AUBURN NATIONAL
BANCORPORATION,
INC AND
SUBSIDIARIES
EXHIBIT 31.2
CERTIFICATION
PURSUANT
TO
RULE 13a-14 OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT
OF
1934,
SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF
2002
CERTIFICATION
I, David A. Hedges, 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.
Date: April 30, 2021
/s/ David A. Hedges
Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial
Officer