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 1        AN ACT concerning taxation.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.   The  Use  Tax  Act  is  amended by changing
 5    Section 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
17    Illinois county  fair  association  for  use  in  conducting,
18    operating, or promoting the county fair.
19        (3)  Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit arts
20    or  cultural organization that establishes, by proof required
21    by the Department by rule, that it has received an  exemption
22    under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that
23    is  organized  and operated primarily for the presentation or
24    support of  arts  or  cultural  programming,  activities,  or
25    services.   These  organizations include, but are not limited
26    to, music and dramatic arts organizations  such  as  symphony
27    orchestras  and  theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
28    organizations,   local    arts    councils,    visual    arts
29    organizations, and media arts organizations. On and after the
30    effective  date  of  this  amendatory Act of the 92nd General
31    Assembly, however, an  entity  otherwise  eligible  for  this
 
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 1    exemption  shall not make tax-free purchases unless it has an
 2    active identification number issued by the Department.
 3        (4)  Personal property purchased by a governmental  body,
 4    by   a  corporation,  society,  association,  foundation,  or
 5    institution   organized   and   operated   exclusively    for
 6    charitable,  religious,  or  educational  purposes,  or  by a
 7    not-for-profit corporation, society, association, foundation,
 8    institution, or organization that has no compensated officers
 9    or employees and that is organized and operated primarily for
10    the recreation of persons 55 years of age or older. A limited
11    liability company may qualify for the  exemption  under  this
12    paragraph  only if the limited liability company is organized
13    and operated exclusively for  educational  purposes.  On  and
14    after July 1, 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for
15    this exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
16    active   exemption   identification   number  issued  by  the
17    Department.
18        (5)  A passenger car that is a replacement vehicle to the
19    extent that the purchase price of the car is subject  to  the
20    Replacement Vehicle Tax.
21        (6)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
22    repair   and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,  and
23    including that manufactured on special  order,  certified  by
24    the   purchaser   to  be  used  primarily  for  graphic  arts
25    production, and including machinery and  equipment  purchased
26    for  lease.  Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals acting
27    as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals acting as
28    catalysts effect a direct and immediate change upon a graphic
29    arts product.
30        (7)  Farm chemicals.
31        (8)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold  or
32    silver  coinage  issued  by  the  State  of   Illinois,   the
33    government of the United States of America, or the government
34    of any foreign country, and bullion.
 
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 1        (9)  Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
 2    student   organization   affiliated  with  an  elementary  or
 3    secondary school located in Illinois.
 4        (10)  A motor vehicle of  the  first  division,  a  motor
 5    vehicle of the second division that is a self-contained motor
 6    vehicle  designed  or permanently converted to provide living
 7    quarters for  recreational,  camping,  or  travel  use,  with
 8    direct  walk through to the living quarters from the driver's
 9    seat, or a motor vehicle of the second division  that  is  of
10    the  van configuration designed for the transportation of not
11    less than 7 nor  more  than  16  passengers,  as  defined  in
12    Section  1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for
13    automobile renting, as  defined  in  the  Automobile  Renting
14    Occupation and Use Tax Act.
15        (11)  Farm  machinery  and  equipment, both new and used,
16    including that manufactured on special  order,  certified  by
17    the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
18    or   State   or   federal  agricultural  programs,  including
19    individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
20    including machinery and equipment purchased  for  lease,  and
21    including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
22    the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code, farm machinery and agricultural
23    chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons  required
24    to  be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
25    Code, but excluding  other  motor  vehicles  required  to  be
26    registered  under  the  Illinois  Vehicle Code. Horticultural
27    polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating,  growing,  or
28    overwintering  plants  shall be considered farm machinery and
29    equipment under this item (11). Agricultural chemical  tender
30    tanks  and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
31    a motor vehicle  required  to  be  licensed  and  units  sold
32    mounted  on  a  motor  vehicle required to be licensed if the
33    selling price of the tender is separately stated.
34        Farm machinery  and  equipment  shall  include  precision
 
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 1    farming  equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to be
 2    installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but  not
 3    limited   to,   tractors,   harvesters,  sprayers,  planters,
 4    seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment  includes,
 5    but  is  not  limited  to,  soil  testing sensors, computers,
 6    monitors, software, global positioning and  mapping  systems,
 7    and other such equipment.
 8        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  also includes computers,
 9    sensors, software, and related equipment  used  primarily  in
10    the  computer-assisted  operation  of  production agriculture
11    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
12    limited to, the collection, monitoring,  and  correlation  of
13    animal  and  crop  data for the purpose of formulating animal
14    diets and agricultural chemicals.  This item (11)  is  exempt
15    from the provisions of Section 3-90.
16        (12)  Fuel  and  petroleum products sold to or used by an
17    air common carrier, certified by the carrier to be  used  for
18    consumption,  shipment,  or  storage  in  the  conduct of its
19    business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined  for
20    or  returning from a location or locations outside the United
21    States without regard  to  previous  or  subsequent  domestic
22    stopovers.
23        (13)  Proceeds  of  mandatory  service charges separately
24    stated on customers' bills for the purchase  and  consumption
25    of food and beverages purchased at retail from a retailer, to
26    the  extent  that  the  proceeds of the service charge are in
27    fact turned over as tips or as a substitute for tips  to  the
28    employees  who  participate  directly  in preparing, serving,
29    hosting or cleaning up the food  or  beverage  function  with
30    respect to which the service charge is imposed.
31        (14)  Oil  field  exploration,  drilling,  and production
32    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
33    cable tool rigs, and workover rigs,  (ii)  pipe  and  tubular
34    goods,  including  casing  and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
 
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 1    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        (15)  Photoprocessing machinery and equipment,  including
 7    repair  and  replacement  parts, both new and used, including
 8    that  manufactured  on  special  order,  certified   by   the
 9    purchaser  to  be  used  primarily  for  photoprocessing, and
10    including photoprocessing machinery and  equipment  purchased
11    for lease.
12        (16)  Coal   exploration,   mining,  offhighway  hauling,
13    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
14    replacement parts  and  equipment,  and  including  equipment
15    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
16    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
17        (17)  Distillation  machinery  and  equipment,  sold as a
18    unit  or  kit,  assembled  or  installed  by  the   retailer,
19    certified  by  the user to be used only for the production of
20    ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption as motor fuel
21    or as a component of motor fuel for the personal use  of  the
22    user, and not subject to sale or resale.
23        (18)  Manufacturing    and   assembling   machinery   and
24    equipment used primarily in the process of  manufacturing  or
25    assembling tangible personal property for wholesale or retail
26    sale or lease, whether that sale or lease is made directly by
27    the  manufacturer  or  by  some  other  person,  whether  the
28    materials  used  in the process are owned by the manufacturer
29    or some other person, or whether that sale or lease  is  made
30    apart  from or as an incident to the seller's engaging in the
31    service occupation of producing machines, tools, dies,  jigs,
32    patterns,  gauges,  or  other  similar items of no commercial
33    value on special order for a particular purchaser.
34        (19)  Personal  property  delivered  to  a  purchaser  or
 
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 1    purchaser's donee inside Illinois when the purchase order for
 2    that personal property was  received  by  a  florist  located
 3    outside  Illinois  who  has a florist located inside Illinois
 4    deliver the personal property.
 5        (20)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
 6    for direct agricultural production.
 7        (21)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
 8    meeting the requirements of any of  the  Arabian  Horse  Club
 9    Registry  of  America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
10    Horse Association, United  States  Trotting  Association,  or
11    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
12    racing for prizes.
13        (22)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
14    any  hospital  purpose  and  equipment used in the diagnosis,
15    analysis, or treatment of hospital patients  purchased  by  a
16    lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
17    longer  executed  or  in  effect at the time the lessor would
18    otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by  this  Act,  to  a
19    hospital    that  has  been  issued  an  active tax exemption
20    identification number by the Department under Section  1g  of
21    the  Retailers'  Occupation  Tax  Act.   If  the equipment is
22    leased in a manner that does not qualify for  this  exemption
23    or  is  used in any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall
24    be liable for the tax imposed under this Act or  the  Service
25    Use  Tax  Act,  as  the case may be, based on the fair market
26    value of the property at  the  time  the  non-qualifying  use
27    occurs.   No  lessor  shall  collect or attempt to collect an
28    amount (however designated) that purports to  reimburse  that
29    lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax
30    Act,  as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by the
31    lessor.  If a lessor improperly collects any such amount from
32    the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right  to  claim  a
33    refund  of  that  amount  from the lessor.  If, however, that
34    amount is not refunded to the  lessee  for  any  reason,  the
 
