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CO Code § 12-275-110 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 275 - Optometrists|§ 12-275-110. Application for License - Licensure by Endorsement

  A person who desires to practice optometry in the state may file with the board an application for a license, giving the information required in a form and manner approved by the board. The applicant shall demonstrate that the applicant possesses the following qualifications:   The applicant has attained the age of twenty-one years.    The applicant has graduated with the degree of doctor of optometry from a school or college of optometry accredited by a regional or professional accreditation organization that is recognized or approved by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or the United States secretary of education. The board has the authority, upon its investigation and approval of the standards thereof, to approve any other college of optometry.    The applicant has successfully passed the written examination of the National Board of Examiners in Optometry. The board shall have the authority, upon its investigation and approval of the examination standards, to approve some body other than the National Board of Examiners in Optometry as the examining body.    The applicant does not have a substance use disorder, as defined in section 27-81-102, or has not habitually or excessively used or abused alcohol, habit-forming drugs, or controlled substances as defined in section 18-18-102 (5).    After July 1, 1988, the applicant has satisfied the requirements of section 12-275-113 or equivalent requirements approved by the board, including passing a standardized national examination in the treatment and management of ocular disease.    After July 1, 1996, the applicant has satisfied the requirements of section 12-275-113 (4) or equivalent requirements approved by the board, including passing a standardized national examination in the treatment and management of ocular disease.       The board may issue a license by endorsement to engage in the practice of optometry to an applicant who satisfies the requirements of the occupational credential portability program.     History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1416, § 1, effective October 1. L. 2020: (2) amended,(HB 20-1326), ch. 126, p. 544, § 38, effective June 25; (1)(d) amended,(SB 20-007), ch. 286, p. 1412, § 36, effective July 13.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-40-108 as it existed prior to 2019.   Cross references:   For the short title (“Red Tape Reduction Act”) and the legislative declaration in HB 20-1326, see sections 1 and 2 of chapter 126, Session Laws of Colorado 2020.
CO Code § 12-275-111 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 275 - Optometrists|§ 12-275-111. Current Licensees - Treatment and Therapeutic Practice

 On and after July 1, 1988, a person who is licensed under this article 275 as an optometrist on June 30, 1988, and who is otherwise qualified under this article 275 may use prescription or nonprescription drugs for examination purposes. However, the optometrist may use prescription or nonprescription drugs for treatment of eye disease or disorder or for any therapeutic purpose only if the optometrist meets the requirements of section 12-275-113 (2) and (4) on or after July 1, 1988.   History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1417, § 1, effective October 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-40-108.5 as it existed prior to 2019.
CO Code § 12-275-112 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 275 - Optometrists|§ 12-275-112. Examination - Licenses

  The applicant shall take and submit test scores from the board-approved exam. The examination shall be of such a character as to test the qualifications of the applicant to practice optometry.    Each person who makes a passing grade on the practical and clinical examination and who is otherwise qualified shall be granted a license signed by the board. The license provided for in this section shall be in such form and wording as may be adopted by the board. The optometrist shall display the license for viewing by patients, as provided in section 12-275-117. An application for initial licensure as an optometrist shall be accompanied by a processing fee in an amount to be determined by the board pursuant to section 12-20-105.    Any person denied a license under this article 275 and believing himself or herself aggrieved thereby may pursue the remedy for review as provided under article 4 of title 24 if the action is instituted within a period of sixty days after the date of denial.    A person who fails to pass the examination provided for in this section may retake the examination the next time the examination is given.     History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1417, § 1, effective October 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-40-109 as it existed prior to 2019.   ANNOTATION   Former section required the “standard examination” of all persons desiring to commence or continue the practice except as otherwise provided. Bebber v. Fisher, 106 Colo. 197 , 102 P.2d 741 (1940) (decided under repealed CSA, C. 120, § 8).
CO Code § 12-275-114 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 275 - Optometrists|§ 12-275-114. Prescriptions - Requirement to Advise Patients

