Section 3. Sections 1803, 1804, 1813 and 1814 of the act are
amended to read:
Section 1803. Refusal to Permit Inspection of Papers;
Destruction or Removal; Secretary of the Commonwealth.--Any
Secretary of the Commonwealth, deputy, or employe of his office,
who shall refuse to permit the public inspection or copying as
authorized, except when in use in his office, by this act, of
any return, nomination petition, drug screening certificate of
compliance, certificate or paper, other petition, account,
contract, report or any other document or record in his custody
which, under the provisions of this act, is required to be open
to public inspection; or who shall destroy or alter, or permit
to be destroyed or altered, any such document or record during
the period for which the same is required to be kept in his
office; or who shall remove any such document or record from his
office during said period, or permit the same to be removed,
except pursuant to the direction of any competent court or any
committee required to determine any contested primary or
election, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one
thousand ($1,000) dollars, or to undergo an imprisonment of not
less than one (1) month nor more than two (2) years, or both, in
the discretion of the court.
Section 1804. Refusal to Permit Inspection of Papers;
Destruction or Removal; County Boards of Elections.--Any member,
chief clerk or other employe of any county board of elections,
who shall refuse to permit the public inspection or copying, as
authorized by this act, of any general or duplicate return
sheet, tally paper, affidavit, nomination petition, drug
screening certificate of compliance, certificate or paper, other
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