Exhibit 3.1

ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT TO THE

AMENDED AND RESTATED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

ORAGENICS, INC.

(Document Number P96000091949)

Oragenics, Inc. (the “Corporation”), does hereby certify that the Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation originally filed with the Florida Department of State on November 6, 1996, as amended and restated on May 8, 2002, as further amended by those certain amendments filed October 28, 2009, September 22, 2010, August 30, 2011 and June 2, 2014 are hereby further amended pursuant to Section 607.1006 of the Florida Business Corporation Act of the State of Florida.

The Corporation does hereby further certify that this amendment was duly adopted by the Corporation’s Board of Directors and by the shareholders of the Corporation in accordance with the applicable provisions of Section 607.0725 of the Florida Business Corporation Act of the State of Florida. The Corporation’s Board of Directors adopted this amendment on November 8, 2016 and recommended that this amendment be adopted by the Corporation’s shareholders. This amendment was adopted by the shareholders on December 12, 2016 by written consent without a meeting and the number of votes cast for the amendment by the shareholders was sufficient for approval.

The Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation, as amended, are amended as follows:

The first paragraph of Article II of the Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended, shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

Capital Stock: The aggregate number of shares of all classes of capital stock which this Corporation shall have authority to issue is 270,000,000 shares, consisting of (i) 250,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”) and (ii) 20,000,000 shares of preferred stock, no par value (“Preferred Stock”).”

The remainder of the Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended, shall remain unchanged and in full force and effect.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, the Chief Financial Officer of the Corporation, has executed these Articles of Amendment this 10th day of January, 2017.

 

/s/ Michael Sullivan

Michael Sullivan, Chief Financial Officer