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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sens.  SKOUFIS, ASHBY -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Investigations
   and Government Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the state law, in relation to the description of the
   arms of the state and the state flag

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  70  of the state law, as amended by section 1 of
 part U of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   § 70. Description of the arms of the state and  the  state  flag.  The
 device  of  arms  of  this  state  is  hereby  declared  to be correctly
 described as follows:
   Charge. Azure, in a landscape, the sun in fess, rising in splendor or,
 behind a range of three mountains, the middle one the highest; in base a
 ship and sloop under sail,  passing  and  about  to  meet  on  a  river,
 bordered below by a grassy shore fringed with shrubs, all proper.
   Crest.  On  a wreath azure and or, an American eagle proper, rising to
 the dexter from a two-thirds of a globe terrestrial, showing  the  north
 Atlantic ocean with outlines of its shores.
   Supporters.  On  a  quasi  compartment  formed by the extension of the
 scroll.
   Dexter. The figure of Liberty proper, her hair  disheveled  and  deco-
 rated with pearls, vested azure, sandaled gules, about the waist a cinc-
 ture  or,  fringed gules, a mantle of the last depending from the shoul-
 ders behind to the feet, in the dexter hand  a  staff  ensigned  with  a
 Phrygian  cap  or,  the  sinister  arm  embowed, the hand supporting the
 shield at the dexter chief point, a royal crown  by  her  sinister  foot
 dejected.
   Sinister.  The figure of Justice proper, her hair disheveled and deco-
 rated with pearls, vested or, about the waist a cincture azure,  fringed
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 gules,  sandaled  and  mantled  as  Liberty, bound about the eyes with a
 fillet proper, in the dexter hand a straight  sword  hilted  or,  erect,
 resting  on  the  sinister  chief  point of the shield, the sinister arm
 embowed, holding before her her scales proper.
   Motto.  On  a scroll below the shield argent, in sable, [two lines. On
 line one,] Excelsior [and on line two, E pluribus unum].
   State flag. The state flag is hereby declared to be blue, charged with
 the arms of the state in the colors as described in the blazon  of  this
 section.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. All arms of the state and
 the  state flags printed prior to the effective date need not be removed
 or replaced.