Company: ATO
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000731802-25-000076
Chunk: 76

Company: ATMOS ENERGY CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 76
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 for next year’s annual meeting, please follow the instructions on the proxy card. |

#### 70Atmos Energy
| Appendix A |

Amendment to Articles of Incorporation to Increase the Number of Authorized Shares of Common Stock

<div align='center'>ARTICLE VII.</div>

1. Capitalization .

The aggregate number of shares which the Corporation shall have the authority to issue is Two Four Hundred Million ( 2 4 00,000,000) shares of Common Stock having no par value.

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| Appendix B |

Amendment to Articles of Incorporation to Provide for Plurality Voting in the Event of a Contested Election

<div align='center'>ARTICLE VI.</div>

2. Election and Term . All directors elected at the 2010 annual meeting of shareholders shall be elected for terms of three years and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. Beginning with the 2011 annual meeting of shareholders, and at each annual meeting of shareholders thereafter, a A ll directors elected at the annual meeting of shareholders shall be elected for a one-year term expiring at the next annual meeting of shareholders. Directors shall be elected by a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the shares of Common Stock entitled to vote in the election of directors and represented in person or by proxy at a meeting of shareholders at which a quorum is present; provided that, in a contested election of directors where the number of nominees exceeds the number of directors to be elected, the directors shall be elected by a plurality of the votes cast by the holders of vote of the shares of the Common Stock entitled to vote in the election of directors and represented in person or by proxy at a meeting of shareholders at which a quorum is present. Each director who is serving as a director immediately following the 2011 annual meeting of shareholders, or is thereafter elected a director, shall hold office until the expiration of the term for which he or she was elected, and until his or her successor shall be elected and shall qualify, or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification from office.

#### B-1Atmos Energy
| Appendix C |

Amendment to Articles of Incorporation to Limit the Liability of Certain Officers as Permitted by Texas and Virginia Law

<div align='center'>ARTICLE X.</div>

No director or officer of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for an act or omission in such director ’s or officer '