Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-026051
Chunk: 645

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form: 424B3
Chunk 645
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 action that indemnification of or reimbursement or advancement of expenses to the claimant is proper in the circumstances nor an actual determination by the corporation (including the Board, independent legal counsel, or its shareholders) that the claimant is not entitled to indemnification or to the reimbursement or advancement of expenses shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that the claimant is not so entitled.

#### 9.4 NONEXCLUSIVITY OF RIGHTS.
The right to indemnification and the payment of expenses incurred in defending a proceeding in advance of its final disposition conferred in this Article 9 shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, agreement, vote or consent of shareholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise.

#### 9.5 INSURANCE, CONTRACT, AND FUNDING.
The corporation may maintain insurance at its own expense to protect itself and any Indemnitee against any expense, liability, or loss against which the corporation has the power to indemnify pursuant to this Article 9 . In addition, the corporation may maintain insurance against such expense, liability, or loss whether or not the corporation would have the power to provide indemnification under the Washington Business Corporation Act. The corporation may, without further shareholder action, enter into contracts with any director or officer of the corporation in furtherance of the provisions of this Article 9 and may create trust funds, grant security interests in corporate assets, provide letters of credit, and use such other means as the corporation deems necessary or appropriate to ensure that indemnification is provided under this Article 9 .

**9.6 INDEMNIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS OF THE CORPORATION.**

The corporation may, by action of the Board from time to time, provide indemnification and pay expenses in advance of the final disposition of a proceeding to or on behalf of employees and agents of the corporation with the same scope and effect as the provisions of this Article 9 with respect to the indemnification and advancement of expenses of directors and officers of the corporation or pursuant to rights granted pursuant to, or provided by, the Washington Business Corporation Act or otherwise.

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## ARTICLE 10.

### MISCELLANEOUS

#### 10.1 RULES OF ORDER.
All meetings of the shareholders and directors shall be conducted in the manner determined by the person acting as