0001567619-22-015588.txt : 20220811 0001567619-22-015588.hdr.sgml : 20220811 20220811161850 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001567619-22-015588 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20220801 FILED AS OF DATE: 20220811 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20220811 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: LEVY JONATHAN A CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001139942 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-22507 FILM NUMBER: 221156145 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: PO BOX 428 CITY: BOWLING GREEN STATE: OH ZIP: 43402 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FIRST BANCSHARES INC /MS/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000947559 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANKS [6021] IRS NUMBER: 640862173 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MS FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6480 US HIGHWAY 98 WEST STREET 2: SUITE A CITY: HATTIESBURG STATE: MS ZIP: 39402 BUSINESS PHONE: 6012688998 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6480 US HIGHWAY 98 WEST STREET 2: SUITE A CITY: HATTIESBURG STATE: MS ZIP: 39402 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: COMMUNITY CAPITAL CORP /MS/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19950705 3 1 doc1.xml FORM 3 X0206 3 2022-08-01 0 0000947559 FIRST BANCSHARES INC /MS/ FBMS 0001139942 LEVY JONATHAN A POST OFFICE BOX 428 BOWLING GREEN OH 43402 1 0 0 0 COMMON 12025 I BY JONATHAN A LEVY FAMILY TRUST 11/11/93 Chandra B. Kidd with Power of Attorney 2022-08-11 EX-24.1 2 jalevypoa.htm

SECTION 16
POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Donna T. (Dee Dee) Lower and/or Chandra B. Kidd, signing singly, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1)          prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's behalf, and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

(2)          execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as an officer and/or director of The First Bancshares, Inc. (the “Company”), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(3)          do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5 and timely file such form with the Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

(4)          take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact’s discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.  In affixing his or her signature to this Power of Attorney, the undersigned hereby revokes any and all previously executed Powers of Attorney for the same or similar purposes.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 9th day of August, 2022.


By:          /s/ Jonathan A. Levy
Name:      Jonathan A. Levy
Title:         Director