Common use of FOR VALUE RECEIVED Clause in Contracts

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC., with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________, [200_] ---------------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form of Reverse Side of Certificate - continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election must conform to the name written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Rights Agreement (Fidelity Bancorp Inc), Rights Agreement (Fidelity Bancorp Inc)

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FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Corporation, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________, [200_] ---------------------------------- 2003 ---------------------------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank bank, savings association, credit union or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United StatesStates or other eligible guarantor institution which is a participant in a signature guarantee medallion program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that (1) the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned being sold, assigned or transferred by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form of Reverse Side of Certificate - continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE and (To be executed if holder desires 2) after due inquiry and to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member best knowledge of the National Association of Securities Dealersundersigned, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that did not acquire the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by from any Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election must conform to the name written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY FORM OF RIGHTS REVERSE SIDE OF RIGHT CERTIFICATE -- CONTINUED FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles To be executed by the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior holder desires to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the exercise Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"Certificate.), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Rights Agreement (Westar Energy Inc /Ks), Rights Agreement (Westar Industries Inc)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney-in-Fact, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Corporation, with full power of substitution. Dated: ___________:__________, [200_] ____ ---------------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: ------------------------------ Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm an "Eligible Guarantor Institution" as defined in Rule 17Ad-15 (or any successor rule or regulation) promulgated pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of a registered national securities exchange1934, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealersas amended (this term means, Inc.in general, or a commercial bank or trust company having banks, stock brokers, savings and loan associations, and credit unions, in each case with membership in an office or correspondent in the United Statesapproved signature guarantee medallion program). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that (1) the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned being sold, assigned or transferred by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement.), (2) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized this Right Certificate is not being sold, assigned or transferred to or on behalf of any such Acquiring Person, Affiliate or Associate, and (3) after due inquiry and to the best knowledge of the undersigned, the undersigned did not acquire the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate from any Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement). ------------------------------------------- Signature Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate - -- continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed by the registered holder if such holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) ToTo the Rights Agent: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the shares of Preferred Shares Stock, shares of Common Stock or other securities issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such shares of Preferred Shares Stock, shares of Common Stock or other securities be issued in the name of: Please insert social security number or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security number or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________, ________,[200_] ---------------------------- _ Signature Signature Guaranteed: ------------------------------ Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof ("Eligible Guarantor Institution" as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election must conform Rule 17Ad-15 (or any successor rule or regulation) promulgated pursuant to the name written upon the face Securities Exchange Act of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase1934, as the case may beamended (this term means, is not completedin general, FIDELITY BANCORPbanks, INC. stock brokers, savings and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) loan associations, and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Companycredit unions, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) case with membership in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to abovean approved signature guarantee medallion program). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Washington Mutual Inc), Rights Agreement (Washington Mutual Inc)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns assigns, and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- unto_________________ a Warrant to purchase ______________ shares of Common Stock, par value $[0,001] per share, of NUTRACEA. (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificatethe "Company"), together with all right, title title, and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint __________________________ Attorney, attorney to transfer the within Right Certificate such Warrant on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________, [200_] ---------------------------------- By: Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form of Reverse Side of Certificate - continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in on the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election must conform correspond to the name as written upon the face of this Right Certificate Warrant in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In To: NutraCea Attention: Chief Executive Officer The undersigned hereby exercises his or its rights to purchase ______ Warrant Shares covered by the event the certification set forth above within Warrant and tenders payment herewith in the Form amount of Assignment $_________by [tendering cash or delivering a certified check or bank cashier's check, payable to the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), order of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance ] [surrendering ______ shares of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, Stock received upon exercise of the Rights are subject attached Warrant, which shares have a Current Market Price equal to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) such payment] in accordance with the terms thereof, and requests that certificates for such securities be issued in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification name of, and delivered to: and, if such number of Warrant Shares shall not be all the Preferred SharesWarrant Shares covered by the within Warrant, (ii) upon that a new Warrant for the grant to holders balance of the Preferred Warrant Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than covered by the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment within Warrant be registered in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisionsname of, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rightsdelivered to, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof undersigned at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Rightaddress stated below. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.Dated: By: Print Name Signature

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Samples: Severance Agreement (Nutracea)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________, [200_] ---------------------------------- ---------------------- ---- ------------------------------------ Signature Signature Medallion Guaranteed: Signatures must be medallion guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- ). ------------------------------------ Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature B-4 41 Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate - -- continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, POLARIS INDUSTRIES INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares (or other securities, if any) issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- , --------------------- ---- ------------------------- Signature Signature Medallion Guaranteed: Signatures must be medallion guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. B-5 42 Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - continued The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- ----------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms Form of Assignment and or Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, must conform to the name as written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. the Company and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES Introduction On March May 18, 20032000, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. Polaris Industries Inc. (the "Company") ), declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right preferred share purchase right (a "Right") per share for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share $.01 (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31June 1, 2003 2000 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders shareholders of record at the close of business on that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "" Rights Agreement") ), dated as of May 18, 2000, between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANYNorwest Bank Minnesota, N.A., as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement The description that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more follows of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more terms of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer and of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will issued thereunder is a general description only and does not purport to be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Pricecomplete. The terms of the Rights may will in all cases be amended governed by the Board of Directors Rights Agreement. A copy of the Company without Rights Agreement has been filed with the consent Securities and Exchange Commission as an Exhibit to a Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated May 25, 2000. A copy of the holders Rights Agreement is available free of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that charge from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Polaris Industries Inc/Mn)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, Attorney to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Corporation, with full power of substitution. Dated: ____________ ___, __________, [200_] ---------------------------------- _ ------------------------------ Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Certificate ----------- The undersigned hereby certifies that by checking the appropriate boxes that: (1) this Right Certificate [ ] is [ ] is not being sold, assigned or transferred by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Associate or an Affiliate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement); and (2) after due inquiry and to the best knowledge of the undersigned, it [ ] did [ ] did not acquire the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by from any Person who is, was or subsequently became an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form of Reverse Side of Certificate - continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC). The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________ ___, _________,[200_] ---------------------------- _ ------------------------------ Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE ------ The signature in to the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election Certificate must conform correspond to the name as written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY FORM OF RIGHTS ELECTION TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. ---------------------------- (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the To be executed if registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right desires to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividendsCertificate.)

