Colorado Code § 42-2-116

Restricted license
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(1) The department, upon issuing a driver's or minor
driver's license or an instruction permit, has authority, whenever good cause appears, to impose
restrictions, limitations, or conditions which are suitable to the licensee's driving ability with
respect to the type of special mechanical control device required on a motor vehicle which the
licensee may operate or which limit the right of the licensee to drive a motor vehicle except
when such licensee is required to drive to and from the licensee's place of employment or to
perform duties within the course of employment or to impose such other restrictions applicable
to the licensee as the department may determine to be appropriate to assure the safe operation of
a motor vehicle by the licensee.
(2) The department either may issue a special restricted license or must set forth such
restrictions, limitations, or conditions upon the usual license form issued to the applicant.
(3) The department, upon receiving satisfactory evidence of any violation of the
restrictions, limitations, or conditions of such license, may cancel or suspend such restricted
license, but the licensee shall be entitled to a hearing as upon a suspension or revocation under
this article.
(4) No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon a highway or elsewhere within this
state in any manner in violation of the restrictions, limitations, or conditions imposed in a special
restricted license, in a driver's or minor driver's license, or in an instruction permit issued to such
person by the department or by another state or country.
(5) The department is authorized after examination to issue a restricted license to a
person with a behavioral or mental health disorder or an intellectual and developmental
disability, containing such restrictions as may be imposed upon said person by a court pursuant
to part 3 or part 4 of article 14 of title 15 or section 27-65-110 (4) or 27-65-127.
(6) (a) A person who violates any provision of this section commits a class A traffic
infraction.
(b) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2012.)
(7) and (8) Repealed.

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