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92_SB0730

 
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 1        AN ACT in relation to taxes.

 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 3-55 as follows:

 6        (35 ILCS 105/3-55) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.3-55)
 7        Sec. 3-55.  Multistate exemption. The tax imposed by this
 8    Act does not apply to the use of tangible  personal  property
 9    in this State under the following circumstances:
10        (a)  The   use,  in  this  State,  of  tangible  personal
11    property  acquired  outside  this  State  by  a   nonresident
12    individual  and brought into this State by the individual for
13    his or her own use while temporarily  within  this  State  or
14    while passing through this State.
15        (b)  The   use,  in  this  State,  of  tangible  personal
16    property by an interstate carrier for hire as  rolling  stock
17    moving  in interstate commerce or by lessors under a lease of
18    one year or longer executed or  in  effect  at  the  time  of
19    purchase of tangible personal property by interstate carriers
20    for-hire  for  use  as  rolling  stock  moving  in interstate
21    commerce as long  as  so  used  by  the  interstate  carriers
22    for-hire,  and  equipment  operated  by  a telecommunications
23    provider,  licensed  as  a  common  carrier  by  the  Federal
24    Communications Commission, which is permanently installed  in
25    or affixed to aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
26        (c)  The  use,  in  this  State,  by  owners, lessors, or
27    shippers of tangible personal property that  is  utilized  by
28    interstate  carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving
29    in interstate commerce as long as so used by  the  interstate
30    carriers    for   hire,   and   equipment   operated   by   a
31    telecommunications provider, licensed as a common carrier  by
 
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 1    the  Federal  Communications Commission, which is permanently
 2    installed in or affixed  to  aircraft  moving  in  interstate
 3    commerce.
 4        (d)  The   use,  in  this  State,  of  tangible  personal
 5    property that is acquired outside this State and caused to be
 6    brought into this State by a person who has  already  paid  a
 7    tax in another State in respect to the sale, purchase, or use
 8    of  that  property,  to  the  extent of the amount of the tax
 9    properly due and paid in the other State.
10        (e)  The temporary storage, in this  State,  of  tangible
11    personal  property  that  is  acquired outside this State and
12    that, after being brought into this  State  and  stored  here
13    temporarily,   is  used  solely  outside  this  State  or  is
14    physically attached to or incorporated  into  other  tangible
15    personal  property that is used solely outside this State, or
16    is  altered  by   converting,   fabricating,   manufacturing,
17    printing,  processing,  or  shaping, and, as altered, is used
18    solely outside this State.
19        (f)  The temporary storage  in  this  State  of  building
20    materials and fixtures that are acquired either in this State
21    or  outside  this State by an Illinois registered combination
22    retailer and construction contractor, and that the  purchaser
23    thereafter  uses  outside  this  State  by incorporating that
24    property into real estate located outside this State.
25        (g)  The use or purchase of tangible personal property by
26    a common carrier by rail or motor that receives the  physical
27    possession  of  the property in Illinois, and that transports
28    the property, or shares with another common  carrier  in  the
29    transportation of the property, out of Illinois on a standard
30    uniform  bill of lading showing the seller of the property as
31    the shipper or consignor of the  property  to  a  destination
32    outside Illinois, for use outside Illinois.
33        (h)  The  use, in this State, of a motor vehicle that was
34    sold in this State to a nonresident, even  though  the  motor
 
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 1    vehicle is delivered to the nonresident in this State, if the
 2    motor  vehicle  is  not  to be titled in this State, and if a
 3    driveaway decal permit is issued  to  the  motor  vehicle  as
 4    provided  in Section 3-603 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or if
 5    the nonresident purchaser has vehicle registration plates  to
 6    transfer  to  the  motor vehicle upon returning to his or her
 7    home state.  The issuance of the driveaway  decal  permit  or
 8    having the out-of-state registration plates to be transferred
 9    shall be prima facie evidence that the motor vehicle will not
10    be titled in this State.
11        (i)  Beginning  July  1, 1999, the use, in this State, of
12    fuel acquired outside this State and brought into this  State
13    in  the  fuel  supply tanks of locomotives engaged in freight
14    hauling and passenger service for interstate  commerce.  This
15    subsection is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
16        (j)  Beginning  on  January  1,  2002,  the  use, in this
17    State,  of  tangible  personal  property  purchased  from  an
18    Illinois  vendor  by  a  multistate   taxpayer   engaged   in
19    centralized  purchasing activities in Illinois, provided that
20    the tangible personal property purchased in Illinois from  an
21    Illinois  vendor  is  only  temporarily  stored in this State
22    prior to being transferred to an out-of-state location solely
23    for use or  consumption  outside  of  this  State.   For  the
24    purposes of this subsection (j), a "multistate taxpayer" is a
25    taxpayer  registered  to  collect  and remit a sales, use, or
26    occupation tax in a state or states other than  Illinois.   A
27    taxpayer  engaged in "centralized purchasing activities" is a
28    multistate taxpayer who purchases tangible personal  property
29    in  bulk  for  the  common use or consumption of its multiple
30    business locations both  within  and  outside  the  State  of
31    Illinois.    Tangible   personal  property  acquired  by  the
32    multistate  taxpayer  engaged   in   centralized   purchasing
33    activities  in  this  State  is  "temporarily stored" in this
34    State if it is  received  in  this  State  from  an  Illinois
 
