Sec. 1. 38 MRSA §1862, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 434, Pt. A, §7, is amended to read:

2. Other inspection stations allowed. The program established under this section also may include inspections at boat launching sites on inland waters that are already infested and at boat launching sites on the inland waters that have been identified as most at risk of introduction of invasive aquatic plants.

Sec. 2. 38 MRSA §1862-A is enacted to read:

§1862-A.__Lakes infested with invasive aquatic plant species;

monitoring and inspections

1.__Inspection program.__The commissioner and the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife jointly shall establish a program to monitor and inspect watercraft, watercraft trailers and outboard motors at all public access sites on lakes that have been identified by the State as having invasive aquatic plant species.__For purposes of this section, "invasive aquatic plant species" means invasive aquatic plants and other aquatic plant species identified as invasive species by the Interagency Task Force on Invasive Aquatic Plants and Nuisance Species established in Title 5, section 12004-D, subsection 6.

2.__Access and inspection times.__The commissioner and the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife shall jointly determine times when public access sites are open for public use and inspection based on use patterns, times of year and budgetary constraints.__In addition to those considerations, the commissioner or the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife may extend set inspection times when:

A.__A person petitions either department in writing; or

B.__A person elects to pay an hourly fee, set jointly by the commissioner and the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, to cover costs associated with extending an inspection period.__Hourly fees paid under this paragraph must be distributed in the manner prescribed under Title 12, section 10206, subsection 6 for fees collected under section 13058, subsection 3.

Times when public access is permitted must be posted at each public access site and in the local paper and distributed with all Maine boating registrations and on the department's publicly accessible site on the Internet.