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Publications and reproductions - 37 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 306

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     § 306.  Publications and reproductions.
        The commission shall have the power and duty to:
            (1)  General.--Publish or republish, either through the
        Department of General Services or cooperatively by and with
        private historical organizations, materials of historical or
        archaeological interest; compile, edit and print these
        publications; enter into agreements with publishers to
        subsidize the publication of books on Pennsylvania history,
        archaeology, anthropology, art, cartography, folklore and
        other cultural elements of Pennsylvania's heritage by
        agreeing to purchase a sufficient number to make publication
        possible, but these agreements shall be subject to the
        approval of the Governor and the State Treasurer; produce or
        reproduce facsimiles of historical material and enter into
        agreements to subsidize the manufacture of facsimiles of
        historical material by agreeing to purchase a sufficient
        number to make manufacture possible, but these agreements
        shall be subject to the approval of the Governor and the
        State Treasurer; sell publications, reprints of publications,
        reproductions or replicas, postcards and souvenirs of an
        historical nature at the State Museum and at the other
        historic properties and museums administered by the
        commission; and sell to the public any publications selected
        by the commission for sale and published by any department,
        board, commission or officer of the Commonwealth.
            (2)  Official repositories.--Establish one official
        repository for its publications from among the qualified
        historical or archaeological societies within each of the
        geographic areas established and defined by the Department of
        Community Affairs as "Standard Regions." The Pennsylvania
        State Library and the Library of Congress shall also be
        official repositories for commission publications.
            (3)  Disposition of commission publications.--Make one
        copy of each commission publication available at cost to all
        qualified historical or archaeological societies; and deliver
        one copy of each commission publication without charge to
        each official repository. The commission is excluded from the
        provisions of section 2406 of the act of April 9, 1929
        (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929.
            (4)  Proprietary rights to subscription lists.--Maintain
        proprietary rights over subscriber, membership or address
        lists that it creates which are excluded from provisions of
        the act of June 21, 1957 (P.L.390, No.212), referred to as
        the Right-to-Know Law.
     (Dec. 9, 2002, P.L.1395, No.173, eff. imd.)

        References in Text.  The Department of Community Affairs,
     referred to in par. (2), was abolished by Act 58 of 1996 and its
     functions were transferred to the Department of Community and
     Economic Development.

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