SEC Form 4

FORM 4		UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940	OMB APPROVAL OMB Number: 3235-0287 Estimated average burden hours per response: 0.5
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* SOMMA RANDE S (Last) (First) (Middle) 794 PALMS ROAD (Street) BLOOMFIELD HILLS MI 48304 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol GENTEX CORP [ GNTX ]	5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) X Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
	3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year) 01/20/2006
	4. 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 Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price
Common Stock	01/20/2006	01/20/2006	A		13	A	$20.3	3,013	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

Remarks:

	/s/ Enoch C. Jen Enoch C. Jen for Rande S. Somma by Power of Attorney	02/24/2006
	** 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 Enoch Jen, any successor Chief Financial
Officer of Gentex
Corporation (the "Corporation"), and Steve Dykman, any
successor Controller
of the Corporation, and any of their respective
designates, 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's
substitute or substitute's, 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 12th day of
May, 2005.

							  \s\   Rande S. Somma


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