the NYSE listing standards, while ensuring that the Board benefits from a range of perspectives, expertise, and collaborative leadership. For the year ended December 31, 2024, our Board of Directors had six members. The Board of Directors has nominated six candidates for election as directors for a one-year term ending at the 2026 annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders and when their successors are duly elected and qualified. The Board may reevaluate the size of the Board of Directors. If the Board of Directors decides to fill any vacancy, our Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee is committed to prioritizing for nomination a qualified director candidate who is ‘independent’ as defined in the listing standards of the NYSE and who enhances the Board’s collective expertise, leadership, and strategic oversight through a broad range of perspectives and experiences. In addition to independence, candidates will be evaluated based on relevant experience, professional background, and the ability to contribute to an inclusive and well-rounded Board. (For additional information regarding the factors considered in evaluating our director candidates, see ‘Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee’ discussion on page 28of this Proxy Statement.) The Charters for each of the committees of the Board of Directors, the Corporate Governance Guidelines, Getty’s Business Conduct Guidelines (which serves as our code of ethics under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and our code of business conduct and ethics under NYSE rules, and covers officers, employees and directors), our insider trading policy and our human rights policy all