-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, BphrGDefk2qCr7fcvx32sO59LW9ZRo2ZBiw0dWLbQEqogix9/55u+WH7nSHsBNY4 7lCXwMVxWsFnh9XJ0rPPhg== 0001144204-10-000112.txt : 20100104 0001144204-10-000112.hdr.sgml : 20100101 20100104145306 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001144204-10-000112 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20091231 ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events FILED AS OF DATE: 20100104 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20100104 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SHORE BANCSHARES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001035092 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANKS [6021] IRS NUMBER: 521974638 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MD FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-22345 FILM NUMBER: 10501662 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 18 EAST DOVER STREET CITY: EASTON STATE: MD ZIP: 21601-3013 BUSINESS PHONE: 4108221400 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 18 EAST DOVER STREET CITY: EASTON STATE: MD ZIP: 21601-3013 8-K 1 v170393_8k.htm
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):  December 31, 2009

SHORE BANCSHARES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Maryland
0-22345
52-1974638
(State or other jurisdiction of
(Commission file number)
(IRS Employer
incorporation or organization)
  
Identification No.)

18 East Dover Street, Easton, Maryland 21601
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:  (410) 822-1400

N/A
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligations of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

o 
Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

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ITEM 8.01.    Other Events.

Shore Bancshares, Inc. (the “Company”) announces that The Centreville National Bank of Maryland, a national banking association and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, converted into a Maryland-chartered commercial bank with trust powers on December 31, 2009.  The bank, which now operates under the name “CNB”, is considered the same business and corporate entity as its national banking association predecessor, generally has all the rights, powers and duties of its national banking association predecessor, and succeeds to all of the rights, franchises and interests in its predecessor’s property.  In connection with its conversion, CNB elected to become a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, so its primary federal banking regulator is the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
 
 
SHORE BANCSHARES, INC.
  
       
Dated:  January 4, 2010
By:
/s/ W. Moorhead Vermilye  
   
W. Moorhead Vermilye
  
   
President and CEO
  
       
 
 
 
 
 
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