Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal
Year.
(a) On December 5, 2008, the Board of Directors of Federal Signal Corporation
(the "Company") approved an amendment to Section 2.13 of the Company's Amended
and Restated Bylaws effective immediately. The Amended and Restated Bylaws of
the Company, as amended to date (the "Bylaws"), are filed as Exhibit 3.b.
attached hereto. Section 2.13 of the Bylaws, as amended, provides for election
of directors by a majority of the votes cast for each director. Previously,
directors were elected by a plurality of the vote.
The Board of Directors has also adopted a director resignation policy relating
to the majority voting provision of the Bylaws pursuant to which each incumbent
director will execute and deliver to the Company an advance irrevocable
resignation that will be effective in the event that such incumbent director
fails to receive more total votes cast "for" his or her election than total
"withhold" votes. In this event, under the director resignation policy, the
Nominating and Governance Committee will recommend to the Board of Directors the
action to be taken with respect to such director's contingent resignation and
the Board of Directors will take action on the Committee's recommendation no
later than 180 days following the date of the stockholders' meeting at which the
election occurred. Following the Board of Director's action, the Company will
publicly disclose the Board's decision including an explanation of the process
by which the decision was made and, if applicable, the Board's reason or reasons
for rejecting the tendered resignation.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
3.b. Amended and Restated By-Laws of Federal Signal Corporation, as further
amended December 5, 2008