Bank of Granite Corporation Form of Stock Certificate

Summary

This document is a specimen stock certificate for Bank of Granite Corporation, a Delaware corporation based in North Carolina. It certifies ownership of a specified number of fully paid and non-assessable shares of the company's capital stock. The certificate is transferable upon proper endorsement and is subject to the corporation's charter and bylaws. It must be countersigned by the transfer agent to be valid. The certificate also outlines procedures for transfer and provides information on shareholder rights upon request.

EX-4.1 5 g80855exv4w1.txt EX-4.1 FORM OF STOCK CERTIFICATE EXHIBIT 4.1 NUMBER SHARES __________ __________ BG __________ __________ Bank of Granite Corporation INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE GRANITE FALLS, NORTH CAROLINA CUSIP 062401 10 4 SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS THIS CERTIFIES that is the owner of [SPECIMEN] fully paid and non-assessable shares of capital stock of Bank of Granite Corporation, Transferable on the books of the Corporation in person or by duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed. This Certificate and the shares represented hereby are issued, and shall be held, subject to all of the provisions of the Charter and Bylaws of the Corporation, as amended or to be amended hereafter (copies of which Charter, Bylaws, and any and all amendments thereof are on file at the office of the Corporation), to all of which the holder by acceptance hereof assents. This Certificate is not valid unless countersigned and registered by the Transfer Agent and Registrar. WITNESS the facsimile seal of the Corporation and the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers. DATED: /s/ Kirby A. Tyndall /s/ John A. Forlines, Jr. SECRETARY [SEAL] CHAIRMAN COUNTERSIGNED AND REGISTERED REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER CO. (CRANFORD, NEW JERSEY) TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR BY AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE The Corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof of the Corporation, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights. Such requests may be made to the Corporation or the transfer agent. The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations: TEN COM -as tenants in common UNIF GIFT TEN ENT -as tenants by the entireties MIN ACT-........Custodian.......... JT TEN -as joint tenants with right (Cust) (Minor) of survivorship and not as under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act tenants in common ................................... (State) Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list. For Value Received, _____________ do hereby sell, assign and transfer unto PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE ______________________________________ | | |______________________________________|________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ (PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS INCLUDING POSTAL ZIP CODE OF ASSIGNEE) _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________Shares of the Capital Stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ____________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ Attorney to transfer the said Shares on the books of the within named Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises. Dated: __________________________ In presence of _______________________________________ __________________________________ NOTICE: The signature of this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the certificate, in every particular, without alteration or enlargement, or any change whatever. The signature(s) of the assignor(s) must be guaranteed hereon by a participant in either the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program (STAMP), the Stock Exchange Medallion Program (SEMP), or the New York Stock Exchange Medallion Program (MSP).