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Guilford Mills Inc)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address of transferee.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the Rights represented by this Right Rights Certificate, together with all right, title and interest right therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, as attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate Rights on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the Corporation, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________, [200_] ---------------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------------------ Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures (Signature must correspond to name as written upon the face of this Rights Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.) Signature must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.recognized stock exchange in Canada, or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United StatesCanada. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -39- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CERTIFICATE (To be completed if true) The undersigned party transferring Rights under this Form of Agreement hereby certifies represents for the benefit of all holders of Rights and Common Shares that the Rights evidenced by this Right Rights Certificate are not beneficially owned not, and, to the knowledge of the undersigned, have never been, Beneficially Owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form of Reverse Side of Certificate - continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank Person acting jointly or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by concert with an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined thereof. Capitalized terms have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Rights Agreement. ---------------- Signature * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (To be attached to each Rights Certificate). ---------------------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election must conform to the name written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Golden Star Resources LTD)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ this Right Rights Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ --------------------- Attorney, to transfer the within Right Rights Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________---------------------, [200_] ---------------------------------- 19-- ------------------------------------ Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Certificate ----------- The undersigned hereby certifies that by checking the appropriate boxes that: (1) this Rights evidenced Certificate [ ] is [ ] is not being sold, assigned and transferred by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof of any such Acquiring Person (as such terms are defined in pursuant to the Rights Agreement.); (2) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form after due inquiry and to the best knowledge of Reverse Side of Certificate - continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORPundersigned, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall it [ ] did [ ] did not be all acquire the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Rights Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security from any Person who is or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement)of an Acquiring Person. ---------------------------------- Dated: ---------------------, 19-- ------------------------------------ Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE ------ The signature in to the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election must conform correspond to the name as written upon the face of this Right Rights Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. the Company and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner Beneficial Owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Gpu Inc /Pa/)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________Dated:--------------------, [200_] ---------------------------------- ------------------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- ). ------------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate - -- continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORPHE HOLDINGS, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- number: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- number: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- Dated:-------------------, ------------------------------------ Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election must conform to the name written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

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Samples: Rights Agreement (He Holdings Inc)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. THE UNDERSIGNED hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Rights Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC., with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________________________, [200_] ---------------------------------- Signature Attorney, to transfer the within Rights Certificate on the books of the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: --------------------------- Signature: ------------------------------------------------ Signature Guaranteed: ------------------------------------- Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies to First McMinnville Corporation, to the Rights Agent, and to all other Rights holders who are not Acquiring Persons, that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form of Reverse Side of Certificate - continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE Date: ---------------------------- The signature Rights represented by this certificate have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 (as amended) or under the securities laws of any state, territory, or other jurisdiction and therefore such Rights may not be resold, transferred or hypothecated without (a) the registration of such Rights under the Securities Act of 1933 or (b) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the corporation to the effect that such registration is not necessary and appropriate transfers will be noted in the foregoing Forms Corporation's stock records. Transfer or encumbrance of Assignment and Election must conform these Rights is or may be subject to certain rights of the corporation and/or other security holders. A copy of any such agreement may be obtained upon written request by a bona fide Shareholder or Rights holder to the name written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner Secretary of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honoredCorporation. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY June 10, 1997 EXHIBIT B FORM FOR EXERCISE OF RIGHTS CERTIFICATE [To be attached to each Rights Certificate] FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. EXERCISE (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the registered To be executed if holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right desires to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividendsCertificate.)

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Samples: Shareholder Rights Agreement (First McMinnville Corp)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: -------------- ------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (a bank, stockbroker, savings and loan association or credit union with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program) pursuant to Rule 17Ad-15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). --------------------------------- Signature B-4 66 Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: INAMED CORPORATION The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number (Please print name and address) If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number (Please print name and address) Dated: _________, ____________, [200_] ---------------------------------- _ Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form of Reverse Side of Certificate - continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election must conform to the name written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Inamed Corp)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney-in-Fact, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Corporation, with full power of substitution. Dated: ___________:__________, [200_] ---------------------------------- ____ -------------------------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: ------------------------------ Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm an "Eligible Guarantor Institution" as defined in Rule 17Ad-15 (or any successor rule or regulation) promulgated pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of a registered national securities exchange1934, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealersas amended (this term means, Inc.in general, or a commercial bank or trust company having banks, stock brokers, savings and loan associations, and credit unions, in each case with membership in an office or correspondent in the United Statesapproved signature guarantee medallion program). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that (1) the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned being sold, assigned or transferred by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement.), (2) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized this Right Certificate is not being sold, assigned or transferred to or on behalf of any such Acquiring Person, Affiliate or Associate, and (3) after due inquiry and to the best knowledge of the undersigned, the undersigned did not acquire the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate from any Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement). ----------------------------------------- Signature Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate - -- continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed by the registered holder if such holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) ToTo the Rights Agent: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the shares of Preferred Shares Stock, shares of Common Stock or other securities issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such shares of Preferred Shares Stock, shares of Common Stock or other securities be issued in the name of: Please insert social security number or other identifying number ----------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security number or other identifying number ----------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________, ________,[200_] ---------------------------- _ Signature Signature Guaranteed: ------------------------------ Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof ("Eligible Guarantor Institution" as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election must conform Rule 17Ad-15 (or any successor rule or regulation) promulgated pursuant to the name written upon the face Securities Exchange Act of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase1934, as the case may beamended (this term means, is not completedin general, FIDELITY BANCORPbanks, INC. stock brokers, savings and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) loan associations, and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Companycredit unions, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) case with membership in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to abovean approved signature guarantee medallion program). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

