1. When the American Flag is displayed over the center of the street, it should be perched vertically with the union to the north in an east and west street or to the east in a north and south street.
2. The flag of the United States of America, when exhibited with another flag in opposition to a wall from crossed flag poles, should be on the right, the American flag's own right, and its staff must be in front of the staff of the other flag.
3. The American flag, when flown at half-staff, needs to be first erected to the peak for an instant and then reduced to the half-staff position. The US should be again raised to the peak ahead of when it is lowered for the day. By "half-mast" is meant lowering the flag to one-half the length between the top and bottom of the staff. Crepe streamers may be fastened to spear heads or flagstaffs in a parade only by command of the President of the United States.
4. When flags of States, cities, or localities, or pennants of societies are flown on the very same halyard with the flag of the United States, the latter must at all times be at the very top. When the flags are flown from adjacent flag poles, the American flag should be hoisted first and lowered last. No such flag or pennant may be positioned above the flag of the United States or to the right of the American flag, the viewer's left. When the flag is half-masted, both flags are half-masted, with the US flag at the mid-point and the other flag below.
5. When the flag is poised above a sidewalk from a rope extending from a home to a pole at the edge of the sidewalk, the flag should be hoisted out, union first, from the building.
6. When the American Flag is displayed from a staff projecting horizontally or at an angle from the window sill, balcony, or front of a building, the union of the flag should be positioned at the top of the pole unless the flag is at half-mast.
7. When the American flag is used to cover a casket, it should be placed so that the union is at the head and over the left shoulder. The American flag should not be lowered into the grave or allowed to touch the ground.
8. When the American flag is exhibited in a method other than by being flown from a staff, it should be shown flat, whether indoors or out. When exhibited either horizontally or vertically against a wall, the union should be uppermost and to the flag's own right, that is, to the viewer's left. When exhibited in a window it should be displayedin the same way, that is with the union or blue field to the left of the observer in the street. When festoons, rosettes or drapings are desired, bunting of blue, white and red should be used, but never the American flag.
9. The American flag, when transported in a parade with another flag, or flags, ought to be either on the marching right; that is, the American flag's own right, or, if there is a line of other flags, in front of the center of that line.
10. The flag of the United States of America should be in the middle and at the best point of the group when a quantity of flags of States or localities or pennants of societies are grouped and displayed from staffs.
11. When flags of two or more nations are exhibited, they are to be displayed from individual staffs of the same height. The flags should be of roughly equal size. International usage forbids the display of the flag of one nation above that of another nation in time of peace.
12. When displayed from a pole in a church or public auditorium on or off a podium, the American flag should hold the position of superior prominence, in advance of the audience, and in the position of honor at the clergyman's or speaker's right as he faces the audience. Any other flag so displayed should be placed on the left of the clergyman or speaker, or to the right of the audience.
13. When the US flag is displayed on a car, the staff shall be mounted solidly to the body or mounted to the right fender.
14. When hung in a window where it is viewed from the street, place the union at the head and over the left shoulder. |
