§ 42-7-201 — Director to administer article

Colorado § 42-7-201

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 42: Vehicles and
• Art.: Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law

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(1) The director shall administer
and enforce the provisions of this article and may make rules and regulations in
writing necessary for the administration of this article.

(2) (a) The director shall provide for a hearing upon request of any person
affected by an order or act of the director under the provisions of this article. Such
hearing need not be a matter of record.

(b) A request for a hearing, made within the twenty-day period prescribed in
section 42-7-301 (3) and (4), shall operate during the pendency of such hearing to
postpone the effective date of any order or act of the director pursuant to this
article.

(c) If the person, for the protection of the public interest and safety, files or
has filed with the director evidence of current liability insurance in the driver's
name, or has made a deposit as provided in section 42-7-418, the request for
hearing shall also postpone the date on which the affected person's license or
nonresident's operating privilege would otherwise be suspended.

(d) The decision as rendered by the director upon a hearing, or an order or
act of the director when no hearing is requested, shall be final unless the affected
person seeks judicial review.

(e) In any action for judicial review of the action of the director, the court,
upon application for a hearing on the question of irreparable injury with three days'
notice to the director of such hearing and upon a finding by the court at such
hearing that irreparable injury to the affected person would otherwise result, may
order that the filing of the action shall operate to postpone the effective date of the
director's order or act, in which event the court may also impose the condition, for
the protection of the public interest and safety, that the person bringing the action
shall obtain and maintain during the pendency of the action an automobile liability
policy or bond or deposit of security as provided in section 42-7-418. The procedure
in all other respects upon review shall be in accordance with the applicable
provision of section 24-4-106, C.R.S.

Legislative History

Source: L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. 2474, � 1, effective January 1, 1995. L. 96: (2)(c) amended, p. 1209, � 4, effective July 1.