Exhibit 4
NUMBER 002
COMMON STOCK
CUSIP No. ___________
ADIRONDACK FINANCIAL SERVICES BANCORP, INC.
INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
This Certifies that
is the owner of
FULLY PAID AND NONASSESSABLE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK, PAR VALUE $.01 PER SHARE OF
ADIRONDACK FINANCIAL SERVICES BANCORP, INC. (the "Corporation"), a Delaware
corporation. The shares represented by this certificate are transferable only on
the stock transfer books of the Corporation by the holder of record hereof, or
by his duly authorized attorney or legal representative, upon the surrender of
this certificate properly endorsed. This certificate is not valid until
countersigned and registered by the Corporation's transfer agent and registrar.
This security is not a deposit or account and is not federally insured or
guaranteed.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this certificate to be
executed by the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers and has
caused a facsimile of its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed.
DATED____________________________
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Menzo D. Case, Corporate Secretary Lewis E. Kolar, President and Chief
Executive Officer
[Seal]
Countersigned and Registered
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Transfer Agent and Registrar
ADIRONDACK FINANCIAL SERVICES BANCORP, INC.
The shares represented by this certificate are issued subject to all
the provisions of the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Corporation
as from time to time amended (copies of which are on file at the principal
executive offices of the Corporation).
The Corporation's certificate of incorporation provides that no
"person" (as defined in the certificate of incorporation) who "beneficially
owns" (as defined in the certificate of incorporation) in excess of 10% of the
outstanding shares of the Corporation shall be entitled to vote any shares held
in excess of such limit. This provision of the certificate of incorporation
shall not apply to an acquisition of securities of the Corporation by an
employee stock purchase plan or other employee benefit plan of the Corporation
or any of its subsidiaries.
The Corporation's certificate of incorporation also includes a
provision the general effect of which is to require the affirmative vote of the
holders of 80% of the outstanding voting shares of the Corporation to approve
certain "business combinations" (as defined in the certificate of incorporation)
between the Corporation and a stockholder owning in excess of 10% of the
outstanding shares of the Corporation. However, only the affirmative vote of a
majority of the outstanding shares or such vote as is otherwise required by law
(rather than the 80% voting requirement) is applicable to the particular
transaction if it is approved by a majority of the "disinterested directors" (as
defined in the certificate of incorporation) or, alternatively, the transaction
satisfies certain minimum price and procedural requirements. The Corporation's
certificate of incorporation also contains a provision which requires the
affirmative vote of holders of at least 80% of the outstanding voting shares of
the Corporation which are not beneficially owned by the "interested person" (as
defined in the certificate of incorporation) to approve the direct or indirect
purchase or other acquisition by the Corporation of any "equity security" (as
defined in the certificate of incorporation) from such interested person.
The Corporation will furnish to any stockholder upon request and
without charge a full statement of the powers, designations, preferences and
relative participating, optional or other special rights of each authorized
class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or
restrictions of such preferences and/or rights, to the extent that the same have
been fixed, and of the authority of the board of directors to designate the same
with respect to other series. Such request may be made to the Corporation or to
its transfer agent and registrar.
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
TEN ENT - as tenants by the entirety
JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of
survivorship and not as tenants
in common.
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT________Custodian________
(Cust) (Minor)
Under Uniform Gift to Minors Act - ____________
(State)
UNIF TRANS MIN ACT________Custodian_______
(Cust) (Minor)
Under Uniform Transfers to Minors Act -_________
(State)
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not inthe above list.
For Value Received,___________________hereby sell, assign and transfer unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER
IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
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(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE)
_______________________Shares of Common 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___________ _______________________________________________________
NOTICE: THE SIGNATURE TO 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.