Form N-CEN - Annual Report for Registered Investment Companies
October 13 2023 - 1:13PM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
BLACKROCK MUNICIPAL INCOME TRUST
AMENDMENT TO
STATEMENT OF PREFERENCES OF
VARIABLE RATE MUNI TERM PREFERRED SHARES
DATED DECEMBER 15, 2011
(THE “STATEMENT OF PREFERENCES”)
The undersigned officer of BlackRock Municipal Income
Trust (the “Trust”), a Delaware statutory trust, hereby certifies as follows:
1.
The Board of Trustees of the Trust (with the consent of the Holders (as
defined in the Statement of Preferences), as required under Section 5 of the
Statement of Preferences) has adopted resolutions to amend the Statement of
Preferences as follows as of December 1, 2022:
a.
The Statement of Preferences of the Trust is hereby amended by deleting
the definition of “Applicable Base Rate” in the Statement of Preferences and
replacing it with the following definition as of December 1, 2022:
“Applicable
Base Rate” means (i) with respect to the initial Rate
Period beginning on December 1, 2022 and ending on December 7, 2022, the rate
as calculated pursuant to the Statement of Preferences as in place immediately
prior to the effectiveness of the Amendment to Statement of Preferences dated
December 1, 2022 and (ii) for every succeeding Rate Period, 75% of Daily SOFR
on the applicable Rate Determination Date.
b.
The Statement of Preferences of the Trust is hereby amended by deleting
the definition of “LIBOR Dealer” as of December 1, 2022.
c.
The Statement of Preferences of the Trust is hereby amended by deleting
the definition of “LIBOR Rate” as of December 1, 2022.
d.
The Statement of Preferences of the Trust is hereby amended by deleting
the definition of “London Business Day” as of December 1, 2022.
e.
The Statement of Preferences of the Trust is hereby amended by deleting
the definition of “Redemption Premium” in the Statement of Preferences and
replacing it with the following definition as of December 1, 2022:
“Redemption
Premium” means with respect of a VMTP Preferred Share rated above A1/A+ and
its equivalent by all Rating Agencies then rating such VMTP Preferred Share at
the request of the Trust and subject to any redemption, other than redemptions
required to comply with Minimum Asset Coverage requirements or exceed
compliance with the Minimum Asset Coverage requirements up to 240%, an amount
equal to the product of 1% and the Liquidation Preference of the VMTP Preferred
Shares subject to redemption if the Redemption Date is greater than or equal to
15 months from the Term Redemption Date, provided, up
to 25% of the Trust’s VMTP Preferred Shares Outstanding as of December 1, 2022
may be redeemed at any time without a Redemption Premium.
Any
VMTP Preferred Share exchanged for the preferred share of a surviving entity in
connection with a reorganization, merger, or redomestication of the Trust in
another state that had been previously approved by the Holders of VMTP
Preferred Shares or that otherwise does not require the vote or consent of the
Holders of VMTP Preferred Shares shall not be subject to the Redemption
Premium.
f.
The Statement of Preferences of the Trust is hereby amended by deleting
the definition of “Reference Banks” as of December 1, 2022.
g.
The Statement of Preferences of the Trust is hereby amended by adding
the definition for “Daily SOFR” as of December 1, 2022:
“Daily SOFR” means:
(1) With respect to any
Business Day means the secured overnight financing rate published for such day by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as the administrator of the benchmark (or a successor
administrator) on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s website (or any successor
source) as of 4:00 p.m. New York City time (such rate being initially published for such
day at 8:00 a.m. and may be revised until 2:30 p.m., New York City time).
(2) If the secured overnight
financing rate cannot be determined with respect to such any Business Day as
specified in paragraph (1), unless both a SOFR Index Cessation Event and a SOFR
Index Cessation Date have occurred, then the Redemption and Paying Agent shall
use the secured overnight financing rate in respect of the last Business Day
for which such secured overnight financing rate was published on the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York’s
website.
(3) If a SOFR Index
Cessation Event and SOFR Index Cessation Date have occurred, the Redemption and
Paying Agent shall determine the Applicable Base Rate as if the reference to
“75% of Daily SOFR” were a reference to the rate that was recommended as the
replacement for the secured overnight financing rate by the Federal Reserve
Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or a committee officially
endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York for the purpose of recommending a replacement for the secured overnight
financing rate (which rate may be produced by a Federal Reserve Bank or other
designated administrator, which rate may include any adjustments or spreads,
and which rate will be reasonably expected to measure contemporaneous
variations in the cost of newly borrowed funds in U.S. dollars). If no such
rate has been recommended within one Business Day of the SOFR Index Cessation
Event, then the Redemption and Paying Agent shall use the OBFR published on the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s
website for any Business Day after the SOFR Index Cessation Date (it being
understood that the OBFR for any such Business Day will be
the
Overnight Bank Funding Rate on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s website as of 4:00
p.m., New York City time).
(4) If the Redemption and
Paying Agent is required to use the OBFR in paragraph (3) above and an OBFR
Index Cessation Event has occurred, then for any Business Day after the OBFR
Index Cessation Date, the Redemption and Paying Agent shall use the short-term
interest rate target set by the Federal Open Market Committee and published on
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s
website, or if the Federal Open Market Committee has not set a single rate, the
mid-point of the short-term interest rate target range set by the Federal Open
Market Committee and published on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s website
(calculated as the arithmetic average of the upper bound of the target range
and the lower bound of the target range).
(5) If Daily SOFR
determined as above would be less than zero, then such rate shall be deemed to
be zero.
h.
