Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-025920
Chunk: 643

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 643
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The Board may authorize the issue of some or all of the shares without certificates. Within a reasonable time after the issue or transfer of shares without certificates, the corporation shall send the shareholder a written statement of the information required on certificates by applicable law.

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#### TABLE OF CONTENTS
**4.4 LOST, STOLEN, DESTROYED OR MUTILATED CERTIFICATES.**

A new certificate of stock or uncertificated shares may be issued in the place of any certificate previously issued by the corporation alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, and the corporation may, in its discretion, require the owner of such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, or such owner’s legal representative, to give the corporation a bond, in such sum as the corporation may direct, in order to indemnify the corporation against any claims that may be made against it in connection therewith. A new certificate or uncertificated shares of stock may be issued in the place of any certificate previously issued by the corporation that has become mutilated upon the surrender by such owner of such mutilated certificate and, if required by the corporation, the posting of a bond by such owner in an amount sufficient to indemnify the corporation against any claim that may be made against it in connection therewith.

## ARTICLE 5.

#### BOOKS, RECORDS, AND REPORTS

#### 5.1 MINUTES.
The corporation shall keep as permanent records minutes of all meetings of its shareholders and the Board, a record of all actions taken by the shareholders or the Board without a meeting, and a record of all actions taken by a committee of the Board exercising the authority of the Board on behalf of the corporation.

#### 5.2 ACCOUNTING RECORDS.
The corporation shall maintain appropriate accounting records.

#### 5.3 STOCK RECORDS.
The corporation or its agent shall maintain a record of its shareholders, in a form that permits preparation of a list of the names and addresses of all shareholders, in alphabetical order by class of shares showing the number and class of shares held by each. For a period beginning 10 days prior to any shareholders meeting and continuing through the meeting, an alphabetical list of the names of all shareholders of the corporation entitled to notice of the meeting, with address and number of shares held, shall be made available for inspection by any shareholder during normal business hours at the principal office of the corporation or at a place identified in the meeting notice in