Exhibit 3.1
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
TO THE
RESTATED CERTIFICATE
OF INCORPORATION
OF
CLEAN DIESEL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “Corporation”), hereby does certify:
FIRST: The name of the corporation is Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc. The original Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on January 19, 1994. A Restated Certificate of Incorporation was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on March 21, 2007 (the “Restated Certificate”). A Certificate of Amendment to the Restated Certificate was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on June 15, 2007. A second Certificate of Amendment to the Restated Certificate was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on October 14, 2010. A third Certificate of Amendment to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on May 23, 2012.
SECOND: That the Board of Directors of the Corporation on December 9, 2015 duly adopted resolutions setting forth a proposed amendment of the Restated Certificate, as heretofore amended, declaring said amendment to be advisable and in the best interests of the Corporation, and authorizing the distribution of a resolution to the stockholders of the Corporation for consideration thereof.
THIRD: That a majority of the stockholders of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon, at the special meeting of the shareholders held on February 12, 2016, voted to authorize said amendment in accordance with the provisions of Section 211 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
FOURTH: That the said amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the applicable provisions of Sections 211, 222 and 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. The Restated Certificate is hereby amended as follows:
The introductory paragraph of Article 4 is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
“4. The Corporation shall have authority to issue the total number of One Hundred Million (100,000,000) Shares of the par value of $0.01 per share, amounting in the aggregate to One Million Dollars ($1,000,000), and of such shares, Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine Million Nine Hundred Thousand (999,900,000) shall be designated as Common Stock and One Hundred Thousand (100,000) shall be designated as preferred stock.”
FIFTH: The Restated Certificate is hereby ratified and confirmed in all other respects.
