No elected officer, department or agency head, or division director, or the highest paid employee reporting to such person may be compensated, act, or register as a lobbyist, other than a public employee lobbyist, during a period of two years after that person's termination of service in the state government. A violation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Source: SL 1977, ch 23 , § 15; SL 1980, ch 24 , § 27; SL 2011, ch 17 , § 1; SL 2017, ch 222 (Initiated Measure 22), § 65, eff. Nov. 16, 2016; SL 2017, ch 72 , § 32, eff. Feb. 2, 2017; SL 2017, ch 18 , § 1.