Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 50. STATE GOVERNMENT · Chapter 3. STATE FLAG, SEAL, AND OTHER SYMBOLS · Article 1. STATE AND OTHER FLAGS

50-3-2. Pledge of allegiance to state flag.

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The following is adopted as the pledge of allegiance to the state flag: “I pledge allegiance to the Georgia flag and to the principles for which it stands: Wisdom, Justice, Moderation, and Courage.”

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1951, p. 311, § 47; Ga. L. 1955, p. 10, § 94; Ga. L. 2022, p. 377, § 1/SB 152. The 2022 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, substituted “Moderation, and Courage” for “and Moderation”.

Cross references

Student directory information, registering to vote and with selective service, pledge of allegiance, § 20-2-310.

Law reviews

For article, “Ritual, Emotion, and Political Belief: The Search for the Constitutional Limit to Patriotic Education in Public Schools,” see 43 Ga. L. Rev. 447 (2009).

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