When to fly your flag.

Sunrise to sunset on buildings and on stationary flagstaffs in the open. The flag may be displayed 24 hours a day if properly illuminated during the hours of darkness. The flag should not be displayed on days when the weather is inclement, except when an all weather flag is displayed.

Your flag outdoors.

On a vehicle.
Attach to your antenna or to the right fender. DO not lay your flag over your vehicle.

From a window sill, balcony, or the front of a building.
The union (stars) of the flag should be placed at the peak.

Over a side walk from a rope.
The flag should be hoisted out, union first, from the building.

Hanging over the middle of a street.
Suspend vertically with the union to the north in an east and west street or to the east in a north and south street.

Hanging with other flags.
If on the same flag pole, hang the US flag above other flags. If on separate, but equal height poles, hang the US flag on its own right and hoist and lower it first. If on separate, but unequal height poles, hang the US flag in the center and on the highest pole.

Your flag outdoors.

In a window.
The flag should be displayed with the union or blue field to the left of the observer in the street.

Against a wall.
When displayed either horizontally or vertically against a wall, the union should be uppermost and to the flag's own right.

Across a corridor or lobby in a building with only one main entrance.
The flag should be suspended vertically with the union of the flag to the observer's left upon entering.

Across a corridor or lobby in a building with more than one main entrance.
The flag should be suspended vertically near the center of the corridor or lobby with the union to the north, when entrances are to the east and west or to the east when entrances are to the north and south. If there are entrances in more than two directions, the union should be to the east.

Covering a casket.

Place the union at the head and over the left shoulder. The flag should not be lowered into the grave or allowed to touch the ground.

Respect for flag.

The flag should not be dipped to any person or thing.

The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.

The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.

The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free.

The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.

Pledge of allegiance to the flag.

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.