WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 420

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 81 and 84
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1987 Replacement Volume and 1989 Supplement)

BY repealing

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 83

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1987 Replacement Volume and 1989 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 83

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1987 Replacement Volume and 1989 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 85

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1987 Replacement Volume and 1989 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

81.

The words WORD "flag", ["standard", "color", "ensign", or "shield",] as used in
this subtitle, shall include any flag, standard, color, ensign or shield, [or copy, picture or
representation thereof,] made of any substance or represented or produced thereon,
and of any size, evidently purporting to be such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield of
the United States or of this State[, or a copy, picture or representation thereof].

[83.

No person shall publicly mutilate, deface, defile, defy, trample upon, or by word
or act cast contempt upon any such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield.]

83.

(A) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN § 81 OF THIS ARTICLE, A PERSON MAY
NOT INTENTIONALLY BURN, MUTILATE, OR DESTROY A FLAG.

(B) A PERSON MAY NOT INTENTIONALLY MUTILATE, DEFACE,

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