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1993-09-13 Power of Attorney . powew Attorney ALLIED GROUP Insurance KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS That ALLIED Mutual Insurance Company. a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Iowa, with its principal office in the Oty of Des Moines. Iowa. hereinafier called 'Company'. does hereby make. constitute and appoint --DAVID W. PIERCE, GARY D. PIERCE Litchfield, Minnesota each in his individual capacity. its true and lawful Attorney-In-Fact with full power and authority to sign. seal. and execute in its behalf any and all bonds and undertakings and other obligatory instruments of similar nature (except bonds guaran- teeing the payment of principal and interest of notes. mortgage bonds and mortgages) in penalties not exceeding the sum of FIVE HU1~RED THOUSAND AND NO/IOO----- For contract bonds where Annandale Contracting, Inc. is principal ($500,000.00) and to bind the Company thereby, as fully and to the same extent as if such instruments were signed by the duly authorized officers of the Company; and all acts of said AUorney pursuant to the authority hereby given are hereby ratified and con- firmed. _ This Power of Attorney is made and executed pursuant to and by authority of the following By-Laws duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company. ARTICLE IX - EXECUTION OF CONTRACTS 'Section 2. Bonds, undertakings, and other obligatory instruments of similar nature, other than policies and endorsements, issued by the Corporation shall be validly executed and binding on- the Corporation when signe4- by the President, or a Vice President, or by Attorney(s)-ln-Fact appointed by the President, or by a Vice President.' 'Section 3. The President, or a Vice President, shall have the power to appoint agents of the Corporation, or other persons, as Attorney(s)-ln-Fact to act on behalf of the Corporation in the execution of bonds, undertakings, and other obligatory instruments of similar nature, other than policies and endorsements with full power to bind the Corporation by their signature and execution of any such instru- ment. The appointment of such Attorney(s)-In-Fact shall be accomplished by Powers of Attorney signed by the President, or a Vice Pres- ident. This Power of Attorney is signed and sealed by facsimile under and by the following By-Laws duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company. ARTICLE IX - EXECUTION OF CONTRACTS 'Section 4. The Secretary, .or an Assistant Secretary, is authorized to certify that any such Power of Attorney so signed shall be validly executed and binding on the Corporation; and to certify that any bond, undertaking, or obligatory instrument of similar nature, other than policies and endorsements, to which this Power of Attorney is attached is and shall continue to be a valid and binding obligation of the Corporation, according to its terms, when executed by Attorney(s)-In-Fact appointed by the President or a Vice President.' 'Section 5. It shall not be necessary to the valid execution and binding effect of the Corporation of any bond, undertaking, or obligatory instrument of similar nature, other than policies and endorsements, signed on behalf of the Corporation by the President, or a Vice President, or Attorney(s)-ln-Fact appointed by the President, or a Vice President, or any Power of Attorney executed on behalf of the Corporation appointing Attorney(s)-ln-Fact to act for the Corporation, or of any certifICate to be executed by the Secretary, or an Assistant Secretary, as hereinabove in Section 2,3, and 4 of this Article provided, that the corporate seal be affixed to any such instrument but the person authorized to sign such instrument may affix the corporate seal, and a facsimile corporate seal afftxed to any such instrument shall be as effective and binding as the original seal.' 'Section 6. A facsimile signature of the President, or of a Vice President, affixed to any bond, Undertaking. or obligatory instrument of similar nature, other than policies and endorsements, or to a Power of Attorney signed by such President, or a Vice President, as herein in Sections 2 and 3 provided, or a facsimile signature of the Secretary. or of an Assistant Secretary to any certificate as herein in Section 4 provided, shall be effective and binding upon the Corporation with the same force and effect as the original signatures of any such officers.' 'Section 7. A facsimile signature of a former officer shall be of the same validity as that of an existing officer, when affiXed to any policy or endorsement, any bond or undertaking, any Power of Attorney or certifac:ate, as herein in Section 1,2,3 and 4 provided.' IN WITNESS WHEREOF~ the Company has caused these presents to be signed by its President and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed this 2na day of April 19 93. '~~" ALLIED MUTUAL I~RANCE COMPANY ,~. ,.f ~ I' ,i:SEALi.' STATE OF IOWA ., ".)._...:1 By: '" ,'l~ \ \ President COUNTY OF POLK ss ,~:~::.. . On this 2nd day of April '-: 1993, bet: e personally came James D. Kirkpatrick, to me known. who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he is President of ALL 00 Mutual Insurance Company, the corporation described in and which exe- cuted the above instrument; that he knows the seal of said corporation, that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporation seal; that it was so affixed pursuant to authority given by the Board of Directors of said corporation and tha he has signed his name thereto pursuant to like authority, and acknowledged the same to be the act and deed of said corporatio Stacy Koehn 0 J~ Notary Public in an for the S of Iowa ,..,,/~ STACY KOEHN ! A ~ MY COMMISSION EXPIRES ~- 11-4-94 CERTIFICATE I. the undersigned. Secretary of ALLIED Mutual Insurance Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Iowa, do hereby certify that the foregoing Power of Auorney is still in force. and further certify that Section 2, 3, 4. S. 6 and 7 of Article IX of the By-Laws of the Company set forth in said Power of Attorney are still in force. this IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF. I have subscribed my name and amxed. the seal of the compa~ 13thdayof September . 1993 .-:~~~~, (JJ ,,,/ ":\f (3. Ii: SEAL:!' . ~..)l ... I . This Power of Attorney expires " "~;;? ~ Secretary 2/28/94 '-.. Bel I (06-92) 00