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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 also periodically engage an independent third party to conduct a comprehensive cybersecurity assessment based on information security frameworks and guidelines such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Center for Information Security (CIS) and ISO27001. Management and the Audit Committee review the results of such assessments and engage with consultants, auditors, and other third parties to prevent, detect, mitigate, and remediate cybersecurity risks and incidents through various means. For the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, we did not experience any material incidents, nor incurred any expenses for penalties or settlements related to any information security breaches. In 2025, the Company’s enterprise risk management report to the Audit Committee and our Board began to include risk assessment and risk management actions relating to generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”) use by the Company, including the adoption of GenAI usage policies by the Company. For additional information, see “Corporate Governance and Related Matters—Role of Board of Directors in Risk Oversight,” sections on page 25of this Proxy Statement and “Report of the Audit Committee—Oversight Responsibilities—Enterprise Risk Management” and “—Information Security and Data Protection” sections on pages 60and 61of this Proxy Statement.

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Proposal No. 1 Election of Directors (Item No. 1 on the Proxy Card) Nominees for Election at the Annual Meeting Getty’s directors are elected at each annual meeting of stockholders and hold office for a term of one year and until their respective successors are elected and qualified. 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 or when their successors are duly elected and qualified. The affirmative vote of a plurality of all votes cast at the Annual Meeting is required for the election of each nominee to our Board of Directors. With respect to each director, you may vote “for” such nominee or “withhold” your vote as to such nominee. Director nominees with the most votes cast “for” such nominee’s election will be elected to our Board of Directors. Accordingly, if you “withhold” authority to vote with respect to one or more nominees, your vote will have no effect on the election of such nominees. For purposes of the election of directors, abstentions and broker non-votes, if any, will not be counted as votes cast and will have