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     § 303.  Sites.
        The commission shall have the power and duty to:
            (1)  Museums and historic sites.--Control, direct,
        supervise, manage and annually inspect the State Museum and
        those field or regional museums and historic sites authorized
        or created by statute; conduct continuing studies for the
        improvement of museum activity; and operate, control, direct,
        supervise and manage a public outreach program, including a
        mobile museum program or a program of traveling exhibits.
            (2)  Marking historical and archaeological sites.--Upon
        its own initiative or upon petition of a municipality or
        historical society, mark by proper monuments, tablets or
        markers, bearing the Commonwealth crest, places or buildings
        in this Commonwealth where historical or cultural events have
        transpired or, with the consent of the state or county having
        jurisdiction, places or buildings outside of this
        Commonwealth having to do with its history; and arrange for
        the care or maintenance of these markers or monuments.
            (3)  Management of historic properties.--Based upon
        accepted professional museum practices, assume the
        preservation, care and maintenance of historic property,
        including those historic properties listed in section 702
        (relating to powers over certain historic property);
        promulgate and enforce rules and regulations for the
        visitation of historic property by the public; and charge
        admission fees to historic property at its discretion, which
        fees shall be paid into the State Treasury through the
        Department of Revenue and credited to the Historical
        Preservation Fund.
            (4)  Preservation and restoration of historical and
        archaeological sites.--Undertake the preservation or
        restoration of public buildings, military sites or monuments
        connected with the history of this Commonwealth; contract
        with political subdivisions, historical societies or other
        associations, with proper bond or security, for the
        maintenance of these building sites or monuments as a
        consideration for assistance in their erection, restoration,
        preservation or marking by the commission; and take title to
        sites of historical markers in the name of the Commonwealth.
            (5)  Approval of memorials.--Approve the design, content
        and proposed location of all official historical monuments,
        memorials, buildings, tablets and inscriptions proposed for
        erection or placement on any real property of the
        Commonwealth.
            (6)  Monuments and markers.--Approve the inscription and
        proposed location of any historical monument or marker to be
        erected or placed by any public or private corporation,
        association, society, organization or person at any place in
        this Commonwealth.
            (7)  Geographical signs and markers.--Approve the
        inscription to be placed on official signs or markers to be
        erected or renewed on or along any highway at the entrance to
        a municipality or village, or at or near any river, stream,
        historical place or other place of interest in this
        Commonwealth, by the Department of Transportation or by any
        municipality, for the purpose of identification or for the
        purpose of giving historical facts concerning the location.

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