As used in this article, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(1) Annual operating expenses means expenditures for all purposes except
capital construction, endowment, and payment of debt principal or interest.
(1.5) Annual operating income means operating income from all mission-based sources, except capital construction fund income, designated funds raised
for the purchase of specified capital needs, unrelated business income, funds
raised for the purpose of debt reduction, income for endowment corpus, any
distribution of moneys by the board, and any restriction established through board
policy.
(2) Board means the board of directors of a scientific and cultural facilities
district created pursuant to this article.
(3) County cultural council means a council comprised of members
appointed by the county commissioners of the county, the city council of the city
and county of Denver, or the city council of the city and county of Broomfield who
reside within the boundaries of the district and proportionately represent the
population of the incorporated and unincorporated portions of the county.
(4) Cultural facility means a nonprofit institutional organization under
section 501 (c)(3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or
any agency of local government with the primary purpose of enlightening and
entertaining the public through the production, presentation, exhibition,
advancement, or preservation of visual arts, performing arts, or cultural history, as
such terms are defined by the board. Cultural facility does not include any agency
of the state, any educational institution, any radio or television broadcasting
network or station, any cable communications system, or any newspaper or
magazine.
(5) District means a scientific and cultural facilities district created
pursuant to this article.
(6) Paid attendance means the total paid attendance at all mission-based
programs as verified by annual audit reports.
(6.5) Reasonable costs related to a coordinated election means the amount
that the district owes a county or a city and county under the terms of an
agreement entered into pursuant to the provisions of section 1-7-116, C.R.S., for the
district's share of the costs of a coordinated election; except that such amount
shall not exceed the total county or city and county election costs multiplied by
one-half of the sum of the weighted population average and the weighted ballot
average. Weighted population average equals the active registered voters who
reside in both the district and the county or city and county divided by the sum of all
active registered voters for each political subdivision, as such term is defined in
section 1-7-116 (1), C.R.S., for which the county or city and county conducts the
coordinated election. Weighted ballot average equals the number of district
referred measures, as such term is defined in section 1-1-104 (34.5), C.R.S., on the
ballot in question divided by the total number of referred measures, initiatives, and
candidate elections in the coordinated election.
(7) (a) With respect to the Denver metropolitan scientific and cultural
facilities district, scientific facility means a nonprofit institutional organization
under section 501 (c)(3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended, or an agency of local government with the primary purpose of
enlightening and entertaining the public through the production, presentation,
exhibition, advancement, or preservation of natural history or natural sciences
including earth, life, or physical sciences, as such terms are defined by the board.
Scientific facility does not include any agency of the state, any educational
institution, any radio or television broadcasting network or station, any cable
communications system, any newspaper or magazine, or any organization that is
engaged solely in the acquisition or physical restoration of historic buildings,
structures, or sites.
(b) (I) With respect to scientific and cultural facilities districts other than the
Denver metropolitan scientific and cultural facilities district, scientific facility
means a nonprofit institutional organization under section 501 (c)(3) of the federal
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or an agency of local government
with the primary purpose of enlightening and entertaining the public through the
production, presentation, exhibition, advancement, or preservation of natural
history or natural sciences including earth, life, or physical sciences, as such terms
are defined by the board. Scientific facility does not include any agency of the
state, any educational institution, any radio or television broadcasting network or
station, any cable communications system, or any newspaper or magazine.
(II) (Deleted by amendment, L. 94, p. 480, � 1, effective March 31, 1994.)
(c) For purposes of this subsection (7), cultural history means the history
that concentrates upon the social, intellectual, and artistic aspects or forces in the
life of a people, region, state, or nation, for which an understanding and
appreciation may be gained through buildings, structures, sites, architecture,
objects, and activities significant in said history.