AUBURN
NATIONAL
BANCORPORATION,
INC AND SUBSIDIARIES
CERTIFICATION
PURSUANT
TO
RULE 13a-14 OF
THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE
ACT OF
1934,
SECTION 302 OF
THE
SARBANES-OXLEY
ACT OF
2002
CERTIFICATION
I, Robert W. Dumas,
certify
that:
1. I have
reviewed
this Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q
of Auburn
National
Bancorporation,
Inc.;
2. Based on
my
knowledge,
this report does not
contain any
untrue statement of
a
material fact or
omit to state a
material
fact necessary to make
the statements
made,
in light of the
circumstances under which
such statements
were
made, not
misleading
with respect to the
period
covered by
this
report;
3. Based on
my
knowledge,
the financial
statements, and
other
financial
information included
in this report, fairly
present in
all material respects
the
financial
condition, results of
operations
and
cash flows of
the registrant as
of, and for,
the
periods
presented
in
this report;
4. The
registrant’s other certifying
officer and
I are responsible for
establishing
and
maintaining disclosure controls
and
procedures (as defined
in
Exchange
Act Rules
13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and
internal control
over
financial
reporting (as
defined in
Exchange
Act
Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the
registrant
and
have:
a)
Designed
such
disclosure controls and
procedures, or caused
such disclosure
controls
and
procedures to be
designed
under our
supervision,
to ensure that
material information relating
to the
registrant,
including
its
consolidated subsidiaries,
is
made
known to us by
others within those entities,
particularly
during
the period in
which this report
is
being
prepared;
b)
Designed
such
internal control over
financial
reporting, or
caused
such internal
control over financial
reporting to
be designed
under our
supervision,
to provide reasonable
assurance regarding
the reliability of
financial
reporting
and the
preparation
of financial
statements for external purposes
in
accordance
with
generally accepted
c)
Evaluated
the
effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure
controls and
procedures
and
presented in
this report our
conclusions about the
effectiveness of the
disclosure
controls and
procedures, as of
the
end
of the period covered
by this report
based
on such
evaluation;
and
d)
Disclosed
in
this report any
change in the
registrant’s internal control
over
financial
reporting that
occurred
during the registrant’s most
recent fiscal
quarter
(the registrant’s fourth
fiscal quarter
in the
case
of an
annual
report)
that has
materially affected, or is
reasonably
likely to
materially
affect, the registrant’s internal
control
over financial
reporting;
and
5. The registrant’s other
certifying
officer and
I have disclosed, based
on our most recent
evaluation
of internal control over
financial
reporting, to
the
registrant’s auditors and the
audit committee of
the
registrant’s board
of directors (or persons
performing
the
equivalent
functions):
a)
All
significant
deficiencies and
material weaknesses
in the
design
or operation of internal
control over
financial
reporting which
are
reasonably
likely to adversely
affect the registrant’s ability
to
record, process, summarize
and
report financial
information;
and
b)
Any
fraud,
whether or not material,
that involves
management or
other
employees who
have a significant
role in
the registrant’s internal control
over
financial
reporting.
Chairman, President
and
Chief Executive
Officer