Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
(3) The Department of Elementary
and Secondary Education shall provide to school districts sample of
instructional activities that meet the requirements of section (2) of this
rule, as well as other patriotic exercises. Use of the sample will be voluntary
by any school district.
Appendix A Time and occasions for
display.
(a) Displays on
buildings and stationary flagstaffs in open; night display-It is the universal
custom to display the flag only from sunrise to sunset on buildings and on
stationary flagstaffs in the open. However, when a patriotic effect is desired,
the flag may be displayed twenty-four hours a day if properly illuminated
during the hours of darkness.
(b)
Manner of hoisting-The flag should be hoisted briskly and lowered
ceremoniously.
(c) Inclement
weather-The flag should not be displayed on days when the weather is inclement,
except when an all weather flag is displayed.
(d) Particular days of display-The flag
should be displayed on all days, especially on New Year's Day, January 1;
Inauguration Day, January 20; Lincoln's Birthday, February 12; Washington's
Birthday, third Monday in February; Easter Sunday (variable); Mother's Day,
second Sunday in May; Armed Forces Day, third Saturday in May; Memorial Day
(half-staff until noon), the last Monday in May; Flag Day, June 14;
Independence Day, July 4; Labor Day, first Monday in September; Constitution
Day, September 17; Columbus Day, second Monday in October; Navy Day, October
27; Veterans Day, November 11; Thanksgiving Day, fourth Thursday in November;
Christmas Day, December 25; and such other days as may be proclaimed by the
President of the United States; the birthdays of States (date of admission);
and on State holidays.
(e) Display
on or near administration building of public institutions-The flag should be
displayed daily on or near the main administration building of every public
institution.
(f) Display in or near
polling places-The flag should be displayed in or near every polling place on
election days.
(g) Display in or
near schoolhouses-The flag should be displayed during school days in or near
every schoolhouse.
Appendix B
Position and manner of display.
The flag, when carried in a procession with another flag or
flags, should be either on the marching right; that is, the flag's own right,
or, if there is a line of other flags, in front of the center of that
line.
(a) The flag should not be
displayed on a float in a parade except from a staff, or as provided in
subsection (i) of this section.
(b)
The flag should not be draped over the hood, top, sides, or back of a vehicle
or of a railroad train or a boat. When the flag is displayed on a motorcar, the
staff shall be fixed firmly to the chassis or clamped to the right
fender.
(c) No other flag or
pennant should be placed above or, if on the same level, to the right of the
flag of the United States of America, except during church services conducted
by naval chaplains at sea, when the church pennant may be flown above the flag
during church services for the personnel of the Navy. No person shall display
the flag of the United Nations or any other national or international flag
equal, above, or in a position of superior prominence or honor to, or in place
of, the flag of the United States at any place within the United States or any
Territory or possession thereof: Provided, That nothing in this section shall
make unlawful the continuance of the practice heretofore followed of displaying
the flag of the United Nations in a position of superior prominence or honor,
and other national flags in positions of equal prominence or honor, with that
of the flag of the United States at the headquarters of the United
Nations.
(d) The flag of the United
States of America, when it is displayed with another flag against a wall from
crossed staffs, should be on the right, the flag's own right, and its staff
should be in front of the staff of the other flag.
(e) The flag of the United States of America
should be at the center and at the highest point of the group when a number of
flags of States or localities or pennants of societies are grouped and
displayed from staffs.
(f) When
flags of States, cities, or localities, or pennants of societies are flown on
the same halyard with the flag of the United States, the latter should always
be at the peak. When the flags are flown from adjacent staffs, the flag of the
United States should be hoisted first and lowered last. No such flag or pennant
may be placed above the flag of the United States or to the United States
flag's right.
(g) When flags of two
or more nations are displayed, they are to be flown from separate staffs of the
same height. The flags should be of approximately equal size. International
usage forbids the display of the flag of one nation above that of another
nation in time of peace.
(h) When
the flag of the United States is displayed from a staff projecting horizontally
or at an angle from the window sill, balcony, or front of a building, the union
of the flag should be placed at the peak of the staff unless the flag is at
half staff. When the flag is suspended over a sidewalk from a rope extending
from a house to a pole at the edge of the sidewalk, the flag should be hoisted
out, union first, from the building.
(i) When displayed either horizontally or
vertically against a wall, the union should be uppermost and to the flag's own
right, that is, to the observer's left. When displayed in a window, the flag
should be displayed in the same way, with the union or blue field to the left
of the observer in the street.
