O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 50-3-5 (2019)

Preservation of Confederate flags

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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The flags of the Georgia troops who served in the army of the Confederate States, and which have been returned to the state by the United States government, shall be preserved for all time in the capitol as priceless mementos of the cause they represented and of the heroism and patriotism of the men who bore them.

History

Ga. L. 1916, p. 158, § 3; Code 1933,

§ 86-1005; Ga. L. 1951, p. 311, § 44; Ga. L. 1955, p. 10, § 91.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 35A Am. Jur. 2d, Flag, § 2.

C.J.S. 36A C.J.S., Flags, §§ 3, 4.