SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* BROWN LESLIE L (Last) (First) (Middle) 867 BARKENTINE DR. (Street) HOLLAND MI 49424 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 05/19/2016	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol GENTEX CORP [ GNTX ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) X Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Common Stock	3,000	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

Remarks:

	/s/ Robert Hughes for Brown Leslie L. by Power of Attorney	05/20/2016
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR SECTION 16 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS


Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints each of Kevin Nash, any successor Chief Accounting Officer of Gentex
Corporation (the "Corporation"), and Robert Hughes, any successor Director of
Finance & Tax of the Corporation, and any of their respective designees,
signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1)	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity
 as an officer and/or director of the Corporation, Forms 3, 4, and 5 in
 accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the
 rules thereunder;

(2)	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned that
 may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4,
 or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely
 file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and
 any stock exchange or similar authority; and

(3)	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing that, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to,
 in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being
 understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of
 the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and
 shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve
 in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
 herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might
 or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or
 revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or
 such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause
 to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers
 herein granted.

The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving
 in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is
 the Corporation assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
 with Section 16 or any other provision of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the
 undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the
 Corporation, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing
 delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 19th day of May, 2016.



Signature:	/s/ Leslie L. Brown

Print Name:	Leslie L. Brown