Colorado § 12-120-314 - Licenses.

§ 12-120-314. Licenses.

(1) The board, upon acceptance of an applicant who has demonstrated competence in professional land surveying and upon receipt of payment of the required fee, shall license and issue a unique license number to the applicant.

(2) The board, upon acceptance of a qualified land surveyor-intern and upon receipt of payment of the required fee, shall enroll the qualified land surveyor-intern.

(3) A license may be issued at any time and is subject to the renewal, expiration, reinstatement, and delinquency fee provisions specified in section 12-20-202 (1) and (2).

(4) Any person whose license has expired is subject to the penalties provided in this part 3 or section 12-20-202 (1).

(5) A professional land surveyor shall give notice to the board, in writing, of any change of address within thirty days after the change.

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 903, § 1, effective October 1.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-25-215 as it existed prior to 2019.

ANNOTATION

Annotator's note. The following annotations include a case decided under a former provision similar to this section.

Plats must be certified by a licensed engineer or surveyor before they may be filed for public record. S. Park Land & Livestock Co. v. Hamilton Enters., Ltd., 189 Colo. 157, 538 P.2d 444 (1975).

The required seal specified in subsection (3) certifies expertise. S. Park Land & Livestock Co. v. Hamilton Enters., Ltd., 189 Colo. 157, 538 P.2d 444 (1975).

Acknowledgment of responsibility to public. The required seal specified in subsection (3) acknowledges the surveyor's responsibility to protect the public for any mistakes or negligence in the survey which bears the seal. 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).