Company: ECC-PD
Filing Date: 2025-10-16
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-100083
Chunk: 23

Company: Eagle Point Credit Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-16
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 23
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 Trustees of an instrument setting forth the new name and the filing of a certificate of amendment pursuant to Section 3810(b) of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act. Any such instrument shall not require the approval of the Shareholders, but shall have the status of an amendment to this Declaration. 1.2. Trust Purpose. The purpose of the Trust is to conduct, operate and carry on the business of a closed-end management investment company registered under the 1940 Act. In furtherance of the foregoing, it shall be the purpose of the Trust to do everything necessary, suitable, convenient or proper for the conduct, promotion and attainment of any businesses and purposes which at any time may be incidental or may appear conducive or expedient for the accomplishment of the business of a closed-end management investment company registered under the 1940 Act and which may be engaged in or carried on by a trust organized under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, and in connection therewith the Trust shall have the power and authority to engage in the foregoing and may exercise all of the powers conferred by the laws of the State of Delaware upon a Delaware statutory trust. 1 1.3. Definitions. As used in this Declaration, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) The “ 1940 Act” refers to the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder and exemptions granted therefrom, as amended from time to time. (b) The terms “ Affiliated Person,” “ Assignment,” “ Interested Person” and “ Principal Underwriter” shall have the meanings given them in the 1940 Act. (c) “ Bylaws” shall mean the Bylaws of the Trust, as amended from time to time by the Trustees. (d) “ Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations promulgated thereunder. (e) “ Commission” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission. (f) “Contested Election” for purposes of Section 10.4 shall mean any election of Trustees in which the number of persons nominated for election as Trustees by Shares entitled to vote for such Trustees in accordance with the requirements of the Declaration of Trust and the Bylaws exceeds the number of Trustees to be elected by Shares entitled to vote for such Trustees, with the determination that any election of Trustees is a Contested Election to be made by the Secretary or other officer of the Trust prior to the time the Trust mails its definitive proxy statement in connection with such