**Exhibit 31.1**

 

**Rule 13a-14(a) Certificationof the Chief Executive Officer**

 

I, C. Allan Ducker, III,chief executive officer, certify that:

 

1.     I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-KSBof CommunitySouth Financial Corporation.

 

2.     Based on my knowledge, this annual reportdoes not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state amaterial fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of thecircumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading withrespect to the period covered by this report;

 

3.     Based on my knowledge, the financialstatements, and other financial information included in this report, fairlypresent in all material respects the financial condition, results of operationsand cash flows of the small business issuer as of, and for, the periodspresented in this report;

 

4.     The registrant’s other certifying officerand I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls andprocedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e))and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

 

a)              Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, orcaused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under oursupervision, to ensure that material information relating to the small businessissuer, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by otherswithin those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is beingprepared;

 

b)             Designed such internal control over financialreporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to bedesigned under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding thereliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statementsfor external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accountingprinciples;

 

c)              Evaluated the effectiveness of the small businessissuer’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosurecontrols and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this reportbased on such evaluation; and

 

d)             Disclosed in this report any change in the smallbusiness issuer’s internal control over financial reporting that occurredduring the small business issuer’s fourth fiscal quarter that has materiallyaffected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the small businessissuer’s internal control over financial reporting; and;

 

5.               The small business issuer’s other certifying officersand I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal controlover financial reporting, to the small business issuer’s auditors and the auditcommittee of the small business issuer’s board of directors (or personsperforming the equivalent functions):

 

a)              All significant deficiencies and material weaknessesin the design or operation of internal controls over financial reporting whichare reasonably likely to adversely affect the small business issuer’s abilityto record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

b)             Any fraud, whether or not material, that involvesmanagement or other employees who have a significant role in the small businessissuer’s internal control over financial reporting.

 
| Date:  | March 27,  2008 |   | By:                        | /s/ C. Allan  Ducker, III |
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|   |                 |   | C. Allan  Ducker, III |                           |   |
|   |                 |   | Chief Executive Officer    |                           |   |

 

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