Colorado § 12-275-115 - License renewal - questionnaire - continuing education.

§ 12-275-115. License renewal - questionnaire - continuing education.

(1) Licenses issued under this article 275 are subject to the renewal, expiration, reinstatement, and delinquency fee provisions specified in section 12-20-202 (1) and (2). Any person whose license has expired shall be subject to the penalties provided in this article 275 or section 12-20-202 (1).

(2) (a) The board shall establish a questionnaire to accompany the renewal form. The board shall design the questionnaire to determine if the licensee has acted in violation of or has been disciplined for actions that might be considered as violations of this article 275 or that might make the licensee unfit to practice optometry with reasonable care and safety. The board shall include on the questionnaire a question regarding whether the licensee has complied with section 12-30-111 and is in compliance with section 12-280-403 (2)(a). Failure of the applicant to answer the questionnaire accurately constitutes unprofessional conduct as specified in section 12-275-120.

(b) On and after July 1, 2024, as a condition of renewal of a license, each licensee shall attest that the licensee is in compliance with section 12-280-403 (2)(a) and that the licensee is aware of the penalties for noncompliance with that section.

(3) Effective April 1, 1993, in addition to all other requirements of this section for license renewal, the board shall require that each optometrist seeking to renew a license shall have completed twenty-four hours of board-approved continuing education. Any optometrist desiring to renew a license to practice optometry in this state shall submit to the board the information the board believes is necessary to show that the optometrist has fulfilled the continuing education requirements of this subsection (3). Implementation of this subsection (3) shall occur within existing appropriations.

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1419, § 1, effective October 1; (2) amended, (SB 19-079), ch. 86, p. 319, § 23, effective October 1. L. 2022: (2) amended, (HB 22-1115), ch. 397, p. 2826, § 5, effective August 10.

Editor's note: (1) This section is similar to former § 12-40-113 as it existed prior to 2019.

(2) Before its relocation in 2019, this section was amended in SB 19-079. Those amendments were superseded by the repeal and reenactment of this title 12, effective October 1, 2019. For those amendments to the former section in effect from August 2, 2019, to October 1, 2019, see SB 19-079, chapter 86, Session Laws of Colorado 2019.

ANNOTATION

A licensed physician who was also licensed as an optometrist under the laws of 1913 but who did not apply for a renewal of his license within 30 days in 1925 was either entitled to practice optometry, as the employee of a layman, by virtue of his physician's license, or by virtue thereof, he was entitled, without examination, to an optometrist's license provided he paid the statutory fees. Bebber v. Fisher, 106 Colo. 197, 102 P.2d 741 (1940) (decided under repealed CSA, C. 120, § 15).