The latest revision of the general statutes, the latest cumulative supplements thereto, the latest edition of the special acts and the latest edition of the Register and Manual shall be kept for public use in the office of the town clerk. Any person who destroys or appropriates any of such publications to his own use, or wilfully removes them from such office, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars. All other publications of the state, whether or not deposited in the town clerk’s office under the provisions of any existing public or special act, may be turned over by the town clerk to the appropriate county law library, or library service center, or to the State Library or the State Records Center in Rocky Hill, for processing and disposition as may be directed by the Commission on Official Legal Publications and the State Librarian.