KMG America Corporation Common Stock Certificate Specimen

Summary

This document is a specimen of a common stock certificate for KMG America Corporation, a Virginia corporation. It certifies ownership of a specified number of shares of the company's common stock, which can be transferred on the corporation's books by the holder or their attorney upon proper endorsement and surrender of the certificate. The certificate must be signed by authorized officers and includes instructions for transferring shares. This specimen does not represent an actual transaction but serves as a template for issued stock certificates.

EX-4.01 5 a2145503zex-4_01.htm EXHIBIT 4.01
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Exhibit 4.01

Incorporated Under the Laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia

SPECIMEN				SPECIMEN
No.				Shares
KMG AMERICA CORPORATION Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share

This certifies that SPECIMEN is the owner of
SPECIMEN Shares of the Capital Stock of

KMG America Corporation, a Virginia Corporation

transferable only on the books of the Corporation by the holder hereof in person or by Attorney upon surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed.

In Witness Whereof, the said Corporation has caused this Certificate to be signed by its duly authorized officers and its Corporate Seal to be hereunto affixed this day of A.D. 20

[SEAL]

President

Secretary

SHARES par value $0.01 EACH

CERTIFICATE
FOR
SPECIMEN
SHARES
OF THE
CAPITAL STOCK

of
KMG AMERICA
CORPORATION

ISSUED TO

DATE

        For Value Received,             , hereby sell, assign and transfer unto
                                                                                                                                                                                 ,
                                                                                                                                                                       Shares
of the Capital Stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint
                                                                                                                                                    Attorney
to transfer the said Stock 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

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