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Samples: Subordinated Convertible Debenture Purchase Agreement (Photoworks Inc /Wa)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________, [200_] ---------------------------------- 19 ---------------- -- ------------------------ Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- ). ------------------------ Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B-3 Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate - -- continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. OPHTHALMIC IMAGING SYSTEMS The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise _____________exercise_________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number number: ------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number number: ------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- , 19 ---------------- -- -------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent correspondence in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- continued The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- ----------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election must conform to the name as written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. the Company and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit EXHIBIT C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18December 31, 20031997, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. Ophthalmic Imaging Systems (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right preferred share purchase right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is ) payable on March 31January 2, 2003 1998 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders shareholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") of the Company at a price of $60 10.00 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANYAmerican Securities Transfer, Inc., as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") shall have acquired beneficial ownership of 1520% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31Shares, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person person or group of affiliated persons becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 1520% or more of such outstanding Common Shares (or, in the case of a tender or more exchange offer commenced by Premier Laser Systems, Inc. ("Premier Laser"), a tender or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in Premier Laser becoming the beneficial owner of an additional 1% of the Common Shares then-outstanding than such person or group held are beneficially owned by Premier Laser as of the close of business on March December 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of 1997 (the outstanding Common Shares on such date "Effective Date")) (the earlier of such dates being called the a "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. An "Acquiring Person" will not be deemed to include Premier Laser which has filed a Schedule 13D under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, unless Premier Laser becomes the beneficial owner of an additional 1% or more of the Common Shares then-outstanding than Premier owned at the close of business on the Effective Date. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution DateDate (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, Date upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, Shares outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18December 31, 2013 2007 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then then-current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations consolidations, or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 1.00 per share or but will be entitled to an aggregate dividend of 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder the holders of a the Preferred Share Shares will be entitled to a minimum preferential liquidation payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall but will be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation consolidation, or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution anti-dilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend dividend, liquidation, and liquidation voting rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term Board of Director's estimated value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are soldsold after a person or group has become an Acquiring Person, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person Person, proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares becomes an Acquiring Person and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share Share, or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (or of a share of a class or series of the Company's preferred stock having equivalent rights, preferences, and privileges), per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- one-hundredth of a Preferred Share and Share, which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary depository receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Preferred Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Sharesbecoming an Acquiring Person, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Ophthalmic Imaging Systems Inc)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ ---------------- Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________, [200_] ---------------------------------- Signature 19 ------------- -- Signature Guaranteed: ------------------------------ Signature (Signature must correspond to name as written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever) Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (To be completed if true) The undersigned hereby certifies represents, for the benefit of all holders of Rights and shares of Common Stock, that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially not, and, to the knowledge of the undersigned, have never been, Beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement.) ). --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the event the certification set forth above is not completed in connection with a purported assignment, the Company will deem the Beneficial Owner of Reverse Side the Rights evidenced by the enclosed Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement or a transferee of any of the foregoing and accordingly will deem the Rights evidenced by such Right Certificate - continued to be void and not transferable or exercisable. [To be Attached to Right Certificate -- continued] FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) ToTO XXXXXXX PIANO & ORGAN COMPANY: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ ----------------- Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Common Shares (or other securities) issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Common Shares (or other securities) be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number number: -------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number number: -------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,Dated as of --------------------------------, ------------------. ------------------------------------ Signature [200_] ---------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - continued] Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must have an acceptable guarantee. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [To be executed if statement is correct] The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- ------------------------------ Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms Form of Assignment and or Form of Election to Purchase must conform to the name as written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. the Company and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- EXHIBIT B XXXXXXX PIANO & ORGAN COMPANY STOCKHOLDER RIGHTS PLAN SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED COMMON SHARES On March 18October 12, 20031998, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. Xxxxxxx Piano & Organ Company (the "Company") declared a dividend ), authorized the issuance of one Preferred Share Purchase Right common share purchase right (a "Right") for with respect to each outstanding share of common stock, no $0.01 par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable rights were issued on March 31October 23, 2003 (the "Record Date") 1998 to the stockholders holders of record of Common Shares on that dateOctober 22, 1998. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") Common Share at a price of $60 45.00 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Common Share (the "Purchase Purchase-Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") ), dated October 12, 1998, between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANYthe Provident Bank, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Baldwin Piano & Organ Co /De/)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________, [200_] ---------------------------------- ---------------- ---- --------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- ). -------------------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60 Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate - -- continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORPTo SHOLODGE, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61 NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms Form of Assignment and or Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, must conform to the name as written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. the Company and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit EXHIBIT C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18The board of directors of ShoLodge, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. Inc. (the "Company") has declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right preferred share purchase right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31July 15, 2003 1997 (the "Record Date") ), to the stockholders shareholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Series A Subordinated Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share Stock ("Preferred SharesShare") at a price of $60 60.00 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANYSunTrust Bank, Atlanta, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have has acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more without the prior approval of the outstanding Common Shares on such date board of directors, including a majority of "Continuing Directors," as that term is defined in the Rights Agreement, or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board board of