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N.Y. General Municipal Law § 99-x: Prohibit symbols of hate

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  1. General Municipal Law
  2. Article 5. Powers, Limitations and Liabilities

§ 99-x. Prohibit symbols of hate. 1. A municipality shall not sell or

display any symbols of hate or any similar image, or tangible personal

property, inscribed with such an image unless the image appears in a

book, digital medium, museum, or otherwise serves an educational or

historical purpose.

2. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have

the following meanings:

(a) "Symbols of hate" shall include, but not be limited to, symbols of

white supremacy, neo-Nazi ideology or the Battle Flag of the

Confederacy.

(b) "Municipality" shall mean any county, town, village, city, board

of cooperative educational services, other special district, or any

office or agency thereof.

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