Colorado § 12-240-102 - Legislative declaration.
Full text of Colorado Colorado Revised Statutes § 12-240-102 — Legislative declaration., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 12-240-102. Legislative declaration.
The general assembly declares it to be in the interests of public health, safety, and welfare to enact laws regulating and controlling the practice of the healing arts to the end that the people shall be properly protected against unauthorized, unqualified, and improper practice of the healing arts in this state, and this article 240 shall be construed in conformity with this declaration of purpose.
Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1170, § 1, effective October 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-36-102 as it existed prior to 2019.
ANNOTATION
Annotator's note. The following annotations include cases decided under former provisions similar to this section.
What constitutes the practice of medicine under the Medical Practice Act must be construed in light of the purpose stated in this section. State Bd. of Med. Exam'rs v. McCroskey, 940 P.2d 1044 (Colo. App. 1996).
The board has exclusive jurisdiction to revoke licensure privileges within Colorado regardless of whether the "unprofessional conduct" occurred within or outside of Colorado. State Bd. of Med. Exam'rs v. Sullivan, 976 P.2d 885 (Colo. App. 1999).
Applied in Coe v. United States Dist. Court, 676 F.2d 411 (10th Cir. 1982).
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