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 1    lessor is liable to pay that amount to the Department.
 2        (23)  Personal  property purchased by a lessor who leases
 3    the property, under a lease of  one year or  longer  executed
 4    or  in  effect  at  the  time  the  lessor would otherwise be
 5    subject to the tax imposed by this  Act,  to  a  governmental
 6    body  that  has  been  issued  an  active sales tax exemption
 7    identification number by the Department under Section  1g  of
 8    the  Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the property is leased
 9    in a manner that does not qualify for this exemption or  used
10    in  any  other  non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable
11    for the tax imposed under this Act or  the  Service  Use  Tax
12    Act,  as  the  case may be, based on the fair market value of
13    the property at the time the non-qualifying use  occurs.   No
14    lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount (however
15    designated)  that  purports  to reimburse that lessor for the
16    tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax  Act,  as  the
17    case  may be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor.  If
18    a lessor improperly collects any such amount from the lessee,
19    the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a refund of that
20    amount from the lessor.  If,  however,  that  amount  is  not
21    refunded  to  the lessee for any reason, the lessor is liable
22    to pay that amount to the Department.
23        (24)  Beginning with taxable years  ending  on  or  after
24    December  31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
25    before December 31, 2004, personal property that  is  donated
26    for  disaster  relief  to  be  used  in  a State or federally
27    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
28    manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State  to
29    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
30    institution  that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax exemption
31    identification number by the Department that assists  victims
32    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
33        (25)  Beginning  with  taxable  years  ending on or after
34    December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on  or
 
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 1    before  December  31, 2004, personal property that is used in
 2    the performance of  infrastructure  repairs  in  this  State,
 3    including  but  not  limited  to municipal roads and streets,
 4    access roads, bridges,  sidewalks,  waste  disposal  systems,
 5    water  and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution and
 6    purification facilities, storm water drainage  and  retention
 7    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
 8    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
 9    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
10    located  in  the declared disaster area within 6 months after
11    the disaster.
12        (26)  Beginning  July  1,  1999,  game  or   game   birds
13    purchased  at  a "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or
14    an "exotic game hunting area" as those terms are used in  the
15    Wildlife  Code  or  at  a  hunting enclosure approved through
16    rules adopted by the Department of Natural  Resources.   This
17    paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
18        (27)  A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
19    1-146  of  the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code, that is donated to a
20    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
21    foundation,  or  institution  that  is  determined   by   the
22    Department  to  be  organized  and  operated  exclusively for
23    educational purposes.  For purposes  of  this  exemption,  "a
24    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
25    foundation, or institution organized and operated exclusively
26    for  educational  purposes"  means  all  tax-supported public
27    schools, private schools that offer systematic instruction in
28    useful branches of  learning  by  methods  common  to  public
29    schools  and  that  compare  favorably  in  their  scope  and
30    intensity with the course of study presented in tax-supported
31    schools,  and  vocational  or technical schools or institutes
32    organized and operated exclusively to  provide  a  course  of
33    study  of  not  less  than  6  weeks duration and designed to
34    prepare individuals to follow a trade or to pursue a  manual,
 
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 1    technical,  mechanical,  industrial,  business, or commercial
 2    occupation.
 3        (28)  Beginning  January  1,  2000,   personal  property,
 4    including food, purchased through fundraising events for  the
 5    benefit  of  a  public  or  private  elementary  or secondary
 6    school, a group of those  schools,  or  one  or  more  school
 7    districts if the events are sponsored by an entity recognized
 8    by  the school district that consists primarily of volunteers
 9    and includes parents and teachers  of  the  school  children.
10    This  paragraph  does not apply to fundraising events (i) for
11    the benefit of private home instruction or (ii) for which the
12    fundraising entity purchases the personal  property  sold  at
13    the  events  from  another individual or entity that sold the
14    property for the purpose of resale by the fundraising  entity
15    and  that  profits  from  the sale to the fundraising entity.
16    This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
17        (29)  Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December  31,
18    2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
19    serve  hot  food  and  beverages, including coffee, soup, and
20    other  items,  and  replacement  parts  for  these  machines.
21    Beginning January 1, 2002, machines and  parts  for  machines
22    used  in  commercial,  coin-operated  amusement  and  vending
23    business  if  a  use  or  occupation tax is paid on the gross
24    receipts  derived   from   the   use   of   the   commercial,
25    coin-operated  amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
26    is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
27        (30)  Food for human consumption that is to  be  consumed
28    off  the  premises  where  it  is  sold (other than alcoholic
29    beverages, soft drinks, and food that has been  prepared  for
30    immediate  consumption)  and prescription and nonprescription
31    medicines, drugs,  medical  appliances,  and  insulin,  urine
32    testing  materials,  syringes, and needles used by diabetics,
33    for human use, when purchased for use by a  person  receiving
34    medical assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid
 
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 1    Code  who  resides  in a licensed long-term care facility, as
 2    defined in the Nursing Home Care Act.
 3        (31)  Beginning on the effective date of this  amendatory
 4    Act   of   the   92nd   General   Assembly,   computers   and
 5    communications  equipment  utilized  for any hospital purpose
 6    and equipment used in the diagnosis, analysis,  or  treatment
 7    of  hospital  patients  purchased  by a lessor who leases the
 8    equipment, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
 9    effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be  subject  to
10    the  tax  imposed  by  this  Act, to a hospital that has been
11    issued an active tax exemption identification number  by  the
12    Department  under Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation Tax
13    Act.  If the equipment is leased in a manner  that  does  not
14    qualify  for this exemption or is used in any other nonexempt
15    manner, the lessor shall be liable for the tax imposed  under
16    this  Act  or  the  Service  Use Tax Act, as the case may be,
17    based on the fair market value of the property  at  the  time
18    the  nonqualifying  use  occurs.   No lessor shall collect or
19    attempt  to  collect  an  amount  (however  designated)  that
20    purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
21    Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case may  be,  if  the
22    tax  has not been paid by the lessor.  If a lessor improperly
23    collects any such amount from the lessee,  the  lessee  shall
24    have  a legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the
25    lessor.  If, however, that amount  is  not  refunded  to  the
26    lessee  for  any  reason,  the  lessor  is liable to pay that
27    amount to the Department. This paragraph is exempt  from  the
28    provisions of Section 3-90.
29        (32)  Beginning  on the effective date of this amendatory
30    Act of the 92nd General Assembly, personal property purchased
31    by a lessor who leases the property, under  a  lease  of  one
32    year  or  longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor
33    would otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to
34    a governmental body that has been issued an active sales  tax
 