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 1    registered  retailer  and subsequently transferred for use to
 2    another  state  without  alteration,   or   if   altered   by
 3    converting, fabricating, manufacturing, printing, processing,
 4    or  shaping,  is  used  solely  outside  this  State  by  the
 5    registered multistate taxpayer.
 6    (Source: P.A.  90-519,  eff.  6-1-98;  90-552, eff. 12-12-97;
 7    91-51, eff.  6-30-99;  91-313,  eff.  7-29-99;  91-587,  eff.
 8    8-14-99; revised 9-29-99.)

 9        Section  10.   The  Service  Use  Tax  Act  is amended by
10    changing Section 3-45 as follows:

11        (35 ILCS 110/3-45) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-45)
12        Sec. 3-45.  Multistate exemption. The tax imposed by this
13    Act does not apply to the use of tangible  personal  property
14    in this State under the following circumstances:
15        (a)  The use, in this State, of property acquired outside
16    this  State by a nonresident individual and brought into this
17    State by  the  individual  for  his  or  her  own  use  while
18    temporarily  within  this State or while passing through this
19    State.
20        (b)  The use, in this State, of property that is acquired
21    outside this State and that is moved into this State for  use
22    as rolling stock moving in interstate commerce.
23        (c)  The use, in this State, of property that is acquired
24    outside  this  State and caused to be brought into this State
25    by a person who has already paid a tax in  another  state  in
26    respect  to  the  sale, purchase, or use of that property, to
27    the extent of the amount of the tax properly due and paid  in
28    the other state.
29        (d)  The  temporary  storage,  in this State, of property
30    that is acquired outside this  State  and  that  after  being
31    brought  into this State and stored here temporarily, is used
32    solely outside this State or is  physically  attached  to  or
 
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 1    incorporated  into other property that is used solely outside
 2    this  State,  or  is  altered  by  converting,   fabricating,
 3    manufacturing,  printing,  processing,  or  shaping,  and, as
 4    altered, is used solely outside this State.
 5        (e)  Beginning July 1, 1999, the use, in this  State,  of
 6    fuel  acquired outside this State and brought into this State
 7    in the fuel supply tanks of locomotives  engaged  in  freight
 8    hauling  and  passenger service for interstate commerce. This
 9    subsection is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
10        (f)  Beginning on January  1,  2002,  the  use,  in  this
11    State,  of  tangible  personal  property  purchased  from  an
12    Illinois   vendor   by   a  multistate  taxpayer  engaged  in
13    centralized purchasing activities in Illinois, provided  that
14    the  tangible personal property purchased in Illinois from an
15    Illinois vendor is only  temporarily  stored  in  this  State
16    prior to being transferred to an out-of-state location solely
17    for  use  or  consumption  outside  of  this  State.  For the
18    purposes of this subsection (f), a "multistate taxpayer" is a
19    taxpayer registered to collect and remit  a  sales,  use,  or
20    occupation  tax  in a state or states other than Illinois.  A
21    taxpayer engaged in "centralized purchasing activities" is  a
22    multistate  taxpayer who purchases tangible personal property
23    in bulk for the common use or  consumption  of  its  multiple
24    business  locations  both  within  and  outside  the State of
25    Illinois.   Tangible  personal  property  acquired   by   the
26    multistate   taxpayer   engaged   in  centralized  purchasing
27    activities in this State  is  "temporarily  stored"  in  this
28    State  if  it  is  received  in  this  State from an Illinois
29    registered retailer and subsequently transferred for  use  to
30    another   state   without   alteration,   or  if  altered  by
31    converting, fabricating, manufacturing, printing, processing,
32    or  shaping,  is  used  solely  outside  this  State  by  the
33    registered multistate taxpayer.
34    (Source: P.A. 91-51,  eff.  6-30-99;  91-313,  eff.  7-29-99;
 
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 1    91-587, eff. 8-14-99; revised 9-29-99.)

