N.Y. State Law § 70: Description of the arms of the state and the state flag

§ 70. Description of the arms of the state and the state flag. The

device of arms of this state is hereby declared to be correctly

described as follows:

Charge. Azure, in a landscape, the sun in fess, rising in splendor or,

behind a range of three mountains, the middle one the highest; in base a

ship and sloop under sail, passing and about to meet on a river,

bordered below by a grassy shore fringed with shrubs, all proper.

Crest. On a wreath azure and or, an American eagle proper, rising to

the dexter from a two-thirds of a globe terrestrial, showing the north

Atlantic ocean with outlines of its shores.

Supporters. On a quasi compartment formed by the extension of the

scroll.

Dexter. The figure of Liberty proper, her hair disheveled and

decorated with pearls, vested azure, sandaled gules, about the waist a

cincture or, fringed gules, a mantle of the last depending from the

shoulders behind to the feet, in the dexter hand a staff ensigned with a

Phrygian cap or, the sinister arm embowed, the hand supporting the

shield at the dexter chief point, a royal crown by her sinister foot

dejected.

Sinister. The figure of Justice proper, her hair disheveled and

decorated with pearls, vested or, about the waist a cincture azure,

fringed gules, sandaled and mantled as Liberty, bound about the eyes

with a fillet proper, in the dexter hand a straight sword hilted or,

erect, resting on the sinister chief point of the shield, the sinister

arm embowed, holding before her her scales proper.

Motto. On a scroll below the shield argent, in sable, two lines. On

line one, Excelsior and on line two, E pluribus unum.

State flag. The state flag is hereby declared to be blue, charged with

the arms of the state in the colors as described in the blazon of this

section.