Exhibit 3.1

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

SECRETARY OF STATE

ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT

Pursuant to Section 33-10-106 of the 1976 South Carolina Code, as amended, the undersigned corporation adopts the following Articles of Amendment to its Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation:

(Type or attach the complete text of Each Amendment)

ARTICLE FOUR: STOCK

The Corporation shall have the authority, exercisable by its Board of Directors, to issue up to 75,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, and to issue up to 2,500,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $.01 per share. The Board of Directors shall have the authority to specify the preferences, limitations and relative rights (within the limits set forth in Section 33-6-101 of the South Carolina Business Corporation Act of 1988, or any successor provision or redesignation thereof, as applicable) of the preferred stock or one or more series within the class of preferred stock. Without limiting the foregoing, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Article of Incorporation with respect to directors generally, whenever the holders of preferred stock, or one or more series of preferred stock, issued by the Corporation shall have the right, voting separately or together by class or series, to elect one or more directors at an annual or special meeting of shareholders, the election, term of office, terms of removal, filling of vacancies and other features of such directorship(s) shall be governed by the rights of such preferred stock as set forth in the articles of amendment adopted by the Board of Directors that determines the preferences, limitations and relative rights of such class or series. Except as otherwise required by law, holders of preferred stock, including any series of preferred stock, shall be entitled only to such voting rights, if any, as shall be expressly granted thereto by these Articles of Incorporation. References to “these Articles of Incorporation” refer to the Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation, as the same shall be amended from time to time, including, without limitation, amendments adopted by the Board of Directors that determine the preferences, limitations and relative rights of the preferred stock or one or more series within the class of preferred stock.

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At the date of adoption of the amendment, the number of outstanding shares of each voting group entitled to vote separately on the Amendment, and the vote of such shares was:

*NOTE: Pursuant to Section 33-10-106(6)(i), the corporation can alternatively state the total number of undisputed shares cast for the amendment by each voting group together with a statement that the number cast for the amendment by each voting group was sufficient for approval by that voting group.