Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 601

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 601
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 exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, agreement, vote or consent of shareholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise.

#### 9.5 INSURANCE, CONTRACT, AND FUNDING.
The corporation may maintain insurance at its own expense to protect itself and any Indemnitee against any expense, liability, or loss against which the corporation has the power to indemnify pursuant to this Article 9 . In addition, the corporation may maintain insurance against such expense, liability, or loss whether or not the corporation would have the power to provide indemnification under the Washington Business Corporation Act. The corporation may, without further shareholder action, enter into contracts with any director or officer of the corporation in furtherance of the provisions of this Article 9 and may create trust funds, grant security interests in corporate assets, provide letters of credit, and use such other means as the corporation deems necessary or appropriate to ensure that indemnification is provided under this Article 9 .

**9.6 INDEMNIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS OF THE CORPORATION.**

The corporation may, by action of the Board from time to time, provide indemnification and pay expenses in advance of the final disposition of a proceeding to or on behalf of employees and agents of the corporation with the same scope and effect as the provisions of this Article 9 with respect to the indemnification and advancement of expenses of directors and officers of the corporation or pursuant to rights granted pursuant to, or provided by, the Washington Business Corporation Act or otherwise.

## ARTICLE 10.

### MISCELLANEOUS

#### 10.1 RULES OF ORDER.
All meetings of the shareholders and directors shall be conducted in the manner determined by the person acting as chair of the meeting, to the extent not inconsistent with the Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, or special rules of order of the corporation.

#### 10.2 SHARES OF ANOTHER CORPORATION.
Shares of another corporation held by this corporation may be voted in person or by proxy by the President, the Chief Executive Officer or an Executive Vice President specifically authorized to do so by resolution of the Board.

#### 10.3 ORAL, WRITTEN AND ELECTRONIC NOTICE.
For purposes of notice required under these Bylaws the following provisions shall apply.

Oral notice may be communicated in person or by telephone, wire or wireless equipment that does not transmit a fac