South Carolina § 16-17-210 - Definitions.
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§ 16-17-210. Definitions.
The words "flag, standard, color or ensign," as used in Sections 16-17-220 and 16-17-230, shall include any flag, standard, color or ensign or any picture or representation made of any substance or represented on any substance and of any size, evidently purporting to be of the flag, standard, color or ensign of the United States, the Confederate States of America or this State, or a picture or representation upon which shall be shown the colors, the stars and the stripes, in any number or either thereof or by which the person seeing such picture or representation without deliberation may believe it to represent the flag, colors, standard or ensign of the United States, the Confederate States of America or this State.
HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 16-533; 1952 Code SECTION 16-533; 1942 Code SECTION 1274; 1932 Code SECTION 1274; Cr. C. '22 SECTION 169; 1916 (29) 925; 1958 (50) 1676.
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