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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1806
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 14, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
        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.
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