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CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

OF THE

FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

NEPHROS, INC.

 

Pursuant to Section 242 of the General

Corporation Law of the State of Delaware

 

It is hereby certified that:

 

FIRST: The original Certificate of Incorporation of Nephros, Inc. was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on April 3, 1997, and was amended and restated on June 24, 2005 (the “Certificate of Incorporation”).

 

SECOND: The Certificate of Incorporation is hereby amended by deleting the text of Article IV, Section 2 in its entirety and replacing it with the following:

 

Section 2. Capital Stock. The total number of shares of all classes of stock that the Corporation shall have authority to issue is Forty-Five Million (45,000,000) shares consisting of: Forty Million (40,000,000) shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share (“Common Stock”); and Five Million (5,000,000) shares of preferred stock, $0.001 par value per share (“Undesignated Preferred Stock”).

 

(a) Upon the effectiveness (the “Effective Time”) of this Certificate of Amendment pursuant to Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, every nine (9) shares of Common Stock of the Corporation issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (“Old Common Stock”) shall automatically be combined, without any action on the part of the holder thereof, into one (1) share of fully paid and nonassessable Common Stock of the Corporation (“New Common Stock”), subject to the treatment of fractional shares interests described as follows. No fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued. No stockholder of the Corporation shall transfer any fractional shares of Common Stock. The Corporation shall not recognize on its stock record books any purported transfer of any fractional share of Common Stock. A holder of Old Common Stock at the Effective Time who would otherwise be entitled to a fraction of a share of New Common Stock shall, in lieu thereof, be entitled to receive a cash payment in an amount equal to the fraction to which the holder would otherwise be entitled multiplied by the last reported per share sale price of the Old Common Stock on the day immediately prior to the Effective Time, as reported on an over-the-counter market quotation system (or if such price is not available, then such other price as determined by the Board of Directors) and as appropriately adjusted for such combination.

 

(b) Subject to any limitations set forth elsewhere in this Certificate of Incorporation, the shares of Undesignated Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series. Subject to any limitations set forth elsewhere in this Certificate of Incorporation, the Board of Directors is hereby authorized, by adopting appropriate resolutions and causing one or more certificates of amendment to be signed, verified and delivered in accordance with the DGCL, to establish from time to time the number of shares to be included in such series, and to fix the powers, preferences and rights of, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions granted to and imposed upon such Undesignated Preferred Stock. Such powers, preferences and rights of, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions granted to and imposed upon such Undesignated Preferred Stock may include, but are not limited to, the fixing or alteration of the dividend rights, dividend rate, conversion rights, exchange rights, voting rights, rights and terms of redemption (including sinking fund provisions), the redemption price or prices, and the liquidation preferences of any wholly unissued series of shares of Undesignated Preferred Stock, or any of them. In accordance with the authority hereby granted, the Board may increase or decrease the number of shares of any series of preferred stock, whether or not such preferred stock then constitutes Undesignated Preferred Stock, subsequent to the issuance of shares of that series; provided that any such increase shall be no greater than the total number of authorized shares of Undesignated Preferred Stock at such time, and no such decrease shall result in the number of authorized shares of such series being fewer than the number then outstanding. In case the number of shares of any series of preferred stock, other than Undesignated Preferred Stock, shall be so decreased, the shares constituting such decrease shall become Additional Undesignated Preferred Stock. Any shares of a series of preferred stock, which is designated pursuant to this clause (ii), that were issued but, thereafter, are no longer outstanding shall not resume the status of authorized and unissued shares of such series, but shall instead become authorized and unissued shares of Additional Undesignated Preferred Stock. Except as may otherwise be required by law or this Certificate of Incorporation, the terms of any series of Undesignated Preferred Stock may be amended without the consent of the holders of any other series of the Corporation’s preferred stock, or Common Stock.

 

THIRD: That this amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation shall be effective as of 5:30 p.m. ET on July 9, 2019.

 

FOURTH: This amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation has been duly adopted in accordance with Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

 

[Signature on following page.]

 

   
 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Certificate of Amendment to be signed by its President, as of July 8, 2019.

 

  NEPHROS, INC.
   
  By: /s/ Daron Evans
  Name: Daron Evans
  Title: President