|
* OLD REPUBLIC INSURANCE COMPANY
<br />*****
<br />POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That OLD REPUBLIC INSURANCE COMPANY, a Pennsylvania stock insurance corporation, does make,
<br />constitute and appoint:
<br />NICOLE L BICKNELL, MEGAN E RIESENBERG, MARK EDWARD WOBBE, BARBARA E PEARSON, JENNIFER L KASZNIA, SANDRA L JUNK, WILLIAM J CERNEY, III,
<br />WESLEY MANTOOTH, THERESA BURNS, JORDAN SCHEIBER, LISA M THOMAS, FAITH HUNT, PAMELA S. HIGGINBOTHAM of SOUTH BEND, IN
<br />its true and lawful Atlorney(s)-in-Fact, with full power and authority for and on behalf of the Company as surety, to execute and deliver and affix the seal of the
<br />Company thereto (if a seal is required), bonds, undertakings, recognizances or other written obligations in the nature thereof, (other than self-insurance workers
<br />compensation bonds guaranteeing payment of benefits, or black lung bonds), as follows:
<br />ALL WRITTEN INSTRUMENTS IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED TWENTY MILLION ($20,000,000) FOR ANY SINGLE OBLIGATION
<br />and to bind OLD REPUBLIC INSURANCE COMPANY thereby, and all of the acts of said Attorneys -in -Fad, pursuant to these presents, are ralifed and
<br />confirmed. This appointment is made under and by authority of the board of directors at a meeting held on December 10, 2019. This Power of Attorney is signed
<br />and sealed by facsimile under and by the authority of the following resolutions adopted by the board of directors of the OLD REPUBLIC INSURANCE
<br />COMPANY on December 10, 2019.
<br />RESOLVED FURTHER, that the chairman, president or any vice president of the Company's surety division, in conjunction with the secretary or any
<br />assistant secretary of the Company, be and hereby are authorized and directed to execute and deliver, to such persons as such officers of the Company
<br />may deem appropriate, Powers of Attorney In the form presented to and attached to the minutes of this meeting, authorizing such persons to execute and
<br />deliver and affix the seal of the Company to bonds, undertakings, recognizances, and suretyship obligations of all kinds, other than bail bonds, bank
<br />depository bonds, mortgage deficiency bonds, mortgage guaranty bonds, guarantees of installment paper and not guaranty bonds. The said officers may
<br />revoke any Power of Attorney previously granted to any such person.
<br />RESOLVED FURTHER that any bond, undertaking, recognizance, or suretyship obligation shall be valid and binding upon the Company
<br />(i) when signed by chairmen, president or anyvice president of the Company's surety division and attested and sealed (ifa seal be required) by any
<br />secretary or assistant secretary; or
<br />(ii) when signed by a duly authorized Attorney -in -Fact and sealed with the seal of the Company (if a seal be required).
<br />RESOLVED FURTHER, that the signature of any officer designated above, and the seal of the Company, may be affixed by facsimile to any Power of
<br />Attorney or certification thereof authorizing the execution and delivery of any bond, undertaking, recognizance, or other suretyship obligations of the
<br />Company, and such signature and seal when so used shall have the same force and effect as though manually affixed.
<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, OLD REPUBLIC INSURANCE COMPANY has caused these presents to be signed by its proper officer, and its corporate seal to
<br />be affixed this 30th day of November 2022
<br />OLD REPUBLIC//
<br />S 2
<br />/'^%,{CE COMPANY
<br />SEAL S,
<br />Assislanr seareta�`;,E Vice President
<br />STATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY OF WAUKESHA- SS
<br />On this 30th day of November 2022 , personally came before me, Alan Pavlic
<br />and Karen J. Haffner , to me known to be the individuals and officers of the OLD REPUBLIC INSURANCE
<br />COMPANY who executed the above instrument, and they each acknowledged the execution of the same, and being by me duly sworn, did severally depose
<br />and say: that they are the said officers of the corporation aforesaid, and that the seal affixed to the above instrument is the seal of the corporation, and that said
<br />corporate seal and their signatures as such officers were duly affixed and subscribed to the said instrument by the authority of the board of directors of said
<br />organization.
<br />OT ARkk
<br />�• � D i
<br />'•. pU6Uv� Notary Pablic
<br />My Commission Expires: September 28, 2026
<br />CERTIFICATE (Expiration of notary's commission does not invalidate this Instrument)
<br />I, the undersigned, assistant secretary of the OLD REPUBLIC INSURANCE COMPANY, a Pennsylvania corporation, CERTIFY that the foregoing and
<br />attached Power of Attorney remains in full force and has not been revoked; and furthermore, that the Resolutions of the board of directors set forth in the
<br />Power of Attorney, are now in force.
<br />WsuxX
<br />ff SEA `uF Signed and sealed at the City of Brookfield, WI this 2nd day oJUIY f 2024
<br />45-5314 SEAL �- (^lf,—
<br />ORSC 11008(e-93)jjP' Assistant Seci t, y
<br />GIBSON INSURANCE AGENCY, INC.
<br />
|