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2025 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 37 - HISTORICAL AND MUSEUMS
Chapter 3 - Powers and Duties of Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Section 301 - General powers and duties
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37 PA Cons Stat § 301 (2025)
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§ 301. General powers and duties.
The commission shall have the power and duty to:
(1) Serve as the official agency of the Commonwealth for the conservation of Pennsylvania's cultural heritage.
(2) Preserve public records, historical documents and objects of historical interest, possession and control of which have been transferred to the commission.
(3) Initiate, encourage, support and coordinate and carry out historic preservation efforts in this Commonwealth.
(4) Provide for historical research and interpretation and public access to this heritage.
(5) Sell to the public any publications that are published by any department, board, commission or officer of the Commonwealth.
(Dec. 9, 2002, P.L.1395, No.173, eff. imd.)
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