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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1268

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 1268  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN ACT concerning taxation."; and

 5    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 6    following:

 7        "Section 5.  The Use  Tax  Act  is  amended  by  changing
 8    Section 3-5 as follows:

 9        (35 ILCS 105/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.3-5)
10        Sec.  3-5.   Exemptions.   Use  of the following tangible
11    personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
12        (1)  Personal  property  purchased  from  a  corporation,
13    society,    association,    foundation,    institution,    or
14    organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
15    organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
16    for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or  older  if  the
17    personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
18    purpose of resale by the enterprise.
19        (2)  Personal  property  purchased  by  a  not-for-profit
20    Illinois  county  fair  association  for  use  in conducting,
21    operating, or promoting the county fair.
 
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 1        (3)  Personal  property  purchased  by  a  not-for-profit
 2    music or dramatic  arts  organization  that  establishes,  by
 3    proof  required  by  the  Department  by  rule,  that  it has
 4    received an exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
 5    Revenue Code and that  is  organized  and  operated  for  the
 6    presentation  of  live  public  performances  of  musical  or
 7    theatrical works on a regular basis.
 8        (4)  Personal  property purchased by a governmental body,
 9    by  a  corporation,  society,  association,  foundation,   or
10    institution    organized   and   operated   exclusively   for
11    charitable, religious,  or  educational  purposes,  or  by  a
12    not-for-profit corporation, society, association, foundation,
13    institution, or organization that has no compensated officers
14    or employees and that is organized and operated primarily for
15    the recreation of persons 55 years of age or older. A limited
16    liability  company  may  qualify for the exemption under this
17    paragraph only if the limited liability company is  organized
18    and  operated  exclusively  for  educational purposes. On and
19    after July 1, 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for
20    this exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
21    active  exemption  identification  number   issued   by   the
22    Department.
23        (5)  A passenger car that is a replacement vehicle to the
24    extent  that  the purchase price of the car is subject to the
25    Replacement Vehicle Tax.
26        (6)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
27    repair  and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,   and
28    including  that  manufactured  on special order, certified by
29    the  purchaser  to  be  used  primarily  for   graphic   arts
30    production,  and  including machinery and equipment purchased
31    for lease.
32        (7)  Farm chemicals.
33        (8)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold  or
34    silver  coinage  issued  by  the  State  of   Illinois,   the
 
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 1    government of the United States of America, or the government
 2    of any foreign country, and bullion.
 3        (9)  Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
 4    student   organization   affiliated  with  an  elementary  or
 5    secondary school located in Illinois.
 6        (10)  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 to the living quarters from the driver's
11    seat, or a motor vehicle of the second division  that  is  of
12    the  van configuration designed for the transportation of not
13    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        (11)  Farm  machinery  and  equipment, both new and used,
18    including that manufactured on special  order,  certified  by
19    the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
20    or   State   or   federal  agricultural  programs,  including
21    individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
22    including machinery and equipment purchased  for  lease,  and
23    including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
24    the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code, farm machinery and agricultural
25    chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons  required
26    to  be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
27    Code, but excluding  other  motor  vehicles  required  to  be
28    registered  under  the  Illinois  Vehicle Code. Horticultural
29    polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating,  growing,  or
30    overwintering  plants  shall be considered farm machinery and
31    equipment under this item (11). Agricultural chemical  tender
32    tanks  and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
33    a motor vehicle  required  to  be  licensed  and  units  sold
34    mounted  on  a  motor  vehicle required to be licensed if the
 
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 1    selling price of the tender is separately stated.
 2        Farm machinery  and  equipment  shall  include  precision
 3    farming  equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to be
 4    installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but  not
 5    limited   to,   tractors,   harvesters,  sprayers,  planters,
 6    seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment  includes,
 7    but  is  not  limited  to,  soil  testing sensors, computers,
 8    monitors, software, global positioning and  mapping  systems,
 9    and other such equipment.
10        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  also includes computers,
11    sensors, software, and related equipment  used  primarily  in
12    the  computer-assisted  operation  of  production agriculture
13    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
14    limited to, the collection, monitoring,  and  correlation  of
15    animal  and  crop  data for the purpose of formulating animal
16    diets and agricultural chemicals.  This item (11)  is  exempt
17    from the provisions of Section 3-90.
18        (12)  Fuel  and  petroleum products sold to or used by an
19    air common carrier, certified by the carrier to be  used  for
20    consumption,  shipment,  or  storage  in  the  conduct of its
21    business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined  for
22    or  returning from a location or locations outside the United
23    States without regard  to  previous  or  subsequent  domestic
24    stopovers.
25        (13)  Proceeds  of  mandatory  service charges separately
26    stated on customers' bills for the purchase  and  consumption
27    of food and beverages purchased at retail from a retailer, to
28    the  extent  that  the  proceeds of the service charge are in
29    fact turned over as tips or as a substitute for tips  to  the
30    employees  who  participate  directly  in preparing, serving,
31    hosting or cleaning up the food  or  beverage  function  with
32    respect to which the service charge is imposed.
33        (14)  Oil  field  exploration,  drilling,  and production
34    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
 
