The Town of Fishkill maintains a device of arms, depicted below,
which bears the name of the Town, and the inscription: "One of the
Nine Original Towns in Dutchess County" on the violet-blue outer rim
of the circular device and an interior circular image of a Revolutionary
War soldier standing in front of the Whipping Tree in a green field
against a sky blue sky with the date "1788" emblazoned across the
lower center.
The Town of Fishkill maintains a Town flag (depicted below)
which is hereby declared to be composed of two right triangles divided
diagonally from lower left to upper right. The upper left triangle
is a field of white charged with the arms of the Town, as described
above, and the lower right triangle is a field of navy blue.
Any person who commits or causes the commission of any of the following acts shall be guilty of a violation subject to the penalties set forth in §
2-4 of this chapter:
A. Placement,
in any manner, for exhibition or display, of any word, figure, mark,
picture, design, drawing, or any advertisement, of any nature upon
any flag of the Town of Fishkill, or the exposure to public view of
any such flag which shall have been printed, painted or otherwise
placed, or to which shall be attached, appended, affixed or annexed,
any word, figure, mark, picture, design, or drawing, or any advertisement
of any nature.
B. Exposure
to public view, manufacture, sale, exposure for sale, giving away,
or possession for sale or giving away, or use for any purpose, of
any article, being an article of merchandise, or a receptacle of merchandise
or article or thing for carrying or transporting merchandise, upon
which shall have been printed, painted, attached, or otherwise placed,
a representation of any such flag to advertise, call attention to,
decorate, mark, or distinguish, the article or substance on which
so placed.
C. Printing,
engraving or otherwise placing on any blank check, bill head, letter
head, envelope or other business stationery a representation of any
such flag, or use of any such blank check, bill head, letter head,
envelope or other stationery for business purposes or correspondence.
D. Public
mutilation, defacement, defilement or casting contempt upon any such
flag, either by words or act.
E. Raffling
or pawning any such flag.
F. Public
use of any such flag as a receptacle for the placing, depositing or
collecting of money or any other article or thing.
The word "flag," as used in this chapter, shall include any
flag, standard, color shield or ensign, or any picture or representation
of such flag, made of any substance, or represented on any substance,
and of any size, evidently purporting to be the flag of the Town of
Fishkill or a picture or a representation thereof by which the person
seeing the same, without deliberation, may believe the same to represent
the flag of the Town of Fishkill.
This chapter shall not apply to, nor shall it be construed to
apply to, a certificate, diploma, warrant, or commission of appointment
to office, ornamental picture, article of jewelry, stationery for
use in private correspondence, or newspaper or periodical, on any
of which shall be printed, painted or placed said flag disconnected
and apart from any advertisement.