UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 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): January 20, 2021

NEW JERSEY RESOURCES CORPORATION
(Exact Name of registrant as specified in its charter)

(732) 938-1480
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

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Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

The Annual Meeting of Shareowners (the “Annual Meeting”) of New Jersey Resources Corporation (the “Company”) was held on January 20, 2021. At the Annual Meeting, of the 96,132,544 shares outstanding and entitled to vote as of the record date, 81,739,284 shares were represented, constituting a quorum. The final results for each of the matters submitted to a vote of shareowners at the Annual Meeting were as follows:

Item 1: The Company’s shareowners elected the five directors nominated by the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) for election to the Board at the Annual Meeting. M. William Howard, Jr. was elected to serve until the Company’s 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareowners or until his successor is elected and qualified, and Donald L. Correll, James H. DeGraffenreidt, Jr., M. Susan Hardwick and George R. Zoffinger were each re-elected to serve until the Company’s 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareowners or until their respective successors are elected and qualified, by the votes set forth in the table below:

The terms of office of the following directors continued after the Annual Meeting: Gregory E. Aliff, Robert B. Evans, Thomas C. O’Connor, Jane M. Kenny, Sharon C. Taylor, David Trice and Stephen D. Westhoven.

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

Item 3: The Company’s shareowners ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, by the votes set forth in the table below:

SIGNATURE

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.