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Miami-Dade County

Use	Civil and state flag
Adopted	November 13, 1997; 26 years ago
Designed by	Unknown
Flag of Miami-Dade County prior to renaming
Adopted	February 17, 1981
Relinquished	November 13, 1997

The flag of Miami-Dade County was adopted on February 17th, 1981, and modified sometime in 1997. It features the Miami-Dade County seal adopted in 1997 (originally 1957) centered on a saltire of turquoise and green.

History

Miami-Dade county has posessed two other official flags throughout its history;

Proposals

In 1963, after the 1952 flag was shelved upon the restructuring of the county's government, the County Planning Department was tasked with making a proposal. Their proposed flag consisted of three vertical bands of turquoise, green, and yellow, with the county seal in the middle.

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  Planning Department Proposal

After the rejection of a revision of the 1952 flag in 1963, the county tried again two years later, and in 1965, two proposals were made for a new flag of the county. The flag proposed by Coral Gables City Hall was a horizontal tricolor of white, orange, and green, with the county seal in the middle. Planners believed that having the white stripe on the top or bottom was too weak, and having it in the middle was too reminiscent of existing flags, and so the proposal was rejected.

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  First Planning Department Proposal
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  Coral Gables Commission Proposal
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  Second Planning Department Proposal