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Brevard County, Florida (U.S.)

image by Jens Pattke, 18 October 2009

About the flag
Use of the seal

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About the flag

"Brevard County Policy BCC-88 limits the use or display of its official seal to County officers or employees in the performance of their official duties. It is not available for use or display in the public domain, therefore we are unable to fulfill your request for images of the Brevard County seal or flag (which contains the seal)."
Brevard County, 14 October 2009

Flag of Brevard County can be seen on this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/auvet/3114830634/sizes/l/ and the seal can be seen at http://www.spacecoastedc.org/Portals/0/images/EDCuploads/Brevard-County-Seal.jpg.
Aleksandar Nemet, 14 October 2009

The flag appears to be a Florida-type saltire, orange-red on green.
Al Kirsch, 14 October 2009

According to a photo of the flag at Flickr, the lunar surface in the lower half of the seal is yellow and not light gray. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/auvet/3114830634/sizes/o/, and for context http://www.flickr.com/photos/61278305@N00/3114830634.
Ned Smith, 20 October 2009

Use of the seal

TITLE: USE OF AND COLOR SCHEME OF COliNTY SEAL

II. DEFINITIONS AND REFERENCES
A. Florida Statute Section 165.043
B. Florida Statute Section 775.082
C. Florida Statute Section 775.083
D. Laws of Florida Ch. 91-59

Ill. DIRECTIVE
The manufacture. use, display, or other employment of any facsimile or reproduction of the County Seal, except by County Officers, or employees in the performance of their official duties, without the express written approval of the Board of County Commissioners is prohibited. Use of the County Seal without the express approval of the Board of County Commissioners is a violation of section 165.043 Florida Statutes punishable as a misdemeanor.

IV. RESERVATION OF AUTHORITY
The Board of County Commissioners reserves the express right to approve al1 uses of the County Seal.

Valentin Poposki, 16 October 2009

The seal can be seen at http://www.spacecoastedc.org/Portals/0/images/EDCuploads/Brevard-County-Seal.jpg.
Aleksandar Nemet, 14 October 2009

The seal has been posted on Wikipedia since Dec 2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BrevardCountySeal.png
Ned Smith, 19 October 2009

165.043, Florida Statutes:
"The governing body of a county or municipality may, by ordinance, designate an official county or municipal seal. The manufacture, use, display, or other employment of any facsimile or reproduction of the county or municipal seal, except by county or municipal officials or employees in the performance of their official duties, without the express approval of the governing body is a second degree misdemeanor, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083."

Showing the seal (on a flag) on a web page as an illustration, obviously is not an "employment" of the seal. It's not being used in its function, so to speak.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 16 October 2009