Revenue & Finance Committee

Filed: 3/12/2009

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 303

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 303 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Use Tax Act is amended by changing Section
5 3-5 as follows:
 
6     (35 ILCS 105/3-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 439.3-5)
7     Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. Use of the following tangible
8 personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
9     (1) Personal property purchased from a corporation,
10 society, association, foundation, institution, or
11 organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
12 organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
13 for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the
14 personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
15 purpose of resale by the enterprise.
16     (2) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit

 

 

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1 Illinois county fair association for use in conducting,
2 operating, or promoting the county fair.
3     (3) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit arts or
4 cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
5 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
6 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
7 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
8 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
9 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
10 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
11 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
12 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
13 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
14 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
15 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
16 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification
17 number issued by the Department.
18     (4) Personal property purchased by a governmental body, by
19 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
20 institution organized and operated exclusively for charitable,
21 religious, or educational purposes, or by a not-for-profit
22 corporation, society, association, foundation, institution, or
23 organization that has no compensated officers or employees and
24 that is organized and operated primarily for the recreation of
25 persons 55 years of age or older. A limited liability company
26 may qualify for the exemption under this paragraph only if the

 

 

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1 limited liability company is organized and operated
2 exclusively for educational purposes. On and after July 1,
3 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for this exemption
4 shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an active exemption
5 identification number issued by the Department.
6     (5) Until July 1, 2003, a passenger car that is a
7 replacement vehicle to the extent that the purchase price of
8 the car is subject to the Replacement Vehicle Tax.
9     (6) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again on September 1,
10 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
11 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
12 manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser to be
13 used primarily for graphic arts production, and including
14 machinery and equipment purchased for lease. Equipment
15 includes chemicals or chemicals acting as catalysts but only if
16 the chemicals or chemicals acting as catalysts effect a direct
17 and immediate change upon a graphic arts product.
18     (7) Farm chemicals.
19     (8) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
20 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
21 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
22 country, and bullion.
23     (9) Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
24 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
25 secondary school located in Illinois.
26     (10) A motor vehicle of the first division, a motor vehicle

 

 

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1 of the second division that is a self-contained motor vehicle
2 designed or permanently converted to provide living quarters
3 for recreational, camping, or travel use, with direct walk
4 through to the living quarters from the driver's seat, or a
5 motor vehicle of the second division that is of the van
6 configuration designed for the transportation of not less than
7 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in Section 1-146 of
8 the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for automobile renting,
9 as defined in the Automobile Renting Occupation and Use Tax
10 Act.
11     (11) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
12 including that manufactured on special order, certified by the
13 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
14 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
15 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
16 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
17 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
18 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
19 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
20 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
21 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
22 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or
23 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
24 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under
25 this item (11). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry
26 boxes shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle

 

 

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1 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
2 vehicle required to be licensed if the selling price of the
3 tender is separately stated.
4     Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
5 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
6 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
7 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
8 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
9 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
10 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
11 such equipment.
12     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
13 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
14 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
15 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
16 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
17 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
18 agricultural chemicals. This item (11) is exempt from the
19 provisions of Section 3-90.
20     (12) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
21 common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
22 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
23 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for or
24 returning from a location or locations outside the United
25 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
26 stopovers.

 

 

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1     (13) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
2 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption of
3 food and beverages purchased at retail from a retailer, to the
4 extent that the proceeds of the service charge are in fact
5 turned over as tips or as a substitute for tips to the
6 employees who participate directly in preparing, serving,
7 hosting or cleaning up the food or beverage function with
8 respect to which the service charge is imposed.
9     (14) Until July 1, 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
10 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
11 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
12 tubular goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps
13 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
14 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
15 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
16 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
17 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
18     (15) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
19 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including that
20 manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser to be
21 used primarily for photoprocessing, and including
22 photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased for lease.
23     (16) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,
24 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation
25 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
26 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor

 

 

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1 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
2 Code.
3     (17) Until July 1, 2003, distillation machinery and
4 equipment, sold as a unit or kit, assembled or installed by the
5 retailer, certified by the user to be used only for the
6 production of ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption
7 as motor fuel or as a component of motor fuel for the personal
8 use of the user, and not subject to sale or resale.
9     (18) Manufacturing and assembling machinery and equipment
10 used primarily in the process of manufacturing or assembling
11 tangible personal property for wholesale or retail sale or
12 lease, whether that sale or lease is made directly by the
13 manufacturer or by some other person, whether the materials
14 used in the process are owned by the manufacturer or some other
15 person, or whether that sale or lease is made apart from or as
16 an incident to the seller's engaging in the service occupation
17 of producing machines, tools, dies, jigs, patterns, gauges, or
18 other similar items of no commercial value on special order for
19 a particular purchaser.
20     (19) Personal property delivered to a purchaser or
21 purchaser's donee inside Illinois when the purchase order for
22 that personal property was received by a florist located
23 outside Illinois who has a florist located inside Illinois
24 deliver the personal property.
25     (20) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
26 for direct agricultural production.

