Chap. 77.—An ACT to prevent and punish the desecration, mutilation, defacement
and improper use of the flag of the United States of America, and of this State,
and of any flag, standard, color, ensign or shield authorized by law; and to re-
peal an act entitled “An act to prohibit the public mutilation, defacement, de-
filement of, or casting contempt upon flags of the United States or of the State
of Virginia, and providing penalties,” approved February 16, 1928. [S B 50]

Approved March 2, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That 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 pro-
duced 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.

2. 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, stand-
ard, 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 substance. ,

3. No person shal publicly mutilate, deface, defile, trample upon,
or by word or act cast contempt upon any such flag, standard, color,
ensign or shield.

4. This act shall not apply to any act permitted by the statutes of
the United States or by the laws 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, picture 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. |

5. Any violation of section two of this act shall be a misdemeanor
and punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars. Any
violation of section three of this act shall be punishable by a fine of
not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more
than thirty days, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion
of the court.

6. This act shall be so construed as to effectuate its general pur-
pose, and to make uniform the laws of the states which enact it.

7. This act may be cited as the uniform flag law.

8. Be it further enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, that
an act entitled “an act to prohibit the public mutilation, defacement,
defilement of, or casting contempt upon flags of the United States or
of the State of Virginia, and providing penalties,’ approved February
sixteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, be, and the same is,
hereby repealed.