2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 42 - VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC (§§ 42-1-101 — 42-21-106) › DRIVERS LICENSES (§§ 42-2-101 — 42-2-604) › Article 2 - DRIVERS' LICENSES (§§ 42-2-101 — 42-2-604) › Part 1 - DRIVERS' LICENSES (§§ 42-2-101 — 42-2-144) › Section 42-2-116 - Restricted license

(1)
The department, upon issuing a driver's or minor driver's license or an instruction permit, has authority, whenever good cause appears, to impose restrictions, limitations, or conditions which are suitable to the licensee's driving ability with respect to the type of special mechanical control device required on a motor vehicle which the licensee may operate or which limit the right of the licensee to drive a motor vehicle except when such licensee is required to drive to and from the licensee's place of employment or to perform duties within the course of employment or to impose such other restrictions applicable to the licensee as the department may determine to be appropriate to assure the safe operation of a motor vehicle by the licensee.
(2)
The department either may issue a special restricted license or must set forth such restrictions, limitations, or conditions upon the usual license form issued to the applicant.
(3)
The department, upon receiving satisfactory evidence of any violation of the restrictions, limitations, or conditions of such license, may cancel or suspend such restricted license, but the licensee shall be entitled to a hearing as upon a suspension or revocation under this article.
(4)
No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon a highway or elsewhere within this state in any manner in violation of the restrictions, limitations, or conditions imposed in a special restricted license, in a driver's or minor driver's license, or in an instruction permit issued to such person by the department or by another state or country.
(5)
The department is authorized after examination to issue a restricted license to a person with a behavioral or mental health disorder or an intellectual and developmental disability, containing such restrictions as may be imposed upon said person by a court pursuant to part 3 or part 4 of article
14
of title
15
or section
27-65-110 (4)
or
27-65-127
.
(6)
(a)
A person who violates any provision of this section commits a class A traffic infraction.
(b)
(Deleted by amendment, L. 2012.)
(7) and (8)
Repealed.
Amended by 2022 Ch. 451, § 50, eff. 8/10/2022.
Amended by 2017 Ch. 263, § 306, eff. 5/25/2017.
L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. 2124, § 1, effective 1/1/1995. L. 96: (6) amended, p. 1357, § 3, effective July 1. L. 2000: (6) amended and (7) and (8) added, p. 1078, § 8, effective July 1; (1) and (4) amended, p. 1351, § 21, effective 7/1/2001. L. 2006: (5) amended, p. 1409, § 79, effective August 7; (6)(b) and (8) amended, p. 1368, § 4, effective 1/1/2007. L. 2010: (5) amended, (SB 10 -175), ch. 188, p. 807, § 84, effective April 29. L. 2012: (6) amended and (7) and (8) repealed, (HB 12-1168), ch. 278, p. 1482, § 2, effective August 8. L. 2017: (5) amended, (SB 17-242), ch. 263, p. 1380, § 306, effective May 25.
This section is similar to former § 42-2-114 as it existed prior to 1994, and the former § 42-2-116 was relocated to §
42-2-118
.
2022 Ch. 451, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).
(1) For the penalty for a class A traffic infraction and a class 1 traffic misdemeanor, see § 42-4-1701(3) . (2) For the legislative declaration in SB 17-242, see section 1 of chapter 263, Session Laws of Colorado 2017.