UN.fTED FlRE 8 CASUAI.TY COMPANY
<br />HOME OFFICE - CEDAR RAPIDS, 10WA
<br />CERTIFIED COPY 0F POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />(Originai on file at Home Office of Company - See Certification)
<br />KNOW ALL MfN BY THESE PRESENTS', That the UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY,; a corporation duly organized and
<br />existing under the iaws of the State of lowa, and having its principaf office in Cedar Rapids, State of iowa, does <make, constitute and
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<br />appoint BERT G. MOORE, DR DAN'M. MDREMAN, OR LARRY J. SMITH, OR BRYAN M. 1NILLIS, OR JAMES DOUGLAS
<br />ROGERS, OR LINDA K. BURGE, OR<STEPHEN R. MAXWELL, OR BYRAM H. CARPENTER; III; OR CLAY T>EAGUE, OR
<br />HARVEY H. PATTON, IV, ALL INDIVIDUALLY of SHREVEPORT LA
<br />its true and lawfnl A#torney(s)-in-Fact with power and au#honty hereby conferred to sign, seal and execUie in its behalf all lawful
<br />bonds'; undertakings and ather obligatory instruments of similar nature as foilows: Any and A1 1 Bonds
<br />and to bind UNITED FIRE: & CASUALTY CQMPANY thereby as fully and to ttae same extent as if such instruments vrere 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 Au#hor.ity hereby granted is continuous and shall remain in fuU force an.d effect until" revoked by UNITED FIRE 8
<br />CASUALTY COMPANY.
<br />This power of Attorney is made and executed pursuant to and by aufhority of the fol3owing By-Law duly adopted by>8oard Df
<br />Directots 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 attorneys-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 Gorporate seal, may be affixed by facsimile to any power of attorney or special power of attprney or
<br />certificationof eit:her 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 vrith the.
<br />same force and effect as though manually affixed. Such attorneys-in fact, subject #a the lirnitations 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. Tfie 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 g'iven to any attorney-in-#act.
<br />IN 1NITNESS W!`iEREOF, the UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY has caused these presents to be sigr~ed by
<br />21st day of' June,, 2005
<br />its vice president and its corporate seal to be hereto affixed this
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<br />UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY
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<br />State o# lowa, County o# Linn, ss:-
<br />On 21st day of June, 2005, before me personaity came Randy A. Ramto
<br />to me kttown, who being by me duly swom, did depose and say; that he resides in Cedar Rapids, State of towa; that he is a 1)ice
<br />Presitlent<of #he UNITEO f:I.RE & 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
<br />pursuant to au#hority given by the Board o# Directors of said corporation and that >he si:gned his_ name thereto pursuant-to like
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<br />author}!y, and acknowledges same to be the act and deed of said corporation. ~1:~~n
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<br />I, the undersigned officer.of the UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY, do hereby certify that 1 have compared the #oregoing eopy
<br />of tfie Power of Attorney and aff.idavit, end the copy of the Section of the by-laws of said Company as set Ftarth in said Power of
<br />Attocney, wifh the ORICINALS ON FILE 1N 'THE HflME OFFICE OF!SAID COMPAN'Y, and :that the same are correct transcripts
<br />thereof, and of the whoie o# the said originals, and that the said Power of Attorney has not been revoked and !.is now in full farce and
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<br />""'"h0+n testitriony whereof i have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the corpora#e seal of the said Company
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<br />this 20th day of A}zr; 1 20 LCL_.
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