Section 12-10-617 - Appraisal management company license required - violations - injunction(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.(2) The board may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for an order enjoining an act 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.(3) Any person, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation violating this part 6 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obtained a license or acting as an appraisal management company after the appraisal management company's license has been revoked or during any period for which the license was suspended commits a class 2 misdemeanor.Amended by 2021 Ch. 462,§ 137, eff. 3/1/2022.Renumbered from C.R.S. § 12-61-717 and amended by 2019 Ch. 136,§ 1, eff. 10/1/2019.(1) This section is similar to former § 12-61-717 as it existed prior to 2019.
(2) 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.