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Form 8-K for NEW JERSEY RESOURCES CORP


25-Jan-2013

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders


Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
The 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the "Annual Meeting") of New Jersey Resources Corporation (the "Company") was held on January 23, 2013. At the Annual Meeting, of the 41,689,123 shares outstanding and entitled to vote as of the record date, 35,249,634 shares were represented, constituting an 84.6% quorum. The final results for each of the matters submitted to a vote of shareholders at the Annual Meeting were as follows:

Item 1: The Company's Board of Directors (the "Board") nominated five directors
for election to the Board at the Annual Meeting. Mr. Lawrence R. Codey, Mr. Laurence M. Downes, Mr. Robert B. Evans and Mr. Alfred C. Koeppe were each re-elected to serve until the Company's 2016 Annual Meeting or until their respective successors are elected and qualified, and Ms. Sharon C. Taylor, was elected to serve until the Company's 2014 Annual Meeting or until her successor is elected and qualified, by the votes set forth in the table below:

Nominee            For        Withheld Broker Non-Votes
Lawrence R. Codey  28,462,541 407,531  6,379,562
Laurence M. Downes 28,169,711 700,361  6,379,562
Robert B. Evans    28,190,189 679,883  6,379,562
Alfred C. Koeppe   28,169,716 700,356  6,379,562
Sharon C. Taylor   28,491,135 378,937  6,379,562

The terms of office of the following directors continued after the Annual Meeting: Jane M. Kenny, David A. Trice, Donald L. Correll, Rev. M. William Howard, Jr., J. Terry Strange and George R. Zoffinger.

Item 2: The shareholders approved a non-binding advisory resolution approving
the compensation of our named executive officers, by the votes set forth in the table below:

For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 27,060,718 1,533,218 276,136 6,379,562

Item 3: The appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent
registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, was ratified by the shareholders, by the votes set forth in the table below:

For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 34,761,748 385,144 102,742 -

Item 4: Shareholders also re-approved the material terms of the performance
goals under the Company's 2007 Stock Award and Incentive Plan, pursuant to
Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, by the votes set forth in the table below:

For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 23,258,179 544,482 270,580 9,034,561


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