§6 Time and Occasions for Display

Summary

The flag is normally shown from sunrise to sunset on buildings and on fixed flagpoles. If a stronger patriotic display is wanted, it may fly 24 hours a day so long as it is properly lit at night. Raise it quickly and lower it with ceremony. Don’t display the flag in bad weather unless it is an all‑weather flag. The flag should be shown every day, especially on New Year’s Day, January 1; Inauguration Day, January 20; Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, third Monday in January; Lincoln’s Birthday, February 12; Washington’s Birthday, third Monday in February; National Vietnam War Veterans Day, March 29; Easter Sunday (variable); Mother’s Day, second Sunday in May; Armed Forces Day, third Saturday in May; Memorial Day (half‑staff until noon), last Monday in May; Flag Day, June 14; Father’s Day, third Sunday in June; Independence Day, July 4; National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, July 27; Labor Day, first Monday in September; Constitution Day, September 17; Columbus Day, second Monday in October; Navy Day, October 27; Veterans Day, November 11; Thanksgiving Day, fourth Thursday in November; Christmas Day, December 25; and on days the President proclaims, state admission anniversaries, and state holidays. The flag should also be flown daily at the main administration building of every public institution, at every polling place on election days, and in or near every schoolhouse on school days.