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Exhibit 3.1
SIXTH AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
STAR SCIENTIFIC, INC.
(formerly Eye Technology, Inc.)
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
STAR SCIENTIFIC, INC.
(formerly Eye Technology, Inc.)
The undersigned, a natural person, for the purpose of amending and restating, the
Certificate of Incorporation of Star Scientific, Inc., as originally filed on June 24, 1985, and as
amended and restated on June 22, 1988, May 19, 1992, September 24, 2001, December 14, 2007 and on
December 7, 2009 under the provisions and subject to the requirements of the laws of the State of
Delaware, particularly Chapter 1, Title 8, of the Delaware Code and the acts amendatory thereof and
supplemental thereto and known, identified and, referred to as the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware, and sections 242 and 245 thereof, hereby certifies that:
FIRST: The name of the corporation (hereinafter called the Corporation), is
STAR SCIENTIFIC, INC.
SECOND: The address, including street, number, city, and county, of this registered
office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, in the City
of Wilmington County, of New Castle and the name of the registered agent of the Corporation in the
State of Delaware at such address is Corporation Service Company.
THIRD: The nature of the business and of the purposes to be conducted and promoted by
the Corporation are to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized
under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation has the authority
to issue is 187,500,000 shares of Common Stock having a par value of one thousandth of one cent
($0.0001) per share (hereinafter called Common Stock) and One Hundred Thousand (100,000) shares
of Preferred Stock having a par value of one thousandth of one cent ($0.0001) per share (hereafter
called Preferred Stock), making a total of 187,600,000 shares of stock.
Common Stock. The shares of authorized Common Stock of the Corporation shall be identical in
all respects and shall have equal rights and privileges. Each share of Common Stock shall entitle
the holder thereof to one vote.
Preferred Stock. The Board of Directors shall have authority to issue the shares of Preferred
Stock from time to time on such terms it may determine, and to divide the Preferred Stock into one
or more classes or series and in connection with the creation of any such class or series to fix by
resolution or resolutions providing for the issue of shares thereof, the designation, preferences,
powers and relative participating optional, or other special rights of such class or series, and
the qualifications, limitations, or restrictions thereof, to the full extent now or hereafter
permitted by law. A copy of such resolution shall be set forth in a Certificate made, executed,
acknowledged, filed and recorded in the manner required by the laws of the State of Delaware in
order to make the same effective.
FIFTH: The name and the mailing address of the incorporator are as follows:
Name | Mailing Address | |
R. G. Dickerson
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229 South State Street, Dover, Delaware |
SIXTH: The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.
SEVENTH: Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this Corporation
and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this Corporation and its stockholders or any
class of them, any court of equitable jurisdictions within the State of Delaware may, on the
application in a summary way of this Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on
the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this
Corporation under the provisions of section 291 of Title 9 of the Delaware Code or on the
application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for this
Corporation under the provisions of section 279 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code order a meeting of
the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this
corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a
majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors,
and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, agree
to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this Corporation as consequence of
such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization
shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all
the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of
this Corporation, as the case may be, and also on this Corporation.
EIGHTH: For the management of the business and for the conduct of the affairs of the
Corporation, and in further definition, limitation and regulation of the powers of the Corporation
and of its directors and of its stockholders, or any class thereto as the case may be, it is
further provided:
1. Number, election and term. The management of the business and the conduct of the affairs
of the Corporation shall be vested in its Board of Directors. The phrase whole Board and the
phrase total number of directors shall be deemed to have the same meaning, to wit the total
number of directors which the Corporation would have if there were no vacancies. No election of
directors need to be by written ballot. The number of directors of the Corporation shall be fixed
from time to time by or pursuant to the By-Laws of the Corporation.
2. Newly created directorships and vacancies. Newly created directorships resulting from any
increase in the number of directors and any vacancies on the Board of Directors resulting from,
death, resignation, disqualification, removal or other cause shall be filled by the affirmative
vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, even though less than a quorum of the
Board of Directors. Any director elected in accordance with the preceding sentence shall hold
office until the next annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation and until such
directors successor shall have been elected and qualified. No decrease in the number of directors
constituting the Board of Directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.
3. Removal. Any director or the entire board of directors may be removed from office, with or
without cause, only by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of stock
then entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class.
NINTH: The Board of Directors shall have power to make, alter, amend and repeal the
By-Laws of the Corporation. Any By-Law made by the directors under the powers conferred hereby may
be altered, amended or repealed by the directors or by the stockholders.
TENTH:
1. The Corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by Section 145 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same may be amended and supplemented, indemnify
any and all persons whom it shall have power to indemnify under said section from and against any
and all of the expenses, liabilities or other matters referred to in or covered by said action, and
the indemnification provided for herein shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which
those indemnified may be entitled under any By-Law, agreement, vote of stockholders or
disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action
in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to
be a director, officer, employee or agent and inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and
administrators of such a person.
2. No director shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary
damages for any breach of fiduciary duty by such director as a director. Notwithstanding the
foregoing sentence, a director shall be liable to the extent provided by applicable law (i) for
breach of the directors duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or
omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law,
(iii), pursuant to Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction
which the director derived an improper personal benefit. No amendment to or repeal of this Article
TENTH apply to or have any effect on the liability or alleged liability of any director of the
Corporation for or with respect to any acts or omissions of such director occurring prior to such
amendment.
ELEVENTH: The Corporation shall not be governed by or be subject to the provisions
contained in Delaware General Corporation Law Section 203-Business Combinations with Interested
Stockholders, as amended from time to time.
TWELFTH: From time to time any of the provisions of this Restated Certificate of
Incorporation may be amended, altered or repealed and other provisions authorized by the laws of
the State Delaware at the time in force may be added or inserted in the manner and at the time
prescribed by said laws, and all rights at any time conferred upon the stockholders of the
Corporation by this Restated Certificate of Incorporation are granted subject to the provisions of
this Article TWELFTH.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned officer of the Corporation has executed this certificate
as of the 10th day of December, 2010.
Star Scientific, Inc. |
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/s/ Paul L. Perito
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Title: Chairman of the Board of Directors, |
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President and Chief Operating Officer |