Company: OCC
Filing Date: 2025-12-18
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001437749-25-038237
Chunk: 6

Company: OPTICAL CABLE CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-18
Form: S-8
Chunk 6
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     | Articles of Amendment filed July 5, 2002 to the Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended through July 5, 2002 (incorporated herein by reference to Appendix A to the Company’s definitive proxy statement on Form 14A filed July 5, 2002).                                                                  |
| 4.3     | Amended and Restated Bylaws of Optical Cable Corporation effective March 9, 2023 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.4 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the first quarter ended January 31, 2023).                                                                                               |
| 4.4     | Amended and Restated Stockholder Protection Rights Agreement, dated as of November 2, 2021, between Optical Cable Corporation and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, as rights agent (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Form 8-A12G field with the Commission on November 5, 2021). |
| 5.1     | Opinion of Woods Rogers Vandeventer Black PLC as to the legality of the securities being registered.*                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| 23.1    | Consent of Crowe LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| 23.2    | Consent of Woods Roger Vandeventer Black PLC (included in Exhibit 5.1).*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| 107     | Filing Fee Table. *                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |

| * | Filed herewith. |

<div align='center'>SIGNATURES</div>

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of Roanoke, Commonwealth of Virginia, on December 18, 2025.

| Date: December 18, 2025 |     | OPTICAL CABLE CORPORATION 
 By:                       |     | /s/    TRACY G. SMITH                             |
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|                         |     |                           |     | Tracy G. Smith                                    
 Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 193