Directors prior to directors before such time as any Person person or group of affiliated persons becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution DateDate (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, Date upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, Shares outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18July 15, 2013 2007 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed or exchanged by the Company, in each case, case as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then then-current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Preferred Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to before the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly an aggregate dividend payment equal to of the greater of $1 per share or (i) 100 times the dividend declared per Common ShareShare and (ii) a cumulative quarterly dividend of $1.00. In the event of liquidation, each holder the holders of a the Preferred Share Shares will be entitled to a payment receive, in preference to shares of all junior classes of the Company's stock, the greater of (i) $100 1.00 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to and (ii) an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend dividend, liquidation and liquidation voting rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that If the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person Person, proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter from the date of the first public announcement of the Acquiring Person's acquisition have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the RightRight or, if there is an insufficient number of authorized and unissued Common Shares to allow the full exercise of the Rights, a package of other securities or property of the Company and/or cash which the board of directors determines with the advice of an investment banking firm to be equivalent to such number of Common Shares. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares any Person becomes an Acquiring Person and prior to before the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board board of Directors directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which will have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share Share, or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (or of a share of a class or series of the Company's preferred stock having equivalent rights, preferences and privileges), per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- one-hundredth of a Preferred Share and Share, which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Preferred Shares on the last trading day prior to before the date of exercise. At any time prior to before the close of business ten days after the date of the first public announcement of the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board board of Directors directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"), payable in cash or in shares of the Company's stock. If, however, there is an Acquiring Person at the time, a majority of Continuing Directors must concur in the redemption of the Rights. The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board board of Directors directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board board of Directors directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described aboveabove to not less than the greater of (i) the sum of .001% plus the largest percentage of the outstanding Common Shares then known to the Company to be beneficially owned by any person or group of affiliated or associated persons and (ii) 10%, except that from and after such time as any person becomes there is an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Sholodge Inc)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ ---------------- Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________Dated:-------------, [200_] ---------------------------------- Signature 19- Signature Guaranteed: ---------------------------------------- Signature (Signature must correspond to name as written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever) Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (To be completed if true) The undersigned hereby certifies represents, for the benefit of all holders of Rights and shares of Common Stock, that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially not, and, to the knowledge of the undersigned, have never been, Beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- ). ----------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the event the certification set forth above is not completed in connection with a purported assignment, the Company will deem the Beneficial Owner of Reverse Side the Rights evidenced by the enclosed Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement or a transferee of any of the foregoing and accordingly will deem the Rights evidenced by such Right Certificate - continued to be void and not transferable or exercisable. [To be Attached to Right Certificate -- continued] FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) ToTO XXXXXXX PIANO & ORGAN COMPANY: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ ----------------- Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Common Shares (or other securities) issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Common Shares (or other securities) be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number number: -------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number number: -------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,Dated as of --------------------------------, ------------------. ----------------------------------- Signature [200_] ---------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - continued] Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must have an acceptable guarantee. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [To be executed if statement is correct] The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms Form of Assignment and or Form of Election to Purchase must conform to the name as written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. the Company and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- EXHIBIT B XXXXXXX PIANO & ORGAN COMPANY STOCKHOLDER RIGHTS PLAN SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED COMMON SHARES On March 18October 12, 20031998, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. Xxxxxxx Piano & Organ Company (the "Company") declared a dividend ), authorized the issuance of one Preferred Share Purchase Right common share purchase right (a "Right") for with respect to each outstanding share of common stock, no $0.01 par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable rights were issued on March 31October 23, 2003 (the "Record Date") 1998 to the stockholders holders of record of Common Shares on that dateOctober 22, 1998. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") Common Share at a price of $60 45.00 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Common Share (the "Purchase Purchase-Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") ), dated October 12, 1998, between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANYthe Provident Bank, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Baldwin Piano & Organ Co /De/)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- unto________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: :_____________________, [200_] ---------------------------------- _ Signature ___________________ Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Certificate The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- Signature By ). After due inquiry and to the best knowledge of the undersigned, the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate were not acquired or beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof. Dated:_______________________ Authorized Signature Form of Reverse Side of Certificate - continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ___________________ The signature to the foregoing Assignment and Certificate must correspond to the name as written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: _______________ The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- number:_________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________ If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- number:_________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________ Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- _____________ Signature _____________________________ Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- After due inquiry and to the best knowledge of the undersigned, the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate were not acquired or beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof. Dated: ________________________________ Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE _____________________________ The signature in the foregoing Forms Form of Assignment and or Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, must conform to the name as written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. the Company and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18[_____], 20032004, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. COVANSYS CORPORATION (the "Company") authorized and declared a dividend the issuance of one Preferred Share Purchase Right preferred share purchase right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share stock (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable Company outstanding as of the close of business on March 31[_____], 2003 2004 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date). Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth thousandth of a share of the Company's Series B Junior Participating Preferred StockStock of the Company, Series A, no without par value per share (the "Preferred Shares") ), at a price of $60 [____] per one one-hundredth thousandth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, [_____] as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"); Exercisability Initially, the Rights will be evidenced, with respect attached to any of the all Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights and no separate Right Certificates will be transferred with and only with the Common Sharesissued. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate Separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights "Distribution Date" will expire on March 18, 2013 (be the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise first to occur of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.following:

