2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions And Occupations
Article 275. Optometrists
Section 12-275-123. Use or sale of forged or invalid certificate, degree, or license.
(1) It is unlawful for any person to use or attempt to use as the person's own a diploma of an optometry school or college, or a license of another person, or a forged diploma or license, or any forged or false identification.
(2) It is unlawful:
To sell or offer to sell a diploma conferring an optometry degree or a license grantedpursuant to this article 275 or prior optometry practice laws;
To procure a diploma or license with intent that it be used as evidence of the right topractice optometry by a person other than the one upon whom it was conferred or to whom the license was granted;
With fraudulent intent to alter the diploma or license or to use or attempt to use itwhen it is so altered.
Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1429, § 1, effective October 1.
Editor's note: Subsection (1) is similar to former § 12-40-120; and subsection (2) is similar to former § 12-40-121 (1), as those sections existed prior to 2019.
