CHAPTER 658

H.P. 1340 - L.D. 1899

An Act To Require the Display of POW-MIA Flags at

Courthouses

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 1 MRSA §206-A, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 302, §2, is amended to read:

§206-A. Prisoner of war - missing in action flag

1. Required. The prisoner of war - missing in action flag must be flown in the following places until all those individuals designated as prisoners of war or missing in action are released or accounted for:

A. Above the State House; and

B. At each National Guard facility.; and

C.__At each courthouse owned by the State on Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day as designated by section 131 and the following national holidays:

(1)__Armed Forces Day, the 3rd Saturday in May;

(2)__Memorial Day, the last Monday in May;

(3)__Flag Day, June 14th;

(4)__Independence Day, July 4th;