No person shall publicly or openly mutilate, deface, defile, defy, trample upon, or by word or act cast contempt upon any such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield. [1973, c. 262, §2 (AMD).]
Any violation of this section shall be a Class E crime. [1977, c. 696, §8 (RPR).]
1 M.R.S. § 254