2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions and Occupations
Health Care
Article 32 - Podiatrists
Part 1 - General Provisions
§ 12-32-109. Unauthorized practice - penalties

(1) Any person who practices or offers or attempts to practice podiatry within this state without an active license issued under this article commits a class 2 misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-501, C.R.S., for the first offense, and, for the second or any subsequent offense, the person commits a class 6 felony and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-401, C.R.S.

(1.5) Any person who presents as his or her own the diploma, license, certificate, or credentials of another, or who gives either false or forged evidence of any kind to the Colorado podiatry board, or any member thereof, in connection with an application for a license to practice podiatry, or who practices podiatry under a false or assumed name, or who 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, C.R.S.

(2) No person shall 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 he or she is a podiatrist or that he or she 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.

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

(4) The conduct of the practice of podiatry in a corporate capacity is hereby prohibited, but such prohibition shall not be construed to prevent the practice of podiatry by a professional service corporation whose stockholders are restricted solely to licensed podiatrists. Any such professional service corporation may exercise such powers and shall be subject to such limitations and requirements, insofar as applicable, as are provided in section 12-32-109.5, relating to professional service corporations for the practice of podiatry.

(5) The provisions of this article shall not 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.

(6) The provisions of this article shall not 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.

(7) The provisions of this article shall not 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.

(8) The provisions of this article shall not 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 article 38 of this title.