Colorado § 12-120-201 - General provisions.

§ 12-120-201. General provisions.

In order to safeguard life, health, and property and to promote the public welfare, the practice of engineering is declared to be subject to regulation in the public interest. It shall be deemed that the right to engage in the practice of engineering is a privilege granted by the state through the state board of licensure for architects, professional engineers, and professional land surveyors, created in section 12-120-103; that the profession involves personal skill and presupposes a period of intensive preparation, internship, due examination, and admission; and that a professional engineer's license is solely the professional engineer's own and is nontransferable.

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 876, § 1, effective October 1.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-25-101 as it existed prior to 2019.

ANNOTATION

Law reviews. For comment on Prouty v. Heron, appearing below, see 26 Rocky Mt. L. Rev. 91 (1953).

Annotator's note. The case annotated below was decided under repealed CSA, C. 62, § 42, the subject matter of which was similar to this section.

Right to practice protected by due process clause. One who has qualified for admittance and license to practice engineering without restriction, under the standards applicable at the time of admission, thereby acquires a valuable right fully protected and covered by the due process clause of the federal and state constitutions. Prouty v. Heron, 127 Colo. 168, 255 P.2d 755 (1953).

It follows, therefore, that the general assembly cannot by statute deny or abridge that right in any manner except for cause, and after due notice and a fair and impartial hearing before an unbiased tribunal. Prouty v. Heron, 127 Colo. 168, 255 P.2d 755 (1953).