Nevada Code § 201.290

Penalty; exception
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1. Any person who, in any manner, for
exhibition or display, puts or causes to be placed any inscription, design,
device, symbol, portrait, name, advertisement, words, character, marks or
notice, or sets or places any goods, wares and merchandise whatever upon any
flag or ensign of the United States, or state flag of this State, or ensign,
evidently purporting to be either of the flags or ensign, or who in any manner
appends, annexes, or affixes to any such flag or ensign any inscription,
design, device, symbol, portrait, name, advertisement, words, marks, notice or
token whatever, or who displays or exhibits or causes to be displayed or
exhibited any flag or ensign, evidently purporting to be either of the flags,
upon which shall in any manner be put, attached, annexed or affixed any
inscription, design, device, symbol, portrait, name, advertisement, words,
marks, notice or token whatever, or who publicly or willfully mutilates,
tramples upon, or who tears down or willfully and maliciously removes while
owned by others, or defames, slanders, or speaks evilly or in a contemptuous
manner of or otherwise defaces or defiles any of the flags, or ensign, which
are public or private property, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
2. This section shall not apply to flags
or ensigns the property of or used in the service of the United States or of
this State, upon which inscriptions, names of actions, words, marks or symbols
are placed pursuant to law or authorized regulations.

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