How long will flags fly at half-staff for Jimmy Carter?

(NEXSTAR) - Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died "peacefully" successful his Georgia location Sunday, the Carter Center confirmed. He was 100 years old.

Carter, the longest-living American president, underwent a bid of abbreviated infirmary stays earlier being placed successful hospice attraction successful February 2023. He had "decided to walk his remaining clip astatine location with his household and person hospice attraction alternatively of further aesculapian intervention.”

To wage tribute to Carter, and successful accordance with national law, the emblem was lowered to alert astatine half-staff Sunday. Flags connected national buildings and grounds successful the U.S. and its territories, arsenic good arsenic each naval vessels, volition besides alert astatine half-staff. You volition apt besides spot your politician contented a proclamation ordering flags to alert astatine half-staff astatine authorities authorities facilities.

According to a proclamation signed by then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower successful 1954, due to the fact that Carter is simply a erstwhile president, flags are to stay astatine half-staff for 30 days from the time of Carter's death.

This is the longest play imaginable for the flags to alert astatine half-staff, reserved for the decease of the sitting president oregon erstwhile presidents, per the proclamation.

Should the sitting vice president, main justness (current oregon retired) of the Supreme Court, oregon the sitting talker of the location die, flags would beryllium ordered to half-staff for 10 days from the time of death.

For different officials – subordinate justices of the Supreme Court; a Cabinet member; a erstwhile vice president; the president pro tempore of the Senate; and bulk and number leaders of the House and Senate – flags are to alert astatine half-staff from the time of decease until interment.

Flags are flown astatine half-staff "when the full federation is successful mourning," the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs explains.