4 U.S.C. § 2 — Same; additional stars

Page 3 TITLE 4—FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE STATES § 4 Standard proportions Hoist (width) of flag 1.0 Fly (length) of flag 1.9 Hoist (width) of Union 0.5385 (7⁄13) Fly (length) of Union 0.76 0.054 0.054 0.063 0.063 Diameter of star 0.0616 Width of stripe 0.0769 (1⁄13) A B C D E F G H K L § 2. Same; additional stars On the admission of a new State into the Union one star shall be added to the union of the flag; and such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July then next succeeding such ad- mission. (July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 642.) § 3. Use of flag for advertising purposes; mutila- tion of flag Any person who, within the District of Colum- bia, in any manner, for exhibition or display, shall place or cause to be placed any word, fig- ure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or any ad- vertisement of any nature upon any flag, stand- ard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America; or shall expose or cause to be exposed to public view any such flag, standard, colors, or ensign upon which shall have been printed, painted, or otherwise placed, or to which shall be attached, appended, affixed, or annexed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, or drawing, or any advertisement of any nature; or who, within the District of Columbia, shall manufac- ture, sell, expose for sale, or to public view, or give away or have in possession for sale, or to be given away or for use for any purpose, any arti- cle or substance being an article of merchandise, or a receptacle for merchandise or article or thing for carrying or transporting merchandise, upon which shall have been printed, painted, at- tached, or otherwise placed a representation of any such flag, standard, colors, or ensign, to ad- vertise, call attention to, decorate, mark, or dis- tinguish the article or substance on which so placed shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment for not more than thir- ty days, or both, in the discretion of the court. The words ‘‘flag, standard, colors, or ensign’’, as used herein, shall include any flag, standard, colors, ensign, or any picture or representation of either, or of any part or parts of either, made of any substance or represented on any sub- stance, of any size evidently purporting to be ei- ther of said flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America or a picture or a representation of either, upon which shall be shown the colors, the stars and the stripes, in any number of either thereof, or of any part or parts of either, by which the average person see- ing the same without deliberation may believe the same to represent the flag, colors, standard, or ensign of the United States of America. (July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 642; Pub. L. 90–381, § 3, July 5, 1968, 82 Stat. 291.) Editorial Notes AMENDMENTS 1968—Pub. L. 90–381 struck out ‘‘; or who, within the District of Columbia, shall publicly mutilate, deface, defile or defy, trample upon, or cast contempt, either by word or act, upon any such flag, standard, colors, or ensign,’’ after ‘‘substance on which so placed’’. § 4. Pledge of allegiance to the flag; manner of delivery The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag: ‘‘I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.’’, should be rendered by standing at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. When not in uniform