The banner designed by the Iowa society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and presented to the state, which banner consists of three vertical stripes of blue, white, and red, the blue stripe being nearest the staff and the white stripe* being in the center, and upon the central white stripe being depicted a spreading eagle bearing in its beak blue streamers on which is inscribed, in white letters, the state motto, "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain" and with the word "Iowa" in red letters below such streamers, as such design now appears on the banner in the office of the governor of the state of Iowa, is hereby adopted as a distinctive state banner, for use on all occasions where a distinctive state symbol in the way of a banner may be fittingly displayed.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 468; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 31.1]
C93, § 1B.1
*Editor's Note: On the original design, the white stripe was about equal to the sum of the others
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