Title 4 — Flag and Seal, Seat of Government, and the States
Chapter 1 — The Flag
§ 2. Same; additional stars
Statutory text
On the admission of a new State into the Union one star shall be added to the union of the flag; and such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July then next succeeding such admission.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
4 U. S. C., § —
Pub. L. 80–389 · 61 Stat. 641
Enacted · 4 U.S.C. § 2
(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 642.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 642.)
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Credits
(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 642.)