Bill Text: NY S08880 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the commissioner of the office of general services to commission the flag design committee of the North American Vexillological Association to design a new state flag.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-07 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08880 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08880-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8880

                    IN SENATE

                                     August 7, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the state law, in relation to redesigning the state flag

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  70  of the state law, as amended by section 1 of
     2  part U of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 70. Description of the arms of the state [and the state  flag].  The
     4  device  of  arms  of  this  state  is  hereby  declared  to be correctly
     5  described as follows:
     6    Charge. Azure, in a landscape, the sun in fess, rising in splendor or,
     7  behind a range of three mountains, the middle one the highest; in base a
     8  ship and sloop under sail,  passing  and  about  to  meet  on  a  river,
     9  bordered below by a grassy shore fringed with shrubs, all proper.
    10    Crest.  On  a wreath azure and or, an American eagle proper, rising to
    11  the dexter from a two-thirds of a globe terrestrial, showing  the  north
    12  Atlantic ocean with outlines of its shores.
    13    Supporters.  On  a  quasi  compartment  formed by the extension of the
    14  scroll.
    15    Dexter. The figure of Liberty proper, her hair  disheveled  and  deco-
    16  rated with pearls, vested azure, sandaled gules, about the waist a cinc-
    17  ture  or,  fringed gules, a mantle of the last depending from the shoul-
    18  ders behind to the feet, in the dexter hand  a  staff  ensigned  with  a
    19  Phrygian  cap  or,  the  sinister  arm  embowed, the hand supporting the
    20  shield at the dexter chief point, a royal crown  by  her  sinister  foot
    21  dejected.
    22    Sinister.  The figure of Justice proper, her hair disheveled and deco-
    23  rated with pearls, vested or, about the waist a cincture azure,  fringed
    24  gules,  sandaled  and  mantled  as  Liberty, bound about the eyes with a
    25  fillet proper, in the dexter hand a straight  sword  hilted  or,  erect,
    26  resting  on  the  sinister  chief  point of the shield, the sinister arm
    27  embowed, holding before her her scales proper.
    28    Motto. On a scroll below the shield argent, in sable, [two  lines.  On
    29  line one,] Excelsior [and on line two, E pluribus unum].

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16664-01-0
        S. 8880                             2

     1    State flag. The state flag is hereby declared to be blue, charged with
     2  the  arms  of the state in the colors as described in the blazon of this
     3  section.
     4    §  2. The commissioner of the office of general services is authorized
     5  and directed to commission the flag design committee of the North Ameri-
     6  can Vexillological Association to design a new state flag.
     7    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
     8  ing  the  date upon which it shall have become a law; provided, however,
     9  that if section 1 of part U of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020 shall  not
    10  have taken effect on or before such date then this act shall take effect
    11  on  the  same date and in the same manner as such chapter of the laws of
    12  2020 takes effect.