Display of flag at public meetings - 18 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 2101

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                                 PART II
                     DEFINITION OF SPECIFIC OFFENSES

     Article
        A.  Offenses Against Existence or Stability of Government
        B.  Offenses Involving Danger to the Person
        C.  Offenses Against Property
        D.  Offenses Against the Family
        E.  Offenses Against Public Administration
        F.  Offenses Against Public Order and Decency
        G.  Miscellaneous Offenses

        Enactment.  Part II was added December 6, 1972, P.L.1482,
     No.334, effective in six months.


                                ARTICLE A
                 OFFENSES AGAINST EXISTENCE OR STABILITY
                              OF GOVERNMENT

     Chapter
       21.  Offenses Against the Flag


                                CHAPTER 21
                        OFFENSES AGAINST THE FLAG

     Sec.
     2101.  Display of flag at public meetings.
     2102.  Desecration of flag.
     2103.  Insults to national or Commonwealth flag.

        Enactment.  Chapter 21 was added December 6, 1972, P.L.1482,
     No.334, effective in six months.
     § 2101.  Display of flag at public meetings.
        (a)  Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a summary
     offense if, being directly or indirectly in charge of any public
     gathering, in any place, he fails at such gathering to display
     publicly and visibly the flag of the United States reasonably
     clean and in good repair.
        (b)  Exceptions.--
            (1)  Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to
        gatherings for religious worship.
            (2)  The provisions of subsection (a) of this section do
        not prohibit the exhibition of torn, soiled or worn flags of
        the United States which have historical significance when
        exhibited in conjunction with the type of flag required by
        subsection (a) of this section.

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