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UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY, CEDAR RAPIDS, IA
<br />UNITED FIRE & INDEMNITY COMPANY, WEBS 1'LR, TX
<br />FINANCIAL PACIFIC INSURANCE COMPANY, LOS ANGELES, CA
<br />CERTIFIED COPY OF POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />(original on file at Home Office of Company — See Certification)
<br />Inquiries: Surety Department
<br />118 Second Ave SE
<br />Cedar Rapids, IA 52401
<br />KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, That United Fire & Casualty Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws
<br />of the State of Iowa; United Fire & Indemnity Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of' the State of Texas, and Fmancial
<br />Pacific Insurance Company, a corporation duly organized and existmg under the laws of the State of California (herein collectively called the
<br />Companies), and having their corporate headquarters in Cedar Rapids, State of Iowa, does make, constitute and appomt
<br />MICHAEL R HIGHSMITH, JENNIFER K HIGHSMITH, ALICE MARIE POULIN, EACH INDIVIDUALLY
<br />their true and lawful Attorney(s)-in-Fact with power and authority hereby conferred to sign, seal and execute m its behalf all lawful bonds,
<br />undertakings and other obligatory instruments of similar nature provided that no single obhgation shall exceed $50 , 000 , 000.00
<br />and to bind the Compames thereby as fully and to the same extent as if such mstruments were signed by the duly authorized officers of the Companies
<br />and all of the acts of said Attorney, pursuant to the authonty hereby given and hereby ratified and confirmed.
<br />The Authority hereby granted is continuous and shall remain m full force and effect until revoked by United Fire & Casualty Company, United Fire &
<br />Indemnity Company, and Financial Pacific Insurance Company.
<br />This Power of Attorney is made and executed pursuant to and by authority of the following bylaw duly adopted by the Boards of Directors of United
<br />Fire & Casualty Company, Umted Fire & Indemnity Company, and Fmancial Pacific Insurance Company.
<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 Companies may, from time to time appoint by written certificates
<br />attorneys -in -fact to act in behalf of the Companies in the execution of policies of insurance, bonds, undertakings and other obligatory instruments of like nature. The signature
<br />of any officer authorized hereby, and the Corporate seal, may be affixed by facsimile to any power of attorney or special power of attorney or certification of either authorized
<br />hereby; such signature and seal, when so used, being adopted by the Companies as the original signature of such officer and the original seal of the Companies, to be valid
<br />and binding upon the Companies with the same force and effect as though manually affixed. Such attorneys -in -fact subject to the limitations set of forth in their respective
<br />certificates of authority shall hai e full power to bind the Companies by their signature and execution of any such instnunents and to attach the seal the Companies thereto.
<br />The President or any Vice President, the Board of Directors or any other officer of the Companies may at any time revoke all power and authority previously given to any
<br />attorney -in -fact.
<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the COMPANIES have each caused these presents to be signed by its
<br />vice president and its corporate seal to be hereto affixed this
<br />1st day of July,
<br />2022
<br />UNI'l'ED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY
<br />UNI 1'ED FIRE & INDEMNITY COMPANY
<br />FINANCIAL PACIFIC INSURANCE COMPANY
<br />By: 4 •.
<br />State of Iowa, County of Linn, ss:
<br />Vice President
<br />On 1st day of July, 2022, before me personally came Dennis J. Richmann
<br />to me known, who bemg by me duly sworn, did depose and say; that he resides m Cedar Rapids, State of Iowa; that he is a Vice President of United Fire
<br />& Casualty Company, a Vice President of United Fire & Indemnity Company, and a Vice President of Financial Pacific Insurance Company the
<br />corporations described m and which executed the above instrument, that he knows the seal of said corporations; that the seal affixed to the said instrument
<br />is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed pursuant to authonty given by the Board of Directors of said corporations and that he signed his name thereto
<br />pursuant to like authonty, and acknowledges same to be the act and deed of said corporations.
<br />Notary Public
<br />My commission expires: 4/23/2024
<br />I, Mary A Bertsch, Assistant Secretary of United Fire & Casualty Company and Assistant Secretary of United Fire & Indemnity Company, and Assistant
<br />Secretary of Financial Pacific Insurance Company, do hereby certify that I have compared the foregomg copy of the Power of Attorney and affidavit, and
<br />the copy of the Section of the bylaws and resolutions of said Corporations as set forth m said Power of Attorney, with the ORIGINALS ON FILE IN THE
<br />HOME OFFICE OF SAID CORPORATIONS, and that the same are correct transcripts thereof, and of the whole of the said originals, and that the said
<br />Power of Attorney has not been revoked and is now m full force and effect.
<br />In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscnbed my name and affixed the corporate seal of the said Corporations
<br />this 12th day of February , 20 24
<br />Judith A. Jones
<br />Iowa Notarial Seal
<br />Commission number 173041
<br />My Commission Expires 4/23/2024
<br />.ottl Pilau,
<br />ER Q .
<br />By•
<br />Assistant Secretary,
<br />UF&C & OF&I & FPIC
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