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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 and
<br /> appoint KEVIN J BREHENY, OR RANDY S CANNADY, OR RONALD A KOOPMAN, OR TIM R PATTON, OR LINDA L
<br /> HOPKINS, ALL INDIVIDUALLY of FORSYTH IL
<br /> ' its true and lawful attorney-in-Fact with power and authority hereby conferred to sign, seal and execute in its behalf all lawful bonds,
<br /> undertakings and other obligatory instruments of similar nature as follows: All bonds not to exceed $10,000,000.00
<br /> ' and to bind UNITED FIRE&CASUALTY COMPANY thereby as fully and to the same extent as if such instruments were signed by the
<br /> duly authorized officers of UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY and all the acts of said Attorney, pursuant to the authority hereby
<br /> given are hereby ratified and confirmed.
<br /> The Authority hereby granted shall expire 16th day of Apr,, , 2014 unless sooner revoked.
<br /> This power of Attorney is made and executed pursuant to and by authority of the following By-Law duly adopted by Board of
<br /> Directors of the Company on May 16,2012.
<br /> "Article VI-Surety Bonds and Undertakings"
<br /> Section 2, Appointment of Attorney-in-Fact. "The President or any Vice President, or any other officer of the Company may,
<br /> from time to time, appoint by written certificates attorneys-in-fact to act in behalf of the Company in the execution of policies of
<br /> insurance, bonds, undertakings and other obligatory instruments of like nature. The signature of any officer authorized hereby,
<br /> ' and the Corporate seal, may be affixed by facsimile to any power of attorney or special power of attorney or certification of
<br /> either authorized hereby,such signature and seal,when so used, being adopted by the Company as the original signature of
<br /> such officer and the original seal of the Company,to be valid and binding upon the Company with the same force and effect as
<br /> though manually affixed. Such attorneys-in fact, subject to the limitations set forth in their respective certificates of authority
<br /> ' shall have full power to bind the Company by their signature and execution of any such instruments and to attach the seal of
<br /> the Company thereto. The President or any Vice President,the Board of Directors or any other officer of the Company may at
<br /> 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 /> ' auttt" �y„y�1 its vice president and its corporate seal to be hereto affixed this 16th day of Apri 1, 2012
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<br /> By
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<br /> Vice President
<br /> State of Iowa,County of Lin,ss:
<br /> On 16th day of April , 2012, before me personally came Dennis J. Richmann
<br /> ' to me 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 of the UNITED FIRE&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 it was so affixed pursuant
<br /> ' to authority given by the Board of Directors of said corporation and that he signed his name ther to pursuant to like authority, and
<br /> acknowledges same to be the act and deed of said corporation.
<br /> abea Judith A.Davis A
<br /> CommNotarial Seal
<br /> 1 st n nur W 173041 Notary Public
<br /> ' My Commission Expires 04/23/2015 My commission expires: 0423-2015
<br /> I, the undersigned officer of the UNITED FIRE&CASUALTY COMPANY, do hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing copy of
<br /> ' the Power of Attorney and affidavit, and the copy of the Section of the by-laws of said Company as set forth in said Power of Attorney,
<br /> with the ORIGINALS ON FILE IN THE HOME OFFICE OF SAID COMPANY, and that the same are correct transcripts thereof, and of
<br /> the whole of the said originals, and that the said Power of Attorney has not been revoked and is now in full force and effect.
<br /> In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the corporate seal of the said Company
<br /> ' this 9th day of June 2014
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