---
kind: "section"
citation: "4 U.S.C. § 2"
title: "4"
title_heading: "Flag and Seal, Seat of Government, and the States"
number: "2"
heading: "Same; additional stars"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/4/2"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — The Flag"
---

# §2. Same; additional stars


On the admission of a new [State](/usc/4/110.md?p=d) into the Union one star shall be added to the union of the flag; and such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July then next succeeding such admission.


## Source credit

(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 642.)