No person shall publicly or openly mutilate, deface, defile, defy, trample upon, or by word or act cast contempt upon any such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield.
Any violation of this section shall be a Class E crime.
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 1, § 254
Mutilation
Known as the Uniform Flag Law
The act spans §§ 251–256 (7 sections).
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Texas v. Johnson (1989)
Most recently applied in 219 Wis. 2d 362 - State v. Janssen (June 1998)
PL 1973, c. 262, §2 (AMD)
Official source: Maine Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Maine statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.