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

 4        (35 ILCS 115/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-5)
 5        Sec.  3-5.   Exemptions.  The following tangible personal
 6    property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
 7        (1)  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        (2)  Personal  property  purchased  by  a  not-for-profit
15    Illinois county  fair  association  for  use  in  conducting,
16    operating, or promoting the county fair.
17        (3)  Personal  property  purchased  by any not-for-profit
18    arts or cultural  organization  that  establishes,  by  proof
19    required  by  the Department by rule, that it has received an
20    exemption  under Section 501(c)(3) of  the  Internal  Revenue
21    Code  and that is organized and operated for the presentation
22    or support of arts or cultural  programming,  activities,  or
23    services.   These  organizations include, but are not limited
24    to, music and dramatic arts organizations  such  as  symphony
25    orchestras  and  theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
26    organizations,   local    arts    councils,    visual    arts
27    organizations, and media arts organizations.
28        (4)  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        (5)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
 
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 1    repair  and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,   and
 2    including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
 3    lease,  certified  by  the purchaser to be used primarily for
 4    graphic arts production.
 5        (6)  Personal  property  sold  by   a   teacher-sponsored
 6    student   organization   affiliated  with  an  elementary  or
 7    secondary school located in Illinois.
 8        (7)  Farm machinery and equipment,  both  new  and  used,
 9    including  that  manufactured  on special order, certified by
10    the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
11    or  State  or  federal   agricultural   programs,   including
12    individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
13    including  machinery  and  equipment purchased for lease, and
14    including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
15    the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm  machinery  and  agricultural
16    chemical  and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
17    to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois  Vehicle
18    Code,  but  excluding  other  motor  vehicles  required to be
19    registered under the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code.  Horticultural
20    polyhouses  or  hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
21    overwintering plants shall be considered farm  machinery  and
22    equipment  under  this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender
23    tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately  from
24    a  motor  vehicle  required  to  be  licensed  and units sold
25    mounted on a motor vehicle required to  be  licensed  if  the
26    selling price of the tender is separately stated.
27        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  shall  include precision
28    farming equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to  be
29    installed  on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
30    limited  to,  tractors,   harvesters,   sprayers,   planters,
31    seeders,  or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
32    but is not  limited  to,  soil  testing  sensors,  computers,
33    monitors,  software,  global positioning and mapping systems,
34    and other such equipment.
 
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 1        Farm machinery and  equipment  also  includes  computers,
 2    sensors,  software,  and  related equipment used primarily in
 3    the computer-assisted  operation  of  production  agriculture
 4    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
 5    limited  to,  the  collection, monitoring, and correlation of
 6    animal and crop data for the purpose  of  formulating  animal
 7    diets  and  agricultural  chemicals.  This item (7) is exempt
 8    from the provisions of Section 3-55.
 9        (8)  Fuel and petroleum products sold to or  used  by  an
10    air  common  carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
11    consumption, shipment, or  storage  in  the  conduct  of  its
12    business  as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
13    or returning from a location or locations outside the  United
14    States  without  regard  to  previous  or subsequent domestic
15    stopovers.
16        (9)  Proceeds of  mandatory  service  charges  separately
17    stated  on  customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
18    of food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
19    service charge are in fact  turned  over  as  tips  or  as  a
20    substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
21    in  preparing,  serving,  hosting  or cleaning up the food or
22    beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
23    imposed.
24        (10)  Oil field  exploration,  drilling,  and  production
25    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
26    cable  tool  rigs,  and  workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
27    goods, including casing and drill strings,  (iii)  pumps  and
28    pump-jack  units,  (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
29    individual  replacement  part  for  oil  field   exploration,
30    drilling,  and  production  equipment, and (vi) machinery and
31    equipment purchased for lease; but excluding  motor  vehicles
32    required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
33        (11)  Photoprocessing  machinery and equipment, including
34    repair and replacement parts, both new  and  used,  including
 
