Company: MSEX
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001174947-25-000561
Chunk: 6

Company: MIDDLESEX WATER CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 6
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 like most of our shareholders, your shares are held in “street name.” As the beneficial owner, you have the right to direct your broker or nominee how to vote your shares by following the voting instructions your broker or nominee provides.

| 8. | How will my shares be voted if I do not vote or if I have not provided instructions to my broker? |

All shares that have been properly voted, by completing and submitting a proxy card whether by Internet, telephone or U.S. mail, and not revoked, will be voted at the Annual Meeting in accordance with your instructions. If you are a shareholder of record and you do not vote by proxy card, by telephone, via the Internet or in person at the Annual Meeting, your shares will not be voted at the Annual Meeting. If you sign your proxy card but do not give voting instructions, the shares represented by that proxy will be voted as recommended by the Board. If any other matters are properly presented at the Annual Meeting for consideration and if you have voted your shares by Internet, telephone or U.S. mail, the persons named as proxies in the proxy card will have the discretion to vote on those registered matters for you. If you are the beneficial owner and you do not direct your broker or nominee how to vote your shares, your broker or nominee may vote your shares on only those proposals for which it has discretion to vote. Please note that under the rules of the Nasdaq Global Select Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) your bank, broker or other nominee may not vote your shares with respect to matters considered non-routine (Proposals 1 and 2). Proposal 3, the ratification of our auditor, is a routine matter on which brokers and nominees can vote on behalf of their clients if clients do not furnish voting instructions.

| 9. | How many votes must be present to hold the Meeting? |

In order for the Annual Meeting to be conducted, a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock as of the record date must be present or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting. This is referred to as a quorum. Middlesex Water Company 4 2025 Proxy Statement

| 10. | What is the vote required for each proposal and what are my voting choices? |

| Proposal                                             | Vote Required                                                               | Broker Discretionary 
 Vote Allowed         |
| Proposal 1 - Election of three                       
 Directors                                            | Plurality of votes cast                                                     | No                   |
| Proposal 2 - Advisory vote on executive compensation | Majority of the shares