Exhibit 3.1

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

(Reverse Split)

 

Pursuant to the requirements of NRS 78.2055, the board of directors of 22nd Century Group, Inc. (the “Corporation”) proposed and recommended to the stockholders a recommendation to decrease, on a 1-or-20 basis, the number of issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock, $0.00001 par value per share, of the Corporation, without any adjustment to the par value per share and without any reduction in the authorized number of shares of Common Stock, and the proposal was approved by the stockholders holding shares in the Corporation entitling them to exercise at least a majority of the voting power, or such greater proportion of the voting power as may be required in the case of a vote by classes or series, or as is otherwise required by the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation.

 

ARTICLE IV

CAPITAL STOCK

 

The Restated Articles of Incorporation are hereby amended by adding the following as a new paragraph to the end of section 4.1:

 

“At 12:01 a.m. on June 12, 2026 (the “Effective Time”), each 20 shares of the Corporation’s Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be reclassified and combined into one (1) validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable share of the Corporation’s Common Stock automatically and without any further action by the Corporation or the holder thereof, subject to the treatment of fractional share interests as described below (the “Reverse Stock Split”). The Corporation shall not issue to any holder a fractional share of Common Stock on account of the Reverse Stock Split. Rather, any fractional share of Common Stock resulting from such change shall be rounded upward to the nearest whole share of Common Stock. Share interests issued due to rounding are given solely to save the expense and inconvenience of issuing fractional shares of Common Stock and do not represent separately bargained for consideration. Until surrendered, each certificate that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented shares of Common Stock (“Old Certificates”) shall only represent the number of whole shares of Common Stock into which the shares of Common Stock formerly represented by such Old Certificate were combined into as a result of the Reverse Stock Split.”