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 1    that   manufactured   on  special  order,  certified  by  the
 2    purchaser to  be  used  primarily  for  photoprocessing,  and
 3    including  photoprocessing  machinery and equipment purchased
 4    for lease.
 5        (12)  Coal  exploration,  mining,   offhighway   hauling,
 6    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
 7    replacement  parts  and  equipment,  and  including equipment
 8    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
 9    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
10        (13)  Food for human consumption that is to  be  consumed
11    off  the  premises  where  it  is  sold (other than alcoholic
12    beverages, soft drinks and food that has  been  prepared  for
13    immediate  consumption) and prescription and non-prescription
14    medicines, drugs,  medical  appliances,  and  insulin,  urine
15    testing  materials,  syringes, and needles used by diabetics,
16    for human use, when purchased for use by a  person  receiving
17    medical assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid
18    Code  who  resides  in a licensed long-term care facility, as
19    defined in the Nursing Home Care Act.
20        (14)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
21    for direct agricultural production.
22        (15)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
23    meeting the requirements of any of  the  Arabian  Horse  Club
24    Registry  of  America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
25    Horse Association, United  States  Trotting  Association,  or
26    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
27    racing for prizes.
28        (16)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
29    any  hospital  purpose  and  equipment used in the diagnosis,
30    analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a  lessor
31    who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
32    executed  or  in  effect  at  the  time of the purchase, to a
33    hospital  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax  exemption
34    identification number by the Department under Section  1g  of
 
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 1    the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.
 2        (17)  Personal  property  sold to a lessor who leases the
 3    property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or  in
 4    effect  at  the  time of the purchase, to a governmental body
 5    that has been issued an active tax  exemption  identification
 6    number  by  the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers'
 7    Occupation Tax Act.
 8        (18)  Beginning with taxable years  ending  on  or  after
 9    December  31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
10    before December 31, 2004, personal property that  is  donated
11    for  disaster  relief  to  be  used  in  a State or federally
12    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
13    manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State  to
14    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
15    institution  that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax exemption
16    identification number by the Department that assists  victims
17    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
18        (19)  Beginning  with  taxable  years  ending on or after
19    December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on  or
20    before  December  31, 2004, personal property that is used in
21    the performance of  infrastructure  repairs  in  this  State,
22    including  but  not  limited  to municipal roads and streets,
23    access roads, bridges,  sidewalks,  waste  disposal  systems,
24    water  and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution and
25    purification facilities, storm water drainage  and  retention
26    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
27    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
28    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
29    located  in  the declared disaster area within 6 months after
30    the disaster.
31        (20)  Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold  at
32    a  "game  breeding  and  hunting preserve area" or an "exotic
33    game hunting area" as those terms are used  in  the  Wildlife
34    Code or at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted
 
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 1    by  the  Department  of Natural Resources.  This paragraph is
 2    exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
 3        (21) (20)  A motor vehicle, as that term  is  defined  in
 4    Section  1-146  of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated
 5    to  a  corporation,  limited  liability   company,   society,
 6    association, foundation, or institution that is determined by
 7    the  Department  to be organized and operated exclusively for
 8    educational purposes.  For purposes  of  this  exemption,  "a
 9    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
10    foundation, or institution organized and operated exclusively
11    for  educational  purposes"  means  all  tax-supported public
12    schools, private schools that offer systematic instruction in
13    useful branches of  learning  by  methods  common  to  public
14    schools  and  that  compare  favorably  in  their  scope  and
15    intensity with the course of study presented in tax-supported
16    schools,  and  vocational  or technical schools or institutes
17    organized and operated exclusively to  provide  a  course  of
18    study  of  not  less  than  6  weeks duration and designed to
19    prepare individuals to follow a trade or to pursue a  manual,
20    technical,  mechanical,  industrial,  business, or commercial
21    occupation.
22        (22) (21)  Beginning January 1, 2000,  personal property,
23    including food, purchased through fundraising events for  the
24    benefit  of  a  public  or  private  elementary  or secondary
25    school, a group of those  schools,  or  one  or  more  school
26    districts if the events are sponsored by an entity recognized
27    by  the school district that consists primarily of volunteers
28    and includes parents and teachers  of  the  school  children.
29    This  paragraph  does not apply to fundraising events (i) for
30    the benefit of private home instruction or (ii) for which the
31    fundraising entity purchases the personal  property  sold  at
32    the  events  from  another individual or entity that sold the
33    property for the purpose of resale by the fundraising  entity
34    and  that  profits  from  the sale to the fundraising entity.
 