 

 

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1     (21) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
2 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
3 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
4 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
5 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
6 racing for prizes. This item (21) is exempt from the provisions
7 of Section 3-90, and the exemption provided for under this item
8 (21) applies for all periods beginning May 30, 1995, but no
9 claim for credit or refund is allowed on or after January 1,
10 2008 for such taxes paid during the period beginning May 30,
11 2000 and ending on January 1, 2008.
12     (22) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
13 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
14 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients purchased by a
15 lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
16 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
17 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
18 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
19 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
20 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased in a
21 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
22 any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
23 tax imposed under this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
24 case may be, based on the fair market value of the property at
25 the time the non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect
26 or attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that

 

 

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1 purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
2 Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax
3 has not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly
4 collects any such amount from the lessee, the lessee shall have
5 a legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the lessor.
6 If, however, that amount is not refunded to the lessee for any
7 reason, the lessor is liable to pay that amount to the
8 Department.
9     (23) Personal property purchased by a lessor who leases the
10 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
11 effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be subject to the
12 tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that has been
13 issued an active sales tax exemption identification number by
14 the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation
15 Tax Act. If the property is leased in a manner that does not
16 qualify for this exemption or used in any other non-exempt
17 manner, the lessor shall be liable for the tax imposed under
18 this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based
19 on the fair market value of the property at the time the
20 non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or attempt
21 to collect an amount (however designated) that purports to
22 reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
23 Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been
24 paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such
25 amount from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to
26 claim a refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however,

 

 

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1 that amount is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the
2 lessor is liable to pay that amount to the Department.
3     (24) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
4 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
5 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated for
6 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
7 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
8 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
9 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
10 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
11 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
12 who reside within the declared disaster area.
13     (25) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
14 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
15 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in the
16 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
17 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
18 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
19 line extensions, water distribution and purification
20 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
21 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
22 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
23 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
24 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
25     (26) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds purchased
26 at a "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic

 

 

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1 game hunting area" as those terms are used in the Wildlife Code
2 or at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
3 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from
4 the provisions of Section 3-90.
5     (27) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
6 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
7 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
8 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
9 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
10 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
11 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,
12 or institution organized and operated exclusively for
13 educational purposes" means all tax-supported public schools,
14 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
15 branches of learning by methods common to public schools and
16 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
17 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
18 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and
19 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
20 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
21 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
22 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
23     (28) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
24 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
25 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
26 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if

 

 

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1 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
2 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
3 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
4 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
5 private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising
6 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
7 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
8 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
9 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
10 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
11     (29) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
12 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
13 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other
14 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
15 January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines and parts
16 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
17 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
18 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
19 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
20 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
21     (30) Beginning January 1, 2001 and through June 30, 2011,
22 food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the
23 premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, soft
24 drinks, and food that has been prepared for immediate
25 consumption) and prescription and nonprescription medicines,
26 drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine testing

 

 

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1 materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for human
2 use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
3 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
4 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
5 the Nursing Home Care Act.
6     (31) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
7 of the 92nd General Assembly, computers and communications
8 equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and equipment used
9 in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of hospital patients
10 purchased by a lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease
11 of one year or longer executed or in effect at the time the
12 lessor would otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this
13 Act, to a hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
14 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
15 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased in a
16 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
17 any other nonexempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
18 tax imposed under this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
19 case may be, based on the fair market value of the property at
20 the time the nonqualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect
21 or attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that
22 purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
23 Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax
24 has not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly
25 collects any such amount from the lessee, the lessee shall have
26 a legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the lessor.

 

 

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1 If, however, that amount is not refunded to the lessee for any
2 reason, the lessor is liable to pay that amount to the
3 Department. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
4 Section 3-90.
5     (32) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
6 of the 92nd General Assembly, personal property purchased by a
7 lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year or
8 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
9 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
10 governmental body that has been issued an active sales tax
11 exemption identification number by the Department under
12 Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the
13 property is leased in a manner that does not qualify for this
14 exemption or used in any other nonexempt manner, the lessor
15 shall be liable for the tax imposed under this Act or the
16 Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based on the fair
17 market value of the property at the time the nonqualifying use
18 occurs. No lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount
19 (however designated) that purports to reimburse that lessor for
20 the tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
21 case may be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor. If a
22 lessor improperly collects any such amount from the lessee, the
23 lessee shall have a legal right to claim a refund of that
24 amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount is not
25 refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is liable to
26 pay that amount to the Department. This paragraph is exempt

 

 

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1 from the provisions of Section 3-90.
2     (33) On and after July 1, 2003 and through June 30, 2004,
3 the use in this State of motor vehicles of the second division
4 with a gross vehicle weight in excess of 8,000 pounds and that
5 are subject to the commercial distribution fee imposed under
6 Section 3-815.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code. Beginning on July
7 1, 2004 and through June 30, 2005, the use in this State of
8 motor vehicles of the second division: (i) with a gross vehicle
9 weight rating in excess of 8,000 pounds; (ii) that are subject
10 to the commercial distribution fee imposed under Section
11 3-815.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code; and (iii) that are
12 primarily used for commercial purposes. Through June 30, 2005,
13 this exemption applies to repair and replacement parts added
14 after the initial purchase of such a motor vehicle if that
15 motor vehicle is used in a manner that would qualify for the
16 rolling stock exemption otherwise provided for in this Act. For
17 purposes of this paragraph, the term "used for commercial
18 purposes" means the transportation of persons or property in
19 furtherance of any commercial or industrial enterprise,
20 whether for-hire or not.
21     (34) Beginning January 1, 2008, tangible personal property
22 used in the construction or maintenance of a community water
23 supply, as defined under Section 3.145 of the Environmental
24 Protection Act, that is operated by a not-for-profit
25 corporation that holds a valid water supply permit issued under
26 Title IV of the Environmental Protection Act. This paragraph is

