2021 Colorado Code
Title 12 - Professions and Occupations
Article 10 - Real Estate
Part 2 - Brokers and Salespersons
§ 12-10-223. Violations
[ ] Any natural person, firm, partnership, limited liability company, association, or corporation violating the provisions of this part 2 by acting as real estate broker in this state without having obtained a license or by acting as real estate broker after the broker's license has been revoked or during any period for which the license may have been suspended is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, if a natural person, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment and, if an entity, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars. A second violation, if by a natural person, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Editor's note: This version of this section is effective until March 1, 2022.History. Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 641, § 1, effective October 1. L. 2021: Entire section amended,(SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3153, § 134, effective March 1, 2022.
Editor's note:
- This section is similar to former § 12-61-119 as it existed prior to 2019.
- Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.
To act without a license is made a criminal offense by this section. Cary v. Borden Co., 153 Colo. 344 , 386 P.2d 585 (1963) (decided under former law).
