Parker, CO Special Events & Permits: Street Fair Rules (2026)

Section 4.03.080 of the Parker Municipal Code requires the organizer of a multi-vendor event, defined broadly enough to cover street fairs, craft markets and festival vendor rows, to obtain a single Town sales tax license for the use of all vendors at the event. If no one steps forward as organizer, each vendor must get an individual license and remit tax directly. No later than two days before the event starts, the organizer must hand the Director a list of every vendor's name and address plus the tax license numbers of any vendors remitting on their own.

After the event, vendors and organizers must complete a tax remittance schedule on a Town-supplied form and turn it in with the collected sales tax within fifteen days of the event's end. Only the organizer, not individual vendors, may keep a 3.33 percent collection deduction from the tax remitted, and that deduction cannot exceed $200 regardless of how many vendors or how much tax was collected. Missing the fifteen-day deadline forfeits the deduction outright. Section 4.03.080(d) also flags that many multi-vendor events trigger a separate community event permit under Chapter 10.08, so an organizer applying for the Town's sales tax license still needs to check whether the event itself needs sign-off from other Town departments before it can be held on Town property or rights-of-way.