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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 1B.1, Code 1995, is amended to read as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    1B.1  SPECIFICATIONS OF STATE BANNER FLAG.
  1  4    The banner designed by the Iowa society of the Daughters of
  1  5 the American Revolution and presented to the state, which
  1  6 banner is hereby adopted as the state flag for use on all
  1  7 occasions where a state flag may be fittingly displayed.  The
  1  8 design consists of three vertical stripes of blue, white, and
  1  9 red, the blue stripe being nearest the staff and the white
  1 10 stripe being in the center, and upon.  On the central white
  1 11 stripe being is depicted a spreading eagle bearing in its beak
  1 12 blue streamers on which is inscribed, in white letters, the
  1 13 state motto, "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will
  1 14 maintain" and in white letters, with the word "Iowa" in red
  1 15 letters below such the streamers, as such design now appears
  1 16 on the banner in the office of the governor of the state of
  1 17 Iowa, is hereby adopted as a distinctive state banner, for use
  1 18 on all occasions where a distinctive state symbol in the way
  1 19 of a banner may be fittingly displayed.
  1 20    Sec. 2.  Section 1B.2, Code 1995, is amended to read as
  1 21 follows:
  1 22    1B.2  USE OF STATE BANNER FLAG.
  1 23    Such The design may shall be used as a distinctive the
  1 24 state banner flag and may as such be displayed on all proper
  1 25 occasions where the state is officially represented as
  1 26 distinct from other states, either at home or abroad, or
  1 27 wherever it may be proper to distinguish the citizens of Iowa
  1 28 from the citizens of other states, such display.  When
  1 29 displayed with the national emblem, the state flag shall in
  1 30 all cases to be subservient to and along with the display of
  1 31 the national emblem and, when displayed with the latter, to be
  1 32 placed beneath the stars and stripes.
  1 33    Sec. 3.  Section 1B.3, Code 1995, is amended to read as
  1 34 follows:
  1 35    1B.3  FLAGS ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
  2  1    It shall be the duty of any board of public officers
  2  2 charged with providing supplies for a public building in the
  2  3 state to provide a suitable state flag and it shall be the
  2  4 duty of the custodians custodian of all that public buildings
  2  5 of the state building to raise over such building the flag
  2  6 flags of the United States of America and the state of Iowa,
  2  7 upon each secular day when weather conditions are favorable,
  2  8 and it shall be the duty of any board of public officers
  2  9 charged with the duty of providing for the supplies of any
  2 10 such public building to provide, in connection with other
  2 11 supplies for any such building of the state, a suitable flag
  2 12 for the purposes herein provided.
  2 13    Sec. 4.  Section 280.5, Code 1995, is amended to read as
  2 14 follows:
  2 15    280.5  DISPLAY OF UNITED STATES FLAG AND IOWA STATE BANNER
  2 16 FLAG.
  2 17    The board of directors of each public school district and
  2 18 the authorities in charge of each nonpublic school shall
  2 19 provide and maintain a suitable flagstaff on each school site
  2 20 under its control, and the United States flag and the Iowa
  2 21 state banner flag shall be raised on all school days when
  2 22 weather conditions are suitable.  
  2 23                           EXPLANATION
  2 24    This bill reenacts provisions of 1921 Iowa Acts, chapter 78
  2 25 (House File 398).  The bill, as passed by the House of
  2 26 Representatives and Senate in 1921 was never signed by the
  2 27 Speaker of the House as required by Article III, section 15 of
  2 28 the Iowa Constitution.  The bill also updates the language
  2 29 describing the flag of the state of Iowa.  The term "banner"
  2 30 is replaced by the word "flag".  Currently and under the bill,
  2 31 boards of directors of public buildings are required to fly
  2 32 the flag of Iowa as well as the stars and stripes of the
  2 33 nation.  
  2 34 LSB 1030HH 76
  2 35 cl/sc/14
     
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