Colorado § 12-215-101 - Legislative declaration - unlawful acts - license required.

§ 12-215-101. Legislative declaration - unlawful acts - license required.

(1) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the general assembly of the state of Colorado that, in order to safeguard the life, health, and property and the public welfare of the people of this state and in order to protect the people of this state against unauthorized, unqualified, and improper practice of chiropractic, it is necessary that a proper regulatory authority be established and adequately provided for.

(2) It is unlawful for any person to practice or to offer to practice chiropractic in the state of Colorado, or to use in connection with his or her name or business or otherwise to assume, use, or advertise any title or description that will or that reasonably might be expected to mislead the public into believing he or she is a doctor of chiropractic, unless the person has been duly licensed under the provisions of this article 215. Anyone who holds himself or herself out to the public as a doctor of chiropractic without qualifying for proper licensing under this article 215 and without submitting to the regulations provided in this article 215 endangers the public life, health, property, and welfare.

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1059, § 1, effective October 1.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-33-101 as it existed prior to 2019.

ANNOTATION

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

Doctors of medicine, doctors of osteopathy, chiropodists, dentists, and doctors of chiropractic all practice their professions by grace of the state. Colo. Chiropractic Ass'n v. State, 171 Colo. 395, 467 P.2d 795 (1970).

The scope of their practices is limited by law. Colo. Chiropractic Ass'n v. State, 171 Colo. 395, 467 P.2d 795 (1970).

The courses of study of the several limited branches of the healing arts are not determinative of the scope of practice permitted under any given license. Colo. Chiropractic Ass'n v. State, 171 Colo. 395, 467 P.2d 795 (1970).

The word "physician" does not appear in the chiropractic licensing act. Colo. Chiropractic Ass'n v. State, 171 Colo. 395, 467 P.2d 795 (1970).

Where a party was charged with violating this section and the statute relating to the practice of medicine without a license, it was held that a verdict of guilty on either charge was equivalent to a verdict of not guilty on the other, the two charges being wholly different. Hurley v. People, 99 Colo. 510, 63 P.2d 1227 (1936) (decided under repealed CSA, C. 34, § 1).

Applied in Flemming v. Colo. State Bd. of Educ., 157 Colo. 45, 400 P.2d 932 (1965).