 

 

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1 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
2     (35) Monuments or monument components purchased for the
3 purpose of honoring military veterans, as defined in 10 U.S.C.
4 1491, if the monument or monument component is purchased by (i)
5 a nonprofit organization that is exempt from federal income
6 taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the federal Internal
7 Revenue Code of 1986, or (ii) a veterans organization chartered
8 under federal law, limited to purchases from one retailer per
9 monument or monument component. An exemption under this
10 paragraph is limited to $2,000 per monument. For the purposes
11 of this paragraph, a monument is a structure, other than a
12 building, erected with the primary purpose of commemorating a
13 person or event.
14 (Source: P.A. 94-1002, eff. 7-3-06; 95-88, eff. 1-1-08; 95-538,
15 eff. 1-1-08; 95-876, eff. 8-21-08.)
 
16     Section 10. The Service Use Tax Act is amended by changing
17 Section 3-5 as follows:
 
18     (35 ILCS 110/3-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-5)
19     Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. Use of the following tangible
20 personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
21     (1) Personal property purchased from a corporation,
22 society, association, foundation, institution, or
23 organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
24 organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise

 

 

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1 for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the
2 personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
3 purpose of resale by the enterprise.
4     (2) Personal property purchased by a non-profit Illinois
5 county fair association for use in conducting, operating, or
6 promoting the county fair.
7     (3) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit arts or
8 cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
9 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
10 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
11 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
12 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
13 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
14 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
15 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
16 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
17 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
18 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
19 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
20 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification
21 number issued by the Department.
22     (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
23 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
24 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
25 country, and bullion.
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1 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
2 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
3 manufactured on special order or purchased for lease, certified
4 by the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
5 production. Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals acting
6 as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals acting as
7 catalysts effect a direct and immediate change upon a graphic
8 arts product.
9     (6) Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
10 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
11 secondary school located in Illinois.
12     (7) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
13 including that manufactured on special order, certified by the
14 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
15 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
16 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
17 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
18 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
19 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
20 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
21 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
22 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
23 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or
24 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
25 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under
26 this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry boxes

 

 

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1 shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle
2 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
3 vehicle required to be licensed if the selling price of the
4 tender is separately stated.
5     Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
6 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
7 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
8 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
9 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
10 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
11 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
12 such equipment.
13     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
14 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
15 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
16 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
17 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
18 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
19 agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt from the
20 provisions of Section 3-75.
21     (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
22 common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
23 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
24 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for or
25 returning from a location or locations outside the United
26 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic

 

 

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1 stopovers.
2     (9) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
3 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption of
4 food and beverages acquired as an incident to the purchase of a
5 service from a serviceman, to the extent that the proceeds of
6 the service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
7 substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
8 in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or
9 beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
10 imposed.
11     (10) Until July 1, 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
12 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
13 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
14 tubular goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps
15 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
16 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
17 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
18 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
19 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
20     (11) Proceeds from the sale of photoprocessing machinery
21 and equipment, including repair and replacement parts, both new
22 and used, including that manufactured on special order,
23 certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
24 photoprocessing, and including photoprocessing machinery and
25 equipment purchased for lease.
26     (12) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,

 

 

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1 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation
2 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
3 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor
4 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
5 Code.
6     (13) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
7 for direct agricultural production.
8     (14) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
9 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
10 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
11 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
12 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
13 racing for prizes. This item (14) is exempt from the provisions
14 of Section 3-75, and the exemption provided for under this item
15 (14) applies for all periods beginning May 30, 1995, but no
16 claim for credit or refund is allowed on or after the effective
17 date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly for
18 such taxes paid during the period beginning May 30, 2000 and
19 ending on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th
20 General Assembly.
21     (15) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
22 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
23 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients purchased by a
24 lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
25 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
26 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a

 

 

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1 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
2 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
3 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased in a
4 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
5 any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
6 tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
7 be, based on the fair market value of the property at the time
8 the non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or
9 attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that purports
10 to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
11 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
12 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount
13 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
14 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
15 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
16 liable to pay that amount to the Department.
17     (16) Personal property purchased by a lessor who leases the
18 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
19 effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be subject to the
20 tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that has been
21 issued an active tax exemption identification number by the
22 Department under Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation Tax
23 Act. If the property is leased in a manner that does not
24 qualify for this exemption or is used in any other non-exempt
25 manner, the lessor shall be liable for the tax imposed under
26 this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based on the

 

 

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1 fair market value of the property at the time the
2 non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or attempt
3 to collect an amount (however designated) that purports to
4 reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
5 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
6 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount
7 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
8 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
9 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
10 liable to pay that amount to the Department.
11     (17) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
12 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
13 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated for
14 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
15 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
16 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
17 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
18 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
19 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
20 who reside within the declared disaster area.
21     (18) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
22 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
23 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in the
24 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
25 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
26 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer

 

 

