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Senate Bill S5528

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the description of the arms of the state and the state flag

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2023-S5528 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5839
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
State Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §70, State L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
S333, A5088

2023-S5528 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes the phrase E pluribus unum from the arms of the state and the state flag.

2023-S5528 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5528 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5528
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 7, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment 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
 gules, sandaled and mantled as Liberty, bound  about  the  eyes  with  a
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10078-01-3

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