Except as otherwise provided in part 4 of this article for commercial drivers, no person shall drive any motor vehicle upon a highway in this state unless such person has been issued a currently valid driver’s or minor driver’s license or an instruction permit by the department under this article. No person shall drive any […]
The following persons need not obtain a Colorado driver’s license: Any person who operates a federally owned military motor vehicle while serving in the armed forces of the United States; Any person who temporarily drives or operates any road machine, farm tractor, or other implement of husbandry on a highway; Any nonresident who is at […]
The department shall establish a motorcycle endorsement program for driver’s licenses, minor driver’s licenses, and instruction permits issued pursuant to this article. The department shall require an applicant for a general motorcycle endorsement to demonstrate the applicant’s ability to exercise ordinary and reasonable care and control in the operation of a motorcycle that is not […]
Except as otherwise provided in this article, the department may license the following persons in the manner prescribed in this article: Any person twenty-one years of age or older, as a driver; (Deleted by amendment, L. 2000, p. 1348 , § 11, effective July 1, 2001.) Any person sixteen years of age or older who […]
A person under the age of eighteen years shall not drive any motor vehicle used to transport explosives or inflammable material or any motor vehicle used as a school vehicle for the transportation of pupils to or from school. A person under the age of eighteen years shall not drive a motor vehicle used as […]
The general assembly finds, determines, and declares that: Teenage drivers, in order to become safe and responsible drivers, need behind-the-wheel driving experience before they can begin to drive without restrictions; Providing additional behind-the-wheel training with a parent, guardian, or other responsible adult before obtaining a minor driver’s license is the beginning of the young driver’s […]
A person who is sixteen years of age or older and who, except for the person’s lack of instruction in operating a motor vehicle or motorcycle, would otherwise be qualified to obtain a license under this article may apply for a temporary instruction permit in accordance with sections 42-2-107 and 42-2-108. The department shall issue […]
To be acceptable, every application for an instruction permit or for a driver’s or minor driver’s license must be made upon forms furnished by the department and accompanied by the required fee. The department shall set the fee in accordance with section 42-2-114.5 (2). The department shall transfer the fee to the state treasurer, who […]
The application of any person under eighteen years of age for an instruction permit or minor driver’s license must be accompanied by either: (1) (a) (I) The application of any person under eighteen years of age for an instruction permit or minor driver’s license must be accompanied by either: An affidavit of liability signed and […]
Any person who has signed the affidavit of liability which accompanied the application of a minor for a minor driver’s license or permit may thereafter file with the department a verified written request that the license of said minor be canceled. Upon receipt of such request, the department shall cancel the license of said minor, […]
The department, upon receipt of satisfactory evidence of the death of the person who signed the affidavit of liability which accompanied the application for a license of such minor, shall cancel such license, unless the minor has already reached the age of eighteen years, and shall not issue a new license until such time as […]
The department shall examine every applicant for a driver’s or minor driver’s license. The executive director of the department, in the director’s discretion, may conduct the examination in any county convenient for the applicant. The examination shall include a test of the applicant’s eyesight, his or her ability to read and understand highway signs that […]
In order to determine whether any licensed driver or any applicant for a driver’s license is physically or mentally able to operate a motor vehicle safely upon the highways of this state, the department is authorized, pursuant to this section and upon the adoption of rules concerning medical criteria for driver licensing, to seek and […]
The department may appoint license examiners for any county in this state to conduct local examinations for all types of drivers’ licenses. The officers of the department shall conduct the examination as prescribed by law for all drivers in the county and collect the fees as provided in section 42-2-114 and remit the same to […]
The department, upon payment of the required fee and the surrender or cancellation of any previously issued Colorado identification card, shall issue to every applicant, who is not a first time applicant in Colorado or who is under eighteen years of age and is accompanied by a responsible adult meeting the requirements of section 42-2-108 […]
The licensing services cash fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The general assembly shall appropriate moneys in the fund to the department for the cost of implementing this article. Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, the following fees must be paid for the following functions: The fee for a driving […]
No person who has been issued a driver’s or minor driver’s license or an instruction permit or an identification card as defined in section 42-2-301 (2), who operates a motor vehicle in this state, and who has such license, permit, or identification card in such person’s immediate possession shall refuse to remove such license, permit, […]
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 […]
If an instruction permit or a minor driver’s license issued under this article is lost, stolen, or destroyed, the person to whom it was issued, upon request and the payment of a fee to the department, may obtain a duplicate or substitute upon furnishing satisfactory proof to the department that the permit or minor license […]
[ Editor’s note: This version of subsection (1)(a)(I) is effective until January 1, 2022.] Every license issued under section 42-2-114 or part 5 of this article 2 is renewable prior to its expiration, upon application in person, by mail as provided in subsection (1.3) of this section, or by electronic means as provided in subsection […]