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 1    exemption  identification  number  by  the  Department  under
 2    Section  1g  of  the  Retailers'  Occupation Tax Act.  If the
 3    property is leased in a manner that does not qualify for this
 4    exemption or used in any other nonexempt manner,  the  lessor
 5    shall  be  liable  for  the tax imposed under this Act or the
 6    Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based  on  the  fair
 7    market  value  of  the property at the time the nonqualifying
 8    use occurs.  No lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an
 9    amount (however designated) that purports to  reimburse  that
10    lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax
11    Act,  as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by the
12    lessor.  If a lessor improperly collects any such amount from
13    the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right  to  claim  a
14    refund  of  that  amount  from the lessor.  If, however, that
15    amount is not refunded to the  lessee  for  any  reason,  the
16    lessor  is liable to pay that amount to the Department.  This
17    paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
18        (33)  Beginning  January  1,  2004,   tangible   personal
19    property   and   its   component   parts   purchased   by   a
20    telecommunications carrier if the property and parts are used
21    directly and primarily in transmitting, receiving, switching,
22    or   recording   any   interactive,  two-way  electromagnetic
23    communications,   including   voice,   image,    data,    and
24    information,  through  the  use of any medium, including, but
25    not limited to, poles, wires,  cables,  switching  equipment,
26    computers,   and  record  storage  devices  and  media.  This
27    paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
28    (Source: P.A. 91-51,  eff.  6-30-99;  91-200,  eff.  7-20-99;
29    91-439,  eff.  8-6-99;  91-637,  eff.  8-20-99;  91-644, eff.
30    8-20-99; 91-901, eff. 1-1-01;  92-35,  eff.  7-1-01;  92-227,
31    eff.  8-2-01;  92-337,  eff.  8-10-01;  92-484, eff. 8-23-01;
32    92-651, eff. 7-11-02.)

33        Section 10.  The  Service  Use  Tax  Act  is  amended  by
 
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 1    changing Section 3-5 as follows:

 2        (35 ILCS 110/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-5)
 3        Sec.  3-5.   Exemptions.   Use  of the following tangible
 4    personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
 5        (1)  Personal  property  purchased  from  a  corporation,
 6    society,    association,    foundation,    institution,    or
 7    organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
 8    organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
 9    for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or  older  if  the
10    personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
11    purpose of resale by the enterprise.
12        (2)  Personal property purchased by a non-profit Illinois
13    county  fair association for use in conducting, operating, or
14    promoting the county fair.
15        (3)  Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit arts
16    or cultural organization that establishes, by proof  required
17    by  the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption
18    under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that
19    is organized and operated primarily for the  presentation  or
20    support  of  arts  or  cultural  programming,  activities, or
21    services.  These organizations include, but are  not  limited
22    to,  music  and  dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
23    orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and  cultural  service
24    organizations,    local    arts    councils,    visual   arts
25    organizations, and media arts organizations. On and after the
26    effective date of this amendatory Act  of  the  92nd  General
27    Assembly,  however,  an  entity  otherwise  eligible for this
28    exemption shall not make tax-free purchases unless it has  an
29    active identification number issued by the Department.
30        (4)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold  or
31    silver   coinage   issued  by  the  State  of  Illinois,  the
32    government of the United States of America, or the government
33    of any foreign country, and bullion.
 
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 1        (5)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
 2    repair  and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,   and
 3    including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
 4    lease,  certified  by  the purchaser to be used primarily for
 5    graphic arts  production.  Equipment  includes  chemicals  or
 6    chemicals  acting  as  catalysts but only if the chemicals or
 7    chemicals acting as catalysts effect a direct  and  immediate
 8    change upon a graphic 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
14    the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
15    or  State  or  federal   agricultural   programs,   including
16    individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
17    including  machinery  and  equipment purchased for lease, and
18    including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
19    the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm  machinery  and  agricultural
20    chemical  and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
21    to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois  Vehicle
22    Code,  but  excluding  other  motor  vehicles  required to be
23    registered under the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code.  Horticultural
24    polyhouses  or  hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
25    overwintering plants shall be considered farm  machinery  and
26    equipment  under  this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender
27    tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately  from
28    a  motor  vehicle  required  to  be  licensed  and units sold
29    mounted on a motor vehicle required to  be  licensed  if  the
30    selling price of the tender is separately stated.
31        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  shall  include precision
32    farming equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to  be
33    installed  on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
34    limited  to,  tractors,   harvesters,   sprayers,   planters,
 
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 1    seeders,  or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
 2    but is not  limited  to,  soil  testing  sensors,  computers,
 3    monitors,  software,  global positioning and mapping systems,
 4    and other such equipment.
 5        Farm machinery and  equipment  also  includes  computers,
 6    sensors,  software,  and  related equipment used primarily in
 7    the computer-assisted  operation  of  production  agriculture
 8    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
 9    limited  to,  the  collection, monitoring, and correlation of
10    animal and crop data for the purpose  of  formulating  animal
11    diets  and  agricultural  chemicals.  This item (7) is exempt
12    from the provisions of Section 3-75.
13        (8)  Fuel and petroleum products sold to or  used  by  an
14    air  common  carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
15    consumption, shipment, or  storage  in  the  conduct  of  its
16    business  as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
17    or returning from a location or locations outside the  United
18    States  without  regard  to  previous  or subsequent domestic
19    stopovers.
20        (9)  Proceeds of  mandatory  service  charges  separately
21    stated  on  customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
22    of food and beverages acquired as an incident to the purchase
23    of a service from  a  serviceman,  to  the  extent  that  the
24    proceeds  of  the  service  charge are in fact turned over as
25    tips or as  a  substitute  for  tips  to  the  employees  who
26    participate   directly  in  preparing,  serving,  hosting  or
27    cleaning up the food or beverage  function  with  respect  to
28    which the service charge is imposed.
29        (10)  Oil  field  exploration,  drilling,  and production
30    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
31    cable tool rigs, and workover rigs,  (ii)  pipe  and  tubular
32    goods,  including  casing  and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
33    pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines,  (v)  any
34    individual   replacement  part  for  oil  field  exploration,
 
                            -15-     LRB093 05167 SJM 05227 b
 1    drilling, and production equipment, and  (vi)  machinery  and
 2    equipment  purchased  for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
 3    required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
 4        (11)  Proceeds from the sale of photoprocessing machinery
 5    and equipment, including repair and replacement  parts,  both
 6    new  and  used, including that manufactured on special order,
 7    certified  by  the  purchaser  to  be  used   primarily   for
 8    photoprocessing,  and including photoprocessing machinery and
 9    equipment purchased for lease.
10        (12)  Coal  exploration,  mining,   offhighway   hauling,
11    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
12    replacement  parts  and  equipment,  and  including equipment
13    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
14    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
15        (13)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
16    for direct agricultural production.
17        (14)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
18    meeting the requirements of any of  the  Arabian  Horse  Club
19    Registry  of  America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
20    Horse Association, United  States  Trotting  Association,  or
21    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
22    racing for prizes.
23        (15)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
24    any  hospital  purpose  and  equipment used in the diagnosis,
25    analysis, or treatment of hospital patients  purchased  by  a
26    lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
27    longer  executed  or  in  effect at the time the lessor would
28    otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by  this  Act,  to  a
29    hospital  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax  exemption
30    identification  number  by the Department under Section 1g of
31    the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased
32    in a manner that does not qualify for this  exemption  or  is
33    used  in  any  other  non-exempt  manner, the lessor shall be
34    liable for the tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act,
 
                            -16-     LRB093 05167 SJM 05227 b
 1    as the case may be, based on the fair  market  value  of  the
 2    property  at  the  time  the  non-qualifying  use occurs.  No
 3    lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount (however
 4    designated) that purports to reimburse that  lessor  for  the
 5    tax  imposed  by this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
 6    be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor.  If a  lessor
 7    improperly  collects  any  such  amount  from the lessee, the
 8    lessee shall have a legal right to claim  a  refund  of  that
 9    amount  from  the  lessor.   If,  however, that amount is not
10    refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor  is  liable
11    to pay that amount to the Department.
12        (16)  Personal  property purchased by a lessor who leases
13    the property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or
14    in effect at the time the lessor would otherwise  be  subject
15    to  the  tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that
16    has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
17    by  the  Department  under  Section  1g  of  the   Retailers'
18    Occupation  Tax  Act.   If the property is leased in a manner
19    that does not qualify for this exemption or is  used  in  any
20    other  non-exempt  manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
21    tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act,  as  the  case
22    may be, based on the fair market value of the property at the
23    time  the non-qualifying use occurs.  No lessor shall collect
24    or attempt to collect an  amount  (however  designated)  that
25    purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
26    Act  or  the  Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has
27    not been paid by the lessor.  If a lessor improperly collects
28    any such amount from the lessee,  the  lessee  shall  have  a
29    legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the lessor.
30    If,  however,  that  amount is not refunded to the lessee for
31    any reason, the lessor is liable to pay that  amount  to  the
32    Department.
33        (17)  Beginning  with  taxable  years  ending on or after
34    December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on  or
 