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1 line extensions, water distribution and purification
2 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
3 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
4 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
5 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
6 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
7     (19) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds purchased
8 at a "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic
9 game hunting area" as those terms are used in the Wildlife Code
10 or at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
11 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from
12 the provisions of Section 3-75.
13     (20) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
14 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
15 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
16 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
17 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
18 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
19 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,
20 or institution organized and operated exclusively for
21 educational purposes" means all tax-supported public schools,
22 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
23 branches of learning by methods common to public schools and
24 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
25 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
26 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and

 

 

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1 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
2 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
3 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
4 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
5     (21) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
6 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
7 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
8 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
9 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
10 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
11 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
12 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
13 private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising
14 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
15 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
16 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
17 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
18 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
19     (22) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
20 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
21 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other
22 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
23 January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines and parts
24 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
25 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
26 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,

 

 

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1 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
2 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
3     (23) Beginning August 23, 2001 and through June 30, 2011,
4 food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the
5 premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, soft
6 drinks, and food that has been prepared for immediate
7 consumption) and prescription and nonprescription medicines,
8 drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine testing
9 materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for human
10 use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
11 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
12 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
13 the Nursing Home Care Act.
14     (24) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
15 of the 92nd General Assembly, computers and communications
16 equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and equipment used
17 in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of hospital patients
18 purchased by a lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease
19 of one year or longer executed or in effect at the time the
20 lessor would otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this
21 Act, to a hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
22 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
23 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased in a
24 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
25 any other nonexempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
26 tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may

 

 

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1 be, based on the fair market value of the property at the time
2 the nonqualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or
3 attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that purports
4 to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
5 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
6 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount
7 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
8 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
9 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
10 liable to pay that amount to the Department. This paragraph is
11 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
12     (25) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
13 of the 92nd General Assembly, personal property purchased by a
14 lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year or
15 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
16 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
17 governmental body that has been issued an active tax exemption
18 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
19 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the property is leased in a
20 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
21 any other nonexempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
22 tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
23 be, based on the fair market value of the property at the time
24 the nonqualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or
25 attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that purports
26 to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the

 

 

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1 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
2 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount
3 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
4 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
5 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
6 liable to pay that amount to the Department. This paragraph is
7 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
8     (26) Beginning January 1, 2008, tangible personal property
9 used in the construction or maintenance of a community water
10 supply, as defined under Section 3.145 of the Environmental
11 Protection Act, that is operated by a not-for-profit
12 corporation that holds a valid water supply permit issued under
13 Title IV of the Environmental Protection Act. This paragraph is
14 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
15     (27) Monuments or monument components purchased for the
16 purpose of honoring military veterans, as defined in 10 U.S.C.
17 1491, if the monument or monument component is purchased by (i)
18 a nonprofit organization that is exempt from federal income
19 taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the federal Internal
20 Revenue Code of 1986, or (ii) a veterans organization chartered
21 under federal law, limited to purchases from one retailer per
22 monument or monument component. An exemption under this
23 paragraph is limited to $2,000 per monument. For the purposes
24 of this paragraph, a monument is a structure, other than a
25 building, erected with the primary purpose of commemorating a
26 person or event.

 

 

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1 (Source: P.A. 94-1002, eff. 7-3-06; 95-88, eff. 1-1-08; 95-538,
2 eff. 1-1-08; 95-876, eff. 8-21-08.)
 
3     Section 15. The Service Occupation Tax Act is amended by
4 changing Section 3-5 as follows:
 
5     (35 ILCS 115/3-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-5)
6     Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. The following tangible personal
7 property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
8     (1) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
9 association, foundation, institution, or organization, other
10 than a limited liability company, that is organized and
11 operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the benefit
12 of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal property
13 was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose of resale
14 by the enterprise.
15     (2) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
16 Illinois county fair association for use in conducting,
17 operating, or promoting the county fair.
18     (3) Personal property purchased by any not-for-profit arts
19 or cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
20 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
21 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
22 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
23 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
24 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,

 

 

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1 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
2 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
3 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
4 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
5 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
6 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
7 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification
8 number issued by the Department.
9     (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
10 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
11 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
12 country, and bullion.
13     (5) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again on September 1,
14 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
15 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
16 manufactured on special order or purchased for lease, certified
17 by the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
18 production. Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals acting
19 as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals acting as
20 catalysts effect a direct and immediate change upon a graphic
21 arts product.
22     (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored student
23 organization affiliated with an elementary or secondary school
24 located in Illinois.
25     (7) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
26 including that manufactured on special order, certified by the

 

 

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1 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
2 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
3 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
4 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
5 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
6 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
7 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
8 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
9 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
10 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or
11 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
12 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under
13 this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry boxes
14 shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle
15 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
16 vehicle required to be licensed if the selling price of the
17 tender is separately stated.
18     Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
19 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
20 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
21 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
22 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
23 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
24 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
25 such equipment.
26     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,

 

 

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1 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
2 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
3 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
4 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
5 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
6 agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt from the
7 provisions of Section 3-55.
8     (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
9 common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
10 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
11 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for or
12 returning from a location or locations outside the United
13 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
14 stopovers.
15     (9) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
16 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption of
17 food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
18 service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
19 substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
20 in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or
21 beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
22 imposed.
23     (10) Until July 1, 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
24 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
25 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
26 tubular goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps

 

 

