Pennsylvania Statutes Title 16 P.S. Counties § 3407. Officers to secure funds, records, books, et cetera, from predecessors

(a) Any person elected or appointed and duly commissioned to any county office shall demand and receive all records, books, drafts, plans, papers, seals or other official things, including all public funds, held in such office and not otherwise provided for by the act, approved the seventeenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred forty-nine (Pamphlet Laws 1403), known as the Municipal Unclaimed Moneys Act,  1 belonging to such office, from the person or persons who held the office immediately before his election or appointment, or from any other person or persons holding or possessing them.

(b) Any person detaining from such a county office any records, books, drafts, plans, papers, seals or other official things, including public funds, as herein provided, belonging to such office, after reasonable demand therefor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to undergo imprisonment until the delivery of any such official things found to be in his possession or control to the proper officer, or until sooner discharged by order of the court, and to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be paid to the use of the county.