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 1    This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
 2        (23)  (20)  Beginning  January  1,  2000,  new  or   used
 3    automatic  vending  machines  that prepare and serve hot food
 4    and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other  items,  and
 5    replacement  parts  for  these  machines.   This paragraph is
 6    exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
 7        (24)  Beginning  January  1,  2002,   tangible   personal
 8    property  purchased  from  an Illinois vendor by a multistate
 9    taxpayer engaged  in  centralized  purchasing  activities  in
10    Illinois,   provided  that  the  tangible  personal  property
11    purchased  in  Illinois  from  an  Illinois  vendor  is  only
12    temporarily stored in this State prior to  being  transferred
13    to  an  out-of-state  location  solely for use or consumption
14    outside of this State.  For the purposes  of  this  paragraph
15    (24),  a  "multistate  taxpayer"  is a taxpayer registered to
16    collect and remit a sales, use, or occupation tax in a  state
17    or  states  other  than  Illinois.   A  taxpayer  engaged  in
18    "centralized  purchasing activities" is a multistate taxpayer
19    who purchases tangible personal  property  in  bulk  for  the
20    common  use or consumption of its multiple business locations
21    both within and outside  the  State  of  Illinois.   Tangible
22    personal property acquired by the multistate taxpayer engaged
23    in   centralized  purchasing  activities  in  this  State  is
24    "temporarily stored" in this State if it is received in  this
25    State  from  an Illinois registered retailer and subsequently
26    transferred for use to another state without  alteration,  or
27    if   altered   by   converting,  fabricating,  manufacturing,
28    printing, processing, or shaping, is used solely outside this
29    State by the registered multistate taxpayer.
30    (Source: P.A. 90-14,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-552,  eff.  12-12-97;
31    90-605,  eff.  6-30-98;  91-51,  eff.  6-30-99;  91-200, eff.
32    7-20-99; 91-439, eff. 8-6-99; 91-533, eff.  8-13-99;  91-637,
33    eff. 8-20-99; 91-644, eff. 8-20-99; revised 9-29-99.)
 
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 1        Section 20.  The Retailers' Occupation Tax Act is amended
 2    by changing Section 2-5 as follows:

 3        (35 ILCS 120/2-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 441-5)
 4        Sec. 2-5.  Exemptions.  Gross receipts from proceeds from
 5    the  sale  of  the  following  tangible personal property are
 6    exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
 7        (1)  Farm chemicals.
 8        (2)  Farm machinery and equipment,  both  new  and  used,
 9    including  that  manufactured  on special order, certified by
10    the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
11    or  State  or  federal   agricultural   programs,   including
12    individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
13    including  machinery  and  equipment purchased for lease, and
14    including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
15    the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm  machinery  and  agricultural
16    chemical  and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
17    to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois  Vehicle
18    Code,  but  excluding  other  motor  vehicles  required to be
19    registered under the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code.  Horticultural
20    polyhouses  or  hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
21    overwintering plants shall be considered farm  machinery  and
22    equipment  under  this item (2). Agricultural chemical tender
23    tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately  from
24    a  motor  vehicle  required  to  be  licensed  and units sold
25    mounted on a motor vehicle required to be  licensed,  if  the
26    selling price of the tender is separately stated.
27        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  shall  include precision
28    farming equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to  be
29    installed  on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
30    limited  to,  tractors,   harvesters,   sprayers,   planters,
31    seeders,  or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
32    but is not  limited  to,  soil  testing  sensors,  computers,
33    monitors,  software,  global positioning and mapping systems,
 
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 1    and other such equipment.
 2        Farm machinery and  equipment  also  includes  computers,
 3    sensors,  software,  and  related equipment used primarily in
 4    the computer-assisted  operation  of  production  agriculture
 5    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
 6    limited  to,  the  collection, monitoring, and correlation of
 7    animal and crop data for the purpose  of  formulating  animal
 8    diets  and  agricultural  chemicals.  This item (7) is exempt
 9    from the provisions of Section 2-70.
10        (3)  Distillation machinery and equipment, sold as a unit
11    or kit, assembled or installed by the retailer, certified  by
12    the  user to be used only for the production of ethyl alcohol
13    that will be used for consumption  as  motor  fuel  or  as  a
14    component of motor fuel for the personal use of the user, and
15    not subject to sale or resale.
16        (4)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
17    repair   and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,  and
18    including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
19    lease, certified by the purchaser to be  used  primarily  for
20    graphic arts production.
21        (5)  A  motor  vehicle  of  the  first  division, a motor
22    vehicle of the second division that is a self-contained motor
23    vehicle designed or permanently converted to  provide  living
24    quarters  for  recreational,  camping,  or  travel  use, with
25    direct walk through access to the living  quarters  from  the
26    driver's seat, or a motor vehicle of the second division that
27    is  of  the van configuration designed for the transportation
28    of not less than 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in
29    Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used  for
30    automobile  renting,  as  defined  in  the Automobile Renting
31    Occupation and Use Tax Act.
32        (6)  Personal  property  sold  by   a   teacher-sponsored
33    student   organization   affiliated  with  an  elementary  or
34    secondary school located in Illinois.
 
