SHAREHOLDERS EQUITY	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Stockholders Equity Note [Abstract]
SHAREHOLDERS EQUITY	18. SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY The Company authorized a 5 percent (960,000 shares) stock repurchase program on July 25, 2019. During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company purchased 739,778 shares at an average price of $28.39 for a total cost of $21.0 million. The Dividend Reinvestment Plan of the Company (the “Plan”) allows shareholders of the Company to purchase additional shares of common stock using cash dividends without payment of any brokerage commissions or other charges. Shareholders may also make voluntary cash payments of up to $200,000 per quarter to purchase additional shares of common stock. The Plan provides that shares may be purchased directly from the Company out of its authorized but unissued or treasury shares, or in the open market. During 2018, the shares purchased under the Plan were from authorized but unissued shares and in the open market. The price of shares purchased under the Plan will be the average price paid for such shares by the Plan’s administrator, Computershare Investor Services. The price to the Plan administrator of shares purchased directly from the Company with reinvested dividends or voluntary cash payments historically was 97 percent of their “fair market value,” as that term is herein defined in the Plan. However, on January 30, 2019, the Company filed a Registration Statement on Form S-3 which eliminated the three percent discount feature in our Plan. All of the 129,738 shares issued through the Plan in 2019 were purchased in the open market. Total shares issued through the Plan in 2018 totaled 1,320,709 of which 542,302 of the shares purchased were from authorized but unissued shares, which resulted in additional capital of $16.7 million, while 778,407 were purchased in the open market.

SHAREHOLDERS EQUITY

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

18. SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

The Company authorized a 5 percent (960,000 shares) stock repurchase program on July 25, 2019. During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company purchased 739,778 shares at an average price of $28.39 for a total cost of $21.0 million.

The Dividend Reinvestment Plan of the Company (the “Plan”) allows shareholders of the Company to purchase additional shares of common stock using cash dividends without payment of any brokerage commissions or other charges. Shareholders may also make voluntary cash payments of up to $200,000 per quarter to purchase additional shares of common stock. The Plan provides that shares may be purchased directly from the Company out of its authorized but unissued or treasury shares, or in the open market. During 2018, the shares purchased under the Plan were from authorized but unissued shares and in the open market. The price of shares purchased under the Plan will be the average price paid for such shares by the Plan’s administrator, Computershare Investor Services. The price to the Plan administrator of shares purchased directly from the Company with reinvested dividends or voluntary cash payments historically was 97 percent of their “fair market value,” as that term is herein defined in the Plan. However, on January 30, 2019, the Company filed a Registration Statement on Form S-3 which eliminated the three percent discount feature in our Plan. All of the 129,738 shares issued through the Plan in 2019 were purchased in the open market. Total shares issued through the Plan in 2018 totaled 1,320,709 of which 542,302 of the shares purchased were from authorized but unissued shares, which resulted in additional capital of $16.7 million, while 778,407 were purchased in the open market.