(j)
When the flag is displayed over the middle of the street, it should be
suspended vertically with the union to the north in an east and west street or
to the east in a north and south street.
(k) When used on a speaker's platform, the
flag, if displayed flat, should be displayed above and behind the speaker. When
displayed from a staff in a church or public auditorium, the flag of the United
States of America should hold the position of superior prominence, in advance
of the audience, and in the position of honor at the clergyman's or speaker's
right as he faces the audience. Any other flag so displayed should be placed on
the left of the clergyman or speaker or to the right of the audience.
(l) The flag should form a distinctive
feature of the ceremony of unveiling a statue or monument, but it should never
be used as the covering for the statue or monument.
(m) The flag, when flown at half-staff,
should be first hoisted to the peak for an instant and then lowered to the
half-staff position. The flag should be again raised to the peak before it is
lowered for the day. On Memorial Day the flag should be displayed at half-staff
until noon only, then raised to the top of the staff. By order of the
President, the flag shall be flown at half-staff upon the death of principal
figures of the United States Government and the Governor of a State, territory,
or possession, as a mark of respect to their memory. In the event of the death
of other officials or foreign dignitaries, the flag is to be displayed at
half-staff according to Presidential instructions or orders, or in accordance
with recognized customs or practices not inconsistent with law. In the event of
the death of a present or former official of the government of any State,
territory, or possession of the United States, the Governor of that State,
territory, or possession may proclaim that the National flag shall be flown at
half-staff. The flag shall be flown at half-staff thirty days from the death of
the President or a former President; ten days from the day of death of the Vice
President, the Chief Justice or a retired Chief Justice of the United States,
or the Speaker of the House of Representatives; from the day of death until
interment of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, a Secretary of an
executive or military department, a former Vice President, or the Governor of a
State, territory, or possession; and on the day of death and the following day
for a Member of Congress. The flag shall be flown at half-staff on Peace
Officers Memorial Day, unless that day is also Armed Forces Day. As used in
this subsection-
(1) the term "half-staff"
means the position of the flag when it is one-half the distance between the top
and bottom of the staff;
(2) the
term "executive or military department" means any agency listed under sections
101 and 102 of Title 5; and
(3) the
term "Member of Congress" means a Senator, a Representative, a Delegate, or the
Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico.
(n) When the flag is used to cover a casket,
it should be so placed that the union is at the head and over the left
shoulder. The flag should not be lowered into the grave or allowed to touch the
ground.
(o) When the flag is
suspended across a corridor or lobby in a building with only one main entrance,
it should be suspended vertically with the union of the flag to the observer's
left upon entering. If the building has more than one main entrance, the flag
should be suspended vertically near the center of the corridor or lobby with
the union to the north, when entrances are to the east and west or to the east
when entrances are to the north and south. If there are entrances in more than
two directions, the union should be to the east.
Appendix C
Respect for flag.
No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United
States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing.
Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to
be dipped as a mark of honor.
(a) The
flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire
distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
(b) The flag should never touch anything
beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.
(c) The flag should never be carried flat or
horizontally, but always aloft and free.
(d) The flag should never be used as wearing
apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up,
in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red,
always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red
below, should be used for covering a speaker's desk, draping the front of the
platform, and for decoration in general.
(e) The flag should never be fastened,
displayed, used, or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn,
soiled, or damaged in any way.
(f)
The flag should never be used as a covering for a ceiling.
(g) The flag should never have placed upon
it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word,
figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.
(h) The flag should never be used as a
receptacle for receiving, holding, carrying, or delivering anything.
(i) The flag should never be used for
advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. It should not be embroidered on
such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise
impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary
use and discard. Advertising signs should not be fastened to a staff or halyard
from which the flag is flown.
(j)
No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform.
However, a flag patch may be affixed to the uniform of military personnel,
firemen, policemen, and members of patriotic organizations. The flag represents
a living country and is itself considered a living thing. Therefore, the lapel
flag pin being a replica, should be worn on the left lapel near the
heart.
(k) The flag, when it is in
such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be
destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
Appendix D
Conduct during hoisting, lowering or passing of
flag.
During the ceremony of hoisting or lowering the flag or when
the flag is passing in a parade or in review, all persons present except those
in uniform should face the flag and stand at attention with the right hand over
the heart. Those present in uniform should render the military salute. When not
in uniform, men should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it
at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Aliens should stand at
attention. The salute to the flag in a moving column should be rendered at the
moment the flag passes.
*Original authority 1997.