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 1        (7)  Proceeds of that portion of the selling price  of  a
 2    passenger car the sale of which is subject to the Replacement
 3    Vehicle Tax.
 4        (8)  Personal  property  sold  to an Illinois county fair
 5    association for use in conducting,  operating,  or  promoting
 6    the county fair.
 7        (9)  Personal  property  sold to a not-for-profit arts or
 8    cultural organization that establishes, by proof required  by
 9    the  Department  by  rule,  that it has received an exemption
10    under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that
11    is organized and operated for the presentation or support  of
12    arts or cultural programming, activities, or services.  These
13    organizations  include,  but  are  not  limited to, music and
14    dramatic arts organizations such as symphony  orchestras  and
15    theatrical  groups,  arts and cultural service organizations,
16    local arts councils, visual  arts  organizations,  and  media
17    arts organizations.
18        (10)  Personal  property  sold by a corporation, society,
19    association, foundation, institution, or organization,  other
20    than  a  limited  liability  company,  that  is organized and
21    operated as  a  not-for-profit  service  enterprise  for  the
22    benefit  of  persons 65 years of age or older if the personal
23    property was not purchased by the enterprise for the  purpose
24    of resale by the enterprise.
25        (11)  Personal property sold to a governmental body, to a
26    corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
27    organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious,
28    or  educational purposes, or to a not-for-profit corporation,
29    society,    association,    foundation,    institution,    or
30    organization that has no compensated  officers  or  employees
31    and   that  is  organized  and  operated  primarily  for  the
32    recreation of persons 55 years of age  or  older.  A  limited
33    liability  company  may  qualify for the exemption under this
34    paragraph only if the limited liability company is  organized
 
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 1    and  operated  exclusively  for  educational purposes. On and
 2    after July 1, 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for
 3    this exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
 4    active identification number issued by the Department.
 5        (12)  Personal property sold to interstate  carriers  for
 6    hire  for  use as rolling stock moving in interstate commerce
 7    or to lessors under leases of one year or longer executed  or
 8    in  effect at the time of purchase by interstate carriers for
 9    hire for use as rolling stock moving in  interstate  commerce
10    and  equipment  operated  by  a  telecommunications provider,
11    licensed as a common carrier by  the  Federal  Communications
12    Commission,  which  is permanently installed in or affixed to
13    aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
14        (13)  Proceeds from sales to owners, lessors, or shippers
15    of tangible personal property that is utilized by  interstate
16    carriers  for  hire  for  use  as  rolling  stock  moving  in
17    interstate    commerce    and   equipment   operated   by   a
18    telecommunications provider, licensed as a common carrier  by
19    the  Federal  Communications Commission, which is permanently
20    installed in or affixed  to  aircraft  moving  in  interstate
21    commerce.
22        (14)  Machinery  and  equipment  that will be used by the
23    purchaser, or a lessee of the  purchaser,  primarily  in  the
24    process  of  manufacturing  or  assembling  tangible personal
25    property for wholesale or retail sale or lease,  whether  the
26    sale or lease is made directly by the manufacturer or by some
27    other  person,  whether the materials used in the process are
28    owned by the manufacturer or some other  person,  or  whether
29    the sale or lease is made apart from or as an incident to the
30    seller's  engaging  in  the  service  occupation of producing
31    machines, tools,  dies,  jigs,  patterns,  gauges,  or  other
32    similar  items  of no commercial value on special order for a
33    particular purchaser.
34        (15)  Proceeds of mandatory  service  charges  separately
 
