Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-025920
Chunk: 627

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 627
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viii. “

#### Record Holder
” shall mean a shareholder that holds of record shares of the corporation entitled to vote at the meeting.

ix. “

#### SEC
” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

x. “

#### Securities Act
” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

xi. “

#### Voting Commitment
” shall mean any agreement, arrangement or understanding with, and any commitment or assurance to, any person or entity as to how a person, if elected as a director of the corporation, will act or vote on any issue or question.

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(b) To be timely, a Noticing Shareholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the corporation not earlier than 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on the one-hundred-twentieth (120th) day and not later than 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on the ninetieth (90th) day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting; provided , however , that, in the event, the date of the annual meeting is more than thirty (30) days before or more than sixty (60) days after the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting, then, to be timely, notice by the shareholder must be so delivered not earlier than 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on the one-hundred-twentieth (120th) day prior to the date of such annual meeting and not later than 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on the later of the ninetieth (90 th ) day prior to the date of such annual meeting or, if the first public announcement of the date of such annual meeting is less than one-hundred (100) days prior to the date of such annual meeting, the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made by the corporation. In no event shall any adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting, or the announcement thereof, commence a new time period for the giving of a Noticing Shareholder’s notice as described above.

(c)