GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	2
HOUSE BILL 728
 Committee Substitute Favorable 10/23/01 

Short Title:	Display of American Flag.	()	
Sponsors:	     	
Referred to:	     	
March 22, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT PERTAINING TO THE DISPLAY OF THE UNITED STATES FLAG. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Chapter 144 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 144-7.  Display of the American flag.
No provision of law or regulation shall prohibit the flag of the United States of America from being flown or displayed anywhere within the State if the flag is flown or displayed:
(1)	In accordance with the Patriotic Customs set forth in 36 U.S.C. §§ 171-178 governing the display and use of the flag of the United States of America.
(2)	Upon private or public property with the consent of either the owner of the property or any person having lawful control of the property.
(3)	Within the recommended flagpole standards set out in Our Flag, S. Doc. No. 13, 105th Cong., 1st Sess. (1998).
(4)	In accordance with local ordinances."
SECTION 2.  The title of Chapter 144 of the General Statutes reads as rewritten:
"State Flag, American Flag,  Motto, and Colors."
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.