Note 16 - Deferred Compensation Plan

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

Notes to Financial Statements

Deferred Compensation Plan [Text Block]

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1

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Deferred

Compensation

Plan

Colony Bank, the wholly-owned subsidiary, has deferred compensation plans covering certain former directors and certain officers choosing to participate through individual deferred compensation contracts. In accordance with terms of the contracts, the Bank is committed to pay the participant’s deferred compensation over a specified number of years, beginning at age

65.

In the event of a participant’s death before age

65,

payments are made to the participant’s named beneficiary over a specified number of years, beginning on the

first

day of the month following the death of the participant.

Liabilities accrued under the plans totaled

$825,599

and

$906,259

as of

December

31,

2016

and

2015,

respectively. Benefit payments under the contracts were

$135,885

in

2016

and

$131,652

in

2015.

Provisions charged to operations totaled

$57,125

in

2016,

$196,869

in

2015

and

$69,653

in

2014.

The Company has purchased life insurance policies on the plans’ participants and uses the cash flow from these policies to partially fund the plan. Fee income recognized with these plans totaled

$165,128

in

2016,

$174,675

in

2015

and

$167,911

in

2014.

In addition death benefits recognized as income totaled

$137,058

in

2015.