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<section article="ggp" article_name="General Provisions" number="7-205" title_number="7" title_name="Emblems; Designations; Commemorative Days and Months" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Flags">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Flag to honor and remember members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a flag created by Honor and Remember, Inc.; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the flag designated by the United States Congress as the official symbol to honor and remember members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“POW/MIA flag” means the Prisoners of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) flag of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, each year, the POW/MIA flag and a flag to honor and remember members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty shall be flown on the State House grounds on:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the third Saturday in May, for Armed Forces Day;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>May 30, for Memorial Day;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the day that the United States Congress designates for the observance of Memorial Day, if other than May 30;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>the Saturday and Sunday that are closest to May 30, unless the United States Congress designates another day for the observance of Memorial Day, in which case, the Saturday and Sunday that are closest to the day designated by the United States Congress;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>July 4, for Independence Day;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>the third Friday in September, for POW/MIA Recognition Day;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>November 11, for Veterans’ Day;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>the day that the United States Congress designates for the observance of Veterans’ Day, if other than November 11; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>the Saturday and Sunday that are closest to November 11, unless the United States Congress designates another day for the observance of Veterans’ Day, in which case, the Saturday and Sunday that are closest to the day designated by the United States Congress.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the United States Congress designates a flag as the official symbol to honor and remember members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty, the flag designated by Congress instead of the flag created by Honor and Remember, Inc., shall be flown in accordance with paragraph (1) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
