Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-025920
Chunk: 632

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 632
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 applicable law or by regulatory entities having jurisdiction over the corporation, including the provisions of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 and the Change in Bank Control Act of 1978 and any applicable state laws, and (B) intends to vote or cause to be voted shares of stock of the corporation held by the Noticing Shareholder at the meeting and intends to appear in person or by a representative at the meeting to nominate the person or propose the business specified in the notice.

v. With respect to each individual, if any, whom the Holder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board, a Noticing Shareholder’s notice must, in addition to the matters set forth in paragraphs (i) and (iv) above, also include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation, and agreement required by Section 1.13 below. The corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the corporation to determine the eligibility of the proposed nominee to serve as an independent director of the corporation or that could be material to a reasonable shareholder’s understanding of the independence, or lack thereof, of the nominee.

(d) Notwithstanding anything in Section 1.12(a) to the contrary, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board is increased and there is no public announcement by the corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one-hundred (100) days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting, a Noticing Shareholder’s notice required by these Bylaws shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the corporation not later than 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on the 10th day following the day on which the public announcement naming all nominees or specifying the size of the increased Board is first made by the corporation.

(e) Only those persons who are nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in these Bylaws shall be eligible for election as directors. Only such business shall be conducted at a meeting of shareholders as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in these Bylaws. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Articles of Incorporation, or these Bylaws, the chair of the meeting shall have the power and duty to determine whether a nomination or any business proposed to be brought before the meeting was made or proposed, as