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(124th General Assembly)(Amended Senate Bill Number 240)
AN ACT
To amend section 5.01 and to enact sections 5.012 and
5.013 of the Revised
Code to establish
requirements
governing the display and disposal of
the state
flag, to explain the symbolism of the
state flag,
and to adopt an official
pledge to the
state flag.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:
SECTION 1. That section 5.01 be amended and sections 5.012
and 5.013 of the
Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 5.01. The flag of the state shall be
pennant shaped
burgee-shaped.
It
shall have
three red and two white horizontal
stripes
that
represent the roads and
waterways of the state. The
union of the
flag shall be
seventeen five-pointed stars, white in
a blue
triangular field
that
represents the state's hills and
valleys,
the base of
which shall be the staff end or vertical edge
of the
flag, and the apex of
which shall be the center of the
middle red
stripe. The stars shall be
grouped around a red disc
superimposed
upon a white circular
"O."
The
thirteen stars grouped
around the
"O" represent the original states
of the United States
and the
four stars added to the peak of
the triangle symbolize
that Ohio
was the seventeenth state admitted
to the union. The
"O"
represents the
"O" in
"Ohio"
and suggests the state's
nickname,
the buckeye state. The
proportional dimensions of the
flag and of
its various parts shall be
according to the official
design on
file in the office of the secretary of
state. One state
flag of
uniform dimensions shall be furnished to each
company of
the
organized militia. Sec. 5.012. (A) Display of the state flag at all state
buildings
and public institutions, such as public school buildings
and state parks, is
encouraged. If the state flag is displayed,
it may be flown every day when
weather permits and shall be flown
from sunrise until sunset on all national
and state holidays and
on any other days that the governor proclaims. The
state flag may
be flown at night when properly lighted. When the state flag
is
displayed outdoors, it shall be flown either from a flagpole or a
staff.
Any staff from which the state flag is flown shall be at
least two and
one-half times as long as the state flag. (B) When the state flag and the United States
flag are
displayed at the same time,
the state flag shall not be larger
than the United
States flag. When the state flag and the United
States flag are
displayed together against a wall from crossed
staffs, the state
flag shall be on the left of the United
States
flag, and the staff
supporting the state flag shall be behind
the
staff supporting the
United States flag. When the state
flag is
flown from the same
halyard as the United States
flag, the state
flag shall be
displayed beneath the United
States flag. When the
state flag is
carried in a procession in which
the United States
flag is
unfurled, the state flag shall be
displayed on the
marching left
of the United States flag. (C) The state flag shall be washed or dry cleaned when
soiled and
may be repaired. When the state flag is damaged beyond
repair, it shall be
destroyed privately either by cutting it into
small pieces and burning it
until only ashes remain or by sealing
it in a plastic bag or box before
discarding it in a trash
collection. Sec. 5.013.
"I salute the flag of the state of Ohio and
pledge to
the buckeye state respect and loyalty" is hereby adopted
as the official
pledge to the state flag. The pledge shall not
replace, preempt, or be
recited before the pledge of allegiance to
the United States
flag. SECTION 2. That existing section 5.01 of the Revised Code is
hereby repealed.
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