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 1    cable tool rigs, and workover rigs,  (ii)  pipe  and  tubular
 2    goods,  including  casing  and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
 3    pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines,  (v)  any
 4    individual   replacement  part  for  oil  field  exploration,
 5    drilling, and production equipment, and  (vi)  machinery  and
 6    equipment  purchased  for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
 7    required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
 8        (15)  Photoprocessing machinery and equipment,  including
 9    repair  and  replacement  parts, both new and used, including
10    that  manufactured  on  special  order,  certified   by   the
11    purchaser  to  be  used  primarily  for  photoprocessing, and
12    including photoprocessing machinery and  equipment  purchased
13    for lease.
14        (16)  Coal   exploration,   mining,  offhighway  hauling,
15    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
16    replacement parts  and  equipment,  and  including  equipment
17    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
18    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
19        (17)  Distillation  machinery  and  equipment,  sold as a
20    unit  or  kit,  assembled  or  installed  by  the   retailer,
21    certified  by  the user to be used only for the production of
22    ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption as motor fuel
23    or as a component of motor fuel for the personal use  of  the
24    user, and not subject to sale or resale.
25        (18)  Manufacturing    and   assembling   machinery   and
26    equipment used primarily in the process of  manufacturing  or
27    assembling tangible personal property for wholesale or retail
28    sale or lease, whether that sale or lease is made directly by
29    the  manufacturer  or  by  some  other  person,  whether  the
30    materials  used  in the process are owned by the manufacturer
31    or some other person, or whether that sale or lease  is  made
32    apart  from or as an incident to the seller's engaging in the
33    service occupation of producing machines, tools, dies,  jigs,
34    patterns,  gauges,  or  other  similar items of no commercial
 
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 1    value on special order for a particular purchaser.
 2        (19)  Personal  property  delivered  to  a  purchaser  or
 3    purchaser's donee inside Illinois when the purchase order for
 4    that personal property was  received  by  a  florist  located
 5    outside  Illinois  who  has a florist located inside Illinois
 6    deliver the personal property.
 7        (20)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
 8    for direct agricultural production.
 9        (21)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
10    meeting the requirements of any of  the  Arabian  Horse  Club
11    Registry  of  America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
12    Horse Association, United  States  Trotting  Association,  or
13    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
14    racing for prizes.
15        (22)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
16    any  hospital  purpose  and  equipment used in the diagnosis,
17    analysis, or treatment of hospital patients  purchased  by  a
18    lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
19    longer  executed  or  in  effect at the time the lessor would
20    otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by  this  Act,  to  a
21    hospital    that  has  been  issued  an  active tax exemption
22    identification number by the Department under Section  1g  of
23    the  Retailers'  Occupation  Tax  Act.   If  the equipment is
24    leased in a manner that does not qualify for  this  exemption
25    or  is  used in any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall
26    be liable for the tax imposed under this Act or  the  Service
27    Use  Tax  Act,  as  the case may be, based on the fair market
28    value of the property at  the  time  the  non-qualifying  use
29    occurs.   No  lessor  shall  collect or attempt to collect an
30    amount (however designated) that purports to  reimburse  that
31    lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax
32    Act,  as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by the
33    lessor.  If a lessor improperly collects any such amount from
34    the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right  to  claim  a
 
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 1    refund  of  that  amount  from the lessor.  If, however, that
 2    amount is not refunded to the  lessee  for  any  reason,  the
 3    lessor is liable to pay that amount to the Department.
 4        (23)  Personal  property purchased by a lessor who leases
 5    the property, under a lease of  one year or  longer  executed
 6    or  in  effect  at  the  time  the  lessor would otherwise be
 7    subject to the tax imposed by this  Act,  to  a  governmental
 8    body  that  has  been  issued  an  active sales tax exemption
 9    identification number by the Department under Section  1g  of
10    the  Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the property is leased
11    in a manner that does not qualify for this exemption or  used
12    in  any  other  non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable
13    for the tax imposed under this Act or  the  Service  Use  Tax
14    Act,  as  the  case may be, based on the fair market value of
15    the property at the time the non-qualifying use  occurs.   No
16    lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount (however
17    designated)  that  purports  to reimburse that lessor for the
18    tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax  Act,  as  the
19    case  may be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor.  If
20    a lessor improperly collects any such amount from the lessee,
21    the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a refund of that
22    amount from the lessor.  If,  however,  that  amount  is  not
23    refunded  to  the lessee for any reason, the lessor is liable
24    to pay that amount to the Department.
25        (24)  Beginning with taxable years  ending  on  or  after
26    December  31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
27    before December 31, 2004, personal property that  is  donated
28    for  disaster  relief  to  be  used  in  a State or federally
29    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
30    manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State  to
31    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
32    institution  that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax exemption
33    identification number by the Department that assists  victims
34    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
 
