12-47-417, Arts License
(1) (a) An arts license may be issued to any nonprofit arts organization which sponsors and presents productions or performances of an artistic or cultural nature and shall permit the licensee to sell malt, vinous, and spirituous liquors only to patrons of such productions or performances for consumption on the licensed premises in connection with such productions and performances. No person licensed pursuant to this section shall permit any exterior or interior advertising concerning the sale of alcohol beverages on such 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 malt, vinous, and spirituous liquors as provided in this section shall purchase such malt, vinous, and spirituous liquors only from a wholesaler licensed pursuant to this article; except that any person selling malt, vinous, and spirituous liquors as provided in this section may purchase not more than five hundred dollars' worth of such malt, vinous, and spirituous liquors during a calendar year from a retail liquor store.
(b) Each purchase of malt, vinous, or spirituous liquors as provided in this section shall be evidenced by a purchase receipt showing the name of the retail liquor store, the date of purchase, a description of the malt, vinous, or spirituous liquor purchased, and the price paid for such purchase. Such receipt shall be retained and shall be available to the state and local licensing authorities at all times during business hours.