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<br />5. Enter into binding contracts on my behalf.
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<br />6. Exercise all stock rights on my behalf as my proxy, including all rights with respect to
<br />stocks, bonds, debentures, commodities, options or other investments.
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<br />7. Maintain and/or operate any business that I may own.
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<br />8. Employ professional and business assistance as may be appropriate, including attorneys,
<br />accountants, and real estate agents.
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<br />9. Sell, convey, lease, mortgage, manage, insure, improve, repair, or perform any other act
<br />with respect to any of my property (now owned or later acquired) including, but not limited
<br />to, real estate and real estate rights (including the right to remove tenants and to recover
<br />possession). This includes the right to sell or encumber any homestead that I now own or
<br />may own in the future.
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<br />10. Prepare, sign, and file documents with any governmental body or agency, including, but
<br />not limited to, authorization to:
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<br />a. Prepare, sign and file income and other tax returns with federal, state, local, and
<br />other governmental bodies.
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<br />b. Obtain information or documents from any government or its agencies, and
<br />represent me in all tax matters, including the authority to negotiate, compromise, or
<br />settle any matter with such government or agency.
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<br />c. Prepare applications, provide information, and perform any other act reasonably
<br />requested by any government or its agencies in connection with governmental benefits
<br />(including medical, military and social security benefits), and to appoint anyone,
<br />including my Agent, to act as my "Representative Payee" for the purpose of receiving
<br />Social Security benefits.
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<br />11. Make gifts from my assets to members of my family and to such other persons or
<br />charitable organizations with whom I have an established pattern of giving, to file state and
<br />federal gift tax returns, and to file a tax election to split gifts with my spouse, if any.
<br />However, my Agent shall be prohibited, except as specifically authorized in this instrument,
<br />from (a) gifting, appointing, assigning or designating any of my assets, interests or rights,
<br />directly or indirectly, to my Agent, my Agent's estate or creditors, or the creditors of my
<br />Agent's estate, (b) exercising any powers of appointment I may hold in favor of my Agent,
<br />my Agent's estate or creditors, or the creditors of my Agent's estate, or ( c) using my assets to
<br />discharge any of my Agent's legal obligations, including any obligations of support which
<br />my Agent may owe to others, excluding those whom I am legally obligated to support.
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