2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 44 - REVENUE - REGULATION OF ACTIVITIES (§§ 44-1-101 — 44-50-1001) › ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO REGULATION (§§ 44-3-101 — 44-7-107) › Article 3 - ALCOHOL BEVERAGES (§§ 44-3-101 — 44-3-1002) › Part 4 - CLASSES OF LICENSES AND PERMITS (§§ 44-3-401 — 44-3-432) › Section 44-3-419 - [Effective Until 8/7/2024] Arts license - definition

(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 subsection (1)(a) of this section and subject to the same restrictions.
(2)
Any provision of this article 3 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
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 3; 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 malt, vinous, and spirituous liquors from retailers licensed pursuant to sections
44-3-409
,
44-3-410
, and
44-4-104 (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
44-3-409
,
44-3-410
, or
44-4-104 (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.
Amended by 2019 Ch. 1, § 18, eff. 1/31/2019.
Renumbered from C.R.S. § 12-47-417 and amended by 2018 Ch. 152, § 2, eff. 10/1/2018.
L. 2018: Entire article added with relocations, (HB 18-1025), ch. 152, p. 1022, § 2, effective October 1.
This section is similar to former § 12-47-417 as it existed prior to 2018.
This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.