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(b) Not applicable.
−Removed: (c) During the three months ended June 30, 2024, no director or officer of the Company adopted or terminated a “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading agreement,” as each term is defined in Item 408(a) of Regulation S-K.
+Added: (c) During the three months ended September 30, 2024, no director or officer of the Company adopted or terminated a “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading agreement,” as each term is defined in Item 408(a) of Regulation S-K.
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on September 1, 2022).
−Removed: 10.1 Form of Voting Agreement by and among Business First Bancshares, Inc.
−Removed: and certain shareholders of Oakwood Bancshares, Inc.
−Removed: (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by Business First Bancshares, Inc.
−Removed: on April 25, 2024).
−Removed: 10.2 Form of Director Support Agreement by and among Business First Bancshares, Inc., Oakwood Bancshares, Inc.
−Removed: and each non-employee director of Oakwood Bancshares, Inc.
−Removed: (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by Business First Bancshares, Inc.
−Removed: on April 25, 2024).
−Removed: 10.3 Change in Control Agreement, dated November 16, 2022, by and among Business First Bancshares, Inc., b1BANK and N.
−Removed: Jerome Vascocu, Jr.*
−Removed: 10.4 Retention Bonus Agreement dated November 21, 2022, by and among Business First Bancshares, Inc., b1BANK and N.
−Removed: Jerome Vascocu, Jr.*
−Removed: 10.5 Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan Participation Agreement, dated as of February 28, 2023 , between b1BANK and N.
−Removed: Jerome Vascocu, Jr.*
31.1 Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002*
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BUSINESS FIRST BANCSHARES, INC.
−Removed: July 31, 2024 /s/ David R.
+Added: October 31, 2024 /s/ David R.
Melville, III
Melville, III
−Removed: President and Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: July 31, 2024 /s/ Gregory Robertson
+Added: Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
+Added: October 31, 2024 /s/ Gregory Robertson
Gregory Robertson
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Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.