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 1        (25)  Beginning  with  taxable  years  ending on or after
 2    December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on  or
 3    before  December  31, 2004, personal property that is used in
 4    the performance of  infrastructure  repairs  in  this  State,
 5    including  but  not  limited  to municipal roads and streets,
 6    access roads, bridges,  sidewalks,  waste  disposal  systems,
 7    water  and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution and
 8    purification facilities, storm water drainage  and  retention
 9    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
10    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
11    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
12    located  in  the declared disaster area within 6 months after
13    the disaster.
14        (26)  Beginning on the effective date of this  amendatory
15    Act of the 91st General Assembly, production related tangible
16    personal  property  and  machinery  and  equipment, including
17    repair  and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,   and
18    including  those  items  manufactured  on  special  order  or
19    purchased  for  lease,  certified  by  the  purchaser  to  be
20    essential  to  and  used  in  the  integrated  process of the
21    production of electricity  by  an  eligible  facility  owned,
22    operated,   or  leased  by  an  exempt  wholesale  generator.
23    "Eligible facility" and "exempt  wholesale  generator"  shall
24    mean  "eligible facility" and "exempt wholesale generator" as
25    defined in Section 32 of the Public Utility  Holding  Company
26    Act  of  1935,  15 U.S.C. 79z-5a, in effect as of the date of
27    this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly. "Machinery"
28    includes mechanical machines and components of those machines
29    that directly contribute  to  or  are  directly  used  in  or
30    essential  to  the  process of the production of electricity.
31    "Equipment" includes an independent device or  tool  separate
32    from  machinery  but  essential  to an integrated electricity
33    generation process; including pipes of any kind used  in  the
34    process  of  the  production  of  electricity; computers used
 
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 1    primarily in  operating  exempt  machinery;  any  subunit  or
 2    assembly   comprising   a   component  of  any  machinery  or
 3    auxiliary, adjunct, or attachment parts of machinery, and any
 4    parts that require periodic  replacement  in  the  course  of
 5    normal   operation;   but   does   not  include  hand  tools.
 6    "Production related tangible  personal  property"  means  all
 7    tangible  personal  property  directly used or consumed in or
 8    essential to the process of  the  production  of  electricity
 9    including,  but  not  limited  to, tangible personal property
10    used or consumed in activities such as preproduction material
11    handling,  receiving,  quality  control,  inventory  control,
12    storage, staging, and  piping  or  lines  necessary  for  the
13    transportation  of  water,  natural  gas,  steam, and similar
14    items to and from an eligible facility for use in the process
15    of the production of electricity. This paragraph  (26)  shall
16    apply  also  to  machinery  and equipment used in the general
17    maintenance or repair of exempt machinery and equipment.  The
18    provisions  of  this paragraph are exempt from the provisions
19    of Section 3-90.
20    (Source: P.A.  89-16,  eff.  5-30-95;  89-115,  eff.  1-1-96;
21    89-349,  eff.  8-17-95;  89-495,  eff.  6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
22    6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96;  90-14,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-552,
23    eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98.)

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

26        (35 ILCS 110/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-5)
27        Sec. 3-5.  Exemptions.  Use  of  the  following  tangible
28    personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
29        (1)  Personal  property  purchased  from  a  corporation,
30    society,    association,    foundation,    institution,    or
31    organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
32    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
 8    music  or  dramatic  arts  organization  that establishes, by
 9    proof required  by  the  Department  by  rule,  that  it  has
10    received an exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
11    Revenue  Code  and  that  is  organized  and operated for the
12    presentation  of  live  public  performances  of  musical  or
13    theatrical works on a regular basis.
14        (4)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold  or
15    silver  coinage  issued  by  the  State  of   Illinois,   the
16    government of the United States of America, or the government
17    of any foreign country, and bullion.
18        (5)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
19    repair   and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,  and
20    including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
21    lease, certified by the purchaser to be  used  primarily  for
22    graphic arts production.
23        (6)  Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
24    student   organization   affiliated  with  an  elementary  or
25    secondary school located in Illinois.
26        (7)  Farm machinery and equipment,  both  new  and  used,
27    including  that  manufactured  on special order, certified by
28    the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
29    or  State  or  federal   agricultural   programs,   including
30    individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
31    including  machinery  and  equipment purchased for lease, and
32    including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
33    the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm  machinery  and  agricultural
34    chemical  and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
 
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 1    to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois  Vehicle
 2    Code,  but  excluding  other  motor  vehicles  required to be
 3    registered under the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code.  Horticultural
 4    polyhouses  or  hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
 5    overwintering plants shall be considered farm  machinery  and
 6    equipment  under  this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender
 7    tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately  from
 8    a  motor  vehicle  required  to  be  licensed  and units sold
 9    mounted on a motor vehicle required to  be  licensed  if  the
10    selling price of the tender is separately stated.
11        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  shall  include precision
12    farming equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to  be
13    installed  on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
14    limited  to,  tractors,   harvesters,   sprayers,   planters,
15    seeders,  or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
16    but is not  limited  to,  soil  testing  sensors,  computers,
17    monitors,  software,  global positioning and mapping systems,
18    and other such equipment.
19        Farm machinery and  equipment  also  includes  computers,
20    sensors,  software,  and  related equipment used primarily in
21    the computer-assisted  operation  of  production  agriculture
22    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
23    limited  to,  the  collection, monitoring, and correlation of
24    animal and crop data for the purpose  of  formulating  animal
25    diets  and  agricultural  chemicals.  This item (7) is exempt
26    from the provisions of Section 3-75.
27        (8)  Fuel and petroleum products sold to or  used  by  an
28    air  common  carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
29    consumption, shipment, or  storage  in  the  conduct  of  its
30    business  as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
31    or returning from a location or locations outside the  United
32    States  without  regard  to  previous  or subsequent domestic
33    stopovers.
34        (9)  Proceeds of  mandatory  service  charges  separately
 
