STATE OF NEW YORK
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5528
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 7, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations
AN ACT to amend the state law, in relation to the description of the
arms of the state and the state flag
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 70 of the state law, as amended by section 1 of
2 part U of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 70. Description of the arms of the state and the state flag. The
4 device of arms of this state is hereby declared to be correctly
5 described as follows:
6 Charge. Azure, in a landscape, the sun in fess, rising in splendor or,
7 behind a range of three mountains, the middle one the highest; in base a
8 ship and sloop under sail, passing and about to meet on a river,
9 bordered below by a grassy shore fringed with shrubs, all proper.
10 Crest. On a wreath azure and or, an American eagle proper, rising to
11 the dexter from a two-thirds of a globe terrestrial, showing the north
12 Atlantic ocean with outlines of its shores.
13 Supporters. On a quasi compartment formed by the extension of the
14 scroll.
15 Dexter. The figure of Liberty proper, her hair disheveled and deco-
16 rated with pearls, vested azure, sandaled gules, about the waist a cinc-
17 ture or, fringed gules, a mantle of the last depending from the shoul-
18 ders behind to the feet, in the dexter hand a staff ensigned with a
19 Phrygian cap or, the sinister arm embowed, the hand supporting the
20 shield at the dexter chief point, a royal crown by her sinister foot
21 dejected.
22 Sinister. The figure of Justice proper, her hair disheveled and deco-
23 rated with pearls, vested or, about the waist a cincture azure, fringed
24 gules, sandaled and mantled as Liberty, bound about the eyes with a
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 fillet proper, in the dexter hand a straight sword hilted or, erect,
2 resting on the sinister chief point of the shield, the sinister arm
3 embowed, holding before her her scales proper.
4 Motto. On a scroll below the shield argent, in sable, [two lines. On
5 line one,] Excelsior [and on line two, E pluribus unum].
6 State flag. The state flag is hereby declared to be blue, charged with
7 the arms of the state in the colors as described in the blazon of this
8 section.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. All arms of the state and
10 the state flags printed prior to the effective date need not be removed
11 or replaced.
