"Flag," "color" and "ensign,"
as used in this chapter, shall include any flag, standard, ensign, or any picture or representation, or either thereof, made of any substance, or represented on any substance, and of any size, evidently purporting to be either of said flag, standard, color, or ensign of the United States of America, or a picture, or a representation of either thereof, upon which shall be shown the colors, the stars, and the stripes, in any number of either thereof, or by which the person seeing the same without deliberation may believe the same to represent the flag, color, or ensign of the United States of America.
(Ord. 6593 § 5, 1917-04-25)
This chapter shall not apply to any act permitted by the statutes of the United States of America, or by the United States Army and Navy regulations, nor shall it be construed to apply to newspaper, periodical, book, pamphlet, circular, certificate, diploma, warrant, or commission of appointment to office, ornamental picture, article of jewelry, or stationery for use in correspondence, on any of which shall be printed or placed said flag, disconnected from an advertisement. Nor shall this chapter in any way restrict the use of the national flag, emblem, colors or ensign for patriotic purposes.
(Ord. 6593 § 6, 1917-04-25)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation in any manner to exhibit or display, or to place or cause to be placed, any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or any advertisement of any nature, upon any flag, standard, color or ensign of the United States of America, or to expose or cause to be exposed to public view any such flag, standard, color or ensign of the United States of America upon which shall be 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.
(Ord. 6593 § 1, 1917-04-25)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to expose to public view, manufacture, sell, expose for sale, or to give away for use for any purpose, any article or substance being an article of merchandise, or a receptacle for merchandise, upon which shall have been printed, painted, attached or otherwise placed, a representation of any such flag, color or ensign.
(Ord. 6593 § 2, 1917-04-25)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or organization to use or display the national flag, emblem, or ensign, or any drawing, lithograph, engraving, photograph or likeness thereof, as a medium of advertising any business, goods, wares, merchandise, publication, or public entertainment of any character, or for any other purpose intended to promote the interests of such person, firm, corporation or organization.
(Ord. 6593 § 3, 1917-04-25)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, to publicly mutilate, deface, defile, defy, trample upon, or cast contempt, either by words or act, upon any such flag, standard, color or ensign.
(Ord. 6593 § 4, 1917-04-25)
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding $500.00, or imprisoned in the Pierce County Jail for a term not exceeding six months, or may be both so fined and imprisoned.
(Ord. 6593 § 7, 1917-04-25; Ord. 22600 § 17, 1981-12-29)