Colorado § 12-120-301 - General provisions.

§ 12-120-301. General provisions.

In order to safeguard life, health, and property and to promote the public welfare, the practice of professional land surveying in Colorado is hereby declared to be subject to regulation. It shall be unlawful for any individual to practice professional land surveying in Colorado or to use in connection with the individual's name, or to otherwise assume, or to advertise any title or description tending to convey the impression that the individual is a professional land surveyor, unless the individual has been duly licensed or is exempted under the provisions of this part 3. The practice of professional land surveying shall be deemed a privilege granted by the state of Colorado based on the qualifications of the individual as evidenced by the individual's licensing.

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 890, § 1, effective October 1.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-25-201 as it existed prior to 2019.

ANNOTATION

Annotator's note. The following annotations include cases decided under former provisions similar to this section.

To practice a profession is to hold one's self out as following that profession as a calling, as one's usual business. Beaver Brook Resort Co. v. Stevens, 76 Colo. 131, 230 P. 121 (1924) (decided under repealed laws antecedent to CSA, C. 62, § 18).

Surveyors are licensed to protect the public from unqualified work. S. Park Land & Livestock Co. v. Hamilton Enters., Ltd., 189 Colo. 157, 538 P.2d 444 (1975).

Licensee not required to revoke certification on changed documents. The statutes governing the licensing of surveyors and engineers do not require that where documents prepared by one licensed under their authority have been changed without the licensee's knowledge or approval before they become of public record, the licensee has an obligation to revoke his certification on them. Such a duty is nowhere mentioned in any of the statutes. S. Park Land & Livestock Co. v. Hamilton Enters., Ltd., 189 Colo. 157, 538 P.2d 444 (1975).

Such action was arbitrary and unreasonable. Where landowner, who had contracted for survey and platting of land, altered two plats without surveyor's knowledge or permission, surveyor's revocation of its certificate for all the plats filed with the county planning commission, which action rendered its work totally valueless to landowner, was arbitrary and unreasonable. S. Park Land & Livestock Co. v. Hamilton Enters., Ltd., 189 Colo. 157, 538 P.2d 444 (1975).