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Article 7.--FLAG
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73-701. State flag. A state flag
be and the same is hereby adopted to be used on every and all occasions, when
the state is officially represented, with the privilege of the use by all
citizens on all fitting and appropriate occasions which shall be authorized by
state authorities.
History: L. 1927, ch. 281, § 1; March 23.
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Article 7.--FLAG
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73-702. Same; description; form and
makeup. The official state flag of the state of Kansas shall be a rectangle
of dark-blue silk or bunting, three (3) feet on the staff by five (5) feet fly.
The great seal of the state of Kansas, without its
surrounding band of lettering, shall be located equidistant from the staff and
the fly side of the flag, with the lower edge of the seal located eleven (11) inches
above the base side of the flag. The great seal shall be surmounted by a crest
and the word KANSAS shall be located underneath the seal. The seal shall be
seventeen (17) inches in diameter. The crest shall be on a wreath or an azure,
a sunflower slipped proper, which divested of its heraldic language is a
sunflower as torn from its stalk in its natural colors on a bar of twisted gold
and blue. The crest shall be six (6) inches in diameter; the wreath shall be
nine (9) inches in length. The top of the crest shall be located two (2) inches
beneath the top side of the flag. The letters KANSAS shall be imprinted in gold
block letters below the seal, the said letters to be properly proportioned, and
five (5) inches in height, imprinted with a stroke one (1) inch wide; and the
first letter K shall commence with the same distance from the staff side of the
flag as the end of the last letter S is from the fly side of the flag. The
bottom edge of the letters shall be two (2) inches above the base side of the flag.
Larger or smaller flags will be of the same proportional dimensions.
The colors in the seal shall be as follows: Stars,
silver; hills, purple; sun, deep yellow; glory, light yellow; sky, yellow and
orange from hills half way to motto, upper half, azure; grass, green; river,
light blue; boat, white; house, dark brown; ground, brown; wagons, white; near
horse, white; off horse, bay; buffalo, dark, almost black; motto, white;
scroll, light brown.
History: L. 1927, ch. 281, § 2; L. 1961,
ch. 376, § 1; L. 1963, ch. 394, § 1; June 30.
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73-705. Flag Day proclamation by
governor. The governor of this state shall on or before June 1 of each year
issue a proclamation recommending that June 14, flag day, be observed by the
people of this state by the display of the flag of the United States of America
and in such other ways as will be in harmony with the general character of the
day.
History: L. 1939, ch. 309, § 1; June 30.
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73-711. Display of Kansas state flag;
definitions. As used in this act:
(a) The words "school district" mean
and include any common-school district, rural high-school district, community
high-school district, and any first- or second-class city school district; and
(b) the words "governing body" mean
and include the district board of any common-school district, the district
board of any rural high-school district, the board of trustees of any community
high-school district, and the board of education of any city of the first or
second class.
History: L. 1961, ch. 353, § 1; April 10.
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73-712. Same; display on school
grounds each day of school year; exception. It shall be the duty of the
governing body of every school district in the state and of the supervisory
authority of every private and parochial school to provide an official state
flag for the school district or for the school under its jurisdiction and
control, and to have said state flag displayed on the school grounds each day
during the school year: Provided, That when the weather is inclement,
the flag may be displayed within the school building.
History: L. 1961, ch. 353, § 2; April 10.