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Covansys Corp)

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FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Corporation, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________------------, [200_] ---------------------------------- ---- --------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank bank, savings association, credit union or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United StatesStates or other eligible guarantor institution which is a participant in a signature guarantee medallion program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that (1) the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned being sold, assigned or transferred by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form of Reverse Side of Certificate - continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE and (To be executed if holder desires 2) after due inquiry and to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member best knowledge of the National Association of Securities Dealersundersigned, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that did not acquire the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by from any Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- --------------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Form of Assignment and Election must conform to the name written upon the face Reverse Side of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY -- continued FORM OF RIGHTS ELECTION TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. ---------------------------- (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles To be executed by the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior holder desires to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the exercise Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"Certificate.), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Footstar Inc)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ ---------------- Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.Crown Central Petroleum and its transfer agent, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________---------------, [200_] ---------------------------------- ---- Signature -------------------------------- - Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. The undersigned hereby certifies that the Series A Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). Signature ------------------------- ------------------------------ Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate - continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise Series A Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: Crown Central Petroleum Corporation The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ------- Series A Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase shares of the Series A Preferred Stock issuable upon the exercise of such Series A Rights and requests that certificates for such shares of Series A Preferred Stock be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number (Please print name and address) If such number of Series A Rights shall not be all the Series A Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Series A Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number (Please print name and address) Dated:--------------------, -------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form of Reverse Side of Certificate - continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. --------------------------------------------- Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - continued The undersigned hereby certifies that the Series A Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- -------------------------- --------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms Form of Assignment and or Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, must conform to the name as written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. the Company and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Series A Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY A-2 Form of Right Certificate (Series B Preferred) Certificate No. R- ------- Rights NOT EXERCISABLE AFTER FEBRUARY 14, 2001 OR EARLIER IF REDEMPTION OR EXCHANGE OCCURS. THE RIGHTS ARE SUBJECT TO REDEMPTION, AT THE OPTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, AT $.001 PER RIGHT OR FOR ONE ONE-THOUSANDTH (1/1000) OF ONE SHARE OF CLASS B COMMON PER RIGHT AND TO EXCHANGE ON THE TERMS SET FORTH IN THE RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18AGREEMENT. Right Certificate For Series B Preferred CROWN CENTRAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION This certifies that -------------, 2003or registered assigns, is the Board registered owner of Directors the number of FIDELITY BANCORPSeries B Rights set forth above, INC. each of which entitles the owner thereof, subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Rights Agreement, dated as of February 1, 2000 (the "Rights Agreement"), between Crown Central Petroleum Corporation, a Maryland corporation (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock), no par value per share and First Union National Bank (the "Common SharesRights Agent"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company at any time after the Distribution Date (as such term is defined in the Rights Agreement) and prior to 5:00 P.M., Baltimore, Maryland time, on February 14, 2001, at the principal office of the Rights Agent, or at the office of its successor as Rights Agent, one one-hundredth thousandth of a fully paid non- assessable share of the Company's Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share value, of the Company, (the "Series B Preferred SharesStock") at a purchase price of $60 16 (subject to adjustment as provided in the Rights Agreement) per one one-hundredth thousandth of a share of Series B Preferred Share Stock (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description upon presentation and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy surrender of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only Right Certificate with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration Form of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed Election to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above)duly executed. The number of outstanding Series B Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate (and the number of one one-hundredths thousandths of a share of Series B Preferred Share issuable Stock which may be purchased upon exercise hereof) set forth above, and the Purchase Price set forth above, are the number and Purchase Price as of each Right are also subject to adjustment February 15, 2000, based on the shares of Series B Preferred Stock as constituted at such date. As provided in the event Rights Agreement, the Purchase Price and the number of one one-thousandths of a stock split share of Series B Preferred Stock which may be purchased upon the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Series B Rights will not evidenced by this Right Certificate are subject to modification and adjustment upon the happening of certain events. This Right Certificate is subject to all of the terms, provisions and conditions of the Rights Agreement, which terms, provisions and conditions are hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof and to which Rights Agreement reference is hereby made for a full description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities hereunder of the Rights Agent, the Company and the holders of the Right Certificates. Copies of the Rights Agreement are on file at the principal executive offices of the Company and the principal office of the Rights Agent. This Right Certificate, with or without other Right Certificates, upon surrender at the principal office of the Rights Agent, may be redeemableexchanged for another Right Certificate or Right Certificates of like tenor and date evidencing Rights entitling the holder to purchase a like aggregate number of shares of Series B Preferred Stock as the Rights evidenced by the Right Certificate or Right Certificates surrendered shall have entitled such holder to purchase. Each If this Right Certificate shall be exercised in part, the holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment receive upon surrender hereof another Right Certificate or Right Certificates for the number of 100 times whole Series B Rights not exercised. Subject to the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because provisions of the nature Rights Agreement, the Series B Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate (i) may be redeemed by the Company at a redemption price, at the option of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rightsBoard of Directors, the value of the $.001 per Right or for one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value thousandth (1/1000) of one share of Class B Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the per Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall (ii) may be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), exchanged in whole or in partpart for shares of Series B Preferred Stock or shares of the Company's Class B Common, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share par value $5.00 per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Priceshare. No fractional shares of Series B Preferred Shares Stock will be issued (upon the exercise of any Right or Rights evidenced hereby, other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth thousandth of a share of Series B Preferred Share and Stock, which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in . In lieu thereof, an adjustment in at the option of the Company, either a cash payment will be made based on or such fractional share (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one-thousandth of a share of Series B Preferred Stock) will be rounded up to the market price next integral multiple of one one-thousandth of a share of Series B Preferred Stock, as provided in the Rights Agreement. No holder of this Right Certificate shall be entitled to vote or receive dividends or be deemed for any purpose the holder of shares of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date Series B Preferred Stock or of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors other securities of the Company which may redeem at any time be issuable on the exercise hereof, nor shall anything contained in the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may Agreement or herein be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately construed to confer upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereofhereof, as such, will have no any of the rights as of a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the Company or any right to vote for the election of directors or upon any matter submitted to stockholders at any meeting thereof, or to give or withhold consent to any corporate action, or to receive dividends.notice of meetings or other actions affecting stockholders (except as provided in the Rights Agreement), or to receive dividends or subscription rights, or otherwise, until the Right or Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate shall have been exercised as provided in the Rights Agreement. This Right Certificate shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until it shall have been countersigned by the Rights Agent. WITNESS the facsimile signature of the proper officers of the Company and its corporate seal. Dated as of ----------------,-------. -------------------------------By:------------------------- Name: Title:

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Crown Central Petroleum Corp /Md/)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________------------, [200_] ---------------------------------- -------- ----------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank bank, savings association, credit union or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United StatesStates or other eligible guarantor institution which is a participant in a signature guarantee medallion program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that (1) the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned being sold, assigned or transferred by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form of Reverse Side of Certificate - continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE and (To be executed if holder desires 2) after due inquiry and to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member best knowledge of the National Association of Securities Dealersundersigned, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that did not acquire the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by from any Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- ------------------------ Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election must conform to the name written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the ---------------------------------------------------------------- Form of Assignment or the Form Reverse Side of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.Certificate-- Continued

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Department 56 Inc)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- (Please print name name, address and address taxpayer identification number or social security number (as applicable) of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________, [200_] ---------------------------------- -------------------------- Signature ------------------------------ Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- ). Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature B-5 76 Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate - -- continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE ---------------------------- (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. AMRESCO CAPITAL TRUST The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares securities issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares securities be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned elects to purchase (check one) _______ Preferred Shares or ______ Common Shares of the Company. Dated: :__________, ________,[200_] ---------------------------- _ ------------------------------------ Signature B-6 77 Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- continued Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- ------------------------------------ Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms Form of Assignment and or Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, must conform to the name as written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. the Company and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit EXHIBIT C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18February 25, 20031999, the Board of Directors Trust Managers of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. AMRESCO CAPITAL TRUST (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right preferred share purchase right (a "Right") for each outstanding common share of common stockbeneficial interest, no par value $0.01 per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 3111, 2003 1999 (or such earlier date as may be determined by the Board of Trust Managers of the Company) to all holders of record of Common Shares as of the close of business on March 11, 1999 (or such earlier date as may be determined by the Board of Trust Managers of the Company (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date). Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Series A Junior Participating Preferred StockShares, Series A, no par value $0.01 per share (the "Preferred Shares") ), of the Company at a price of $60 37.50 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANYthe Bank of New York, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 business days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have ), other than any member of the AMRESCO Group, has acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors Trust Managers of the Company prior to such time as any Person person or group of affiliated persons becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of evidenced by the certificates representing Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate Shares with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution DateDate (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, Date upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, Shares outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and thereafter, such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 181, 2013 2009 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed or exchanged by the Company, in each case, as described below. At any time following the Distribution Date relating to a Flip-In Event, Rights (other than Rights owned by an Acquiring Person and the Acquiring Person's affiliates and associates, which will have become void) may be exercised (subject to their earlier termination, expiration or exchange) to acquire, in lieu of Preferred Shares, at the then current Purchase Price of the Right, that number of Common Shares (or if there are insufficient Common Shares, Preferred Shares or fractions thereof) which at such time will have a market value of two times the Purchase Price of the Right. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then then-current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Preferred Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of (i) One Dollar and No/100 ($1 1.00) per share or (ii) 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder the holders of a the Preferred Share Shares will be entitled to a minimum preferential liquidation payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall and each holder will be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend dividend, liquidation and liquidation voting rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are soldsold after a person or group has become an Acquiring Person, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right (other than an Acquiring Person and the affiliates and associates of such Acquiring Person, whose Rights will have become void) will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price Purchase Price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person Person, proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person or the affiliates and associates of such Acquiring Persons (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price Purchase Price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a any person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares becomes an Acquiring Person and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors Trust Managers of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group and their respective affiliates and associates which will have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share Share, or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (or of a share of a class or series of the Company's preferred stock having equivalent rights, preferences and privileges), per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- one-hundredth of a Preferred Share and Share, which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Preferred Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to or within 10 business days following the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors Trust Managers of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 .001 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors Trust Managers of the Company in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms Board of Trust Managers may supplement or amend the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company Agreement without the consent approval of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from . From and after such time as any person becomes or group of affiliated or associated persons become an Acquiring Person no such amendment Person, the Rights Agreement may not be amended in any manner which would adversely affect the interests of the holders of the RightsRights (other than the Acquiring Person or an affiliate or associated of an Acquiring Person). Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder The terms of the Company, including, without limitation, Rights may not be amended to (i) reduce the right to vote Redemption Price (except as required by antidilution provisions) or to receive dividends(ii) provide for an earlier Final Expiration Date.