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 1    stated  on  customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
 2    of food and beverages acquired as an incident to the purchase
 3    of a service from  a  serviceman,  to  the  extent  that  the
 4    proceeds  of  the  service  charge are in fact turned over as
 5    tips or as  a  substitute  for  tips  to  the  employees  who
 6    participate   directly  in  preparing,  serving,  hosting  or
 7    cleaning up the food or beverage  function  with  respect  to
 8    which the service charge is imposed.
 9        (10)  Oil  field  exploration,  drilling,  and production
10    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
11    cable tool rigs, and workover rigs,  (ii)  pipe  and  tubular
12    goods,  including  casing  and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
13    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        (11)  Proceeds from the sale of photoprocessing machinery
19    and equipment, including repair and replacement  parts,  both
20    new  and  used, including that manufactured on special order,
21    certified  by  the  purchaser  to  be  used   primarily   for
22    photoprocessing,  and including photoprocessing machinery and
23    equipment purchased for lease.
24        (12)  Coal  exploration,  mining,   offhighway   hauling,
25    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
26    replacement  parts  and  equipment,  and  including equipment
27    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
28    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
29        (13)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
30    for direct agricultural production.
31        (14)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
32    meeting the requirements of any of  the  Arabian  Horse  Club
33    Registry  of  America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
34    Horse Association, United  States  Trotting  Association,  or
 
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 1    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
 2    racing for prizes.
 3        (15)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
 4    any  hospital  purpose  and  equipment used in the diagnosis,
 5    analysis, or treatment of hospital patients  purchased  by  a
 6    lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
 7    longer  executed  or  in  effect at the time the lessor would
 8    otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by  this  Act,  to  a
 9    hospital  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax  exemption
10    identification  number  by the Department under Section 1g of
11    the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased
12    in a manner that does not qualify for this  exemption  or  is
13    used  in  any  other  non-exempt  manner, the lessor shall be
14    liable for the tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act,
15    as the case may be, based on the fair  market  value  of  the
16    property  at  the  time  the  non-qualifying  use occurs.  No
17    lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount (however
18    designated) that purports to reimburse that  lessor  for  the
19    tax  imposed  by this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
20    be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor.  If a  lessor
21    improperly  collects  any  such  amount  from the lessee, the
22    lessee shall have a legal right to claim  a  refund  of  that
23    amount  from  the  lessor.   If,  however, that amount is not
24    refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor  is  liable
25    to pay that amount to the Department.
26        (16)  Personal  property purchased by a lessor who leases
27    the property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or
28    in effect at the time the lessor would otherwise  be  subject
29    to  the  tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that
30    has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
31    by  the  Department  under  Section  1g  of  the   Retailers'
32    Occupation  Tax  Act.   If the property is leased in a manner
33    that does not qualify for this exemption or is  used  in  any
34    other  non-exempt  manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
 
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 1    tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act,  as  the  case
 2    may be, based on the fair market value of the property at the
 3    time  the non-qualifying use occurs.  No lessor shall collect
 4    or attempt to collect an  amount  (however  designated)  that
 5    purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
 6    Act  or  the  Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has
 7    not been paid by the lessor.  If a lessor improperly collects
 8    any such amount from the lessee,  the  lessee  shall  have  a
 9    legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the lessor.
10    If,  however,  that  amount is not refunded to the lessee for
11    any reason, the lessor is liable to pay that  amount  to  the
12    Department.
13        (17)  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        (18)  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        (19)  Beginning  on the effective date of this amendatory
 3    Act of the 91st General Assembly, production related tangible
 4    personal property  and  machinery  and  equipment,  including
 5    repair   and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,  and
 6    including  those  items  manufactured  on  special  order  or
 7    purchased  for  lease,  certified  by  the  purchaser  to  be
 8    essential to and  used  in  the  integrated  process  of  the
 9    production  of  electricity  by  an  eligible facility owned,
10    operated,  or  leased  by  an  exempt  wholesale   generator.
11    "Eligible  facility"  and  "exempt wholesale generator" shall
12    mean "eligible facility" and "exempt wholesale generator"  as
13    defined  in  Section 32 of the Public Utility Holding Company
14    Act of 1935, 15 U.S.C. 79z-5a, in effect as of  the  date  of
15    this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly. "Machinery"
16    includes mechanical machines and components of those machines
17    that  directly  contribute  to  or  are  directly  used in or
18    essential to the process of the  production  of  electricity.
19    "Equipment"  includes  an independent device or tool separate
20    from machinery but essential  to  an  integrated  electricity
21    generation  process;  including pipes of any kind used in the
22    process of the  production  of  electricity;  computers  used
23    primarily  in  operating  exempt  machinery;  any  subunit or
24    assembly  comprising  a  component  of   any   machinery   or
25    auxiliary, adjunct, or attachment parts of machinery, and any
26    parts  that  require  periodic  replacement  in the course of
27    normal  operation;  but  does   not   include   hand   tools.
28    "Production  related  tangible  personal  property" means all
29    tangible personal property directly used or  consumed  in  or
30    essential  to  the  process  of the production of electricity
31    including, but not limited  to,  tangible  personal  property
32    used or consumed in activities such as preproduction material
33    handling,  receiving,  quality  control,  inventory  control,
34    storage,  staging,  and  piping  or  lines  necessary for the
 
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 1    transportation of water,  natural  gas,  steam,  and  similar
 2    items to and from an eligible facility for use in the process
 3    of  the  production of electricity. This paragraph (19) shall
 4    apply also to machinery and equipment  used  in  the  general
 5    maintenance  or repair of exempt machinery and equipment. The
 6    provisions of this paragraph are exempt from  the  provisions
 7    of Section 3-75.
 8    (Source:  P.A.  89-16,  eff.  5-30-95;  89-115,  eff. 1-1-96;
 9    89-349, eff. 8-17-95;  89-495,  eff.  6-24-96;  89-496,  eff.
10    6-25-96;  89-626,  eff.  8-9-96;  90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-552,
11    eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98.)

