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10 U.S.C. § 2249b — Display of State, District of Columbia, commonwealth, and territorial flags by the armed forces
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**(a) Display of Flags by Armed Forces.—** The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that, whenever the official flags of all 50 States are displayed by the armed forces, such display shall include the flags of the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
**(b) Position and Manner of Display.—** The display of an official flag of a State, territory, or possession of the United States at an installation or other facility of the Department shall be governed by [section 7 of title 4](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title4-section7&num=0&edition=prelim) and any modification of section 7 under [section 10 of title 4](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title4-section10&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Display of Flags by Armed Forces.—** The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that, whenever the official flags of all 50 States are displayed by the armed forces, such display shall include the flags of the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
**(b) Position and Manner of Display.—** The display of an official flag of a State, territory, or possession of the United States at an installation or other facility of the Department shall be governed by [section 7 of title 4](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title4-section7&num=0&edition=prelim) and any modification of section 7 under [section 10 of title 4](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title4-section10&num=0&edition=prelim).
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Any rule or custom pertaining to the display of the flag of the United States of America, set forth herein, may be altered, modified, or repealed, or additional rules with respect thereto may be prescribed, by the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, whenever he deems it to be appropriate or desirable; and any such alteration or additional rule shall be set forth in a proclamation.
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The flag, when carried in a procession with another flag or flags, should be either on the marching right; that is, the flag’s own right, or, if there is a line of other flags, in front of the center of that line.
**(a)** The flag should not be displayed on a float in a parade except from a staff, or as provided in subsection (i) of this section.
**(b)** The flag should not be draped over the hood, top, sides, or back of a vehicle or of a railroad train or a boat. When the flag is displayed on a motorcar, the staff shall be fixed firmly to the chassis or clamped to the right fender.
**(c)** No other flag or pennant should be placed above or, if on the same level, to the right of the flag of the United States of America, except during church services conducted by naval chaplains at sea, when the church pennant may be flown above the flag during church services for the personnel of the Navy. No person shall display the flag of the United Nations or any other national or international flag equal, above, or in a position of superior prominence or honor to, or in place of, the flag of the United States at any place within the United States or any Territory or possession thereof: Provided, That nothing in this section shall make unlawful the continuance of the practice heretofore followed of displaying the flag of the United Nations in a position of superior prominence or honor, and other national flags in positions of equal prominence or honor, with that of the flag of the United States at the headquarters of the United Nations.
**(d)** The flag of the United States of America, when it is displayed with another flag against a wall from crossed staffs, should be on the right, the flag’s own right, and its staff should be in front of the staff of the other flag.
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
[§ 2248
[§ 2248. Repealed. Pub. L. 108–136, div. A, title X,
§ 1045(a)(5)(A), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1612]
Section, added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title X,
§ 1063(a), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2848, related to prohibi-
tion on purchase of surety bonds.
[§ 2249. Renumbered § 4652]
[§ 2249a. Renumbered § 361]
§ 2249b. Display of State, District of Columbia,
commonwealth, and territorial flags by the
armed forces
(a) DISPLAY OF FLAGS BY ARMED FORCES.—The
Secretary of Defense shall ensure that, when-
ever the official flags of all 50 States are dis-
played by the armed forces, such display shall
include the flags of the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United
States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa,
and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands.
(b) POSITION
AND MANNER
OF DISPLAY.—The
display of an official flag of a State, territory,
or possession of the United States at an installa-
tion or other facility of the Department shall be
governed by section 7 of title 4 and any modi-
fication of section 7 under section 10 of title 4.
(Added Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title X, § 1071(a),
Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2656; amended Pub. L.
105–225, § 4(a)(1), Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1498; Pub.
L. 112–239, div. A, title V, § 588(a), (b)(1), Jan. 2,
2013, 126 Stat. 1768, 1769.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2013—Pub. L. 112–239, § 588(b)(1), substituted ‘‘Display
of State, District of Columbia, commonwealth, and ter-
ritorial flags by the armed forces’’ for ‘‘Display of
State flags: prohibition on use of funds to arbitrarily
exclude flag; position and manner of display’’ in section
catchline.
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 112–239, § 588(a), amended subsec.
(a) generally. Prior to amendment, text rea
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