SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2019-04-30

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<p style="text-align:right;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Exhibit 10.2</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-size:10pt;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Allegiance Bancshares, Inc., a Texas corporation (the "Company"), adopted and subsequently amended the Allegiance Bancshares, Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan, effective as of November&#160;15, 2011 (the &#8220;2011 Plan&#8221;).&nbsp;&nbsp;The 2011 Plan was amended and restated by the Board as the Allegiance Bancshares, Inc. 2019 Amended and Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the &#8220;Plan&#8221;) on January 24, 2019, subject to approval by the Company's shareholders.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">1.<font style="margin-left:36pt;"></font><font style="text-decoration:underline;">Purpose</font>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The purpose of the Plan is to encourage and enable eligible employees of Allegiance Bancshares, Inc. and its designated Subsidiaries to acquire proprietary interests in the Company (as defined below) through the ownership of Stock (as defined below) in order to establish a closer identification of their interests with those of the Company by providing them with another and more direct means of participating in its growth and earnings which, in turn, will provide motivation for participating employees to remain in the employ of and to give greater effort on behalf of their Employers (as defined below).&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the intention of the Company that the Plan qualify as an "employee stock purchase plan" under Section&#160;423 of the Code (as defined below).&nbsp;&nbsp;The provisions of the Plan shall, accordingly, be construed so as to extend and limit participation in a manner consistent with the requirements of that Section of the Code.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">2.<font style="margin-left:36pt;"></font><font style="text-decoration:underline;">Definitions</font>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Unless the context clearly requires a different meaning, the following words or terms, when used herein, shall have the following respective meanings:</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-left:7.69%;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">(a)<font style="margin-left:36pt;"></font>"Account" means the brokerage account maintained for each Participant under the Plan by the Plan Administrator.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-left:7.69%;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">(b)<font style="margin-left:36pt;">"Board" means the Board of Directors of the Company.</font></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-left:7.69%;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">(d)<font style="margin-left:36pt;">"Committee" means the Compensation Committee of the Board.</font></p>
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