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115043
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<br /> American Contractors Indemnity Company
<br /> Los Angeles, California
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<br /> POWER OF ATTORNEY
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<br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY COMPANY, a California Corporation
<br />(the "Company"), and having its principal office in Los Angeles, California does hereby constitute and appoint:
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<br /> Mark J. Gentry, Madelaine E. Gentry of San Jose, California
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<br />as its tree and lawful Attorney(s)-in-fact, in amount of $ 2,500,000.00, to execute, seal and deliver for and on its behalf as surety, any
<br />and all bonds and undertaldngs, recognizances, contracts of indemnity and other writings obllgatory in the nature thereof, which are or may
<br />be allowed, required or permitted by law, statute, role, regulation, contract or otherwise, and the execution of such instrument(s) in pursuance
<br />of these presents, shall be as binding upon the said AIVIERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY COMPANY, as fully and amply, to all
<br />intents and purposes, as if the same had been duly executed and acknowledged by its regularly elected officers at its principal office.
<br />This Power of Attorney is executed, and may be certified to and may be r~voked, pumuant to and by anthodty of reso16tons adopted by the Board
<br />of Directors of AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY COMPANY, at a meeting called and held on the 6th day of Dec~mber, 1990.
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<br />RESOLVED that the Chief Executive Officer, President or any Viee President, Executive Vice President, Secretary or Asshtant Secretary,
<br />shall have power and authority.
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<br /> 1. To appoint Atturney(s)-in-fact and to authorize them to execute on behalf of the Company, and attach the Seal of the Company
<br /> thereto, bonds and undertakings, contracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof and,
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<br /> 2. To remove, at any time, any such Attorney-in-fact and revoke the authority given.
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<br />RESOLVED FURTHER, that the signature of such officers and the seal of the Company may be affixed to any such power of attorney or
<br />any certificate relating thereto by facsimile, and any such power of attorney or cemifieate beating such fansknile signatures or facsimile seal
<br />shall be valid and binding upon the Company and any such power so executed and certified by facsimile signatures and facsimile seal shall
<br />be valid and binding upon the Company in the future with respect to any bond or undertaking to which it is attached.
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<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY COMPANY has caused this instrument to be signed and its
<br />corporate s~d to be affixed by its authorized officer this lOth . day of September 1999
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<br /> Andy Fa~t, President
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<br />STATE OF CALIFORNIA
<br />COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
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<br />On September 10, 1999 before me, Deborah Recse , personally appeared Andy Faust
<br />personally known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the
<br />same in his authorized capacity, and that by his signature on the ins~ument the person, or the entity upon behalf of which the person acted,
<br />executed the instrument.
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<br />W1TNESS my hand and official seal.
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<br />I, the undersigned officer of AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY COMPANY do hereby Certify that I have compared the
<br />foregoing copy of the Power of Attorney and affidavit, and the copy of the resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of said Company
<br />as set forth in said Power of Attorney, with the ORIGINALS ON FIlE IN THE HOME OFFICE OF SAID COMPANY, and that same are
<br />correct transcripts thereof and of the whole of the said originals, and that the said Power of Attorney has not be~n revok~l and is now in full
<br />force and effect.
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<br /> IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 4th day of APRIL ,. 2000
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