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Amresco Capital Trust)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- to ------------------------------------------ (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right the Rights represented by the Rights Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute constitutes and appoint ________________________ Attorneyappoints ------------------------------------------------------------------------ an attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate Rights on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________, [200_] ---------------------------------- Signature -------------------------- Signature Guaranteed: Signatures ---------------------------------------- Signature (Signature must correspond to name as written upon the face of this Rights Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever) Signature must be guaranteed by a member firm of a recognized stock exchange in Canada, a registered national securities exchangeexchange in the United States, a member of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada or National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in Canada or the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (To be completed if true) The undersigned hereby certifies represents, for the benefit of all holders of Rights and Common Shares, that the Rights evidenced by this Right Rights Certificate are not, and, to the knowledge of the undersigned, have never been, Beneficially Owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof or by any Person acting jointly or in concert with any of the foregoing (all as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------------- Signature NOTICE If the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment is not beneficially owned completed upon the assignment of the Right(s) evidenced by this Rights Certificate, the Company will deem the Beneficial Owner of such Rights to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form of Reverse Side of Certificate - continued and will affix a legend to that effect on any Right Certificates issued in exchange for this Rights Certificate. [To be attached to each Rights Certificate] FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) ToEXERCISE TO: FIDELITY BANCORP, THE XXXXXX GROUP INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise __________________________________ whole Rights represented by this Right the attached Rights Certificate to purchase the Preferred Common Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be shares by issued in the name of: Please insert social security --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Name) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Street) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (City and State or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Province) (Please print name and addressPostal Code) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOCIAL INSURANCE, SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER TAXPAYER IDENTIFICATION NUMBER If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, Rights Certificate a new Right Rights Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Name) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Street) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (City and State or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Province) (Please print name and addressPostal Code) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOCIAL INSURANCE, SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER TAXPAYER IDENTIFICATION NUMBER Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- Signature ------------------------ Signature Guaranteed: Signatures ---------------------------------------- Signature (Signature must correspond to name as written upon the face of this Rights Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever) Signature must be guaranteed by a member firm of a recognized stock exchange in Canada, a registered national securities exchangeexchange in the United States, a member of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada or National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in Canada or the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (To be completed if true) The undersigned hereby certifies represents, for the benefit of all holders of Rights and Common Shares, that the Rights evidenced by this Right Rights Certificate are not, and, to the knowledge of the undersigned, have never been, Beneficially Owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof or by any Person acting jointly or in concert with any of the foregoing (all as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------------- Signature NOTICE If the certification set forth above in the Form of Election to Exercise is not beneficially owned completed upon the exercise of the Right(s) evidenced by this Rights Certificate, the Company will deem the Beneficial Owner of such Right(s) to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election must conform to the name written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, SHAREHOLDER PROTECTION RIGHTS AGREEMENT AMENDMENTS made as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate 24th day May, 1990 to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof Agreement made as of April 20, 1990. BETWEEN: THE XXXXXX GROUP INC., a corporation incorporated under the laws of British Columbia (hereinafter referred to as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stockOF THE FIRST PART, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER THE ROYAL TRUST COMPANY, a trust company incorporated under the laws of Quebec (hereinafter referred to as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividendsOF THE SECOND PART.

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Samples: Shareholder Protection Rights Plan Agreement (Loewen Group Inc)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, Attorney to ---------------------- transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Corporation, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________, [200_] ---------------------------------- 19 ---------- -- ------------------------------------ Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CERTIFICATE ----------- The undersigned hereby certifies that (after due inquiry and to the Rights evidenced best knowledge of the undersigned) by checking the appropriate boxes that: (1) this Right Certificate are [ ] is [ ] is not beneficially owned being sold, assigned and transferred by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof of an Acquiring Person (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement.); (2) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form of Reverse Side of Certificate - continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall [ ] did [ ] did not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that acquire the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by from any Person who is, was or subsequently became an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement)of an Acquiring Person. ---------------------------------- Date: , 19 ---------- -- ------------------------------------ Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signature Guaranteed: NOTICE ------ The signature in to the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election Certificate must conform correspond to the name as written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.A-4

