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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, fi 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
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<br /> ' its true and lawful Attorneys)-in-Fact with power and authority hereby conferred to sign, seal alhd execute in its behalf all lawful
<br /> bonds,undertakings and other obligatory instruments of similar nature as follows: Al 1 bonds not ito 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
<br /> the duly authorized officers of UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY and all the acts of said /attorney, pursuant to the authority
<br /> hereby given are hereby ratified and confirmed.
<br /> The Authority hereby granted shall expire 16t h day of Apr 11 , 2014 un l ess sooner revoked.
<br /> ' This power of Attorney is made and executed pursuant to and by authority of the following Icy-Law duly adopted by Board of
<br /> Directors of the Company on April 18, 1973.
<br /> "Article V-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 attomeys-in-fact to act in behalf of the Company in the execution of policies
<br /> of insurance, bonds, undertakings and other obligatory instruments of like 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 the
<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 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 /> `���urrr,urrq� IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY has caus d these presents to be signed by
<br /> ,�.�� ° "'`� '�•,,� its vice president and its corporate seal to be hereto affixed this 16th day of Aper i 1 , 2012
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<br /> UNITED FIRE &QASUALTY COMPANY
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<br /> State of Iowa, County of Linn, ss:
<br /> On 16th day of April , 2012, before me personally came Dennis J. Richmann Vice President
<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 ex0cuted 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
<br /> pursuant to authority given by the Board of Directors of said corporation and that he signed hils name thereto pursuant to like
<br /> ' authority, and acknowledges same to be the act and deed of said corporation.
<br /> Mary A.Jansen
<br /> Iowa N„Q ri 1 Seal
<br /> Commission number 713273
<br /> ' My Commission Expires 10/26/13 Notary Public
<br /> I, the undersigned officer of the UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY, do hereby certify that I h ve compared the foregoing copy
<br /> ' of 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
<br /> Attorney, with the ORIGINALS ON FILE IN THE HOME OFFICE OF SAID COMPANY, and that the same are correct transcripts
<br /> thereof, and of the whole of the said originals, and that the said Power of Attorney has not been re>oked and is now in full force and
<br /> effect.
<br /> In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the corporate seal of the said Company
<br /> this 11th day of November 20 13
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