No public official may destroy, sell, loan, or otherwise dispose of any public record, except in accordance with G.S. § 121-5, without the consent of the State Department of Cultural Resources. Whoever unlawfully removes a public record from the office where it is usually kept, or whoever, alters, defaces, mutilates or destroys it will be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction will be fined in an amount provided in G.S. § 132-3.