Authorizes and directs the commissioner of the office of general services to commission the flag design committee of the North American Vexillological Association to design a new state flag.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4232
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 6, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. WALCZYK -- 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 redesigning 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
25 fillet proper, in the dexter hand a straight sword hilted or, erect,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 resting on the sinister chief point of the shield, the sinister arm
2 embowed, holding before her her scales proper.
3 Motto. On a scroll below the shield argent, in sable, [two lines. On
4 line one,] Excelsior [and on line two, E pluribus unum].
5 State flag. The state flag is hereby declared to be blue, charged with
6 the arms of the state in the colors as described in the blazon of this
7 section.
8 § 2. The commissioner of the office of general services is authorized
9 and directed to commission the flag design committee of the North Ameri-
10 can Vexillological Association to design a new state flag.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
12 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.