  An optometrist licensed under this article 275 may advise the optometrist's patients of their option to have the symptom or purpose for which a prescription is being issued included on the prescription order.    An optometrist's failure to advise a patient under subsection (1) of this section shall not be grounds for any disciplinary action against the optometrist's professional license issued under this article 275.     History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1419, § 1, effective October 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-40-109.7 as it existed prior to 2019.
CO Code § 12-275-115 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 275 - Optometrists|§ 12-275-115. License Renewal - Questionnaire - Continuing Education

  Licenses issued under this article 275 are subject to the renewal, expiration, reinstatement, and delinquency fee provisions specified in section 12-20-202 (1) and (2). Any person whose license has expired shall be subject to the penalties provided in this article 275 or section 12-20-202 (1).    The board shall establish a questionnaire to accompany the renewal form. The board shall design the questionnaire to determine if the licensee has acted in violation of or has been disciplined for actions that might be considered as violations of this article 275 or that might make the licensee unfit to practice optometry with reasonable care and safety. The board shall include on the questionnaire a question regarding whether the licensee has complied with section 12-30-111. Failure of the applicant to answer the questionnaire accurately constitutes unprofessional conduct as specified in section 12-275-120.    Effective April 1, 1993, in addition to all other requirements of this section for license renewal, the board shall require that each optometrist seeking to renew a license shall have completed twenty-four hours of board-approved continuing education. Any optometrist desiring to renew a license to practice optometry in this state shall submit to the board the information the board believes is necessary to show that the optometrist has fulfilled the continuing education requirements of this subsection (3). Implementation of this subsection (3) shall occur within existing appropriations.     History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1419, § 1, effective October 1; (2) amended,(SB 19-079), ch. 86, p. 319, § 23, effective October 1.    Editor's note:    This section is similar to former § 12-40-113 as it existed prior to 2019.    Before its relocation in 2019, this section was amended in SB 19-079. Those amendments were superseded by the repeal and reenactment of this title 12, effective October 1, 2019. For those amendments to the former section in effect from August 2, 2019, to October 1, 2019, see SB 19-079, chapter 86, Session Laws of Colorado 2019.     ANNOTATION   A licensed physician who was also licensed as an optometrist under the laws of 1913 but who did not apply for a renewal of his license within 30 days in 1925 was either entitled to practice optometry, as the employee of a layman, by virtue of his physician's license, or by virtue thereof, he was entitled, without examination, to an optometrist's license provided he paid the statutory fees. Bebber v. Fisher, 106 Colo. 197 , 102 P.2d 741 (1940) (decided under repealed CSA, C. 120, § 15).
CO Code § 12-275-116 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 275 - Optometrists|§ 12-275-116. Change of Address

 Every person licensed under this article 275 shall notify the board in writing within thirty days of any change in mailing address.   History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1420, § 1, effective October 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-40-114 as it existed prior to 2019.
CO Code § 12-275-117 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 275 - Optometrists|§ 12-275-117. Licenses to Be Displayed

 Every practitioner of optometry shall post and keep conspicuously displayed his or her license in the office wherein the optometrist practices. If an optometrist practices at several locations in the state, the optometrist shall display his or her license number and name in a manner that can be easily recognized by his or her patients. Each association of persons who engage in the practice of optometry under the name of a partnership, association, or any other title shall cause to be displayed and kept in a conspicuous place at the entrance of its place of business the name of each person engaged or employed in the partnership or association in the practice of optometry.   History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1420, § 1, effective October 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-40-115 as it existed prior to 2019.
CO Code § 12-275-118 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 275 - Optometrists|§ 12-275-118. Records to Be Kept by the Board

