The City adopts as its official flag, created as the result of a bicentennial design contest, upon a rectangular field of royal blue with upper and lower borders in brilliant yellow, a depiction, in black, of one of the iron railings of the old Central Bridge, situated above 2 royal blue waves (representing the Ohio River), having a black banner strung from post to post above, containing the words “Port of Entry”, which is located in the center of a brilliant yellow circular seal, bordered in black, surrounded by a white outer circle emblazoned with the words “City of Newport Kentucky” and “1795”, in black, both located in the center of the flag, surrounded by 15 brilliant yellow stars (representing Kentucky as the 15th state to join the Union) and a series of 2 larger white waves centered on either side.