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 1    before  December  31, 2004, personal property that is donated
 2    for disaster relief to  be  used  in  a  State  or  federally
 3    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
 4    manufacturer  or retailer that is registered in this State to
 5    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
 6    institution that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax  exemption
 7    identification  number by the Department that assists victims
 8    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
 9        (18)  Beginning with taxable years  ending  on  or  after
10    December  31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
11    before December 31, 2004, personal property that is  used  in
12    the  performance  of  infrastructure  repairs  in this State,
13    including but not limited to  municipal  roads  and  streets,
14    access  roads,  bridges,  sidewalks,  waste disposal systems,
15    water and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution  and
16    purification  facilities,  storm water drainage and retention
17    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
18    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
19    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
20    located in the declared disaster area within 6  months  after
21    the disaster.
22        (19)  Beginning   July   1,  1999,  game  or  game  birds
23    purchased at a "game breeding and hunting preserve  area"  or
24    an  "exotic game hunting area" as those terms are used in the
25    Wildlife Code or at  a  hunting  enclosure  approved  through
26    rules  adopted  by the Department of Natural Resources.  This
27    paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
28        (20)  A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
29    1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,  that  is  donated  to  a
30    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
31    foundation,   or   institution  that  is  determined  by  the
32    Department to  be  organized  and  operated  exclusively  for
33    educational  purposes.   For  purposes  of this exemption, "a
34    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
 
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 1    foundation, or institution organized and operated exclusively
 2    for educational  purposes"  means  all  tax-supported  public
 3    schools, private schools that offer systematic instruction in
 4    useful  branches  of  learning  by  methods  common to public
 5    schools  and  that  compare  favorably  in  their  scope  and
 6    intensity with the course of study presented in tax-supported
 7    schools, and vocational or technical  schools  or  institutes
 8    organized  and  operated  exclusively  to provide a course of
 9    study of not less than  6  weeks  duration  and  designed  to
10    prepare  individuals to follow a trade or to pursue a manual,
11    technical, mechanical, industrial,  business,  or  commercial
12    occupation.
13        (21)  Beginning  January  1,  2000,   personal  property,
14    including  food, purchased through fundraising events for the
15    benefit of  a  public  or  private  elementary  or  secondary
16    school,  a  group  of  those  schools,  or one or more school
17    districts if the events are sponsored by an entity recognized
18    by the school district that consists primarily of  volunteers
19    and  includes  parents  and  teachers of the school children.
20    This paragraph does not apply to fundraising events  (i)  for
21    the benefit of private home instruction or (ii) for which the
22    fundraising  entity  purchases  the personal property sold at
23    the events from another individual or entity  that  sold  the
24    property  for the purpose of resale by the fundraising entity
25    and that profits from the sale  to  the  fundraising  entity.
26    This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
27        (22)  Beginning  January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
28    2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
29    serve hot food and beverages,  including  coffee,  soup,  and
30    other  items,  and  replacement  parts  for  these  machines.
31    Beginning  January  1,  2002, machines and parts for machines
32    used  in  commercial,  coin-operated  amusement  and  vending
33    business if a use or occupation tax  is  paid  on  the  gross
34    receipts   derived   from   the   use   of   the  commercial,
 
                            -19-     LRB093 05167 SJM 05227 b
 1    coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This  paragraph
 2    is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
 3        (23)  Food  for  human consumption that is to be consumed
 4    off the premises where  it  is  sold  (other  than  alcoholic
 5    beverages,  soft  drinks, and food that has been prepared for
 6    immediate consumption) and prescription  and  nonprescription
 7    medicines,  drugs,  medical  appliances,  and  insulin, urine
 8    testing materials, syringes, and needles used  by  diabetics,
 9    for  human  use, when purchased for use by a person receiving
10    medical assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid
11    Code who resides in a licensed long-term  care  facility,  as
12    defined in the Nursing Home Care Act.
13        (24)    Beginning   on   the   effective   date  of  this
14    amendatory Act of the 92nd General  Assembly,  computers  and
15    communications  equipment  utilized  for any hospital purpose
16    and equipment used in the diagnosis, analysis,  or  treatment
17    of  hospital  patients  purchased  by a lessor who leases the
18    equipment, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
19    effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be  subject  to
20    the  tax  imposed  by  this  Act, to a hospital 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 equipment is leased in a manner  that  does  not
24    qualify  for this exemption or is used in any other nonexempt
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
27    fair   market   value   of  the  property  at  the  time  the
28    nonqualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or  attempt
29    to  collect  an  amount (however designated) that purports to
30    reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or  the
31    Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid
32    by  the  lessor.   If  a  lessor improperly collects any such
33    amount from the lessee, the lessee shall have a  legal  right
34    to  claim  a  refund  of  that  amount  from the lessor.  If,
 
                            -20-     LRB093 05167 SJM 05227 b
 1    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 3-75.
 5        (25)  Beginning  on the effective date of this amendatory
 6    Act of the 92nd General Assembly, personal property purchased
 7    by a lessor who leases the property, under  a  lease  of  one
 8    year  or  longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor
 9    would otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to
10    a governmental body  that  has  been  issued  an  active  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 is used  in  any  other  nonexempt  manner,  the
15    lessor  shall be liable for the tax imposed under this Act or
16    the Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based on the fair market
17    value of the property  at  the  time  the  nonqualifying  use
18    occurs.   No  lessor  shall  collect or attempt to collect an
19    amount (however designated) that purports to  reimburse  that
20    lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the Use Tax Act, as
21    the  case may be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor.
22    If a lessor improperly collects  any  such  amount  from  the
23    lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a refund
24    of  that amount from the lessor.  If, however, that amount is
25    not refunded to the lessee for  any  reason,  the  lessor  is
26    liable  to  pay that amount to the Department. This paragraph
27    is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
28        (26)  Beginning  January  1,  2004,   tangible   personal
29    property   and   its   component   parts   purchased   by   a
30    telecommunications carrier if the property and parts are used
31    directly and primarily in transmitting, receiving, switching,
32    or   recording   any   interactive,  two-way  electromagnetic
33    communications,   including   voice,   image,    data,    and
34    information,  through  the  use of any medium, including, but
 
                            -21-     LRB093 05167 SJM 05227 b
 1    not limited to, poles, wires,  cables,  switching  equipment,
 2    computers,   and  record  storage  devices  and  media.  This
 3    paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
 4    (Source: P.A. 91-51,  eff.  6-30-99;  91-200,  eff.  7-20-99;
 5    91-439,  eff.  8-6-99;  91-637,  eff.  8-20-99;  91-644, eff.
 6    8-20-99; 92-16, eff. 6-28-01;  92-35,  eff.  7-1-01;  92-227,
 7    eff.  8-2-01;  92-337,  eff.  8-10-01;  92-484, eff. 8-23-01;
 8    92-651, eff. 7-11-02.)