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

14        (35 ILCS 115/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-5)
15        Sec. 3-5.  Exemptions.  The following  tangible  personal
16    property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
17        (1)  Personal  property  sold  by a corporation, society,
18    association, foundation, institution, or organization,  other
19    than  a  limited  liability  company,  that  is organized and
20    operated as  a  not-for-profit  service  enterprise  for  the
21    benefit  of  persons 65 years of age or older if the personal
22    property was not purchased by the enterprise for the  purpose
23    of resale by the enterprise.
24        (2)  Personal  property  purchased  by  a  not-for-profit
25    Illinois  county  fair  association  for  use  in conducting,
26    operating, or promoting the county fair.
27        (3)  Personal property purchased  by  any  not-for-profit
28    music  or  dramatic  arts  organization  that establishes, by
29    proof required  by  the  Department  by  rule,  that  it  has
30    received   an  exemption   under  Section  501(c)(3)  of  the
31    Internal Revenue Code and that is organized and operated  for
32    the  presentation  of  live public performances of musical or
 
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 1    theatrical works on a regular basis.
 2        (4)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold  or
 3    silver  coinage  issued  by  the  State  of   Illinois,   the
 4    government of the United States of America, or the government
 5    of any foreign country, and bullion.
 6        (5)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
 7    repair   and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,  and
 8    including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
 9    lease, certified by the purchaser to be  used  primarily  for
10    graphic arts production.
11        (6)  Personal   property   sold  by  a  teacher-sponsored
12    student  organization  affiliated  with  an   elementary   or
13    secondary school located in Illinois.
14        (7)  Farm  machinery  and  equipment,  both new and used,
15    including that manufactured on special  order,  certified  by
16    the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
17    or   State   or   federal  agricultural  programs,  including
18    individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
19    including machinery and equipment purchased  for  lease,  and
20    including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
21    the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code, farm machinery and agricultural
22    chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons  required
23    to  be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
24    Code, but excluding  other  motor  vehicles  required  to  be
25    registered  under  the  Illinois  Vehicle Code. Horticultural
26    polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating,  growing,  or
27    overwintering  plants  shall be considered farm machinery and
28    equipment under this item (7). Agricultural  chemical  tender
29    tanks  and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
30    a motor vehicle  required  to  be  licensed  and  units  sold
31    mounted  on  a  motor  vehicle required to be licensed if the
32    selling price of the tender is separately stated.
33        Farm machinery  and  equipment  shall  include  precision
34    farming  equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to be
 
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 1    installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but  not
 2    limited   to,   tractors,   harvesters,  sprayers,  planters,
 3    seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment  includes,
 4    but  is  not  limited  to,  soil  testing sensors, computers,
 5    monitors, software, global positioning and  mapping  systems,
 6    and other such equipment.
 7        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  also includes computers,
 8    sensors, software, and related equipment  used  primarily  in
 9    the  computer-assisted  operation  of  production agriculture
10    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
11    limited to, the collection, monitoring,  and  correlation  of
12    animal  and  crop  data for the purpose of formulating animal
13    diets and agricultural chemicals.  This item  (7)  is  exempt
14    from the provisions of Section 3-55 3-75.
15        (8)  Fuel  and  petroleum  products sold to or used by an
16    air common carrier, certified by the carrier to be  used  for
17    consumption,  shipment,  or  storage  in  the  conduct of its
18    business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined  for
19    or  returning from a location or locations outside the United
20    States without regard  to  previous  or  subsequent  domestic
21    stopovers.
22        (9)  Proceeds  of  mandatory  service  charges separately
23    stated on customers' bills for the purchase  and  consumption
24    of food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
25    service  charge  are  in  fact  turned  over  as tips or as a
26    substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
27    in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning  up  the  food  or
28    beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
29    imposed.
30        (10)  Oil  field  exploration,  drilling,  and production
31    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
32    cable tool rigs, and workover rigs,  (ii)  pipe  and  tubular
33    goods,  including  casing  and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
34    pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines,  (v)  any
 