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 1    stated  on  customers'  bills for purchase and consumption of
 2    food and beverages, to the extent that the  proceeds  of  the
 3    service  charge  are  in  fact  turned  over  as tips or as a
 4    substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
 5    in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning  up  the  food  or
 6    beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
 7    imposed.
 8        (16)  Petroleum  products  sold  to  a  purchaser  if the
 9    seller is prohibited by federal law from charging tax to  the
10    purchaser.
11        (17)  Tangible personal property sold to a common carrier
12    by rail or motor that receives the physical possession of the
13    property  in  Illinois  and  that transports the property, or
14    shares with another common carrier in the  transportation  of
15    the  property,  out of Illinois on a standard uniform bill of
16    lading showing the seller of the property as the  shipper  or
17    consignor  of the property to a destination outside Illinois,
18    for use outside Illinois.
19        (18)  Legal tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold  or
20    silver   coinage   issued  by  the  State  of  Illinois,  the
21    government of the United States of America, or the government
22    of any foreign country, and bullion.
23        (19)  Oil field  exploration,  drilling,  and  production
24    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
25    cable  tool  rigs,  and  workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
26    goods, including casing and drill strings,  (iii)  pumps  and
27    pump-jack  units,  (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
28    individual  replacement  part  for  oil  field   exploration,
29    drilling,  and  production  equipment, and (vi) machinery and
30    equipment purchased for lease; but excluding  motor  vehicles
31    required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
32        (20)  Photoprocessing  machinery and equipment, including
33    repair and replacement parts, both new  and  used,  including
34    that   manufactured   on  special  order,  certified  by  the
 
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 1    purchaser to  be  used  primarily  for  photoprocessing,  and
 2    including  photoprocessing  machinery and equipment purchased
 3    for lease.
 4        (21)  Coal  exploration,  mining,   offhighway   hauling,
 5    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
 6    replacement  parts  and  equipment,  and  including equipment
 7    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
 8    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
 9        (22)  Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used  by  an
10    air  carrier,  certified  by  the  carrier  to  be  used  for
11    consumption,  shipment,  or  storage  in  the  conduct of its
12    business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined  for
13    or  returning from a location or locations outside the United
14    States without regard  to  previous  or  subsequent  domestic
15    stopovers.
16        (23)  A  transaction  in  which  the  purchase  order  is
17    received  by  a  florist who is located outside Illinois, but
18    who has a florist located in Illinois deliver the property to
19    the purchaser or the purchaser's donee in Illinois.
20        (24)  Fuel consumed or used in the  operation  of  ships,
21    barges,  or  vessels  that  are  used primarily in or for the
22    transportation of property or the conveyance of  persons  for
23    hire  on  rivers  bordering  on  this  State  if  the fuel is
24    delivered by the seller to the purchaser's  barge,  ship,  or
25    vessel while it is afloat upon that bordering river.
26        (25)  A motor vehicle sold in this State to a nonresident
27    even though the motor vehicle is delivered to the nonresident
28    in  this  State,  if the motor vehicle is not to be titled in
29    this State, and if a driveaway decal permit is issued to  the
30    motor  vehicle  as  provided in Section 3-603 of the Illinois
31    Vehicle Code or if  the  nonresident  purchaser  has  vehicle
32    registration  plates  to  transfer  to the motor vehicle upon
33    returning to his or her home  state.   The  issuance  of  the
34    driveaway   decal   permit   or   having   the   out-of-state
 
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 1    registration plates to be transferred is prima facie evidence
 2    that the motor vehicle will not be titled in this State.
 3        (26)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
 4    for direct agricultural production.
 5        (27)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
 6    meeting  the  requirements  of  any of the Arabian Horse Club
 7    Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club,  American  Quarter
 8    Horse  Association,  United  States  Trotting Association, or
 9    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
10    racing for prizes.
11        (28)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
12    any hospital purpose and equipment  used  in  the  diagnosis,
13    analysis,  or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
14    who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
15    executed or in effect at the  time  of  the  purchase,  to  a
16    hospital  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax  exemption
17    identification  number  by the Department under Section 1g of
18    this Act.
19        (29)  Personal property sold to a lessor who  leases  the
20    property,  under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
21    effect at the time of the purchase, to  a  governmental  body
22    that  has  been issued an active tax exemption identification
23    number by the Department under Section 1g of this Act.
24        (30)  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  donated
27    for  disaster  relief  to  be  used  in  a State or federally
28    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
29    manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State  to
30    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
31    institution  that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax exemption
32    identification number by the Department that assists  victims
33    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
34        (31)  Beginning  with  taxable  years  ending on or after
 