 9        Section 15.  The Service Occupation Tax Act is amended by
10    changing Section 3-5 as follows:

11        (35 ILCS 115/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-5)
12        Sec. 3-5.  Exemptions.  The following  tangible  personal
13    property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
14        (1)  Personal  property  sold  by a corporation, society,
15    association, foundation, institution, or organization,  other
16    than  a  limited  liability  company,  that  is organized and
17    operated as  a  not-for-profit  service  enterprise  for  the
18    benefit  of  persons 65 years of age or older if the personal
19    property was not purchased by the enterprise for the  purpose
20    of resale by the enterprise.
21        (2)  Personal  property  purchased  by  a  not-for-profit
22    Illinois  county  fair  association  for  use  in conducting,
23    operating, or promoting the county fair.
24        (3)  Personal property purchased  by  any  not-for-profit
25    arts  or  cultural  organization  that  establishes, by proof
26    required by the Department by rule, that it has  received  an
27    exemption   under  Section  501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
28    Code and that is organized and  operated  primarily  for  the
29    presentation  or  support  of  arts  or cultural programming,
30    activities, or services.  These  organizations  include,  but
31    are  not  limited  to,  music and dramatic arts organizations
32    such as symphony orchestras and theatrical groups,  arts  and
 
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 1    cultural  service  organizations, local arts councils, visual
 2    arts organizations, and  media  arts  organizations.  On  and
 3    after  the  effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd
 4    General Assembly, however, an entity otherwise  eligible  for
 5    this  exemption  shall  not make tax-free purchases unless it
 6    has an active identification number issued by the Department.
 7        (4)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold  or
 8    silver  coinage  issued  by  the  State  of   Illinois,   the
 9    government of the United States of America, or the government
10    of any foreign country, and bullion.
11        (5)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
12    repair   and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,  and
13    including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
14    lease, certified by the purchaser to be  used  primarily  for
15    graphic  arts  production.  Equipment  includes  chemicals or
16    chemicals acting as catalysts but only if  the  chemicals  or
17    chemicals  acting  as catalysts effect a direct and immediate
18    change upon a graphic arts product.
19        (6)  Personal  property  sold  by   a   teacher-sponsored
20    student   organization   affiliated  with  an  elementary  or
21    secondary school located in Illinois.
22        (7)  Farm machinery and equipment,  both  new  and  used,
23    including  that  manufactured  on special order, certified by
24    the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
25    or  State  or  federal   agricultural   programs,   including
26    individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
27    including  machinery  and  equipment purchased for lease, and
28    including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
29    the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm  machinery  and  agricultural
30    chemical  and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
31    to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois  Vehicle
32    Code,  but  excluding  other  motor  vehicles  required to be
33    registered under the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code.  Horticultural
34    polyhouses  or  hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
 
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 1    overwintering plants shall be considered farm  machinery  and
 2    equipment  under  this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender
 3    tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately  from
 4    a  motor  vehicle  required  to  be  licensed  and units sold
 5    mounted on a motor vehicle required to  be  licensed  if  the
 6    selling price of the tender is separately stated.
 7        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  shall  include precision
 8    farming equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to  be
 9    installed  on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
10    limited  to,  tractors,   harvesters,   sprayers,   planters,
11    seeders,  or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
12    but is not  limited  to,  soil  testing  sensors,  computers,
13    monitors,  software,  global positioning and mapping systems,
14    and other such equipment.
15        Farm machinery and  equipment  also  includes  computers,
16    sensors,  software,  and  related equipment used primarily in
17    the computer-assisted  operation  of  production  agriculture
18    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
19    limited  to,  the  collection, monitoring, and correlation of
20    animal and crop data for the purpose  of  formulating  animal
21    diets  and  agricultural  chemicals.  This item (7) is exempt
22    from the provisions of Section 3-55.
23        (8)  Fuel and petroleum products sold to or  used  by  an
24    air  common  carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
25    consumption, shipment, or  storage  in  the  conduct  of  its
26    business  as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
27    or returning from a location or locations outside the  United
28    States  without  regard  to  previous  or subsequent domestic
29    stopovers.
30        (9)  Proceeds of  mandatory  service  charges  separately
31    stated  on  customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
32    of food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
33    service charge are in fact  turned  over  as  tips  or  as  a
34    substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
 
                            -24-     LRB093 05167 SJM 05227 b
 1    in  preparing,  serving,  hosting  or cleaning up the food or
 2    beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
 3    imposed.
 4        (10)  Oil field  exploration,  drilling,  and  production
 5    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
 6    cable  tool  rigs,  and  workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
 7    goods, including casing and drill strings,  (iii)  pumps  and
 8    pump-jack  units,  (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
 9    individual  replacement  part  for  oil  field   exploration,
10    drilling,  and  production  equipment, and (vi) machinery and
11    equipment purchased for lease; but excluding  motor  vehicles
12    required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
13        (11)  Photoprocessing  machinery and equipment, including
14    repair and replacement parts, both new  and  used,  including
15    that   manufactured   on  special  order,  certified  by  the
16    purchaser to  be  used  primarily  for  photoprocessing,  and
17    including  photoprocessing  machinery and equipment purchased
18    for lease.
19        (12)  Coal  exploration,  mining,   offhighway   hauling,
20    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
21    replacement  parts  and  equipment,  and  including equipment
22    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
23    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
24        (13)  Food for human consumption that is to  be  consumed
25    off  the  premises  where  it  is  sold (other than alcoholic
26    beverages, soft drinks and food that has  been  prepared  for
27    immediate  consumption) and prescription and non-prescription
28    medicines, drugs,  medical  appliances,  and  insulin,  urine
29    testing  materials,  syringes, and needles used by diabetics,
30    for human use, when purchased for use by a  person  receiving
31    medical assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid
32    Code  who  resides  in a licensed long-term care facility, as
33    defined in the Nursing Home Care Act.
34        (14)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
 
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 1    for direct agricultural production.
 2        (15)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
 3    meeting the requirements of any of  the  Arabian  Horse  Club
 4    Registry  of  America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
 5    Horse Association, United  States  Trotting  Association,  or
 6    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
 7    racing for prizes.
 8        (16)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
 9    any  hospital  purpose  and  equipment used in the diagnosis,
10    analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a  lessor
11    who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
12    executed  or  in  effect  at  the  time of the purchase, to a
13    hospital  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax  exemption
14    identification number by the Department under Section  1g  of
15    the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.
16        (17)  Personal  property  sold to a lessor who leases the
17    property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or  in
18    effect  at  the  time of the purchase, to a governmental body
19    that has been issued an active tax  exemption  identification
20    number  by  the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers'
21    Occupation Tax Act.
22        (18)  Beginning with taxable years  ending  on  or  after
23    December  31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
24    before December 31, 2004, personal property that  is  donated
25    for  disaster  relief  to  be  used  in  a State or federally
26    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
27    manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State  to
28    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
29    institution  that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax exemption
30    identification number by the Department that assists  victims
31    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
32        (19)  Beginning  with  taxable  years  ending on or after
33    December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on  or
34    before  December  31, 2004, personal property that is used in
 
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 1    the performance of  infrastructure  repairs  in  this  State,
 2    including  but  not  limited  to municipal roads and streets,
 3    access roads, bridges,  sidewalks,  waste  disposal  systems,
 4    water  and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution and
 5    purification facilities, storm water drainage  and  retention
 6    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
 7    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
 8    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
 9    located  in  the declared disaster area within 6 months after
10    the disaster.
11        (20)  Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold  at
12    a  "game  breeding  and  hunting preserve area" or an "exotic
13    game hunting area" as those terms are used  in  the  Wildlife
14    Code or at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted
15    by  the  Department  of Natural Resources.  This paragraph is
16    exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
17        (21)  A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
18    1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,  that  is  donated  to  a
19    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
20    foundation,   or   institution  that  is  determined  by  the
21    Department to  be  organized  and  operated  exclusively  for
22    educational  purposes.   For  purposes  of this exemption, "a
23    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
24    foundation, or institution organized and operated exclusively
25    for educational  purposes"  means  all  tax-supported  public
26    schools, private schools that offer systematic instruction in
27    useful  branches  of  learning  by  methods  common to public
28    schools  and  that  compare  favorably  in  their  scope  and
29    intensity with the course of study presented in tax-supported
30    schools, and vocational or technical  schools  or  institutes
31    organized  and  operated  exclusively  to provide a course of
32    study of not less than  6  weeks  duration  and  designed  to
33    prepare  individuals to follow a trade or to pursue a manual,
34    technical, mechanical, industrial,  business,  or  commercial
 
