Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-025920
Chunk: 584

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 584
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.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

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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 the case may be, in compliance with the procedures set forth in these Bylaws and, if any proposed nomination or business is not in compliance with these Bylaws, to declare that such proposal or nomination shall be disregarded.

(f) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of these Bylaws, a Noticing Shareholder also shall comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth in these Bylaws; provided , however , that any references in these Bylaws to the Exchange Act or the rules thereunder are not intended to and shall not limit the requirements applicable to nominations or proposals as to any other business to be considered pursuant to Section 1.2 or Section 1.12 .

(g) Nothing in these Bylaws shall be deemed to affect any rights of shareholders to request inclusion of proposals in the corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act. Notice of shareholder proposals that are, or that the Noticing Shareholder intends to be, governed by Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act are not governed by these Bylaws.

The business to be conducted at a special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the business set forth in the notice of meeting sent by the corporation.

**1.13 SUBMISSION OF QUESTIONNAIRE AND REPRESENTATION AND AGREEMENT.**

To be eligible to be a nominee for election as a director of the corporation by a Holder, the person proposed to be nominated must complete and deliver (in accordance with the time periods prescribed for delivery of notice under Section 1.12 ) to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the corporation a written questionnaire providing the information requested about the