 The board shall keep a record of all persons to whom licenses have been granted under this article 275. A copy of the records, certified by the board, shall be admitted in any of the courts of this state, in lieu of the originals, as prima facie evidence of the facts contained in the records. A copy of the records certified by the board of a person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this article 275 shall be evidence that the person has not been licensed to practice optometry.   History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1420, § 1, effective October 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-40-116 as it existed prior to 2019.   ANNOTATION   Law reviews. For article, “The Perennial Problem of Security Priority and Recordation”, see 24 Rocky Mt. L. Rev. 180 (1952).   Section does not provide for categorization of test scores. While this statute delineates all of the areas that are to be tested and provides that each candidate must score 75 on the entire examination in order to pass, it does not provide for the categorization of test scores so that candidates who each had an average score of 75 on the entire exam passed even though they scored below 75 on one of the three sections of the exam. Sherrerd v. Johnson, 32 Colo. App. 367, 511 P.2d 923 (1973) (decided under former law).
CO Code § 12-275-119 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 275 - Optometrists|§ 12-275-119. Patient's Exercise of Free Choice - Release of Patient Records - Rules

  No person shall interfere with any patient's exercise of free choice in the selection of practitioners licensed to perform examinations for refractions and visual training or corrections within the field for which their respective licenses entitle them to practice.    An optometrist shall release to a patient all medical records pursuant to section 25-1-802.    The optometrist shall release to the patient, upon written request, a valid, written contact lens prescription at the time the optometrist would otherwise replace a contact lens without any additional preliminary examination or fitting. The board shall promulgate rules defining the components of a valid written contact lens prescription.     History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1420, § 1, effective October 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-40-117 as it existed prior to 2019.
CO Code § 12-275-123 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 275 - Optometrists|§ 12-275-123. Use or Sale of Forged or Invalid Certificate, Degree, or License

  It is unlawful for any person to use or attempt to use as the person's own a diploma of an optometry school or college, or a license of another person, or a forged diploma or license, or any forged or false identification.    It is unlawful:   To sell or offer to sell a diploma conferring an optometry degree or a license granted pursuant to this article 275 or prior optometry practice laws;    To procure a diploma or license with intent that it be used as evidence of the right to practice optometry by a person other than the one upon whom it was conferred or to whom the license was granted;    With fraudulent intent to alter the diploma or license or to use or attempt to use it when it is so altered.        History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1429, § 1, effective October 1.    Editor's note:   Subsection (1) is similar to former § 12-40-120 ; and subsection (2) is similar to former § 12-40-121 (1) , as those sections existed prior to 2019.
CO Code § 12-275-124 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 275 - Optometrists|§ 12-275-124. Corporate Practice Prohibited - Exceptions

 The practice of optometry in a corporate capacity is prohibited, but this prohibition does not apply to a professional corporation formed pursuant to this article 275 or to an optometry practice carried on by a nonprofit organization operating to assist indigent persons.   History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1430, § 1, effective October 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-40-122 as it existed prior to 2019.
CO Code § 12-275-125 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 275 - Optometrists|§ 12-275-125. Enforcement - Injunction - Defense

  When the board has reasonable cause to believe that any person is violating any provision of this article 275 or any lawful rule issued under this article 275, it may, in addition to all actions provided for in this article 275 and without prejudice thereto, enter an order in accordance with section 12-20-405 requiring the person to desist or refrain from the violation. Additionally, the board may seek injunctive relief in accordance with section 12-20-406 to enjoin the person from engaging in or continuing the violation or from doing any act in furtherance of the violation.    When legal actions are instituted against a board member or authorized personnel for acts occurring while acting in their official capacities and the actions are free of malice, fraud, or willful neglect of duty, the member or employee served shall forthwith transmit any process served upon him or her to the attorney general who shall furnish counsel and defend against the action without cost to the board member or employee.     History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1430, § 1, effective October 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-40-123 as it existed prior to 2019.
CO Code § 12-275-126 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 275 - Optometrists|§ 12-275-126. Unauthorized Practice - Penalties

 Any person who practices or offers or attempts to practice optometry without an active license issued under this article 275 is subject to penalties pursuant to section 12-20-407 (1)(a) .   History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1430, § 1, effective October 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-40-124 as it existed prior to 2019.
CO Code § 12-275-128 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 275 - Optometrists|§ 12-275-128. Financial Responsibility - Rules

