UNIFORM FLAG ACT In 1915 the Committee on Uniform Flag Law reported to the Conference in Salt Lake City, a Uniform Act which was approved by that Conference. At the conference in Chicago in 1916, the Committee on the Uniform Flag Law submitted a draft of a Uniform Flag Law which had been rewritten since the previous conference, and it recommended the draft as a substitute for the one approved at the meeting in Salt Lake City in August, 1915. At the National Conference in Saratoga Springs, New York, in August and September, 1917, the Committee on the Uniform Flag Law submitted a draft of a Uniform Flag Law which was a revision of the one of 1916 and which it recommended to the Conference as a substitute for the act approved at the meeting in Salt Lake City in 1915. The Conference finally approved and adopted a Uniform Flag Law as printed in this volume and recommended the same to the legislatures of the various states and territories for enactment. The act has been adopted in the states of Louisiana and Maryland in 1918. UNIFORM FLAG ACT Section 1.-(Definition.)-The words flag, standard, color, ensign or shield, as used in this Act, shall include any flag, standard, color, ensign or shield, or copy, picture or representation thereof, made of any substance or represented or produced thereon, and of any size, evidently purporting to be such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield of the United States or of this state, or a copy, picture or representation thereof. Section 2.-(Desecration.)-No person shall, in any manner, for exhibition or display: (a) Place or cause to be placed any word, figure, mark picture, design, drawing or advertisement of any nature upon any flag, standard, color, ensign or shield of the United States or of this state, or authorized by any law of the United States or of this state; or (b) Expose to public view any such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield upon which shall have been printed, painted or otherwise produced, or to which shall have been attached, appended, affixed or annexed any such word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing or advertisement; or (c) Expose to public view for sale, manufacture, or otherwise, or to sell, give or have in possession for sale, for gift or for use for any purpose, any substance, being an article of merchandise, or receptacle, or thing for holding or carrying merchandise, upon or to which shall have been produced or attached any such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield, in order to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark or distinguish such article or sub stance. Section 3. (Mutilation.)-No person shall publicly mutilate deface, defile, defy, trample upon, or by word or act cast contempt upon any such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield. Section 4. (Exceptions.)-This statute shall not apply to any act permitted by the statutes of the United States (or of this state), or by the United States Army and Navy regulations, nor shall it apply to any printed or written document or production, stationery, ornament, p' ture or jewelry whereon shall be depicted said flag, standard, color, ensign or shield with no design or words thereon and disconnected with any advertise ment. Section 5.-(Penalty.)—Any violation of Section 2 of this Act shall be a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine of not more than .... .. dollars. Any violation of Section 3 of this Act shall be punishable by a fine of not more than ...... dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than ...... days, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court. Section 6.-(Inconsistent Acts Repealed.)-All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 7.-(Interpretation.)-This Act shall be so construed as to effectuate its general purpose and to make uniform the laws of the states which enact it. Section 8.-(Name of Act.)-This Act may be cited as the Uniform Flag Law. Sec. 9.-(Time of Taking Effect.)-This Act shall take effect days after |