Any person who (a) for exhibition or display, places or causes 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, or any foreign flag of any nation or ensign, or state flag of this state or ensign, or city flag of this city or ensign, (b) exposes or causes to be exposed to public view any such flag, standard, color or ensign, upon which has been printed, painted or otherwise placed, or to which has been attached, appended, affixed, or annexed, any word, figure, mark, picture, design or drawing or any advertisement of any nature, (c) exposes to public view, manufactures, sells, exposes for sale, gives away, or has in possession for sale or to give away or for use for any purpose, any article of substance, being an article of merchandise, or a receptacle of merchandise or article or thing for carrying or transporting merchandise upon which has been printed, painted, attached, or otherwise placed a representation of any such flag, standard, color, or ensign, to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark or distinguish the article or substance on which so placed, or (d) shall knowingly mutilate, deface, defile or defy, trample or cast contempt upon by offensive touching or laying upon the ground or floor, any such flag, standard, color or ensign shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to imprisonment not to exceed six months and a fine not to exceed $250.00 for each offense.
(Prior code § 193-16; Added Coun. J. 3-16-89, p. 25723)