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.

The act of June 21, 1957 (P.L.390, No.212), referred to as the Right-to-Know Law, referred to in par. (4), was repealed by the act of Feb. 14, 2008 (P.L.6, No.3), known as the Right-to-Know Law.