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Inference Corp /Ca/)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this Right Rights Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, to transfer the within Right Rights Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________, [200_] ---------------------------------- ------------------------- ----- ------------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Rights Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- ). ------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Form of Reverse Side of Rights Certificate - -- continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) ToTo PROVANT, Inc.: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise _________exercise_____________ Rights represented by this Right Rights Certificate to purchase the Series A Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Series A Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Rights Certificate, a new Right Rights Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] , ------------------------------ ----- ---------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. 47 Form of Reverse Side of Right Rights Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- continued ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Rights Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- --------------------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election must conform to the name as written upon the face of this Right Rights Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. the Company and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Rights Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit EXHIBIT C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE SERIES A PREFERRED SHARES On March 18July 13, 2003, 2000 the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORPPROVANT, INC. Inc. (the "Company") declared adopted a Shareholder Rights Plan pursuant to which a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right preferred share purchase right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value $.01 per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable Company will be distributed to the stockholders of record as of the close of business on March 31July 28, 2003 2000 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date). Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Series A Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value $.01 per share (the "Series A Preferred Shares") ), of the Company, at a price of $60 25.00 per one one-hundredth of a Series A Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANYFleet National Bank, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have has acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares Shares, will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, Shares outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Rights Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Rights Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18the close of business on July 28, 2013 2010 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Series A Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Series A Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Series A Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Series A Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Series A Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Series A Preferred Shares Shares, or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Series A Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Series A Preferred Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Series A Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Series A Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Series A Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of (a) $1 per share 1.00 or (b) 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder the holders of a the Series A Preferred Share Shares will also be entitled to a preferential payment equal to the greater of (a) $100 1.00 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of plus all accrued and unpaid dividends, whether or not declared, and (b) 100 times the aggregate payment made per Common Share. Each Series A Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in In the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Series A Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Series A Preferred Shares' dividend dividend, liquidation and liquidation voting rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Series A Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that, following the date of the first public announcement that a person has become an Acquiring Person (the "Shares Acquisition Date"), the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of the value of its consolidated assets or earning power are soldsold or otherwise transferred, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person (unless such person first acquires 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares by a purchase pursuant to a tender offer for all of the Common Shares for cash, which purchase increases such person's beneficial ownership to 90% or more of the outstanding Common Shares), proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share Share, or one one-hundredth of a Series A Preferred Share (or of a share of a class or series of the Company's preferred stock having equivalent rights, preferences and privileges), per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Series A Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- one-hundredth of a Series A Preferred Share and Share, which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Series A Preferred Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a time any person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Sharesbecomes an Acquiring Person (but not thereafter), the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The Subject to the foregoing, the redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time time, on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person the Distribution Date no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Provant Inc)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- unto______________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: ____________, _________, [200_] ---------------------------------- _ --------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank bank, savings association, credit union or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United StatesStates or other eligible guarantor institution which is a participant in a signature guarantee medallion program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that (1) the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned being sold, assigned or transferred by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Shareholder Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form and (2) after due inquiry and to the best knowledge of Reverse Side of Certificate - continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by undersigned, the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall did not be all acquire the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security from any Person who is or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- was or subsequently became an Acquiring Person. --------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. -5- Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- Signature continued ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election must conform to the name written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY FORM OF RIGHTS ELECTION TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles Tobe executed by the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior holder desires to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the exercise Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"Certificate.), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

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Samples: Shareholder Rights Agreement (Burlington Resources Inc)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________------------, [200_] ---------------------------------- ---- -------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank bank, savings association, credit union or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United StatesStates or other eligible guarantor institution which is a participant in a signature guarantee medallion program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ The undersigned hereby certifies that (1) the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned being sold, assigned or transferred by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form of Reverse Side of Certificate - continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE and (To be executed if holder desires 2) after due inquiry and to exercise the Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member best knowledge of the National Association of Securities Dealersundersigned, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that did not acquire the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by from any Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- -------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election must conform to the name written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.------------------------------------------------------------

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Samples: Rights Agreement (Nextlevel Systems Inc)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED. hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (Please print name and address of transferee) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC.the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. Dated: _____________________, [200_] ---------------------------------- ----------- ------ --------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank bank, savings association, credit union or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United StatesStates or other eligible guarantor institution which is a participant in a signature guarantee medallion program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The undersigned hereby certifies that (1) the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned being sold, assigned or transferred by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate Interested Stockholder thereof (as such terms are defined in the Shareholder Rights Agreement.) --------------------------------- Signature By ____________________ Authorized Signature Form and (2) after due inquiry and to the best knowledge of Reverse Side of Certificate - continued FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights represented by undersigned, the Right Certificate.) To: FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ______________________ Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such Preferred Shares be issued in the name of: Please insert social security or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If such number of Rights shall did not be all acquire the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: Please insert social security from any Person who is or other identifying number -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please print name and address) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: __________________,[200_] ---------------------------- was or subsequently became an Interested Stockholder. --------------------------- Signature Signature Guaranteed: Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States. Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate -- xxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement). ---------------------------------- Signature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE The signature in the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election must conform to the name written upon the face of this Right Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. In the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such Assignment or Election to Purchase will not be honored. Exhibit C --------- SUMMARY continued ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FORM OF RIGHTS ELECTION TO PURCHASE PREFERRED SHARES On March 18, 2003, the Board of Directors of FIDELITY BANCORP, INC. ---------------------------- (the "Company") declared a dividend of one Preferred Share Purchase Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of common stock, no par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of the Company. The dividend is payable on March 31, 2003 (the "Record Date") to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles To be executed by the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of the Company's Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share ("Preferred Shares") at a price of $60 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights Agreement") between the Company and REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"). Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an "Acquiring Person") have acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date or (ii) 10 business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior holder desires to such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person) following the commencement of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or group of 15% or more of such outstanding Common Shares or more than such person or group held on March 31, 2003 if such person or group held 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares on such date (the earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"), the exercise Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date, by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date, upon transfer or new issuance of Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares, outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificate. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates") will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on March 18, 2013 (the "Final Expiration Date"Certificate.), unless the Final Expiration Date is extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed by the Company, in each case, as described below. The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price, less than the then current market price of the Preferred Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in Common Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions, consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date. Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will not be redeemable. Each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment equal to the greater of $1 per share or 100 times the dividend declared per Common Share. In the event of liquidation, each holder of a Preferred Share will be entitled to a payment of $100 per share provided that such holders shall be entitled to an aggregate payment of 100 times the payment made per Common Share. Each Preferred Share will have 100 votes, voting together with the Common Shares. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per Common Share. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares' dividend and liquidation rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the long term value of one Common Share. In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time after the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights owned by such person or group which have become void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one Common Share or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share per Right (subject to adjustment). With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one- hundredth of a Preferred Share and which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the market price of the Common Shares on the last trading day prior to the date of exercise. At any time prior to the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price"). The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such time on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. Immediately upon any redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price. The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment to lower certain thresholds described above, except that from and after such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person no such amendment may adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Rights. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

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Samples: Shareholder Rights Agreement (El Paso Energy Corp/De)

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