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<br /> 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 existing
<br /> 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 LAURENT R. LAVENTURE, JR. , OR PATRICIA J . SCHAITEL , OR CAROL M. CONLEY
<br /> OR DIANN M. BOESCH, OR GARY R WOODWARD, OR RACHELLE FAWCETT, OR JOHN G.
<br /> HAGBERG, OR PAULETTE J . JANICK, ALL INDIVIDUALLY
<br /> of 7701 YORK AVE S 200 MINNEAPOLIS MN 55435
<br /> its true and lawful Attorney(s)—in—Fact with power and authority hereby conferred to sign, seal and execute in its behalf all
<br /> lawful bonds, undertakings and other obligatory instruments of similar nature as follows: ANY AND ALL BONDS
<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 APRIL 30th 2000 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 the
<br /> Board of 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,from time to time,appoint
<br /> by written certificates attorneys-in-fact to act In behalf of the Company in the execution of policies of Insurance, bonds, undertakings and other
<br /> obligatory Instruments of like nature. The signature of any officer authorized hereby, and the Corporate seal, may be affixed by facsimile to any
<br /> powerof attorney or special power of attorney or Certification of either authorized hereby;such signature and seal,when so used,being adopted by the
<br /> Company as the original signature of such officer and the original seal of the Company,to be valid and binding upon the Company with the same force
<br /> and effect as though manually affixed Such attorneys-in-fact,subject to the limitations set forth in their respective certificates of authority shall have
<br /> full power to bind the Company by their signature and execution of any such Instruments and to attach the seal of the Company thereto.The President
<br /> or any Vice President,the Board of Directors or any other officer of the Company may at any time revoke all power and authority previously given to
<br /> any attorney-in-fact.
<br /> IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY has caused these presents
<br /> • e,,,,,,��� to be signed by its vice president and its corporate seal to be hereto affixed this
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<br /> A.D. 1998
<br /> 30th day of APRIL
<br /> C01POIATE
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<br /> As i t ice President
<br /> State of Iowa, County of Linn, ss:
<br /> On this 30th day of APRIL 1998, before me personally came JEFFREY A. CHAPIN
<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
<br /> Vice President of the UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY, the corporation described in and which executed the above
<br /> instrument; that he knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to the said instrument is such corporated seal; that
<br /> it was so affixed pursuant to authority given by the Board of Directors of said corporation and that he signed his name thereto
<br /> Pursuant to like authority, and acknowledges same to be the act and deed of said corporation.
<br /> C'`"' Notary Public
<br /> LOIS M.SCHUCHMANN
<br /> MY COMMISSION EXPIRES My commission expires NOV. 10 19 98
<br /> November 10,1998
<br /> CERTIFICATION
<br /> I, the undersigned officer of the UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY, do hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing
<br /> COPY 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
<br /> Power of Attorney, with the ORIGINALS ON FILE IN THE HOME OFFICE OF SAID COMPANY, and that the same are correct
<br /> transcripts thereof, and of the whole of the said originals, and that the said Power of Attorney has not been revoked and is
<br /> now in full force and effect.
<br /> In testimony whereof I have hereunto subcribed my name and of d the corporate seal of the said
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<br /> Company this 28TH day of October t9 98
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