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1 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
2 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
3 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
4 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
5 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
6     (11) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
7 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including that
8 manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser to be
9 used primarily for photoprocessing, and including
10 photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased for lease.
11     (12) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,
12 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation
13 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
14 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor
15 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
16 Code.
17     (13) Beginning January 1, 1992 and through June 30, 2011,
18 food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the
19 premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, soft
20 drinks and food that has been prepared for immediate
21 consumption) and prescription and non-prescription medicines,
22 drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine testing
23 materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for human
24 use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
25 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
26 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in

 

 

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1 the Nursing Home Care Act.
2     (14) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
3 for direct agricultural production.
4     (15) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
5 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
6 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
7 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
8 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
9 racing for prizes. This item (15) is exempt from the provisions
10 of Section 3-55, and the exemption provided for under this item
11 (15) applies for all periods beginning May 30, 1995, but no
12 claim for credit or refund is allowed on or after January 1,
13 2008 (the effective date of Public Act 95-88) for such taxes
14 paid during the period beginning May 30, 2000 and ending on
15 January 1, 2008 (the effective date of Public Act 95-88).
16     (16) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
17 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
18 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
19 who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
20 executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
21 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
22 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
23 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.
24     (17) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
25 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
26 effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental body that

 

 

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1 has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
2 by the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation
3 Tax Act.
4     (18) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
5 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
6 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated for
7 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
8 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
9 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
10 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
11 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
12 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
13 who reside within the declared disaster area.
14     (19) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
15 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
16 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in the
17 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
18 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
19 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
20 line extensions, water distribution and purification
21 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
22 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
23 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
24 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
25 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
26     (20) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold at a

 

 

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1 "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic game
2 hunting area" as those terms are used in the Wildlife Code or
3 at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
4 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from
5 the provisions of Section 3-55.
6     (21) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
7 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
8 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
9 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
10 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
11 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
12 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,
13 or institution organized and operated exclusively for
14 educational purposes" means all tax-supported public schools,
15 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
16 branches of learning by methods common to public schools and
17 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
18 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
19 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and
20 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
21 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
22 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
23 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
24     (22) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
25 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
26 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,

 

 

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1 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
2 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
3 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
4 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
5 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
6 private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising
7 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
8 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
9 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
10 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
11 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
12     (23) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
13 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
14 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other
15 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
16 January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines and parts
17 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
18 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
19 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
20 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
21 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
22     (24) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
23 of the 92nd General Assembly, computers and communications
24 equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and equipment used
25 in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of hospital patients
26 sold to a lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one

 

 

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1 year or longer executed or in effect at the time of the
2 purchase, to a hospital that has been issued an active tax
3 exemption identification number by the Department under
4 Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. This paragraph
5 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
6     (25) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
7 of the 92nd General Assembly, personal property sold to a
8 lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year or
9 longer executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
10 governmental body that has been issued an active tax exemption
11 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
12 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. This paragraph is exempt from
13 the provisions of Section 3-55.
14     (26) Beginning on January 1, 2002 and through June 30,
15 2011, tangible personal property purchased from an Illinois
16 retailer by a taxpayer engaged in centralized purchasing
17 activities in Illinois who will, upon receipt of the property
18 in Illinois, temporarily store the property in Illinois (i) for
19 the purpose of subsequently transporting it outside this State
20 for use or consumption thereafter solely outside this State or
21 (ii) for the purpose of being processed, fabricated, or
22 manufactured into, attached to, or incorporated into other
23 tangible personal property to be transported outside this State
24 and thereafter used or consumed solely outside this State. The
25 Director of Revenue shall, pursuant to rules adopted in
26 accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act,

 

 

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1 issue a permit to any taxpayer in good standing with the
2 Department who is eligible for the exemption under this
3 paragraph (26). The permit issued under this paragraph (26)
4 shall authorize the holder, to the extent and in the manner
5 specified in the rules adopted under this Act, to purchase
6 tangible personal property from a retailer exempt from the
7 taxes imposed by this Act. Taxpayers shall maintain all
8 necessary books and records to substantiate the use and
9 consumption of all such tangible personal property outside of
10 the State of Illinois.
11     (27) Beginning January 1, 2008, tangible personal property
12 used in the construction or maintenance of a community water
13 supply, as defined under Section 3.145 of the Environmental
14 Protection Act, that is operated by a not-for-profit
15 corporation that holds a valid water supply permit issued under
16 Title IV of the Environmental Protection Act. This paragraph is
17 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
18     (28) Monuments or monument components purchased for the
19 purpose of honoring military veterans, as defined in 10 U.S.C.
20 1491, if the monument or monument component is purchased by (i)
21 a nonprofit organization that is exempt from federal income
22 taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the federal Internal
23 Revenue Code of 1986, or (ii) a veterans organization chartered
24 under federal law, limited to purchases from one retailer per
25 monument or monument component. An exemption under this
26 paragraph is limited to $2,000 per monument. For the purposes

 

 

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1 of this paragraph, a monument is a structure, other than a
2 building, erected with the primary purpose of commemorating a
3 person or event.
4 (Source: P.A. 94-1002, eff. 7-3-06; 95-88, eff. 1-1-08; 95-538,
5 eff. 1-1-08; 95-876, eff. 8-21-08.)
 