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 1    individual   replacement  part  for  oil  field  exploration,
 2    drilling, and production equipment, and  (vi)  machinery  and
 3    equipment  purchased  for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
 4    required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
 5        (11)  Photoprocessing machinery and equipment,  including
 6    repair  and  replacement  parts, both new and used, including
 7    that  manufactured  on  special  order,  certified   by   the
 8    purchaser  to  be  used  primarily  for  photoprocessing, and
 9    including photoprocessing machinery and  equipment  purchased
10    for lease.
11        (12)  Coal   exploration,   mining,  offhighway  hauling,
12    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
13    replacement parts  and  equipment,  and  including  equipment
14    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
15    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
16        (13)  Food  for  human consumption that is to be consumed
17    off the premises where  it  is  sold  (other  than  alcoholic
18    beverages,  soft  drinks  and food that has been prepared for
19    immediate consumption) and prescription and  non-prescription
20    medicines,  drugs,  medical  appliances,  and  insulin, urine
21    testing materials, syringes, and needles used  by  diabetics,
22    for  human  use, when purchased for use by a person receiving
23    medical assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid
24    Code who resides in a licensed long-term  care  facility,  as
25    defined in the Nursing Home Care Act.
26        (14)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
27    for direct agricultural production.
28        (15)  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        (16)  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    the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.
 8        (17)  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  the  Retailers'
13    Occupation Tax Act.
14        (18)  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
17    for disaster relief to  be  used  in  a  State  or  federally
18    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
19    manufacturer  or retailer that is registered in this State to
20    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
21    institution that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax  exemption
22    identification  number by the Department that assists victims
23    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
24        (19)  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
27    the  performance  of  infrastructure  repairs  in this State,
28    including but not limited to  municipal  roads  and  streets,
29    access  roads,  bridges,  sidewalks,  waste disposal systems,
30    water and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution  and
31    purification  facilities,  storm water drainage and retention
32    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
33    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
34    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
 
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 1    located in the declared disaster area within 6  months  after
 2    the disaster.
 3        (20)  Beginning  on the effective date of this amendatory
 4    Act of the 91st General Assembly, production related tangible
 5    personal property  and  machinery  and  equipment,  including
 6    repair   and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,  and
 7    including  those  items  manufactured  on  special  order  or
 8    purchased  for  lease,  certified  by  the  purchaser  to  be
 9    essential to and  used  in  the  integrated  process  of  the
10    production  of  electricity  by  an  eligible facility owned,
11    operated,  or  leased  by  an  exempt  wholesale   generator.
12    "Eligible  facility"  and  "exempt wholesale generator" shall
13    mean "eligible facility" and "exempt wholesale generator"  as
14    defined  in  Section 32 of the Public Utility Holding Company
15    Act of 1935, 15 U.S.C. 79z-5a, in effect as of  the  date  of
16    this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly. "Machinery"
17    includes mechanical machines and components of those machines
18    that  directly  contribute  to  or  are  directly  used in or
19    essential to the process of the  production  of  electricity.
20    "Equipment"  includes  an independent device or tool separate
21    from machinery but essential  to  an  integrated  electricity
22    generation  process;  including pipes of any kind used in the
23    process of the  production  of  electricity;  computers  used
24    primarily  in  operating  exempt  machinery;  any  subunit or
25    assembly  comprising  a  component  of   any   machinery   or
26    auxiliary, adjunct, or attachment parts of machinery, and any
27    parts  that  require  periodic  replacement  in the course of
28    normal  operation;  but  does   not   include   hand   tools.
29    "Production  related  tangible  personal  property" means all
30    tangible personal property directly used or  consumed  in  or
31    essential  to  the  process  of the production of electricity
32    including, but not limited  to,  tangible  personal  property
33    used or consumed in activities such as preproduction material
34    handling,  receiving,  quality  control,  inventory  control,
 
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 1    storage,  staging,  and  piping  or  lines  necessary for the
 2    transportation of water,  natural  gas,  steam,  and  similar
 3    items to and from an eligible facility for use in the process
 4    of  the  production of electricity. This paragraph (20) shall
 5    apply also to machinery and equipment  used  in  the  general
 6    maintenance  or repair of exempt machinery and equipment. The
 7    provisions of this paragraph are exempt from  the  provisions
 8    of Section 3-55.
 9    (Source: P.A.  89-16,  eff.  5-30-95;  89-115,  eff.  1-1-96;
10    89-349,  eff.  8-17-95;  89-495,  eff.  6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
11    6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96;  90-14,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-552,
12    eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98; revised 2-10-99.)

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

15        (35 ILCS 120/2-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 441-5)
16        Sec. 2-5.  Exemptions.  Gross receipts from proceeds from
17    the  sale  of  the  following  tangible personal property are
18    exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
19        (1)  Farm chemicals.
20        (2)  Farm machinery and equipment,  both  new  and  used,
21    including  that  manufactured  on special order, certified by
22    the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
23    or  State  or  federal   agricultural   programs,   including
24    individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
25    including  machinery  and  equipment purchased for lease, and
26    including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
27    the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm  machinery  and  agricultural
28    chemical  and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
29    to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois  Vehicle
30    Code,  but  excluding  other  motor  vehicles  required to be
31    registered under the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code.  Horticultural
32    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 (2). 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 2-70 3-75.
23        (3)  Distillation machinery and equipment, sold as a unit
24    or kit, assembled or installed by the retailer, certified  by
25    the  user to be used only for the production of ethyl alcohol
26    that will be used for consumption  as  motor  fuel  or  as  a
27    component of motor fuel for the personal use of the user, and
28    not subject to sale or resale.
29        (4)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
30    repair   and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,  and
31    including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
32    lease, certified by the purchaser to be  used  primarily  for
33    graphic arts production.
34        (5)  A  motor  vehicle  of  the  first  division, a motor
 
