U.S.C. TITLE 4 - FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE STATES
CHAPTER 1 - THE FLAG

§ 3. Use of flag for advertising purposes; mutilation of flag

Any person who, within the District of Columbia, in any manner, for exhibition or display, shall
place or cause to be placed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or any
advertisement of any nature upon any flag, standard, 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 manufacture,
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 article 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, attached, or otherwise placed a representation of any
such flag, standard, colors, or ensign, to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark, or
distinguish 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 thirty
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 substance,
of any size evidently purporting to be either 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 seeing the same without deliberation may believe the same
to represent the flag, colors, standard, or ensign of the United States of America.

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