Colorado § 42-2-116 - Restricted license.

§ 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(7) and (8) Repealed.

Source: L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. 2124, § 1, effective January 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 July 1, 2001. L. 2006: (5) amended, p. 1409, § 79, effective August 7; (6)(b) and (8) amended, p. 1368, § 4, effective January 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. L. 2022: (5) amended, (HB 22-1256), ch. 451, p. 3238, § 50, effective August 10.

Editor's note: 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.

Cross references: (1) For the penalty for a class A traffic infraction, see § 42-4-1701 (3)(a)(I).

(2) For the legislative declaration in SB 17-242, see section 1 of chapter 263, Session Laws of Colorado 2017.

ANNOTATION

Annotator's note. Since § 42-2-116 is similar to § 42-2-114 as it existed prior to the 1994 amending of title 42 as enacted by SB 94-1, relevant cases construing that provision have been included with the annotations to this section.

Motorcycle requires special licensing. Although a motorcycle is a motor vehicle, the general assembly has occasionally treated it as a class apart from other motor vehicles. This section requires a special licensing for the operators of motorcycles. Love v. Bell, 171 Colo. 27, 465 P.2d 118 (1970) (decided prior to § 13-4-14, C.R.S. 1963, as amended, 1973).

Applied in Tomasi v. Thompson, 635 P.2d 538 (Colo. 1981).