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 1    vehicle of the second division that is a self-contained motor
 2    vehicle designed or permanently converted to  provide  living
 3    quarters  for  recreational,  camping,  or  travel  use, with
 4    direct walk through access to the living  quarters  from  the
 5    driver's seat, or a motor vehicle of the second division that
 6    is  of  the van configuration designed for the transportation
 7    of not less than 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in
 8    Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used  for
 9    automobile  renting,  as  defined  in  the Automobile Renting
10    Occupation and Use Tax Act.
11        (6)  Personal  property  sold  by   a   teacher-sponsored
12    student   organization   affiliated  with  an  elementary  or
13    secondary school located in Illinois.
14        (7)  Proceeds of that portion of the selling price  of  a
15    passenger car the sale of which is subject to the Replacement
16    Vehicle Tax.
17        (8)  Personal  property  sold  to an Illinois county fair
18    association for use in conducting,  operating,  or  promoting
19    the county fair.
20        (9)  Personal  property sold to a not-for-profit music or
21    dramatic  arts  organization  that  establishes,   by   proof
22    required  by  the Department by rule, that it has received an
23    exemption under Section 501(c) (3) of  the  Internal  Revenue
24    Code  and that is organized and operated for the presentation
25    of live public performances of musical or theatrical works on
26    a regular basis.
27        (10)  Personal property sold by a  corporation,  society,
28    association,  foundation, institution, or organization, other
29    than a limited  liability  company,  that  is  organized  and
30    operated  as  a  not-for-profit  service  enterprise  for the
31    benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if  the  personal
32    property  was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose
33    of resale by the enterprise.
34        (11)  Personal property sold to a governmental body, to a
 
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 1    corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
 2    organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious,
 3    or educational purposes, or to a not-for-profit  corporation,
 4    society,    association,    foundation,    institution,    or
 5    organization  that  has  no compensated officers or employees
 6    and  that  is  organized  and  operated  primarily  for   the
 7    recreation  of  persons  55  years of age or older. A limited
 8    liability company may qualify for the  exemption  under  this
 9    paragraph  only if the limited liability company is organized
10    and operated exclusively for  educational  purposes.  On  and
11    after July 1, 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for
12    this exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
13    active identification number issued by the Department.
14        (12)  Personal  property  sold to interstate carriers for
15    hire for use as rolling stock moving in  interstate  commerce
16    or  to lessors under leases of one year or longer executed or
17    in effect at the time of purchase by interstate carriers  for
18    hire  for  use as rolling stock moving in interstate commerce
19    and equipment  operated  by  a  telecommunications  provider,
20    licensed  as  a  common carrier by the Federal Communications
21    Commission, which is permanently installed in or  affixed  to
22    aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
23        (13)  Proceeds from sales to owners, lessors, or shippers
24    of  tangible personal property that is utilized by interstate
25    carriers  for  hire  for  use  as  rolling  stock  moving  in
26    interstate   commerce   and   equipment   operated    by    a
27    telecommunications  provider, licensed as a common carrier by
28    the Federal Communications Commission, which  is  permanently
29    installed  in  or  affixed  to  aircraft moving in interstate
30    commerce.
31        (14)  Machinery and equipment that will be  used  by  the
32    purchaser,  or  a  lessee  of the purchaser, primarily in the
33    process of  manufacturing  or  assembling  tangible  personal
34    property  for  wholesale or retail sale or lease, whether the
 
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 1    sale or lease is made directly by the manufacturer or by some
 2    other person, whether the materials used in the  process  are
 3    owned  by  the  manufacturer or some other person, or whether
 4    the sale or lease is made apart from or as an incident to the
 5    seller's engaging in  the  service  occupation  of  producing
 6    machines,  tools,  dies,  jigs,  patterns,  gauges,  or other
 7    similar items of no commercial value on special order  for  a
 8    particular purchaser.
 9        (15)  Proceeds  of  mandatory  service charges separately
10    stated on customers' bills for purchase  and  consumption  of
11    food  and  beverages,  to the extent that the proceeds of the
12    service charge are in fact  turned  over  as  tips  or  as  a
13    substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
14    in  preparing,  serving,  hosting  or cleaning up the food or
15    beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
16    imposed.
17        (16)  Petroleum products  sold  to  a  purchaser  if  the
18    seller  is prohibited by federal law from charging tax to the
19    purchaser.
20        (17)  Tangible personal property sold to a common carrier
21    by rail or motor that receives the physical possession of the
22    property in Illinois and that  transports  the  property,  or
23    shares  with  another common carrier in the transportation of
24    the property, out of Illinois on a standard uniform  bill  of
25    lading  showing  the seller of the property as the shipper or
26    consignor of the property to a destination outside  Illinois,
27    for use outside Illinois.
28        (18)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold or
29    silver  coinage  issued  by  the  State  of   Illinois,   the
30    government of the United States of America, or the government
31    of any foreign country, and bullion.
32        (19)  Oil  field  exploration,  drilling,  and production
33    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
34    cable tool rigs, and workover rigs,  (ii)  pipe  and  tubular
 
