Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 591

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 591
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 (d) service as a member of a committee of the Board; provided that a director receiving compensation for service as an officer pursuant to clause (b) shall not receive any additional compensation for service under clauses (a), (c) or (d).

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#### 2.14 PRESUMPTION OF ASSENT.
A director of the corporation present at a Board meeting at which action on any corporate matter is taken shall be presumed to have assented to the action taken unless:

(a) the director objects at the beginning of the meeting, or promptly upon arrival, to holding it or transacting business at the meeting;

(b) the director’s dissent or abstention from the action is entered in the minutes of the meeting; or

(c) the director delivers written notice of his or her dissent or abstention to such action to the presiding officer of the meeting before the adjournment thereof or to the corporation within a reasonable time after the adjournment of the meeting.

A director who voted in favor of such action may not dissent or abstain.

#### 2.15 CONSENT IN LIEU OF MEETING.
Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting of the Board may be taken without a meeting if a written consent setting forth the action to be taken is signed by each of the directors. Any such written consent shall be inserted in the minute book with the same effect as if it were the minutes of a Board meeting.

#### 2.16 COMMITTEES.
The Board by resolution may designate one or more committees. Each such committee:

(a) must have two or more members;

(b) must be governed by the same rules regarding meetings, action without meetings, notice and waiver of notice, and quorum and voting requirements as apply to the Board; and

(c) to the extent provided in such resolution or in the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise all the authority of the Board, except that no such committee shall have the authority to: (i) authorize or approve dividends or distributions except according to a general formula or method prescribed by the Board; (ii) approve or propose to shareholders corporate actions required by law to be approved by shareholders; (iii) fill vacancies on the Board or any committee thereof; (iv) amend the Articles of Incorporation; (v) adopt, amend,