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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>74629</law_id><section_number>18.2-487</section_number><catch_line>Exhibition or display</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="11">Offenses Against the Sovereignty of the Commonwealth</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Uniform Flag Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No person shall, in any manner, for exhibition or display:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Place or cause to be placed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing or advertisement of any nature upon any flag, standard, color, ensign or shield of the United States or of this Commonwealth, or authorized by any <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the United States or of this Commonwealth; <a id="paragraph-268222" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-487/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Expose to public view any such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield upon which shall have been printed, painted or otherwise produced, or to which shall have been attached, appended, affixed or annexed, any such word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing or advertisement; or <a id="paragraph-268223" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-487/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Expose to public view for sale, manufacture or otherwise, or sell, give or have in <span class="dictionary">possession</span> for sale, for gift or for use for any purpose, any substance, being an article of merchandise, or receptacle, or thing for holding or carrying merchandise, upon or to which shall have been produced or attached any such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield, in <span class="dictionary">order</span> to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark or distinguish such article or substance. <a id="paragraph-268224" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-487/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-424; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
