§ 12-290-116 — Unauthorized practice - penalties - exclusions

Colorado § 12-290-116

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 12: Professions
• Art.: Podiatrists

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(1) Any person
who practices or offers or attempts to practice podiatry within this state without an
active license issued under this article 290 is subject to penalties pursuant to
section 12-20-407 (1)(a).

(2) Any person who presents as the person's own the diploma, license,
certificate, or credentials of another, gives either false or forged evidence of any
kind to the board, or any member thereof, in connection with an application for a
license to practice podiatry, practices podiatry under a false or assumed name, or
falsely impersonates another licensee of a like or different name commits a class 6
felony and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-401.

(3) A person shall not advertise in any form or hold himself or herself out to
the public as a podiatrist, or, in any sign or any advertisement, use the word
podiatrist, foot specialist, foot correctionist, foot expert, practipedist,
podologist, or any other terms or letters indicating or implying that the person is a
podiatrist or that the person practices or holds himself or herself out as practicing
podiatry or foot correction in any manner, without having, at the time of so doing, a
valid, unsuspended, and unrevoked license as required by this article 290.

(4) No podiatrist shall willfully cause the public to believe that the podiatrist
has qualifications extending beyond the limits of this article 290, and no podiatrist
shall willfully sign the podiatrist's name using the prefix Doctor or Dr. without
following the podiatrist's name with podiatrist, Doctor of Podiatric Medicine, or
D.P.M. No podiatrist shall use the title podiatric physician unless the title is
followed by the words practice limited to treatment of the foot and ankle.

(5) The conduct of the practice of podiatry in a corporate capacity is hereby
prohibited, but the prohibition shall not be construed to prevent the practice of
podiatry by a professional service corporation whose stockholders are restricted
solely to licensed podiatrists. A professional service corporation may exercise the
powers and shall be subject to the limitations and requirements, insofar as
applicable, as are provided in section 12-290-118, relating to professional service
corporations for the practice of podiatry.

(6) The provisions of this article 290 shall not:

(a) Apply to any physician licensed to practice medicine or surgery, any
regularly commissioned surgeon of the United States armed forces or United
States public health service, or any licensed osteopath;

(b) Be construed to prohibit the recommending, advertising, fitting,
adjusting, or sale of corrective shoes, arch supports, or similar mechanical
appliances and foot remedies by retail dealers and manufacturers;

(c) Be construed to prohibit, or to require a license for, the rendering of
services under the personal and responsible direction and supervision of a person
licensed to practice podiatry, and this exemption shall not apply to persons
otherwise qualified to practice podiatry but not licensed to practice in this state; or

(d) Be construed to prohibit, or to require a license for, the rendering of
nursing services by registered or other nurses in the lawful discharge of their duties
pursuant to part 1 of article 255 of this title 12.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1561, � 1, effective October 1. L. 2020: (6)(d) amended, (HB 20-1183), ch. 157, p. 699, � 48, effective July 1.