SENATE BILL 63

57th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2025

INTRODUCED BY

Candy Spence Ezzell and Nicole Tobiassen and James G. Townsend and Anthony L. Thornton and Nicholas A. Paul

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

RELATING TO THE STATE FLAG; ESTABLISHING THE MANNER OF RETIRING A STATE FLAG.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. [NEW MATERIAL] STATE FLAG--DISPOSAL.--

          A. If a New Mexico state flag is no longer used or useful as an emblem for display, the flag may be destroyed, preferably by burning, in a ceremony or in another dignified manner that emphasizes its honor as a fitting emblem of New Mexico.

          B. The retirement of a New Mexico state flag may be a public ceremony under the direction of uniformed personnel representing a state or federal military service or a patriotic society or a private ceremony.

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