Exhibit 99.1

IFR Section 30.15  Certification for Years following First Fiscal Year

(Principal Executive Officer)

COMMUNITY BANKERS TRUST CORPORATION

UST #113

I, Rex L. Smith, III, the Executive Vice President and principal executive officer of Community Bankers Trust Corporation (the Company),
certify, based on my knowledge, that:



|(i) | The Companys Compensation Committee has discussed, reviewed and evaluated with senior risk officers at least every six months during the most recently completed
fiscal year, all of which was a TARP period, senior executive officer (SEO) compensation plans and employee compensation plans and the risks these plans pose to the Company;
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|(ii) | During the discussions, reviews and evaluations described above, the Companys Compensation Committee did not identify, and thus did not need to take steps to
limit, during the most recently completed fiscal year any features of the SEO compensation plans that could lead SEOs to take unnecessary and excessive risks that could threaten the value of the Company, and the Companys Compensation Committee
did not identify any features of the employee compensation plans that pose risks to the Company, and thus did not need to take steps to limit those features to ensure that the Company is not unnecessarily exposed to risks;
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|(iii) | The Companys Compensation Committee has reviewed, at least every six months during the most recently completed fiscal year, the terms of each employee
compensation plan and identified any features of the plan that could encourage the manipulation of reported earnings of the Company to enhance the compensation of an employee, and has limited any such features;
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|(iv) | The Companys Compensation Committee will certify to the reviews of the SEO compensation plans and employee compensation plans required under paragraphs
(i) and (iii) above;
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|(v) | The Companys Compensation Committee will provide a narrative description of how it limited during any part of the most recently completed fiscal year the features
in:
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(A) SEO compensation plans that could lead SEOs to take unnecessary and excessive risks that could threaten
the value of the Company;

(B) Employee compensation plans that unnecessarily expose the Company to risks; and

(C) Employee compensation plans that could encourage the manipulation of reported earnings of the Company to enhance the compensation of
an employee;



|(vi) | The Company has required that bonus payments to SEOs or any of the next twenty most highly compensated employees, as defined in the regulations and guidance established
under Section 111 of EESA (bonus payments), be subject to a recovery or clawback provision during the most recently completed fiscal year if the bonus payments were based on materially inaccurate financial statements or any other
materially inaccurate performance metric criteria;
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|(vii) | The Company has prohibited any golden parachute payment, as defined in the regulations and guidance established under Section 111 of EESA, to an SEO or any of the
next five most highly compensated employees during the most recently completed fiscal year;
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|(viii) | The Company has limited bonus payments to its applicable employees in accordance with Section 111 of EESA and the regulations and guidance established thereunder
during the most recently completed fiscal year;
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|(ix) | The Company and its employees have complied with the excessive or luxury expenditures policy, as defined in the regulations and guidance established under
Section 111 of EESA, during the most recently completed fiscal year; and any expenses that, pursuant to the policy, required approval of the board of directors, a committee of the board of directors, an SEO, or an executive officer with a
similar level of responsibility were properly approved;
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|(x) | The Company will permit a non-binding shareholder resolution in compliance with applicable federal securities rules and regulations on the disclosures provided under
the federal securities laws related to SEO compensation paid or accrued during the most recently completed fiscal year;
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|(xi) | The Company will disclose the amount, nature, and justification for the offering, during the most recently completed fiscal year, of any perquisites, as defined in the
regulations and guidance established under Section 111 of EESA, whose total value exceeds $25,000 for the employee who is subject to the bonus payment limitations identified in paragraph (viii);
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|(xii) | The Company will disclose whether the Company, the Companys board of directors, or the Companys Compensation Committee has engaged during the most recently
completed fiscal year a compensation consultant; and the services the compensation consultant or any affiliate of the compensation consultant provided during this period;
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|(xiii) | The Company has prohibited the payment of any gross-ups, as defined in the regulations and guidance established under Section 111 of EESA, to the SEOs and the next
twenty most highly compensated employees during the most recently completed fiscal year;
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|(xiv) | The Company has substantially complied with all other requirements related to employee compensation that are provided in the agreement between the Company and Treasury,
including any amendments;
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|(xv) | The Company has submitted to Treasury a complete and accurate list of the SEOs and the twenty next most highly compensated employees for the current fiscal year, with
the non-SEOs ranked in descending order of level of annual compensation, and with the name, title, and employer of each SEO and most highly compensated employee identified; and
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|(xvi) | I understand that a knowing and willful false or fraudulent statement made in connection with this certification may be punished by fine, imprisonment, or both. (See,
for example, 18 USC 1001.)
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|Date: March 31, 2011 |  | By: |  | /s/ Rex L. Smith, III                                 
|                     |  |     |  | Rex L. Smith, III                                     
|                     |  |     |  | Executive Vice President (principal executive officer)