CHAPTER 165
SB 412 – FINAL VERSION
03/17/10 0919s
2010 SESSION
04/09
SENATE BILL 412
AN ACT relative to the display of the POW-MIA flag.
SPONSORS: Sen. Barnes, Jr., Dist 17; Rep. Emiro, Rock 3; Rep. Baldasaro, Rock 3; Rep. K. Roberts, Ches 3; Rep. Theberge, Coos 4
COMMITTEE: Election Law and Veterans’ Affairs
This bill establishes the procedures for displaying the POW-MIA flag.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
03/17/10 0919s
10-2719
04/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT relative to the display of the POW-MIA flag.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
165:1 Display of POW-MIA Flag. Amend RSA 3:3-a to read as follows:
3:3-a Display of POW-MIA Flag.
I. The POW-MIA flag shall be displayed above the state house in Concord, all state facilities, and national guard armories and other state-owned military facilities whenever the flag of the United States is flown until all questions concerning the fate of America’s POWs and MIAs are sufficiently resolved.
II. When the POW-MIA flag is flown on the same flagstaff as the flag of the United States, the POW-MIA flag shall be flown immediately below the flag of the United States. If a state flag or other flag will be flown on the same flagstaff, the order from top to bottom shall be: the flag of the Unites States, the POW-MIA flag, then the state flag or other flag.
III. If the POW-MIA flag is flown from a flagstaff of equal height adjacent to the flag of the United States, the flag of the United States shall be the first in order from the viewer’s left, the POW-MIA flag shall be flown on the flagstaff to the immediate left (the viewer’s right) of the flag of the United States, and the state or other flag shall be flown farther left (the viewer’s right) of the POW-MIA flag.
165:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: June 17, 2010
Effective Date: August 16, 2010