North Dakota Code § 12.1-07-02

Desecration of the flag of the United States
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1. A person is guilty of a class A misdemeanor if he knowingly casts contempt upon any 
flag of the United States by publicly mutilating, defacing, defiling, burning, or trampling 
upon it.
2. The term "flag of the United States" as used in this section shall include any flag, 
standard, colors, or ensign, or any picture or representation of either, or of any part or 
parts of either, made of any substance or represented on any substance, of any size 
evidently purporting to be either of said flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United 
States of America, or a picture or a representation of either, upon which shall be 
shown the colors, the stars and the stripes, in any number of either thereof, or of any 
part or parts of either, by which the average person seeing the same without 
deliberation may believe the same to represent the flag, standard, colors, or ensign of 
the United States of America.

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