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Boonville Flag desecration ordinance (§ 14-109)

Chapter 14: Offenses: Miscellaneous · Article V. Offenses Against Morals

Any person who in any manner, for exhibition or display, shall place, or cause to be placed, any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing or any advertisement of any nature upon any flag, standard, color or ensign of the United States of America, or shall expose or cause to be exposed to public view any such flag, standard, color or ensign upon which shall be printed, painted or otherwise placed or to which shall be attached, appended, affixed or annexed any word, figure, mark, picture, design or drawing or any advertisement of any nature, or who shall expose to public view, manufacture, sell, expose for sale, give away or have in possession for sale, or to give away or for use for any purpose, any article or substance being an article of merchandise or a receptacle of merchandise upon which shall have been printed, painted, attached or otherwise placed a representation of any such flag, standard, color or ensign, to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark or distinguish the article or substance on which so placed, or who shall publicly mutilate, deface, defile, or defy, trample upon or cast contempt, either by words or act, upon any such flag, standard, color or ensign, shall be deemed guilty of an offense.

Official source: City of Boonville official Code of Ordinances (online): look up Sec. 14-109

Text from Supplement 8 (December 2025), through Ordinance 4678 of December 16, 2024.

Last checked October 30, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.