-----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, PJrxy4i2UEfZh6099/10D5S7zrm1t9LW5P3j3peSdJSr/IqFe1k9u+GxkP+Yu6vd F3DvY5RclFp95Hua+F4OTQ== 0000796534-07-000027.txt : 20071114 0000796534-07-000027.hdr.sgml : 20071114 20071114140353 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000796534-07-000027 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20071114 ITEM INFORMATION: Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20071114 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20071114 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: NATIONAL BANKSHARES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000796534 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANKS [6021] IRS NUMBER: 541375874 STATE OF INCORPORATION: VA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-15204 FILM NUMBER: 071243176 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 HUBBARD STREET STREET 2: PO BOX 90002 CITY: BLACKSBURG STATE: VA ZIP: 24060 BUSINESS PHONE: 540-951-6300 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 HUBBARD STREET STREET 2: PO BOX 90002 CITY: BLACKSBURG STATE: VA ZIP: 24060 8-K 1 form8k.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: November 14, 2007

Commission File Number: 0-15204

 

 

National Bankshares, Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

Virginia

54-1375874

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

 

                

 

101 Hubbard Street

Blacksburg, VA 24060

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(540) 951-6300

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code

 

 

 

 

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ITEM 5.03. AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OR BYLAWS;

 

CHANGE IN FISCAL YEAR.

 

Effective November 14, 2007, the Board of Directors of National Bankshares, Inc. amended Article IV. of the Company’s Bylaws to allow for the issuance of uncertificated shares. The Board of Directors adopted these amendments to comply with the rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market requiring all listed securities to be eligible for direct registration by January 2008. The amended Bylaws permit the Company to issue stock in certificated and uncertificated form and also provide that the rights and obligations of holders of both forms of shares of the same class and series shall be identical. Prior to this amendment, the Bylaws were silent on the issuance of uncertificated shares.

 

The amendment of Article IV. of the Company’s Bylaws also added the requirement that shareholders seeking replacements for lost, destroyed or mutilated stock certificates must furnish the Company with a sufficient indemnity bond. Before amendment, the Bylaws stated that replacement stock certificates would be issued on such terms and indemnity as the Board of Directors might prescribe.

 

ITEM 9.01. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS

 

(d)

Exhibits

 

3. ii. Amendments to Article IV. of the Bylaws of the Company, effective November 14, 2007.

 

SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

NATIONAL BANKSHARES, INC.

 

Date:

November 14, 2007

 

By:       /s/ JAMES G. RAKES

James G. Rakes

Chairman

President and CEO

 

 

 

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EX-3.(II) 2 bylaw_amendment.htm

Sections 4.1 and 4.2 of Article IV. of the Bylaws of National Bankshares, Inc. are deleted in their entirety, and Article IV. is amended to read as follows:

 

ARTICLE IV. STOCK CERTIFICATES AND THEIR TRANSFER

 

SECTION 4.1.

Certificate for Shares.

 

 

(a)

The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates or shall be uncertificated.

 

 

(b)

Certificated shares of the Corporation shall bear the signature, or a facsimile thereof, of the President or a Vice President and the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary and shall bear the corporate seal, or a facsimile thereof. If any officer who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a stock certificate shall have ceased to be an officer before the certificate is issued, it may be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as if that person were an officer at the date of issue.

 

 

(c)

If the Corporation issues uncertificated shares as provided for in these Bylaws, within a reasonable time after the issue or transfer of the shares without certificates, the Corporation shall send the shareholder a statement indicating that the Corporation is organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia; certifying the number of shares, class of shares and designation of the of the series, if any, of the shares; and a summary of the rights, preferences and limitations applicable to the class of stock and the limitations for each series of stock.

 

 

(d)

Each registered holder of stock represented by uncertificated shares shall be entitled, upon request to the custodian of the stock transfer books of the Corporation, to have physical certificates representing the shares registered in their name.

 

 

(e)

No stock, in certificated or uncertificated form, will be issued, and no dividend payment will be made, for fractional shares of common stock.

 

 

(f)

Except as otherwise provided by law, the rights and obligations of the holders of uncertificated shares and the rights and obligations of the holders of certificates representing shares of the same class and series shall be identical.

 

SECTION 4.2

Lost or Destroyed Certificates

 

The Board may direct a new certificate or certificates to be issued as a replacement for lost, destroyed or mutilated certificates if the owner requests the issuance before the Corporation has notice that the shares have been acquired by a bona fide

 


purchaser. The owner must furnish the Corporation with a sufficient indemnity bond and satisfy such other requirements, including evidence of loss, theft or destruction, as may be imposed by the Corporation.

 

SECTION 4.3

Transfer of Shares

 

Transfer of shares shall be made only on the stock transfer books of the Corporation by the holder of record or by the holder’s legal representative, who must furnish evidence of authority satisfactory to the Corporation, and on surrender for cancellation of the certificate for the shares. The Corporation may treat the holder of record of any share or shares of stock as the holder in fact of that stock and accordingly is not bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in those shares on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have notice of the claim, except as expressly provided by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chairman, President & CEO, or such other officers of the Corporation as he may designate, are authorized to file the notices and take such other actions as they determine are necessary give full effect to the foregoing Resolution.

 

 

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