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English: Flag of the City of Springfield, Massachusetts, featuring the imagined likeliness of pioneer Samuel Chapin, possibly modelled on John Brown or railroad tycoon and congressman Chester Chapin, as depicted in the The Puritan statue. The codified standards for the flag appear at least as early as 1924 in the ordinances of the City, with the flag reported designed and adopted in 1923. The City's code Ch. 1, Article III, § 1-19 reads-

The City adopts by this section a City flag in details as follows:
A. Such flag shall have an inner blue field bordered with gold and set in an outer white field.
B. In the center of the blue field, on both the front and reverse thereof, shall be a white shield bordered with gold.
C. Arched above the shield and set in the blue field shall be a scroll in gold bearing the inscription "Springfield."
D. Upon the seal shall be a likeness in gold of the St. Gaudens statue of Deacon Samuel Chapin.
E. Within the shield and below on both sides flanking said likeness shall be a scroll in gold bearing the inscription
"A Town May 14, 1636 O.S. Organized A City May 25, 1852,"

all in substantial conformity with the design executed by Charles H. Restall and filed in the office of the City Clerk.

Datum 2015-07-15, c. 1923

Bron State House Flag Display, Massachusetts General Court, Beacon Hill, Boston, MA

Auteur Simtropolitan, original by city engineer Chas. H. Restall

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was a Commonwealth of Massachusetts public record disseminated by a Commonwealth agency or the Massachusetts Archives. Massachusetts' Secretary of the Commonwealth has stated that such works can be copied and used for any purpose. This copyright does not extend to those records created, received, or under the custody of municipalities by M. G. L. c. 66, § 7, unless otherwise stated, nor does this apply to copy-written materials for commercial purposes received by employees of the Commonwealth.

Language describing permissions

A Guide to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, Published by William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Division of Public Records, (Updated January 2017) can be found at https://www.mass.gov/files/2017-06/Public%20Records%20Law.pdf and page 7 says:

"With the exception of situations in which a records custodian is withholding records pursuant to Exemption (n), inquiries into a requester's status or motivation for seeking information are expressly prohibited. ^[1] Consequently, all requests for public records, even if made for a commercial purpose or to assist the requester in a lawsuit against the holder of the records, must be honored in accordance with the Public Records Law."

↑ See G. L. c. 66, § 10(a) (public records are to be provided to “any person”); see also 950 CMR 32.05(5) (custodian prohibited from inquiring into a requester’s status or motivation); but see G. L. c. 4, § 7(26)(n) (a records custodian may ask the requester to voluntarily provide additional information in order to reach a “reasonable judgment” regarding disclosure of responsive records).

Definition of "public record"

Public records are defined in A Guide to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, Published by William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Division of Public Records, (Updated January 2017) at https://www.mass.gov/files/2017-06/Public%20Records%20Law.pdf on page 40, under M. G. L. c. 4, § 7(26) as:

all books, papers, maps, photographs, recorded tapes, financial statements, statistical tabulations, or other documentary materials or data, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by any officer or employee of any agency, executive office, department, board, commission, bureau, division or authority of the commonwealth, or of any political subdivision thereof, or of any authority established by the general court to serve a public purpose, or any person, corporation, association, partnership or other legal entity which receives or expends public funds for the payment or administration of pensions for any current or former employees of the commonwealth or any political subdivision as defined in section 1 of chapter 32, unless such materials or data fall within the following exemptions found on page 40

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	Datum/tijd	Afmetingen	Gebruiker	Opmerking
huidige versie	17 apr 2020 20:44	1.974 × 1.213 (280 kB)	Simtropolitan	Color fix
	10 apr 2020 01:52	1.974 × 1.213 (280 kB)	Simtropolitan	Proportions to better represent other examples
	2 okt 2018 02:27	1.974 × 1.213 (281 kB)	Simtropolitan	Consistence of width of hatching in banner shadows; removed errant points in figure linework
	19 jun 2018 01:34	1.974 × 1.213 (336 kB)	Simtropolitan	added facial details
	5 jun 2017 01:48	1.974 × 1.213 (336 kB)	Simtropolitan	Centered shield, made line widths more consistent, removed some noise (some kept for texture of cloak), refined banner contours
	31 mrt 2017 01:15	1.974 × 1.213 (276 kB)	Simtropolitan	Resized px size
	31 mrt 2017 01:13	2.106 × 1.250 (340 kB)	Simtropolitan	New file too large, reverted to version as of 01:46, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
	31 mrt 2017 01:12	3.167 × 1.946 (268 kB)	Simtropolitan	Added "outer white field" described in the city law, centered border and elements.
	7 jan 2017 03:46	2.106 × 1.250 (340 kB)	Simtropolitan	Book was facing wrong direction, last one for a while
	6 jan 2017 23:04	2.106 × 1.250 (353 kB)	Simtropolitan	Further linework, replaced base with different perspective to match original flag design