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GUARANTEE AGREEMENT

COMMUNITY BANKS, INC.

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY

Dated as of March 9, 2007

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GUARANTEE AGREEMENT

This GUARANTEE AGREEMENT (this ?Guarantee?), dated as of March 9, 2007, is executed and delivered by Community Banks, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation (the ?Guarantor?), and Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as trustee (the ?Guarantee Trustee?), for the benefit of the Holders (as defined herein) from time to time of the Capital Securities (as defined herein) of CMTY Capital Statutory Trust V, a Delaware statutory trust (the ?Issuer?).

WHEREAS, pursuant to an Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust (the ?Declaration?), dated as of the date hereof among Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual capacity but solely as institutional trustee, the administrators of the Issuer named therein, the Guarantor, as sponsor, and the holders from time to time of undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer, the Issuer is issuing on the date hereof those undivided beneficial interests, having an aggregate liquidation amount of $20,000,000.00 (the ?Capital Securities?); and

WHEREAS, as incentive for the Holders to purchase the Capital Securities, the Guarantor desires irrevocably and unconditionally to agree, to the extent set forth in this Guarantee, to pay to the Holders of Capital Securities the Guarantee Payments (as defined herein) and to make certain other payments on the terms and conditions set forth herein;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the purchase by each Holder of the Capital Securities, which purchase the Guarantor hereby agrees shall benefit the Guarantor, the Guarantor executes and delivers this Guarantee for the benefit of the Holders.

DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION

Section 1.1. Definitions and Interpretation.

In this Guarantee, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) capitalized terms used in this Guarantee but not defined in the preamble above have the respective meanings assigned to them in this Section 1.1;

(b) a term defined anywhere in this Guarantee has the same meaning throughout;

(c) all references to ?the Guarantee? or ?this Guarantee? are to this Guarantee as modified, supplemented or amended from time to time;

(d) all references in this Guarantee to ?Articles? or ?Sections? are to Articles or Sections of this Guarantee, unless otherwise specified;

(e) terms defined in the Declaration as at the date of execution of this Guarantee have the same meanings when used in this Guarantee, unless otherwise defined in this Guarantee or unless the context otherwise requires; and

(f) a reference to the singular includes the plural and vice versa.

?Affiliate? has the same meaning as given to that term in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any successor rule thereunder.

?Beneficiaries? means any Person to whom the Issuer is or hereafter becomes indebted or liable.

?Capital Securities? has the meaning set forth in the recitals to this Guarantee.

?Common Securities? means the common securities issued by the Issuer to the Guarantor pursuant to the Declaration.

?Corporate Trust Office? means the office of the Guarantee Trustee at which the corporate trust business of the Guarantee Trustee shall, at any particular time, be principally administered, which office at the date of execution of this Guarantee is located at Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890-1600, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration.

?Covered Person? means any Holder of Capital Securities.

?Debentures? means the debt securities of the Guarantor designated the Fixed/Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures due 2037 held by the Institutional Trustee (as defined in the Declaration) of the Issuer.

?Declaration Event of Default? means an ?Event of Default? as defined in the Declaration.

?Event of Default? has the meaning set forth in Section 2.4(a).

?Guarantee Payments? means the following payments or distributions, without duplication, with respect to the Capital Securities, to the extent not paid or made by the Issuer: (i) any accrued and unpaid Distributions (as defined in the Declaration) which are required to be paid on such Capital Securities to the extent the Issuer shall have funds available therefor, (ii) the Redemption Price to the extent the Issuer has funds available therefor, with respect to any Capital Securities called for redemption by the Issuer, (iii) the Special Redemption Price to the extent the Issuer has funds available therefor, with respect to Capital Securities redeemed upon the occurrence of a Special Event, and (iv) upon a voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, winding-up or termination of the Issuer (other than in connection with the distribution of Debentures to the Holders of the Capital Securities in exchange therefor as provided in the Declaration), the lesser of (a) the aggregate of the liquidation amount and all accrued and unpaid Distributions on the Capital Securities to the date of payment, to the extent the Issuer shall have funds available therefor, and (b) the amount of assets of the Issuer remaining available for distribution to Holders in liquidation of the Issuer (in either case, the ?Liquidation Distribution?).