6     Section 20. The Retailers' Occupation Tax Act is amended by
7 changing Section 2-5 as follows:
 
8     (35 ILCS 120/2-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 441-5)
9     Sec. 2-5. Exemptions. Gross receipts from proceeds from the
10 sale of the following tangible personal property are exempt
11 from the tax imposed by this Act:
12     (1) Farm chemicals.
13     (2) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
14 including that manufactured on special order, certified by the
15 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
16 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
17 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
18 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
19 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
20 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
21 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
22 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
23 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
24 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or

 

 

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1 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
2 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under
3 this item (2). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry boxes
4 shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle
5 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
6 vehicle required to be licensed, if the selling price of the
7 tender is separately stated.
8     Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
9 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
10 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
11 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
12 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
13 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
14 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
15 such equipment.
16     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
17 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
18 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
19 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
20 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
21 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
22 agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt from the
23 provisions of Section 2-70.
24     (3) Until July 1, 2003, distillation machinery and
25 equipment, sold as a unit or kit, assembled or installed by the
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1 production of ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption
2 as motor fuel or as a component of motor fuel for the personal
3 use of the user, and not subject to sale or resale.
4     (4) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again September 1,
5 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
6 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
7 manufactured on special order or purchased for lease, certified
8 by the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
9 production. Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals acting
10 as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals acting as
11 catalysts effect a direct and immediate change upon a graphic
12 arts product.
13     (5) A motor vehicle of the first division, a motor vehicle
14 of the second division that is a self contained motor vehicle
15 designed or permanently converted to provide living quarters
16 for recreational, camping, or travel use, with direct walk
17 through access to the living quarters from the driver's seat,
18 or a motor vehicle of the second division that is of the van
19 configuration designed for the transportation of not less than
20 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in Section 1-146 of
21 the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for automobile renting,
22 as defined in the Automobile Renting Occupation and Use Tax
23 Act. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section
24 2-70.
25     (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored student
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1 located in Illinois.
2     (7) Until July 1, 2003, proceeds of that portion of the
3 selling price of a passenger car the sale of which is subject
4 to the Replacement Vehicle Tax.
5     (8) Personal property sold to an Illinois county fair
6 association for use in conducting, operating, or promoting the
7 county fair.
8     (9) Personal property sold to a not-for-profit arts or
9 cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
10 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
11 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
12 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
13 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
14 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
15 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
16 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
17 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
18 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
19 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
20 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
21 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification
22 number issued by the Department.
23     (10) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
24 association, foundation, institution, or organization, other
25 than a limited liability company, that is organized and
26 operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the benefit

 

 

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1 of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal property
2 was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose of resale
3 by the enterprise.
4     (11) Personal property sold to a governmental body, to a
5 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
6 organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious,
7 or educational purposes, or to a not-for-profit corporation,
8 society, association, foundation, institution, or organization
9 that has no compensated officers or employees and that is
10 organized and operated primarily for the recreation of persons
11 55 years of age or older. A limited liability company may
12 qualify for the exemption under this paragraph only if the
13 limited liability company is organized and operated
14 exclusively for educational purposes. On and after July 1,
15 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for this exemption
16 shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an active
17 identification number issued by the Department.
18     (12) Tangible personal property sold to interstate
19 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate
20 commerce or to lessors under leases of one year or longer
21 executed or in effect at the time of purchase by interstate
22 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate
23 commerce and equipment operated by a telecommunications
24 provider, licensed as a common carrier by the Federal
25 Communications Commission, which is permanently installed in
26 or affixed to aircraft moving in interstate commerce.

 

 

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1     (12-5) On and after July 1, 2003 and through June 30, 2004,
2 motor vehicles of the second division with a gross vehicle
3 weight in excess of 8,000 pounds that are subject to the
4 commercial distribution fee imposed under Section 3-815.1 of
5 the Illinois Vehicle Code. Beginning on July 1, 2004 and
6 through June 30, 2005, the use in this State of motor vehicles
7 of the second division: (i) with a gross vehicle weight rating
8 in excess of 8,000 pounds; (ii) that are subject to the
9 commercial distribution fee imposed under Section 3-815.1 of
10 the Illinois Vehicle Code; and (iii) that are primarily used
11 for commercial purposes. Through June 30, 2005, this exemption
12 applies to repair and replacement parts added after the initial
13 purchase of such a motor vehicle if that motor vehicle is used
14 in a manner that would qualify for the rolling stock exemption
15 otherwise provided for in this Act. For purposes of this
16 paragraph, "used for commercial purposes" means the
17 transportation of persons or property in furtherance of any
18 commercial or industrial enterprise whether for-hire or not.
19     (13) Proceeds from sales to owners, lessors, or shippers of
20 tangible personal property that is utilized by interstate
21 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate
22 commerce and equipment operated by a telecommunications
23 provider, licensed as a common carrier by the Federal
24 Communications Commission, which is permanently installed in
25 or affixed to aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
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1 purchaser, or a lessee of the purchaser, primarily in the
2 process of manufacturing or assembling tangible personal
3 property for wholesale or retail sale or lease, whether the
4 sale or lease is made directly by the manufacturer or by some
5 other person, whether the materials used in the process are
6 owned by the manufacturer or some other person, or whether the
7 sale or lease is made apart from or as an incident to the
8 seller's engaging in the service occupation of producing
9 machines, tools, dies, jigs, patterns, gauges, or other similar
10 items of no commercial value on special order for a particular
11 purchaser.
12     (15) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
13 stated on customers' bills for purchase and consumption of food
14 and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the service
15 charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a substitute for
16 tips to the employees who participate directly in preparing,
17 serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or beverage function
18 with respect to which the service charge is imposed.
19     (16) Petroleum products sold to a purchaser if the seller
20 is prohibited by federal law from charging tax to the
21 purchaser.
22     (17) Tangible personal property sold to a common carrier by
23 rail or motor that receives the physical possession of the
24 property in Illinois and that transports the property, or
25 shares with another common carrier in the transportation of the
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1 showing the seller of the property as the shipper or consignor
2 of the property to a destination outside Illinois, for use
3 outside Illinois.
4     (18) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
5 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
6 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
7 country, and bullion.
8     (19) Until July 1 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
9 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
10 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
11 tubular goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps
12 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
13 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
14 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
15 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
16 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
17     (20) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
18 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including that
19 manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser to be
20 used primarily for photoprocessing, and including
21 photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased for lease.
22     (21) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,
23 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation
24 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
25 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor
26 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle

