(1) Except as provided in section 12-10-607 (9), it is unlawful for any person, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation to engage in the business of appraisal management in this state without first having obtained a license from the board. The board shall not grant a license to a person, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation until the person, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation demonstrates compliance with this part 6.
The board may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for an order enjoining anact or practice that constitutes a violation of this part 6, and, upon a showing that a person, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation is engaging or intends to engage in an act or practice that violates this part 6, the court shall grant an injunction, restraining order, or other appropriate order, regardless of the existence of another remedy for the violation. Any notice, hearing, or duration of an injunction or restraining order shall be made in accordance with the Colorado rules of civil procedure.
Any person, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation violating this part6 by acting as an appraisal management company without having obtained a license or acting as an appraisal management company after the appraisal management company's license has been revoked or during any period for which the license was suspended is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof: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, for the first violation and, for a second or subsequent violation, shall be punished 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; and
If an entity, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars.
Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 683, § 1, effective October 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-61-717 as it existed prior to 2019.