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2012 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 37 - HISTORICAL AND MUSEUMS
Chapter 5 - Historic Preservation
Section 511 - Criminal penalties

     § 511.  Criminal penalties.
        A person who conducts a field investigation on any land or
     submerged land owned or controlled by the Commonwealth, without
     first obtaining a permit from the commission, or a person who
     appropriates, defaces, destroys or otherwise alters any
     archaeological site or specimen located upon lands owned or
     controlled by the Commonwealth, except in the course of
     activities pursued under the authority of a permit granted by
     the commission, commits a misdemeanor of the third degree and
     shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more
     than $2,500 or to imprisonment for not more than one year, or
     both. In addition, such person shall forfeit to the Commonwealth
     all archaeological specimens collected or excavated together
     with any photographs and records relating to such specimens.

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