If any person shall willfully or maliciously obliterate, injure, deface, or alter any record or paper in the custody of the North Carolina State Archives as defined by G.S. 121-2(7) and 121-2(8), he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The provisions of this section do not apply to employees of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources who may destroy any accessioned records or papers that are approved for destruction by the North Carolina Historical Commission pursuant to the authority contained in G.S. 121-4(12).
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-76.1
Mutilation or defacement of records and papers in the North Carolina State Archives
1975, c. 696, s. 3; 1993, c. 539, s. 38; 1994, Ex
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