 

 

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1 Code.
2     (22) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
3 carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for consumption,
4 shipment, or storage in the conduct of its business as an air
5 common carrier, for a flight destined for or returning from a
6 location or locations outside the United States without regard
7 to previous or subsequent domestic stopovers.
8     (23) A transaction in which the purchase order is received
9 by a florist who is located outside Illinois, but who has a
10 florist located in Illinois deliver the property to the
11 purchaser or the purchaser's donee in Illinois.
12     (24) Fuel consumed or used in the operation of ships,
13 barges, or vessels that are used primarily in or for the
14 transportation of property or the conveyance of persons for
15 hire on rivers bordering on this State if the fuel is delivered
16 by the seller to the purchaser's barge, ship, or vessel while
17 it is afloat upon that bordering river.
18     (25) Except as provided in item (25-5) of this Section, a
19 motor vehicle sold in this State to a nonresident even though
20 the motor vehicle is delivered to the nonresident in this
21 State, if the motor vehicle is not to be titled in this State,
22 and if a drive-away permit is issued to the motor vehicle as
23 provided in Section 3-603 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or if
24 the nonresident purchaser has vehicle registration plates to
25 transfer to the motor vehicle upon returning to his or her home
26 state. The issuance of the drive-away permit or having the

 

 

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1 out-of-state registration plates to be transferred is prima
2 facie evidence that the motor vehicle will not be titled in
3 this State.
4     (25-5) The exemption under item (25) does not apply if the
5 state in which the motor vehicle will be titled does not allow
6 a reciprocal exemption for a motor vehicle sold and delivered
7 in that state to an Illinois resident but titled in Illinois.
8 The tax collected under this Act on the sale of a motor vehicle
9 in this State to a resident of another state that does not
10 allow a reciprocal exemption shall be imposed at a rate equal
11 to the state's rate of tax on taxable property in the state in
12 which the purchaser is a resident, except that the tax shall
13 not exceed the tax that would otherwise be imposed under this
14 Act. At the time of the sale, the purchaser shall execute a
15 statement, signed under penalty of perjury, of his or her
16 intent to title the vehicle in the state in which the purchaser
17 is a resident within 30 days after the sale and of the fact of
18 the payment to the State of Illinois of tax in an amount
19 equivalent to the state's rate of tax on taxable property in
20 his or her state of residence and shall submit the statement to
21 the appropriate tax collection agency in his or her state of
22 residence. In addition, the retailer must retain a signed copy
23 of the statement in his or her records. Nothing in this item
24 shall be construed to require the removal of the vehicle from
25 this state following the filing of an intent to title the
26 vehicle in the purchaser's state of residence if the purchaser

 

 

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1 titles the vehicle in his or her state of residence within 30
2 days after the date of sale. The tax collected under this Act
3 in accordance with this item (25-5) shall be proportionately
4 distributed as if the tax were collected at the 6.25% general
5 rate imposed under this Act.
6     (25-7) Beginning on July 1, 2007, no tax is imposed under
7 this Act on the sale of an aircraft, as defined in Section 3 of
8 the Illinois Aeronautics Act, if all of the following
9 conditions are met:
10         (1) the aircraft leaves this State within 15 days after
11     the later of either the issuance of the final billing for
12     the sale of the aircraft, or the authorized approval for
13     return to service, completion of the maintenance record
14     entry, and completion of the test flight and ground test
15     for inspection, as required by 14 C.F.R. 91.407;
16         (2) the aircraft is not based or registered in this
17     State after the sale of the aircraft; and
18         (3) the seller retains in his or her books and records
19     and provides to the Department a signed and dated
20     certification from the purchaser, on a form prescribed by
21     the Department, certifying that the requirements of this
22     item (25-7) are met. The certificate must also include the
23     name and address of the purchaser, the address of the
24     location where the aircraft is to be titled or registered,
25     the address of the primary physical location of the
26     aircraft, and other information that the Department may

 

 

