Under our declaration of Trust, subject to the provisions of any class or series of our shares then outstanding, our shareholders are entitled to vote on the following matters: (1) the election of Trustees and the removal of Trustees; (2) any amendment to our declaration of Trust, merger or consolidation of us with or into, or sale of all or substantially all our assets to, another entity and our termination, in each case, to the extent a shareholder vote is required under the Maryland REIT Law, provided that such action has first been approved by at least 60% of our Board of Trustees, including 60% of our Independent Trustees (as defined in our declaration of Trust); and (3) such other matters with respect to which our Board of Trustees has adopted a resolution declaring that a proposed action is advisable and directing that the matter be submitted to our shareholders for approval or ratification. Our shareholders will also be entitled to vote on such matters as may be required by our declaration of Trust, bylaws or applicable law.
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Under the Maryland REIT Law, a Maryland real estate investment trust, or REIT, generally cannot dissolve, amend its declaration of trust, convert or merge unless these actions are approved by at least two-thirds of all shares entitled to be cast on the matter. The Maryland REIT Law allows a trust’s declaration of trust to set a lower percentage, so long as the percentage is not less than a majority of the votes entitled to be cast on the matter. Our declaration of trust provides for approval of any of the foregoing actions by a majority of all votes entitled to be cast on these actions provided the action has been approved by 60% of our Board of Trustees, including 60% of our Independent Trustees (as defined in our declaration of trust). Our declaration of trust further provides that if permitted in the future by Maryland law, the majority required to approve any of the foregoing actions which have been approved by 60% of our Board of Trustees, including 60% of our Independent Trustees, will be the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast on the matter.
信託所有權限制。 我們的信託聲明規定,除了The RMR Group LLC(或RMR)及某些其他特定的例外持有人外,任何人不得擁有,或因《1986年修改的美國國內稅收法典》(Internal Revenue Code of 1986)按歸屬條款被視爲擁有,或者根據《證券交易法》第13d-3條在權益上擁有,超過我們已發行的任何類別或系列普通股的9.8%的價值或數量(以較爲嚴格者爲準)。我們的董事會可以不時增加或減少一個或多個個人的所有權限制,但需遵循我們的信託聲明中所包含的限制。我們的信託聲明進一步禁止任何人以實際或推定的方式擁有我們的股票,如果這種所有權將導致我們在《稅法》第856(h)條下被視爲「緊密控股」,或以其他方式導致我們未能作爲信託進行稅務資格。任何試圖轉讓我們的股票,如果轉讓生效,將導致我們的股票由少於100人擁有,該轉讓將自始無效,預期受讓人將不獲得該股票的任何權利。
The foregoing provisions of the MGCL do not apply, however, to business combinations that are approved or exempted by our Board of Trustees prior to the time that the interested shareholder becomes an interested shareholder. A person is not an interested shareholder under the statute if the board of trustees approves in advance the transaction by which that shareholder otherwise would have become an interested shareholder. The board of trustees may provide that its approval is subject to compliance with any terms and conditions determined by the board of trustees. Our Board of Trustees has adopted a resolution that any business combination between us and any other person is exempted from the provisions of the MGCL described in the preceding paragraphs, provided that the business combination is first approved by our Board of Trustees, including the approval of a majority of the
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members of our Board of Trustees who are not affiliates or associates of the interested shareholder. This resolution, however, may be altered or repealed in whole or in part at any time.