2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions and Occupations
General - Continued
Article 47 - Alcohol Beverages
Part 4 - Classes of Licenses and Permits
§ 12-47-417. Arts license

(1) (a) An arts license may be issued to any nonprofit arts organization that sponsors and presents productions or performances of an artistic or cultural nature, and the arts license permits the licensee to sell alcohol beverages only to patrons of the productions or performances for consumption on the licensed premises in connection with the productions or performances. No person licensed pursuant to this section shall permit any exterior or interior advertising concerning the sale of alcohol beverages on the licensed premises.

(b) An arts license may be issued to any municipality owning arts facilities at which productions or performances of an artistic or cultural nature are presented, in the same manner as provided for in paragraph (a) of this subsection (1) and subject to the same restrictions.

(2) Any provision of this article to the contrary notwithstanding, the proximity of premises licensed pursuant to this section to any public or parochial school or the principal campus of a college, university, or seminary shall not, in and of itself, affect the granting or denial of such license by the state and the local licensing authority, but a public or parochial school shall not contain a licensed premises. The campus of a college, university, or seminary may contain a licensed premises.

(3) As used in this section, "nonprofit arts organization" means only an organization subject to the provisions of articles 121 to 137 of title 7, C.R.S., and held to be tax-exempt by the federal internal revenue service.

(4) (a) Every person selling alcohol beverages as provided in this section shall purchase the alcohol beverages only from a wholesaler licensed pursuant to this article or article 46 of this title; except that, during a calendar year, a person selling alcohol beverages as provided in this section may purchase not more than two thousand dollars' worth of:

(I) Malt, vinous, and spirituous liquors from a retailer licensed pursuant to section 12-47-407 or 12-47-408; and

(II) Fermented malt beverages from a retailer licensed pursuant to section 12-46-104 (1) (c).

(b) An arts licensee shall retain evidence of each purchase of malt, vinous, or spirituous liquors from a retailer licensed pursuant to section 12-47-407 or 12-47-408 and each purchase of fermented malt beverages from a retailer licensed pursuant to section 12-46-104 (1) (c), in the form of a purchase receipt showing the name of the licensed retailer, the date of purchase, a description of the alcohol beverages purchased, and the price paid for the alcohol beverages. The licensee shall retain the receipt and make it available to the state and local licensing authorities at all times during business hours.