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CULLEN E. SMITH, JR. DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY BY THIS DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY, I, CULLEN E. SMITH, JR., of Pasco County, Florida, appoint as my attorney-in-fact to manage my affairs my son, LANCE A. SMITH,hereby revoking any previous power of attorney signed by me. This durable power of attorney shall not be affected by any subsequent incapacity that I may suffer except as provided by statute, and shall be exercisable from this date. All acts done by my attorney-in-fact pursuant to this power shall bind me, my heirs, devisees and personal representatives. This power of attorney is nondelegable, except as specifically provided. All of my property and interests in property,including,without limitation,homestead real property; all interests in personal property, tangible or intangible; all my interests in property held in any type of joint tenancy, including a tenancy in common, joint tenancy with right of survivorship, or tenancy by the entirety; choses in action; and all other contractual or statutory rights or elections, including, but not limited to,.any rights or elections in any probate or similar proceeding, to which I am or may become entitled, are subject to this durable power of attorney. My attorney-in-fact shall not have the power to exercise any general, limited or special power of appointment that I have or may acquire. Without limiting the broad powers conferred by the preceding provisions, I authorize my attorney-in-fact to: 1. Apply for local, state and federal government (and other) financial assistance and benefits on my behalf, including, but not limited to, Social Security Income, Medicare or Medicaid, or other similar government benefits. 2. Collect all sums of money and other property that may be payable or belonging to me, and to execute receipts,releases,cancellations or discharges. 3. Settle any account in which I have any interest and to pay or receive the balance of that account as the case may require. 4. Enter any safe deposit box or other place of safekeeping standing in my name alone or jointly with another and to remove the contents and to make additions, substitutions and replacements. 5. Borrow money on such terms and with such security as my attorney-in- fact may think fit and to execute all notes, mortgages and other instruments that my attorney-in- fact finds necessary or desirable. 6. Draw, accept, endorse or otherwise deal with any checks or other commercial or mercantile instruments, specifically including the right to make withdrawals from any savings account or savings and loan deposits.