  Every optometrist who provides health-care services within the state of Colorado shall establish financial responsibility as follows:   By maintaining commercial professional liability insurance coverage with an insurance company authorized to do business in this state in a minimum indemnity amount of one million dollars per incident and three million dollars annual aggregate per year; or    By maintaining a surety bond in a form acceptable to the commissioner of insurance in the amounts set forth in subsection (1)(a) of this section; or    By depositing cash or cash equivalents as security with the commissioner of insurance in the amounts set forth in subsection (1)(a) of this section; or    By providing any other security acceptable to the commissioner of insurance, which may include approved plans of self-insurance.         The board may, by rule, establish lesser financial responsibility standards than those required in subsection (1) of this section for classes of license holders who have an inactive license or who render limited or occasional optometry services because of administrative or other nonclinical duties, partial or complete retirement, or for other reasons that render the limits provided in subsection (1)(a) of this section unreasonable or unattainable.    Nothing in this section precludes or otherwise prohibits a licensed optometrist from rendering appropriate patient care on an occasional basis when the circumstances surrounding the need for care so warrant.       Each optometrist, as a condition of receiving and maintaining an active license to provide optometry services in this state, shall furnish the board evidence of compliance with subsection (1) of this section. No license shall be issued or renewed unless evidence of compliance has been furnished.    Notwithstanding the amounts specified in subsection (1) of this section, if the board receives two or more reports concerning any optometrist pursuant to section 12-275-129 during any one-year period, the minimum financial responsibility requirement shall be two times the amount specified in subsection (1) of this section. However, upon motion filed by the optometrist and the presentation of sufficient evidence to the board that one or more reports involved an action or claim that did not represent any substantial failure to adhere to accepted professional standards of care, the board may reduce the additional amount to that which would be fair and conscionable.      History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1433, § 1, effective October 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-40-126 as it existed prior to 2019.
CO Code § 12-275-129 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 275 - Optometrists|§ 12-275-129. Judgments and Settlements - Reporting

 Any final judgment, settlement, or arbitration award against an optometrist for malpractice shall be reported within fourteen days by the optometrist's malpractice insurance carrier in accordance with section 10-1-125 or by the optometrist if no commercial malpractice insurance coverage is involved to the board for review, investigation, and, where appropriate, disciplinary or other action. Any optometrist who knowingly fails to report as required by this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars. The penalty shall be determined and collected in an action brought by the board in the district court in the city and county of Denver, which court shall have exclusive jurisdiction in such matters. All penalties collected pursuant to this section shall be transmitted to the state treasurer, who shall credit the same to the general fund.   History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1434, § 1, effective October 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-40-127 as it existed prior to 2019.
CO Code § 12-275-130 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 275 - Optometrists|§ 12-275-130. Repeal of Article - Review of Functions

 This article 275 is repealed, effective September 1, 2022. Before the repeal, the functions of the board performed pursuant to this article 275 are scheduled for review in accordance with section 24-34-104 .   History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1434, § 1, effective October 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-40-128 as it existed prior to 2019.
CO Code § 12-295-101 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 295 - Psychiatric Technicians|§ 12-295-101. Legislative Declaration

 It is declared to be the policy of the state of Colorado that, in order to safeguard life, health, property, and the public welfare of the people of the state of Colorado, and in order to protect the people of the state of Colorado against unauthorized, unqualified, and improper application of interpersonal psychiatric nursing relationships, it is necessary that a proper regulatory authority be established, and adequately provided for. Any person who practices as a psychiatric technician without qualifying for proper registration, and without submitting to the regulations provided in this article 295, endangers the public health thereby.   History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1570, § 1, effective October 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 12-42-101 as it existed prior to 2019.
CO Code § 12-295-102 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 295 - Psychiatric Technicians|§ 12-295-102. Applicability of Common Provisions

 Articles 1, 20, and 30 of this title 12 apply, according to their terms, to this article 295.   History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1570, § 1, effective October 1.