Company: ATO
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001193125-25-107536
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Company: ATMOS ENERGY CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: S-8
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under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, to register an additional 2,000,000 shares of common stock, no par value (“Common Stock”), issuable under the Atmos Energy Corporation 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan, as amended (the “Plan”). At the recommendation of the Registrant’s Board of Directors, the Registrant’s stockholders approved an amendment to the Plan on February 5, 2025, which increased the number of shares available for issuance under the Plan by 2,000,000 shares of Common Stock. This Registration Statement on Form S-8relates to the additional 2,000,000 shares of Common Stock authorized to be issued under the Plan. The information contained in the Registrant’s registration statement on Form S-8filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 29, 2016 (SEC File No. 333-210461), together with all exhibits filed therewith or incorporated therein by reference, is hereby incorporated by reference pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8,and the shares of Common Stock registered hereunder are in addition to the shares of Common Stock registered on such registration statement. Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers. The Texas Business Organizations Code and the Virginia Stock Corporation Act permit, and in some cases require, corporations to indemnify directors and officers who are or have been a party or are threatened to be made a party to litigation against judgments, penalties, including excise and similar taxes, fines, settlements, and reasonable expenses under certain circumstances. Article IX of the Registrant’s Articles of Incorporation and Article IX of the Registrant’s Bylaws provide for indemnification of judgments, penalties, including excise and similar taxes, fines, settlements, and reasonable expenses, including attorney’s fees, and the advance payment or reimbursement of such reasonable expenses to directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by law. As authorized by Section 8.101 of the Texas Business Organizations Code, and Section 13.1-697of the Virginia Stock Corporation Act, each of the Registrant’s directors and officers may be indemnified by the Registrant against expenses, including attorney’s fees, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement, actually and reasonably incurred in connection with the defense or settlement of any threatened, pending or completed legal proceedings in which such person is involved by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Registrant if such person acted in good faith and in a manner