STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
867
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 7, 2015
___________
Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, relating to requiring certain munici-
palities to display the prisoner of war and missing in action flag
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 403-a of the executive law, as
2 amended by chapter 366 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Every county outside the city of New York, city, town, and village
5 is encouraged to display the prisoner of war and missing in action flag
6 at the building housing its local legislative body on all days on which
7 the flag of the United States of America is displayed. Every county
8 outside the city of New York, and every city, town, and village shall
9 fly an official National League of Families POW/MIA flag, as designated
10 by [section 2 of public law 101-355 (]36 U.S.C. [189)] 902 at the
11 building housing its local legislative body if a congressionally char-
12 tered veterans organization including any post, chapter, detachment
13 unit, auxiliary unit or society of such veterans organization has
14 provided the county, city, town, or village with such flag and, upon
15 such municipality's request, any necessary attachments or fasteners
16 required to enable the flag to be visible to the public, on the follow-
17 ing days: Armed Forces Day, the third Saturday in May; Memorial Day,
18 the last Monday in May; Flag Day, the second Sunday in June [14]; Inde-
19 pendence Day, July 4; National POW/MIA Recognition Day, the third Friday
20 in September except if such date of commemoration cannot be observed due
21 to a religious holiday, such observances shall then be conducted on the
22 second Friday in September and Veterans Day, November 11.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07274-01-5