The Statement of Preferences of the Trust is hereby amended by adding
the definitions for “SOFR Index Cessation Date” and “SOFR Index Cessation Event”
as of December 1, 2022:
“SOFR Index Cessation Date”
means, in respect of a SOFR Index Cessation Event, the date on which the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any successor administrator of the secured
overnight financing rate) ceases to publish the secured overnight financing
rate or the date as of which the secured overnight financing rate may no longer
be used.
“SOFR Index Cessation Event”
means the occurrence of one or more of the following events as it relates to
Daily SOFR:
(1) a public
statement by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator
of the secured overnight financing rate) announcing that it has ceased to
publish or provide the secured overnight financing rate permanently or
indefinitely, provided that, at that time, there is no successor administrator
that will continue to publish or provide a secured overnight financing rate; or
(2) the
publication of information which reasonably confirms that the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight
financing rate) has ceased to provide the secured overnight financing rate
permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at that time, there is no successor
administrator that will continue to publish or provide the secured overnight
financing rate.
i.
The Statement of Preferences of the Trust is hereby amended by adding
the definitions for “OBFR”, “OBFR Index Cessation Date”, and “OBFR Index
Cessation Event” as of December 1, 2022:
“OBFR”
means, with respect to any Business Day, the Overnight Bank Funding Rate on the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s website as of 4:00 p.m., New York City time.
“OBFR Index Cessation Date”
means, in respect of an OBFR Index Cessation Event, the date on which the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any successor administrator of the OBFR),
ceases to publish the OBFR, or the date as of which the OBFR may no longer be
used.
“OBFR Index Cessation Event”
means the occurrence of one or more of the following events:
(1) a public
statement by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator
of the OBFR) announcing that it has ceased to publish or provide the OBFR
permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at that time, there is no successor
administrator that will continue to publish or provide an OBFR; or
(2) the
publication of information which reasonably confirms that the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York (or a successor administrator of the OBFR) has ceased to provide
the OBFR permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at that time, there is no
successor administrator that will continue to publish or provide the OBFR.
j.
The Statement of Preferences of the Trust is hereby amended by deleting the
definition of “Substitute LIBOR Dealer” as of December 1, 2022.
k.
The Statement of Preferences of the Trust is hereby amended by adding
the following as Section 4(j) of the Statement of Preferences as of December 1,
2022:
(j) Exemption
from Delaware Control Beneficial Interest Acquisition Provisions. All VMTP
Shares Outstanding as of December 1, 2022 and the acquisition thereof by the Holder(s)
or Beneficial Owner(s) thereof or any other Person(s), including any transfer and acquisition
after December 1, 2022, will be exempt from Subchapter III of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.
2.
Except as amended hereby, the Statement of Preferences remains in full
force and effect.
3.
A copy of this amendment shall be lodged with the records of the Trust and
filed in such places as the Trustees deem appropriate.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, BlackRock
Municipal Income Trust has caused these presents to be signed as of November 29,
2022 in its name and on its behalf by its Vice President and attested by its Secretary.
Said officers of the Trust have executed this amendment as officers and not
individually, and the obligations and rights set forth in this amendment are
not binding upon any such officers, or the trustees or shareholders of the Trust,
individually, but are binding only upon the assets and property of the Trust.
BlackRock Municipal Income Trust
By: /s/ Jonathan Diorio
Name: Jonathan Diorio
Title: Vice President
ATTEST:
/s/ Janey Ahn
Name: Janey Ahn
Title: Secretary
[Signature Page to Amendment to Statement of Preferences – BFK]
REPORT
OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the
Shareholders and the Board of Trustees/Directors of BlackRock Investment
Quality Municipal Trust, Inc., BlackRock Municipal Income Trust, BlackRock
MuniHoldings Fund, Inc., BlackRock MuniVest Fund II, Inc., and BlackRock
MuniYield Quality Fund II, Inc.:
In
planning and performing our audits of the financial statements of BlackRock
Investment Quality Municipal Trust, Inc., BlackRock Municipal Income Trust,
BlackRock MuniHoldings Fund, Inc., BlackRock MuniVest Fund II, Inc., and BlackRock
MuniYield Quality Fund II, Inc. (the “Funds”) as of and for the year ended July 31,
2023, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), we considered the Funds’ internal
control over financial reporting, including controls over safeguarding
securities, as a basis for designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of
expressing our opinion on the financial statements and to comply with the
requirements of Form N-CEN, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on
the effectiveness of the Funds’ internal control over financial reporting.
Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
The management of the Funds is responsible for
establishing and maintaining effective internal control over financial
reporting. In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and judgments by
management are required to assess the expected benefits and related costs of
controls. A company's internal control over financial reporting is a process
designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial
reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company's internal
control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that
(1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail,
accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets
of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded
as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of
the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management
and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding
prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition
of a company's assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control
over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also,
projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to
the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions
or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may
deteriorate.
A deficiency in internal control over financial
reporting exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow
management or employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned
functions, to prevent or detect misstatements on a timely basis. A material
weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control
over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a
material misstatement of the company’s annual or interim financial statements
will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
Our consideration of the Funds’ internal control over
financial reporting was for the limited purpose described in the first
paragraph and would not necessarily disclose all deficiencies in internal
control that might be material weaknesses under standards established by the
PCAOB. However, we noted no deficiencies in the Funds’ internal control over
financial reporting and its operation, including controls over safeguarding
securities, that we consider to be a material weakness, as defined above, as of
July 31, 2023.
This report is intended solely for the information and
use of management and the Board of Trustees/Directors of the Funds and the
Securities and Exchange Commission and is not intended to be and should not be
used by anyone other than these specified parties.
/s/Deloitte & Touche
LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
September 22, 2023
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