respective communities. Notwithstanding subsection (a), a
cemetery may remove flags as part of the cemetery's normal
course of maintenance not before the first working day after
Independence Day, but prior to Veterans Day, provided that the
cemetery makes the flags available to family members, veterans'
organizations or other community organizations for the purpose
of decorating graves in recognition of Veterans Day.
(d) Money expended by the county under this section shall be
in addition to money appropriated by the county for Memorial Day
purposes.
(e) Annually, the authority in charge of each cemetery is
authorized to remove a flag when the flag has become unsightly
or weatherworn any time on or after the first working day after
Veterans Day. Prior to Veterans Day, a cemetery may request
replacement flags from the county which may be used by the
cemetery to replace weatherworn flags, if replacement flags are
available.
(f) A cemetery may remove flag holders for annual storage
upon the authorized removal of flags under subsections (c) and
(e).
(g) Except as provided under this section, a person, other
than a family member removing the flag from a deceased
relative's grave, who removes or causes the removal of flags
prior to the first working day after Independence Day shall be
guilty of a summary offense and, upon conviction, shall be
sentenced to pay a fine of three hundred dollars ($300). A
person who fails to pay a fine assessed under this section shall
be sentenced to prison for a term not to exceed ninety days.
(h) A cemetery or an owner, employee, agent or contractor of
a cemetery who removes or causes the removal of a flag, grave
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