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 1    occupation.
 2        (22)  Beginning  January  1,  2000,   personal  property,
 3    including  food, purchased through fundraising events for the
 4    benefit of  a  public  or  private  elementary  or  secondary
 5    school,  a  group  of  those  schools,  or one or more school
 6    districts if the events are sponsored by an entity recognized
 7    by the school district that consists primarily of  volunteers
 8    and  includes  parents  and  teachers of the school children.
 9    This paragraph does not apply to fundraising events  (i)  for
10    the benefit of private home instruction or (ii) for which the
11    fundraising  entity  purchases  the personal property sold at
12    the events from another individual or entity  that  sold  the
13    property  for the purpose of resale by the fundraising entity
14    and that profits from the sale  to  the  fundraising  entity.
15    This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
16        (23)  Beginning  January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
17    2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
18    serve hot food and beverages,  including  coffee,  soup,  and
19    other  items,  and  replacement  parts  for  these  machines.
20    Beginning  January  1,  2002, machines and parts for machines
21    used  in  commercial,  coin-operated  amusement  and  vending
22    business if a use or occupation tax  is  paid  on  the  gross
23    receipts   derived   from   the   use   of   the  commercial,
24    coin-operated amusement and vending machines.  This paragraph
25    is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
26        (24)  Beginning on the effective date of this  amendatory
27    Act   of   the   92nd   General   Assembly,   computers   and
28    communications  equipment  utilized  for any hospital purpose
29    and equipment used in the diagnosis, analysis,  or  treatment
30    of  hospital  patients  sold  to  a  lessor  who  leases  the
31    equipment, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
32    effect  at  the  time of the purchase, to a hospital that has
33    been issued an active tax exemption identification number  by
34    the  Department under Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation
 
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 1    Tax Act.  This paragraph is exempt  from  the  provisions  of
 2    Section 3-55.
 3        (25)  Beginning  on the effective date of this amendatory
 4    Act of the 92nd General Assembly, personal property sold to a
 5    lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year  or
 6    longer  executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to
 7    a governmental body  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax
 8    exemption  identification  number  by  the  Department  under
 9    Section  1g  of  the  Retailers'  Occupation  Tax  Act.  This
10    paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
11        (26)  Beginning on January  1,  2002,  tangible  personal
12    property  purchased  from  an Illinois retailer by a taxpayer
13    engaged in centralized purchasing activities in Illinois  who
14    will,  upon  receipt of the property in Illinois, temporarily
15    store the  property  in  Illinois  (i)  for  the  purpose  of
16    subsequently  transporting  it  outside this State for use or
17    consumption thereafter solely outside this State or (ii)  for
18    the  purpose  of being processed, fabricated, or manufactured
19    into,  attached  to,  or  incorporated  into  other  tangible
20    personal property to be transported outside  this  State  and
21    thereafter  used  or consumed solely outside this State.  The
22    Director of Revenue  shall,  pursuant  to  rules  adopted  in
23    accordance  with  the  Illinois Administrative Procedure Act,
24    issue a permit to any taxpayer  in  good  standing  with  the
25    Department  who  is  eligible  for  the  exemption under this
26    paragraph (26).  The permit issued under this paragraph  (26)
27    shall  authorize  the holder, to the extent and in the manner
28    specified in the rules adopted under this  Act,  to  purchase
29    tangible  personal  property  from a retailer exempt from the
30    taxes imposed by this  Act.   Taxpayers  shall  maintain  all
31    necessary  books  and  records  to  substantiate  the use and
32    consumption of all such tangible personal property outside of
33    the State of Illinois.
34        (27)  Beginning  January  1,  2004,   tangible   personal
 
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 1    property   and   its   component   parts   purchased   by   a
 2    telecommunications carrier if the property and parts are used
 3    directly and primarily in transmitting, receiving, switching,
 4    or   recording   any   interactive,  two-way  electromagnetic
 5    communications,   including   voice,   image,    data,    and
 6    information,  through  the  use of any medium, including, but
 7    not limited to, poles, wires,  cables,  switching  equipment,
 8    computers,   and  record  storage  devices  and  media.  This
 9    paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
10    (Source: P.A. 91-51,  eff.  6-30-99;  91-200,  eff.  7-20-99;
11    91-439,  eff.  8-6-99;  91-533,  eff.  8-13-99;  91-637, eff.
12    8-20-99; 91-644, eff. 8-20-99; 92-16,  eff.  6-28-01;  92-35,
13    eff.  7-1-01;  92-227,  eff.  8-2-01;  92-337,  eff. 8-10-01;
14    92-484, eff. 8-23-01;  92-488,  eff.  8-23-01;  92-651,  eff.
15    7-11-02.)

16        Section 20.  The Retailers' Occupation Tax Act is amended
17    by changing Section 2-5 as follows:

18        (35 ILCS 120/2-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 441-5)
19        Sec. 2-5.  Exemptions.  Gross receipts from proceeds from
20    the  sale  of  the  following  tangible personal property are
21    exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
22        (1)  Farm chemicals.
23        (2)  Farm machinery and equipment,  both  new  and  used,
24    including  that  manufactured  on special order, certified by
25    the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
26    or  State  or  federal   agricultural   programs,   including
27    individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
28    including  machinery  and  equipment purchased for lease, and
29    including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
30    the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm  machinery  and  agricultural
31    chemical  and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
32    to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois  Vehicle
 
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 1    Code,  but  excluding  other  motor  vehicles  required to be
 2    registered under the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code.  Horticultural
 3    polyhouses  or  hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
 4    overwintering plants shall be considered farm  machinery  and
 5    equipment  under  this item (2). Agricultural chemical tender
 6    tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately  from
 7    a  motor  vehicle  required  to  be  licensed  and units sold
 8    mounted on a motor vehicle required to be  licensed,  if  the
 9    selling price of the tender is separately stated.
10        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  shall  include precision
11    farming equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to  be
12    installed  on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
13    limited  to,  tractors,   harvesters,   sprayers,   planters,
14    seeders,  or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
15    but is not  limited  to,  soil  testing  sensors,  computers,
16    monitors,  software,  global positioning and mapping systems,
17    and other such equipment.
18        Farm machinery and  equipment  also  includes  computers,
19    sensors,  software,  and  related equipment used primarily in
20    the computer-assisted  operation  of  production  agriculture
21    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
22    limited  to,  the  collection, monitoring, and correlation of
23    animal and crop data for the purpose  of  formulating  animal
24    diets  and  agricultural  chemicals.  This item (7) is exempt
25    from the provisions of Section 2-70.
26        (3)  Distillation machinery and equipment, sold as a unit
27    or kit, assembled or installed by the retailer, certified  by
28    the  user to be used only for the production of ethyl alcohol
29    that will be used for consumption  as  motor  fuel  or  as  a
30    component of motor fuel for the personal use of the user, and
31    not subject to sale or resale.
32        (4)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
33    repair   and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,  and
34    including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
 
