UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF

THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):  June 22, 2006

 

Corning Natural Gas Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

New York

 

0-643

 

16-0397420

 

(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)

 

(Commission
File Number)

 

(IRS Employer
Identification No.)

 

 

330 West William Street, Corning, New York 14830
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:  (607) 936-3755

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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Corning Natural Gas Corporation
Form 8-K

Item  5.03   Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

At the June 22, 2006 Board of Directors Meeting of Corning Natural Gas Corporation, Article II, Sections 3 and 6 of the Corporation’s By-Laws were amended to extend the time for notice of stockholders meetings and the time to determine stockholders entitled to vote from “not more than 40 days prior to the date of the meeting” to “not more than 60 days prior to the date of the meeting.”

Pursuant to Article VII, Section 3 of the By-Laws, the foregoing amendments to the By-laws are effective June 22, 2006 and shall be submitted to the Corporation’s stockholders at the next annual meeting of stockholders and if such amendments are not ratified at such annual meeting of stockholders, they shall only be effective up to the time of such annual meeting.

The preceding descriptions of the By-Laws and Amendment to the By-Laws do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the copy of the Corporation’s Amended & Restated By-Laws that has been filed as Exhibit 3.01, and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.01.   Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(c) Exhibits.

Exhibit Number

 

Exhibit Description

3.01

 

Amended and Restated By-Laws of Corning Natural Gas Corporation, as amended June 22, 2006.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Corning Natural Gas Corporation

 

 

 

Date: August 28, 2006

 

By:

 

/s/ Thomas K. Barry

 

 

 

 

Thomas K. Barry

 

 

 

 

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

/s/ Firouzeh Sarhangi

 

 

 

 

Firouzeh Sarhangi

 

 

 

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

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