UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY
<br /> HOME OFFICE - "CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.
<br /> CERTIFIED COPY OF POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br /> (Original on file at Home Office of Company - See Certification)
<br /> KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That the UNITED . FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY, a corporation duly organized and
<br /> existing under the laws of the "State of Iowa, and having; its principal office in Cedar Rapids, State of Iowa, does make, constitute antl
<br /> appoint LESLIE M OONAHUE , OR. KIM' E -NIV , OR` JEFFREY W REICH , OR SUSAN L .REICH , OR TERESA; L DURHAM'; OR
<br /> , PATRICIA L SLAI(GHTER , OR J % GREGORY •MACKENZIE „ OR GLORIA A. RICHARDS; QR .. DON BRAMLAGE OF : QAYTONA BEACH
<br /> FL ,- - ALL INDIVIDUALLY Of MAITLAND FL
<br /> its, true and lawful Attorneys)-in-Fact with power and authority hereby, conferred to sign, seal and: execute in :its behalf alt lawfut bonds, undertakings
<br /> and"other obligatory instruments'of similar nature as follows:: Any and Al 1 Bonds , �
<br /> and t bind UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY thereby as fully and `to the same .edent as if such instruments Were signed, by
<br /> the duly auihodied officers of UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY and aft the 'acts of said Attorney, pursuant=to the authority
<br /> hereby given are hereby ratified and confirmed.
<br /> The Authority hereby granted is continuous and shall remain in full force and effect until revoked by UNITED-.FIRE &
<br /> CASUALTY COMPANY;
<br /> This power. of Attorney is made and executed pursuant to antl by authority of the following By-Law duly adopted by Board of
<br /> Directors of the Company on April 18 1973
<br /> 11 "Article V = Surety Bonds andlindertakings
<br /> " Section 2, Appointment nfAttorney=m=F cE 'The'I esident or any Vice President; a7 any othe offEai of file Comparsy;mayI
<br /> from time to time, appoint by written certificates attorneys-in-fact to act in behalf of the Company in the execution of policies
<br /> of insurance, bonds, undertakings and other obligatory instrumentsoflike nature. The Signature of any officer authorized
<br /> hereby,and the Corporate seal, may be affixed by facsimile to any power of attorney or special power of attorney or
<br /> certification of either authorized hereby; such signature and seal, when so used, being %adopted by the Company as thee.
<br /> original signature of such %officer and the original seal of the Company, to be valid and binding upon the Company with the
<br /> same force 1. and effect as though manually affixed. Such attorneys-in fact, subject to the limitations set forth 'in their
<br /> respective certificates of 'authority shall have full power to bind the Company by their signature and execution of any such
<br /> Instruments and %to attach the seal of the Company thereto. The President or any Vice President, the Board "of Directors or
<br /> any other officer of the Company may at any time revoke all power and authority previously given to any attorney-in-fact.
<br /> IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY has caused these presents to be signed by
<br /> its vice president and its corporate seal to be hereto affixed this 16th day of October , 2007.'
<br /> UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY
<br /> SEAL
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<br /> By _� .
<br /> State of.lowa, County of Linn, ss:
<br /> Vice Ptesident
<br /> Dn lfith tlay.. of October , 2007 , before me personally came Dennis J . Richmann
<br /> to known;; who being by me duly sworn, did depose and say; that he resides in Cedar Rapids, State of Iowa; that he is a Vice
<br /> President pt:the UNITED ;FIRE &s CASUALTY COMPANY, the corporation described in and which executed the above instrument(that .
<br /> he knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to the said instrument is such corporate seal; that itwas so affixed
<br /> fpursuant to authority given by the: . Board of, Directors of said corporation and that he signed his name thereto pursuant to like
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<br /> authority, and ;ackrlowle lges same to%bb the act,and deed`of said corporation. ;
<br /> s� MaryA 3ansen
<br /> rr Com,nL on umbar. y-T
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<br /> " MY Commission Expires
<br /> 101 "0 Notary Public '
<br /> I, the undersigned officer of the UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY, do hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing copy
<br /> of the Power o( Atfnrney and affidavit, and the copy of the Section of the by-laws of said Company as set forth in said Power of '-
<br /> Attvmey wRh' O ?IC
<br /> XINALS ON FILE IN THE HOME OFFICE OF SAID COMPANY, and that, the same are .correct transcripts
<br /> dhere . . . antl 5 a lof€ pf the said ongirlals, and that the said Power of Attorney has not basil revoketl and is now m full force and
<br /> "11r4�� StirnDn whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the corporate seal of the said Company
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