Any employee of the Commissioners of the Land Office who shall knowingly and without authority and in violation of the records destruction policy destroy, forge, falsify, steal, mutilate, hide or intentionally misplace any of the records, files, computer data or any other property of the Commissioners of the Land Office, or who knowingly permits or causes the unlawful destruction, forgery, falsifying, stealing, mutilating, hiding or intentional misplacing of any of the records of the Commissioners of the Land Office, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections not exceeding five (5) years or by both fine and imprisonment, and shall be immediately discharged by the Commissioners of the Land Office upon discovery of the acts.