4.__Inspection activities.__During inspection hours, a designated state employee shall inspect all watercraft, watercraft trailers and outboard motors brought to a public access site for ingress or egress for invasive aquatic plant species.__A designated state employee may disseminate relevant educational information to boaters and may provide instruction to boaters on the necessary and appropriate ways to remove suspicious aquatic plants found inside or outside of a watercraft, watercraft trailer or on an outboard motor.__For purposes of this section, "designated state employee" means a person employed by the State at least part time and identified by the department or the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife as a person who is qualified to properly conduct inspection activities.

5.__Compliance requirements; denial of access.__A person shall comply with the inspection and monitoring process and take actions necessary to remove an invasive aquatic plant species from that person's watercraft, watercraft trailer or outboard motor.__A person who fails to comply with the inspection process or fails to remove an aquatic plant from that person's watercraft, watercraft trailer or outboard motor upon the oral or written request of a designated state employee must be denied access to the lake until that person complies with the designated state employee's recommendations.

6.__Prohibitions and penalties.__The failure to remove aquatic plants from a watercraft, watercraft trailer or outboard motor and the use of closed public access sites have the following penalties.

A.__A person who fails to properly remove an aquatic plant from that person's watercraft, watercraft trailer or outboard motor upon the oral or written request of a designated state employee commits a Class E crime.

B.__A person who uses a public access site on a lake that has been identified as having invasive aquatic plant species when that access site is closed commits a Class E crime.

7.__Funding.__The commissioner and the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife shall fund the program established under subsection 1 jointly from revenues derived from lake and river protection stickers issued under Title 12, section 13058