EXHIBIT (A)(9)


                        ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN VARIABLE PRODUCTS SERIES FUND, INC.


                             ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT

      AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund, Inc., a Maryland
corporation having its principal office in Baltimore City, Maryland (hereinafter
called the "Corporation"), certifies to the State Department of Assessments and
Taxation of Maryland that:

      FIRST: In connection with and in furtherance of a plan of liquidation of
AllianceBernstein Utility Income Portfolio, a separate series of stock of the
Corporation (the "Liquidating Series"), the Corporation hereby amends its
Articles of Incorporation currently in effect (the "Charter") to include the
following:

                    A. Upon effectiveness of this amendment to the Charter, each
             unissued share of the Liquidating Series, par value $0.001 per
             share, is hereby reclassified into, and shall become, one unissued,
             unclassified share of capital stock of the Corporation.

                    B. Upon the reclassification of all unissued shares of the
             Liquidating Series to unissued, unclassified shares of capital
             stock of the Corporation, the provisions of the Articles of
             Incorporation designating and classifying shares of stock of the
             Corporation into Class A and Class B shares of Common Stock of the
             Liquidating Series, establishing and describing the preferences,
             conversion and other rights, voting powers, restrictions,
             limitations as to dividends, qualifications and terms and
             conditions of redemption of shares of the Liquidating Series shall
             be deleted from the Charter of the Corporation. Such deletions from
             the Charter shall include only provisions of the Charter as they
             related to shares of the Liquidating Series, and to the extent
             which any provisions of the Charter relate to both share of the
             Liquidating Series and one or more other series of stock of the
             Corporation, such provisions shall remain in the Charter but shall
             be deemed to apply only to such one or more other series of stock
             of the Corporation.

      SECOND: This amendment to the Charter was duly advised and approved by the
Board of Directors of the Corporation.

      THIRD: This amendment to the Charter does not increase the authorized
capital stock of the Corporation.


                 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series
Fund, Inc. has caused these Articles of Amendment to be executed in its name and
on its behalf by Robert M. Keith, President of the Corporation, and witnessed by
Stephen J. Laffey, the Assistant Secretary of the Corporation, this ______ day
of _____________, 2009. The undersigned President of the Corporation
acknowledges these Articles of Amendment to be the corporate act of the
Corporation and states that to the best of his knowledge, information and
belief, the matters and facts set forth in these Articles with respect to the
authorization and approval of the amendments of the Corporation's charter are
true in all material respects, and that this statement is made under the
penalties of perjury.

                                     ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN VARIABLE PRODUCTS
                                     SERIES FUND, INC.


                                     By:
                                        --------------------------------
                                          Robert M. Keith
                                          President

WITNESS:

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Stephen J. Laffey
Assistant Secretary








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