Company: GTY
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-008521
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Company: GETTY REALTY CORP /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form: DEF 14A
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 securities law. Stockholders wishing to nominate a candidate must comply with the advance notice requirements in our Bylaws. Please refer to our Bylaws for more specific information. Our Bylaws, as amended and restated, were publicly filed with the SEC on January 31, 2024. In addition to satisfying the requirements of our Bylaws, in order to comply with universal proxy rules, stockholders who intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than the Company’s nominees must also provide notice that sets forth the information required in and meets the advance notice requirements of Rule 14a-19 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Additional information regarding any proposed nominees may be requested by the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee. Pursuant to the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee Charter and/or the Company’s Corporate Governance Guidelines, each nominee must possess fundamental qualities of intelligence, honesty, good judgment, and high standards of ethics, integrity, fairness and responsibility. The Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee may also consider the following criteria (with these criteria considered as a whole, with no single factor given specific weight) in addition to other criteria the Committee deems appropriate, including the specific needs of the Board of Directors at the time:

| ■ | personal and professional integrity, ethics, and values; |

| ■ | experience in corporate management, such as serving as an officer or former officer of a publicly held company; |

| ■ | the director’s past attendance at meetings and participation in and contributions to the activities of the Board of Directors (if applicable); |

| ■ | ability to make independent analytical inquiries, general understanding of marketing, finance and other elements relevant to the success of a publicly traded company in today’s business environment; |

| ■ | experience in our industry and with relevant social policy concerns; |

| ■ | understanding of our business on a technical level; |

| ■ | educational and professional background and/or academic experience in an area of our operations; |

| ■ | experience as a board member of another publicly held company; |

| ■ | practical and mature business judgment, including the ability to make independent analytical inquiries; |

| ■ | “independence,” as defined by the NYSE listing standards; |

| ■ | financial literacy; |

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| ■ | standing in the community; |

| ■ | diversity of perspective, experience and demographics