STATE OF NEW YORK
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5963
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
October 23, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. LATIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to display of the Missing
In Attack On Our Nation flag on public buildings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 403-c
2 to read as follows:
3 § 403-c. Display of Missing In Attack On Our Nation flag to be common-
4 ly known as the MIA-OON flag. 1. Every county, city, town and village is
5 encouraged to display the MIA-OON flag at the building housing its local
6 legislative body for a period of thirty days or such longer period as
7 that body deems appropriate every year commencing each September elev-
8 enth.
9 2. Every state police facility, including but not limited to the head-
10 quarters, substations and training academy, is encouraged to display the
11 MIA-OON flag for a period of thirty days or such longer period as the
12 superintendent of the state police deems appropriate every year commenc-
13 ing each September eleventh.
14 3. The MIA-OON flag shall display a black silhouette of a mother hold-
15 ing her child's hand upon a field of yellow. Underneath the image shall
16 be the phrase "You Will Always Be Remembered" in black lettering. The
17 image of mother and child shall symbolize the vulnerability of innocents
18 to terrorist attack, while the yellow shall symbolize that those taken
19 by terrorist attacks will be returned to their loved ones.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11360-01-3