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 1    lease, certified by the purchaser to be  used  primarily  for
 2    graphic  arts  production.  Equipment  includes  chemicals or
 3    chemicals acting as catalysts but only if  the  chemicals  or
 4    chemicals  acting  as catalysts effect a direct and immediate
 5    change upon a graphic arts product.
 6        (5)  A motor vehicle  of  the  first  division,  a  motor
 7    vehicle of the second division that is a self-contained motor
 8    vehicle  designed  or permanently converted to provide living
 9    quarters for  recreational,  camping,  or  travel  use,  with
10    direct  walk  through  access to the living quarters from the
11    driver's seat, or a motor vehicle of the second division that
12    is of the van configuration designed for  the  transportation
13    of not less than 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in
14    Section  1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for
15    automobile renting, as  defined  in  the  Automobile  Renting
16    Occupation and Use Tax Act.
17        (6)  Personal   property   sold  by  a  teacher-sponsored
18    student  organization  affiliated  with  an   elementary   or
19    secondary school located in Illinois.
20        (7)  Proceeds  of  that portion of the selling price of a
21    passenger car the sale of which is subject to the Replacement
22    Vehicle Tax.
23        (8)  Personal property sold to an  Illinois  county  fair
24    association  for  use  in conducting, operating, or promoting
25    the county fair.
26        (9)  Personal property sold to a not-for-profit  arts  or
27    cultural  organization that establishes, by proof required by
28    the Department by rule, that it  has  received  an  exemption
29    under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that
30    is  organized  and operated primarily for the presentation or
31    support of  arts  or  cultural  programming,  activities,  or
32    services.   These  organizations include, but are not limited
33    to, music and dramatic arts organizations  such  as  symphony
34    orchestras  and  theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
 
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 1    organizations,   local    arts    councils,    visual    arts
 2    organizations, and media arts organizations. On and after the
 3    effective  date  of  this  amendatory Act of the 92nd General
 4    Assembly, however, an  entity  otherwise  eligible  for  this
 5    exemption  shall not make tax-free purchases unless it has an
 6    active identification number issued by the Department.
 7        (10)  Personal property sold by a  corporation,  society,
 8    association,  foundation, institution, or organization, other
 9    than a limited  liability  company,  that  is  organized  and
10    operated  as  a  not-for-profit  service  enterprise  for the
11    benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if  the  personal
12    property  was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose
13    of resale by the enterprise.
14        (11)  Personal property sold to a governmental body, to a
15    corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
16    organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious,
17    or educational purposes, or to a not-for-profit  corporation,
18    society,    association,    foundation,    institution,    or
19    organization  that  has  no compensated officers or employees
20    and  that  is  organized  and  operated  primarily  for   the
21    recreation  of  persons  55  years of age or older. A limited
22    liability company may qualify for the  exemption  under  this
23    paragraph  only if the limited liability company is organized
24    and operated exclusively for  educational  purposes.  On  and
25    after July 1, 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for
26    this exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
27    active identification number issued by the Department.
28        (12)  Personal  property  sold to interstate carriers for
29    hire for use as rolling stock moving in  interstate  commerce
30    or  to lessors under leases of one year or longer executed or
31    in effect at the time of purchase by interstate carriers  for
32    hire  for  use as rolling stock moving in interstate commerce
33    and equipment  operated  by  a  telecommunications  provider,
34    licensed  as  a  common carrier by the Federal Communications
 
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 1    Commission, which is permanently installed in or  affixed  to
 2    aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
 3        (13)  Proceeds from sales to owners, lessors, or shippers
 4    of  tangible personal property that is utilized by interstate
 5    carriers  for  hire  for  use  as  rolling  stock  moving  in
 6    interstate   commerce   and   equipment   operated    by    a
 7    telecommunications  provider, licensed as a common carrier by
 8    the Federal Communications Commission, which  is  permanently
 9    installed  in  or  affixed  to  aircraft moving in interstate
10    commerce.
11        (14)  Machinery and equipment that will be  used  by  the
12    purchaser,  or  a  lessee  of the purchaser, primarily in the
13    process of  manufacturing  or  assembling  tangible  personal
14    property  for  wholesale or retail sale or lease, whether the
15    sale or lease is made directly by the manufacturer or by some
16    other person, whether the materials used in the  process  are
17    owned  by  the  manufacturer or some other person, or whether
18    the sale or lease is made apart from or as an incident to the
19    seller's engaging in  the  service  occupation  of  producing
20    machines,  tools,  dies,  jigs,  patterns,  gauges,  or other
21    similar items of no commercial value on special order  for  a
22    particular purchaser.
23        (15)  Proceeds  of  mandatory  service charges separately
24    stated on customers' bills for purchase  and  consumption  of
25    food  and  beverages,  to the extent that the proceeds of the
26    service charge are in fact  turned  over  as  tips  or  as  a
27    substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
28    in  preparing,  serving,  hosting  or cleaning up the food or
29    beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
30    imposed.
31        (16)  Petroleum products  sold  to  a  purchaser  if  the
32    seller  is prohibited by federal law from charging tax to the
33    purchaser.
34        (17)  Tangible personal property sold to a common carrier
 
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 1    by rail or motor that receives the physical possession of the
 2    property in Illinois and that  transports  the  property,  or
 3    shares  with  another common carrier in the transportation of
 4    the property, out of Illinois on a standard uniform  bill  of
 5    lading  showing  the seller of the property as the shipper or
 6    consignor of the property to a destination outside  Illinois,
 7    for use outside Illinois.
 8        (18)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold or
 9    silver  coinage  issued  by  the  State  of   Illinois,   the
10    government of the United States of America, or the government
11    of any foreign country, and bullion.
12        (19)  Oil  field  exploration,  drilling,  and production
13    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
14    cable tool rigs, and workover rigs,  (ii)  pipe  and  tubular
15    goods,  including  casing  and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
16    pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines,  (v)  any
17    individual   replacement  part  for  oil  field  exploration,
18    drilling, and production equipment, and  (vi)  machinery  and
19    equipment  purchased  for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
20    required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
21        (20)  Photoprocessing machinery and equipment,  including
22    repair  and  replacement  parts, both new and used, including
23    that  manufactured  on  special  order,  certified   by   the
24    purchaser  to  be  used  primarily  for  photoprocessing, and
25    including photoprocessing machinery and  equipment  purchased
26    for lease.
27        (21)  Coal   exploration,   mining,  offhighway  hauling,
28    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
29    replacement parts  and  equipment,  and  including  equipment
30    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
31    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
32        (22)  Fuel  and  petroleum products sold to or used by an
33    air  carrier,  certified  by  the  carrier  to  be  used  for
34    consumption, shipment, or  storage  in  the  conduct  of  its
 
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 1    business  as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
 2    or returning from a location or locations outside the  United
 3    States  without  regard  to  previous  or subsequent domestic
 4    stopovers.
 5        (23)  A  transaction  in  which  the  purchase  order  is
 6    received by a florist who is located  outside  Illinois,  but
 7    who has a florist located in Illinois deliver the property to
 8    the purchaser or the purchaser's donee in Illinois.
 9        (24)  Fuel  consumed  or  used in the operation of ships,
10    barges, or vessels that are used  primarily  in  or  for  the
11    transportation  of  property or the conveyance of persons for
12    hire on rivers  bordering  on  this  State  if  the  fuel  is
13    delivered  by  the  seller to the purchaser's barge, ship, or
14    vessel while it is afloat upon that bordering river.
15        (25)  A motor vehicle sold in this State to a nonresident
16    even though the motor vehicle is delivered to the nonresident
17    in this State, if the motor vehicle is not to  be  titled  in
18    this State, and if a drive-away permit is issued to the motor
19    vehicle  as provided in Section 3-603 of the Illinois Vehicle
20    Code or if the nonresident purchaser has vehicle registration
21    plates to transfer to the motor vehicle upon returning to his
22    or her home state.  The issuance of the drive-away permit  or
23    having the out-of-state registration plates to be transferred
24    is  prima  facie  evidence that the motor vehicle will not be
25    titled in this State.
26        (26)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
27    for direct agricultural production.
28        (27)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
29    meeting the requirements of any of  the  Arabian  Horse  Club
30    Registry  of  America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
31    Horse Association, United  States  Trotting  Association,  or
32    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
33    racing for prizes.
34        (28)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
 
