---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-004340"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FMCB"
cik: "0001085913"
company_name: "FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP"
filed_at: "2025-02-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T21:58:28.706662+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Farmers & Merchants Bancorp amends bylaws to permit uncertificated shares and DRS participation

## Summary
- Board approved amendments to Bylaws Sections 7.5 and 7.6, effective Feb 11, 2025, to allow uncertificated shares.
- Change enables Company stock to participate in Direct Registration System (DRS).
- Uncertificated shares provision applies to shares not represented by certificates; certificates remain valid until surrendered.
- Lost, stolen, or destroyed certificates can be replaced with new certificate or uncertificated shares upon affidavit and bond.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-004340
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FMCB
- cik: 0001085913
- company_name: FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP
- filed_at: 2025-02-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085913/000114036125004340/0001140361-25-004340-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085913/000114036125004340/ef20043532_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-004340
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-004340.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-004340.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP: Amended Bylaws Sections 7.5 and 7.6 to permit issuance of uncertificated shares for Direct Registration System eligibility and conforming changes (effective 2025-02-11).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-02-11
  source text: On February 11, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Farmers & Merchants Bancorp, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” “we” or “us”), approved amendments to the Amended By-laws of the Company (the “Bylaws”), effective February 11, 2025, that permit the Company to issue uncertificated securities.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085913/000114036125004340/0001140361-25-004340-index.htm

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