RGC RESOURCES, INC.
SECTION 16 POWER OF ATTORNEY

THE UNDERSIGNED DIRECTOR of RGC Resources, Inc.
hereby makes, constitutes and appoints Howard T.
Lyon, Paul W. Nester, or any one of them, as his
true and lawful attorney-in-fact to sign, for
him or her and in his or her name, place and
stead, and to cause to be filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, any form,
report, or other document and any amendment or
supplement thereto, which is required to be
filed or which such attorney-in-fact deems should
be filed under Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the
regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended,
and to do all other things necessary to
accomplish the foregoing; and hereby grants to
such attorney-in-fact full power of substitution
and revocation and hereby confirmed and ratifying
all that such attorney-in-fact or his or her
substitute may do by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
this 1st day of August, 2018.

/s/S. Frank Smith
S. Frank Smith
Director

Sworn to and subscribed in my presence by
S. Frank Smith
This 1st of August, 2018.
/s/Diane Light Conner, REG #225607
Diane Light Conner, Notary Public
Commonwealth of Virginia, City of Roanoke
My Commission Expires 02/28/2022