“The laws of Congress in Title 4 United States Code section 1 describe a United States Flag. There is no mention of yellow fringe. The national flag when representing the national civil jurisdiction has no yellow fringe on its borders.
But under martial law, the yellow fringe is required.”
Hmmm...
(Don’t know how valid this is-found it when looking at gold fringe flag)
http://notfooledbygovernment.com/gold-fringed-flag-facts/
I have never seen anything in law that indicates that the fringe is anything other than a decoration used on indoor and ceremonial flags. I served 14 years in the Regular US Army. I have never seen any usage of flags, fringed or not, that would indicate anything else.
In my opinion all that stuff about the fringed flag not being the “Real” flag of the United States is nonsense. Just something for the kooks and sovereign citizen crowd to fixate on.
First time yellow fringe was used was ~1835 by US Army. There is material that indicates it is admiralty court related or some such, but I couldn’t find it in USC law or CFR regulations. What I did find was that it was for presentation purposes and I couldn’t find anything else.
I did find that Title 4 USC Section 1 does not have any description or allowance or discussion about fringe of any sort.