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 1    any  hospital  purpose  and  equipment used in the diagnosis,
 2    analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a  lessor
 3    who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
 4    executed  or  in  effect  at  the  time of the purchase, to a
 5    hospital  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax  exemption
 6    identification number by the Department under Section  1g  of
 7    this Act.
 8        (29)  Personal  property  sold to a lessor who leases the
 9    property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or  in
10    effect  at  the  time of the purchase, to a governmental body
11    that has been issued an active tax  exemption  identification
12    number by the Department under Section 1g of this Act.
13        (30)  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 donated
16    for disaster relief to  be  used  in  a  State  or  federally
17    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
18    manufacturer  or retailer that is registered in this State to
19    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
20    institution that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax  exemption
21    identification  number by the Department that assists victims
22    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
23        (31)  Beginning with taxable years  ending  on  or  after
24    December  31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
25    before December 31, 2004, personal property that is  used  in
26    the  performance  of  infrastructure  repairs  in this State,
27    including but not limited to  municipal  roads  and  streets,
28    access  roads,  bridges,  sidewalks,  waste disposal systems,
29    water and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution  and
30    purification  facilities,  storm water drainage and retention
31    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
32    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
33    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
34    located in the declared disaster area within 6  months  after
 
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 1    the disaster.
 2        (32)  Beginning  July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold at
 3    a "game breeding and hunting preserve  area"  or  an  "exotic
 4    game  hunting  area"  as those terms are used in the Wildlife
 5    Code or at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted
 6    by the Department of Natural Resources.   This  paragraph  is
 7    exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
 8        (33)  A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
 9    1-146  of  the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code, that is donated to a
10    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
11    foundation,  or  institution  that  is  determined   by   the
12    Department  to  be  organized  and  operated  exclusively for
13    educational purposes.  For purposes  of  this  exemption,  "a
14    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
15    foundation, or institution organized and operated exclusively
16    for  educational  purposes"  means  all  tax-supported public
17    schools, private schools that offer systematic instruction in
18    useful branches of  learning  by  methods  common  to  public
19    schools  and  that  compare  favorably  in  their  scope  and
20    intensity with the course of study presented in tax-supported
21    schools,  and  vocational  or technical schools or institutes
22    organized and operated exclusively to  provide  a  course  of
23    study  of  not  less  than  6  weeks duration and designed to
24    prepare individuals to follow a trade or to pursue a  manual,
25    technical,  mechanical,  industrial,  business, or commercial
26    occupation.
27        (34)  Beginning  January  1,  2000,   personal  property,
28    including food, purchased through fundraising events for  the
29    benefit  of  a  public  or  private  elementary  or secondary
30    school, a group of those  schools,  or  one  or  more  school
31    districts if the events are sponsored by an entity recognized
32    by  the school district that consists primarily of volunteers
33    and includes parents and teachers  of  the  school  children.
34    This  paragraph  does not apply to fundraising events (i) for
 
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 1    the benefit of private home instruction or (ii) for which the
 2    fundraising entity purchases the personal  property  sold  at
 3    the  events  from  another individual or entity that sold the
 4    property for the purpose of resale by the fundraising  entity
 5    and  that  profits  from  the sale to the fundraising entity.
 6    This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
 7        (35)  Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December  31,
 8    2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
 9    serve  hot  food  and  beverages, including coffee, soup, and
10    other  items,  and  replacement  parts  for  these  machines.
11    Beginning January 1, 2002, machines and  parts  for  machines
12    used  in  commercial,  coin-operated  amusement  and  vending
13    business  if  a  use  or  occupation tax is paid on the gross
14    receipts  derived   from   the   use   of   the   commercial,
15    coin-operated  amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
16    is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
17        (35-5) (36)  Food for human consumption  that  is  to  be
18    consumed  off  the  premises  where  it  is  sold (other than
19    alcoholic beverages, soft drinks,  and  food  that  has  been
20    prepared  for  immediate  consumption)  and  prescription and
21    nonprescription medicines,  drugs,  medical  appliances,  and
22    insulin,  urine testing materials, syringes, and needles used
23    by diabetics, for human use, when  purchased  for  use  by  a
24    person  receiving  medical  assistance under Article 5 of the
25    Illinois Public Aid Code who resides in a licensed  long-term
26    care facility, as defined in the Nursing Home Care Act.
27        (36)  Beginning  on the effective date of this amendatory
28    Act   of   the   92nd   General   Assembly,   computers   and
29    communications equipment utilized for  any  hospital  purpose
30    and  equipment  used in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment
31    of  hospital  patients  sold  to  a  lessor  who  leases  the
32    equipment, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
33    effect at the time of the purchase, to a  hospital  that  has
34    been  issued an active tax exemption identification number by
 
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 1    the Department under Section 1g of this Act.  This  paragraph
 2    is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
 3        (37)  Beginning  on the effective date of this amendatory
 4    Act of the 92nd General Assembly, personal property sold to a
 5    lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year  or
 6    longer  executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to
 7    a governmental body  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax
 8    exemption  identification  number  by  the  Department  under
 9    Section  1g  of  this Act.  This paragraph is exempt from the
10    provisions of Section 2-70.
11        (38)  Beginning on January  1,  2002,  tangible  personal
12    property  purchased  from  an Illinois retailer by a taxpayer
13    engaged in centralized purchasing activities in Illinois  who
14    will,  upon  receipt of the property in Illinois, temporarily
15    store the  property  in  Illinois  (i)  for  the  purpose  of
16    subsequently  transporting  it  outside this State for use or
17    consumption thereafter solely outside this State or (ii)  for
18    the  purpose  of being processed, fabricated, or manufactured
19    into,  attached  to,  or  incorporated  into  other  tangible
20    personal property to be transported outside  this  State  and
21    thereafter  used  or consumed solely outside this State.  The
22    Director of Revenue  shall,  pursuant  to  rules  adopted  in
23    accordance  with  the  Illinois Administrative Procedure Act,
24    issue a permit to any taxpayer  in  good  standing  with  the
25    Department  who  is  eligible  for  the  exemption under this
26    paragraph (38).  The permit issued under this paragraph  (38)
27    shall  authorize  the holder, to the extent and in the manner
28    specified in the rules adopted under this  Act,  to  purchase
29    tangible  personal  property  from a retailer exempt from the
30    taxes imposed by this  Act.   Taxpayers  shall  maintain  all
31    necessary  books  and  records  to  substantiate  the use and
32    consumption of all such tangible personal property outside of
33    the State of Illinois.
34        (39)  Beginning  January  1,  2004,   tangible   personal
 
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 1    property   and   its   component   parts   purchased   by   a
 2    telecommunications carrier if the property and parts are used
 3    directly and primarily in transmitting, receiving, switching,
 4    or   recording   any   interactive,  two-way  electromagnetic
 5    communications,   including   voice,   image,    data,    and
 6    information,  through  the  use of any medium, including, but
 7    not limited to, poles, wires,  cables,  switching  equipment,
 8    computers,   and  record  storage  devices  and  media.  This
 9    paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
10    (Source: P.A. 91-51,  eff.  6-30-99;  91-200,  eff.  7-20-99;
11    91-439,  eff.  8-6-99;  91-533,  eff.  8-13-99;  91-637, eff.
12    8-20-99; 91-644, eff. 8-20-99;  92-16, eff.  6-28-01;  92-35,
13    eff.  7-1-01;  92-227,  eff.  8-2-01;  92-337,  eff. 8-10-01;
14    92-484, eff. 8-23-01;  92-488,  eff.  8-23-01;  92-651,  eff.
15    7-11-02; 92-680, eff. 7-16-02; revised 12-02-02.)

16        Section  90.  The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
17    Section 8.27 as follows:

18        (30 ILCS 805/8.27 new)
19        Sec. 8.27. Exempt mandate.   Notwithstanding  Sections  6
20    and  8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required
21    for  the  implementation  of  any  mandate  created  by  this
22    amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.

23        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
24    becoming law.