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1     reasonably require.
2     For purposes of this item (25-7):
3     "Based in this State" means hangared, stored, or otherwise
4 used, excluding post-sale customizations as defined in this
5 Section, for 10 or more days in each 12-month period
6 immediately following the date of the sale of the aircraft.
7     "Registered in this State" means an aircraft registered
8 with the Department of Transportation, Aeronautics Division,
9 or titled or registered with the Federal Aviation
10 Administration to an address located in this State.
11     This paragraph (25-7) is exempt from the provisions of
12 Section 2-70.
13     (26) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
14 for direct agricultural production.
15     (27) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
16 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
17 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
18 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
19 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
20 racing for prizes. This item (27) is exempt from the provisions
21 of Section 2-70, and the exemption provided for under this item
22 (27) applies for all periods beginning May 30, 1995, but no
23 claim for credit or refund is allowed on or after January 1,
24 2008 (the effective date of Public Act 95-88) for such taxes
25 paid during the period beginning May 30, 2000 and ending on
26 January 1, 2008 (the effective date of Public Act 95-88) .

 

 

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1     (28) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
2 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
3 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
4 who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
5 executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
6 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
7 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
8 this Act.
9     (29) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
10 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
11 effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental body that
12 has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
13 by the Department under Section 1g of this Act.
14     (30) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
15 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
16 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated for
17 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
18 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
19 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
20 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
21 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
22 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
23 who reside within the declared disaster area.
24     (31) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
25 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
26 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in the

 

 

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1 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
2 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
3 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
4 line extensions, water distribution and purification
5 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
6 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
7 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
8 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
9 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
10     (32) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold at a
11 "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic game
12 hunting area" as those terms are used in the Wildlife Code or
13 at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
14 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from
15 the provisions of Section 2-70.
16     (33) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
17 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
18 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
19 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
20 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
21 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
22 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,
23 or institution organized and operated exclusively for
24 educational purposes" means all tax-supported public schools,
25 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
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1 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
2 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
3 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and
4 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
5 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
6 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
7 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
8     (34) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
9 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
10 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
11 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
12 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
13 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
14 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
15 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
16 private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising
17 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
18 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
19 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
20 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
21 exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
22     (35) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
23 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
24 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other
25 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
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1 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
2 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
3 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
4 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
5 is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
6     (35-5) Beginning August 23, 2001 and through June 30, 2011,
7 food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the
8 premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, soft
9 drinks, and food that has been prepared for immediate
10 consumption) and prescription and nonprescription medicines,
11 drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine testing
12 materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for human
13 use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
14 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
15 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
16 the Nursing Home Care Act.
17     (36) Beginning August 2, 2001, computers and
18 communications equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and
19 equipment used in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of
20 hospital patients sold to a lessor who leases the equipment,
21 under a lease of one year or longer executed or in effect at
22 the time of the purchase, to a hospital that has been issued an
23 active tax exemption identification number by the Department
24 under Section 1g of this Act. This paragraph is exempt from the
25 provisions of Section 2-70.
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1 lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year or
2 longer executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
3 governmental body that has been issued an active tax exemption
4 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
5 this Act. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
6 Section 2-70.
7     (38) Beginning on January 1, 2002 and through June 30,
8 2011, tangible personal property purchased from an Illinois
9 retailer by a taxpayer engaged in centralized purchasing
10 activities in Illinois who will, upon receipt of the property
11 in Illinois, temporarily store the property in Illinois (i) for
12 the purpose of subsequently transporting it outside this State
13 for use or consumption thereafter solely outside this State or
14 (ii) for the purpose of being processed, fabricated, or
15 manufactured into, attached to, or incorporated into other
16 tangible personal property to be transported outside this State
17 and thereafter used or consumed solely outside this State. The
18 Director of Revenue shall, pursuant to rules adopted in
19 accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act,
20 issue a permit to any taxpayer in good standing with the
21 Department who is eligible for the exemption under this
22 paragraph (38). The permit issued under this paragraph (38)
23 shall authorize the holder, to the extent and in the manner
24 specified in the rules adopted under this Act, to purchase
25 tangible personal property from a retailer exempt from the
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1 necessary books and records to substantiate the use and
2 consumption of all such tangible personal property outside of
3 the State of Illinois.
4     (39) Beginning January 1, 2008, tangible personal property
5 used in the construction or maintenance of a community water
6 supply, as defined under Section 3.145 of the Environmental
7 Protection Act, that is operated by a not-for-profit
8 corporation that holds a valid water supply permit issued under
9 Title IV of the Environmental Protection Act. This paragraph is
10 exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
11     (40) Monuments or monument components purchased for the
12 purpose of honoring military veterans, as defined in 10 U.S.C.
13 1491, if the monument or monument component is purchased by (i)
14 a nonprofit organization that is exempt from federal income
15 taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the federal Internal
16 Revenue Code of 1986, or (ii) a veterans organization chartered
17 under federal law, limited to purchases from one retailer per
18 monument or monument component. An exemption under this
19 paragraph is limited to $2,000 per monument. For the purposes
20 of this paragraph, a monument is a structure, other than a
21 building, erected with the primary purpose of commemorating a
22 person or event.
23 (Source: P.A. 94-1002, eff. 7-3-06; 95-88, eff. 1-1-08; 95-233,
24 eff. 8-16-07; 95-304, eff. 8-20-07; 95-538, eff. 1-1-08;
25 95-707, eff. 1-11-08; 95-876, eff. 8-21-08.)".