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 1    goods,  including  casing  and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
 2    pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines,  (v)  any
 3    individual   replacement  part  for  oil  field  exploration,
 4    drilling, and production equipment, and  (vi)  machinery  and
 5    equipment  purchased  for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
 6    required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
 7        (20)  Photoprocessing machinery and equipment,  including
 8    repair  and  replacement  parts, both new and used, including
 9    that  manufactured  on  special  order,  certified   by   the
10    purchaser  to  be  used  primarily  for  photoprocessing, and
11    including photoprocessing machinery and  equipment  purchased
12    for lease.
13        (21)  Coal   exploration,   mining,  offhighway  hauling,
14    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
15    replacement parts  and  equipment,  and  including  equipment
16    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
17    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
18        (22)  Fuel  and  petroleum products sold to or used by an
19    air  carrier,  certified  by  the  carrier  to  be  used  for
20    consumption, shipment, or  storage  in  the  conduct  of  its
21    business  as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
22    or returning from a location or locations outside the  United
23    States  without  regard  to  previous  or subsequent domestic
24    stopovers.
25        (23)  A  transaction  in  which  the  purchase  order  is
26    received by a florist who is located  outside  Illinois,  but
27    who has a florist located in Illinois deliver the property to
28    the purchaser or the purchaser's donee in Illinois.
29        (24)  Fuel  consumed  or  used in the operation of ships,
30    barges, or vessels that are used  primarily  in  or  for  the
31    transportation  of  property or the conveyance of persons for
32    hire on rivers  bordering  on  this  State  if  the  fuel  is
33    delivered  by  the  seller to the purchaser's barge, ship, or
34    vessel while it is afloat upon that bordering river.
 
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 1        (25)  A motor vehicle sold in this State to a nonresident
 2    even though the motor vehicle is delivered to the nonresident
 3    in this State, if the motor vehicle is not to  be  titled  in
 4    this  State, and if a driveaway decal permit is issued to the
 5    motor vehicle as provided in Section 3-603  of  the  Illinois
 6    Vehicle  Code  or  if  the  nonresident purchaser has vehicle
 7    registration plates to transfer to  the  motor  vehicle  upon
 8    returning  to  his  or  her  home state.  The issuance of the
 9    driveaway   decal   permit   or   having   the   out-of-state
10    registration plates to be transferred is prima facie evidence
11    that the motor vehicle will not be titled in this State.
12        (26)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
13    for direct agricultural production.
14        (27)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
15    meeting the requirements of any of  the  Arabian  Horse  Club
16    Registry  of  America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
17    Horse Association, United  States  Trotting  Association,  or
18    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
19    racing for prizes.
20        (28)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
21    any  hospital  purpose  and  equipment used in the diagnosis,
22    analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a  lessor
23    who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
24    executed  or  in  effect  at  the  time of the purchase, to a
25    hospital  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax  exemption
26    identification number by the Department under Section  1g  of
27    this Act.
28        (29)  Personal  property  sold to a lessor who leases the
29    property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or  in
30    effect  at  the  time of the purchase, to a governmental body
31    that has been issued an active tax  exemption  identification
32    number by the Department under Section 1g of this Act.
33        (30)  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        (31)  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        (32)  Beginning  on the effective date of this amendatory
23    Act of the 91st General Assembly, production related tangible
24    personal property  and  machinery  and  equipment,  including
25    repair   and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,  and
26    including  those  items  manufactured  on  special  order  or
27    purchased  for  lease,  certified  by  the  purchaser  to  be
28    essential to and  used  in  the  integrated  process  of  the
29    production  of  electricity  by  an  eligible facility owned,
30    operated,  or  leased  by  an  exempt  wholesale   generator.
31    "Eligible  facility"  and  "exempt wholesale generator" shall
32    mean "eligible facility" and "exempt wholesale generator"  as
33    defined  in  Section 32 of the Public Utility Holding Company
34    Act of 1935, 15 U.S.C. 79z-5a, in effect as of  the  date  of
 
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 1    this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly. "Machinery"
 2    includes mechanical machines and components of those machines
 3    that  directly  contribute  to  or  are  directly  used in or
 4    essential to the process of the  production  of  electricity.
 5    "Equipment"  includes  an independent device or tool separate
 6    from machinery but essential  to  an  integrated  electricity
 7    generation  process;  including pipes of any kind used in the
 8    process of the  production  of  electricity;  computers  used
 9    primarily  in  operating  exempt  machinery;  any  subunit or
10    assembly  comprising  a  component  of   any   machinery   or
11    auxiliary, adjunct, or attachment parts of machinery, and any
12    parts  that  require  periodic  replacement  in the course of
13    normal  operation;  but  does   not   include   hand   tools.
14    "Production  related  tangible  personal  property" means all
15    tangible personal property directly used or  consumed  in  or
16    essential  to  the  process  of the production of electricity
17    including, but not limited  to,  tangible  personal  property
18    used or consumed in activities such as preproduction material
19    handling,  receiving,  quality  control,  inventory  control,
20    storage,  staging,  and  piping  or  lines  necessary for the
21    transportation of water,  natural  gas,  steam,  and  similar
22    items to and from an eligible facility for use in the process
23    of  the  production of electricity. This paragraph (32) shall
24    apply also to machinery and equipment  used  in  the  general
25    maintenance  or repair of exempt machinery and equipment. The
26    provisions of this paragraph are exempt from  the  provisions
27    of Section 2-70.
28    (Source: P.A.  89-16,  eff.  5-30-95;  89-115,  eff.  1-1-96;
29    89-349,  eff.  8-17-95;  89-495,  eff.  6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
30    6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96;  90-14,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-519,
31    eff.  6-1-98;  90-552,  eff.  12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98;
32    revised 2-10-99.)

33        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 
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 1    becoming law.".

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