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 1    December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on  or
 2    before  December  31, 2004, personal property that is used in
 3    the performance of  infrastructure  repairs  in  this  State,
 4    including  but  not  limited  to municipal roads and streets,
 5    access roads, bridges,  sidewalks,  waste  disposal  systems,
 6    water  and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution and
 7    purification facilities, storm water drainage  and  retention
 8    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
 9    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
10    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
11    located  in  the declared disaster area within 6 months after
12    the disaster.
13        (32)  Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold  at
14    a  "game  breeding  and  hunting preserve area" or an "exotic
15    game hunting area" as those terms are used  in  the  Wildlife
16    Code or at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted
17    by  the  Department  of Natural Resources.  This paragraph is
18    exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
19        (33) (32)  A motor vehicle, as that term  is  defined  in
20    Section  1-146  of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated
21    to  a  corporation,  limited  liability   company,   society,
22    association, foundation, or institution that is determined by
23    the  Department  to be organized and operated exclusively for
24    educational purposes.  For purposes  of  this  exemption,  "a
25    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
26    foundation, or institution organized and operated exclusively
27    for  educational  purposes"  means  all  tax-supported public
28    schools, private schools that offer systematic instruction in
29    useful branches of  learning  by  methods  common  to  public
30    schools  and  that  compare  favorably  in  their  scope  and
31    intensity with the course of study presented in tax-supported
32    schools,  and  vocational  or technical schools or institutes
33    organized and operated exclusively to  provide  a  course  of
34    study  of  not  less  than  6  weeks duration and designed to
 
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 1    prepare individuals to follow a trade or to pursue a  manual,
 2    technical,  mechanical,  industrial,  business, or commercial
 3    occupation.
 4        (34) (33)  Beginning January 1, 2000,  personal property,
 5    including food, purchased through fundraising events for  the
 6    benefit  of  a  public  or  private  elementary  or secondary
 7    school, a group of those  schools,  or  one  or  more  school
 8    districts if the events are sponsored by an entity recognized
 9    by  the school district that consists primarily of volunteers
10    and includes parents and teachers  of  the  school  children.
11    This  paragraph  does not apply to fundraising events (i) for
12    the benefit of private home instruction or (ii) for which the
13    fundraising entity purchases the personal  property  sold  at
14    the  events  from  another individual or entity that sold the
15    property for the purpose of resale by the fundraising  entity
16    and  that  profits  from  the sale to the fundraising entity.
17    This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
18        (35)  (32)  Beginning  January  1,  2000,  new  or   used
19    automatic  vending  machines  that prepare and serve hot food
20    and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other  items,  and
21    replacement  parts  for  these  machines.   This paragraph is
22    exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
23        (36)  Beginning  January  1,  2002,   tangible   personal
24    property  purchased  from  an Illinois vendor by a multistate
25    taxpayer engaged  in  centralized  purchasing  activities  in
26    Illinois,   provided  that  the  tangible  personal  property
27    purchased  in  Illinois  from  an  Illinois  vendor  is  only
28    temporarily stored in this State prior to  being  transferred
29    to  an  out-of-state  location  solely for use or consumption
30    outside of this State.  For the purposes  of  this  paragraph
31    (36),  a  "multistate  taxpayer"  is a taxpayer registered to
32    collect and remit a sales, use, or occupation tax in a  state
33    or  states  other  than  Illinois.   A  taxpayer  engaged  in
34    "centralized  purchasing activities" is a multistate taxpayer
 
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 1    who purchases tangible personal  property  in  bulk  for  the
 2    common  use or consumption of its multiple business locations
 3    both within and outside  the  State  of  Illinois.   Tangible
 4    personal property acquired by the multistate taxpayer engaged
 5    in   centralized  purchasing  activities  in  this  State  is
 6    "temporarily stored" in this State if it is received in  this
 7    State  from  an Illinois registered retailer and subsequently
 8    transferred for use to another state without  alteration,  or
 9    if   altered   by   converting,  fabricating,  manufacturing,
10    printing, processing, or shaping, is used solely outside this
11    State by the registered multistate taxpayer.
12    (Source: P.A.  90-14,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-519,  eff.   6-1-98;
13    90-552,  eff.  12-12-97;  90-605,  eff.  6-30-98; 91-51, eff.
14    6-30-99; 91-200, eff. 7-20-99; 91-439, eff.  8-6-99;  91-533,
15    eff.  8-13-99;  91-637,  eff.  8-20-99; 91-644, eff. 8-20-99;
16    revised 9-28-99.)

17        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
18    becoming law.

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