CO Code § 12-240-130 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 12 - Professions and Occupations|Article 240 - Medical Practice|§ 12-240-130. Renewal, Reinstatement, Delinquency - Fees - Questionnaire

  All licenses issued pursuant to this article 240 are subject to the renewal, expiration, reinstatement, and delinquency fee provisions specified in section 12-20-202 (1) and (2). The director shall increase renewal fees consistent with section 12-30-105 (4) to fund the division's costs in administering and staffing the nurse-physician advisory task force for Colorado health care created in section 12-30-105 (1). A person whose license has expired shall be subject to the penalties provided in this article 240 or section 12-20-202 (1).    The board shall design a questionnaire to accompany the renewal form for the purpose of determining whether a licensee has acted in violation of this article 240 or been disciplined for any action that might be considered a violation of this article 240 or might make the licensee unfit to practice medicine 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. If an applicant fails to answer the questionnaire accurately, the failure constitutes unprofessional conduct under section 12-240-121 (1)(t).    Applicants for relicensure shall not be required to attend and complete continuing medical education programs, except as directed by the board to correct deficiencies of training or education as directed under section 12-240-125 (5)(c)(III)(B).     History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1206, § 1, effective October 1; (2) amended,(SB 19-079), ch. 86, p. 319, § 21, effective October 1.    Editor's note:    This section is similar to former § 12-36-123 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 Those amendments were superseded by the repeal and reenactment of this title 12, effective October 1, 2019.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   Annotator's note. Since § 12-36-123 is similar to repealed CSA, C. 109, § 11, a relevant case construing that provision has been included in the annotations to this section.   The failure of the doctor to pay a small annual registration fee has a very remote and disconnected relation to the promotion of morals, safety, general welfare or the public health. Lipset v. Davis, 119 Colo. 335 , 203 P.2d 730 (1949).   When a complete forfeiture of a physician's license is predicated on nonpayment of the annual registration fee, and new conditions of eligibility for reinstatement, far beyond the payment of the delinquent fees, are attempted to be imposed, such regulation is harsh, unwarranted and unreasonable, and therefore invalid, for if good and sufficient cause exists to deprive a doctor of the right to practice his profession, and that cause or disqualification bears a fair relation to the public health, safety, morals or welfare, there is ample authority under section 12-36-118 to accomplish a revocation of his license. Lipset v. Davis, 119 Colo. 335 , 203 P.2d 730 (1949).