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1     AN ACT concerning revenue.
 
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 Section
5 3-5 as follows:
 
6     (35 ILCS 105/3-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 439.3-5)
7     Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. Use of the following tangible
8 personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
9     (1) Personal property purchased from a corporation,
10 society, association, foundation, institution, or
11 organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
12 organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
13 for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the
14 personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
15 purpose of resale by the enterprise.
16     (2) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
17 Illinois county fair association for use in conducting,
18 operating, or promoting the county fair.
19     (3) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit arts or
20 cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
21 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
22 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
23 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
24 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
25 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
26 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
27 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
28 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
29 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
30 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
31 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
32 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification

 

 

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1 number issued by the Department.
2     (4) Personal property purchased by a governmental body, by
3 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
4 institution organized and operated exclusively for charitable,
5 religious, or educational purposes, or by a not-for-profit
6 corporation, society, association, foundation, institution, or
7 organization that has no compensated officers or employees and
8 that is organized and operated primarily for the recreation of
9 persons 55 years of age or older. A limited liability company
10 may qualify for the exemption under this paragraph only if the
11 limited liability company is organized and operated
12 exclusively for educational purposes. On and after July 1,
13 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for this exemption
14 shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an active exemption
15 identification number issued by the Department.
16     (5) Until July 1, 2003, a passenger car that is a
17 replacement vehicle to the extent that the purchase price of
18 the car is subject to the Replacement Vehicle Tax.
19     (6) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again on September 1,
20 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
21 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
22 manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser to be
23 used primarily for graphic arts production, and including
24 machinery and equipment purchased for lease. Equipment
25 includes chemicals or chemicals acting as catalysts but only if
26 the chemicals or chemicals acting as catalysts effect a direct
27 and immediate change upon a graphic arts product.
28     (7) Farm chemicals.
29     (8) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
30 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
31 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
32 country, and bullion.
33     (9) Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
34 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
35 secondary school located in Illinois.
36     (10) A motor vehicle of the first division, a motor vehicle

 

 

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

 

 

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1 such equipment.
2     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
3 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
4 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
5 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
6 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
7 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
8 agricultural chemicals. This item (11) is exempt from the
9 provisions of Section 3-90.
10     (12) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
11 common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
12 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
13 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for or
14 returning from a location or locations outside the United
15 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
16 stopovers.
17     (13) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
18 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption of
19 food and beverages purchased at retail from a retailer, to the
20 extent that the proceeds of the service charge are in fact
21 turned over as tips or as a substitute for tips to the
22 employees who participate directly in preparing, serving,
23 hosting or cleaning up the food or beverage function with
24 respect to which the service charge is imposed.
25     (14) Until July 1, 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
26 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
27 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
28 tubular goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps
29 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
30 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
31 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
32 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
33 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
34     (15) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
35 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including that
36 manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser to be

 

 

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1 used primarily for photoprocessing, and including
2 photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased for lease.
3     (16) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,
4 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation
5 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
6 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor
7 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
8 Code.
9     (17) Until July 1, 2003, distillation machinery and
10 equipment, sold as a unit or kit, assembled or installed by the
11 retailer, certified by the user to be used only for the
12 production of ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption
13 as motor fuel or as a component of motor fuel for the personal
14 use of the user, and not subject to sale or resale.
15     (18) Manufacturing and assembling machinery and equipment
16 used primarily in the process of manufacturing or assembling
17 tangible personal property for wholesale or retail sale or
18 lease, whether that sale or lease is made directly by the
19 manufacturer or by some other person, whether the materials
20 used in the process are owned by the manufacturer or some other
21 person, or whether that sale or lease is made apart from or as
22 an incident to the seller's engaging in the service occupation
23 of producing machines, tools, dies, jigs, patterns, gauges, or
24 other similar items of no commercial value on special order for
25 a particular purchaser.
26     (19) Personal property delivered to a purchaser or
27 purchaser's donee inside Illinois when the purchase order for
28 that personal property was received by a florist located
29 outside Illinois who has a florist located inside Illinois
30 deliver the personal property.
31     (20) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
32 for direct agricultural production.
33     (21) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
34 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
35 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
36 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     (22) 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 the
11 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased in a
12 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
13 any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
14 tax imposed under this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
15 case may be, based on the fair market value of the property at
16 the time the non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect
17 or attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that
18 purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
19 Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax
20 has not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly
21 collects any such amount from the lessee, the lessee shall have
22 a legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the lessor.
23 If, however, that amount is not refunded to the lessee for any
24 reason, the lessor is liable to pay that amount to the
25 Department.
26     (23) Personal property purchased by a lessor who leases the
27 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
28 effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be subject to the
29 tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that has been
30 issued an active sales tax exemption identification number by
31 the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation
32 Tax Act. If the property is leased in a manner that does not
33 qualify for this exemption or used in any other non-exempt
34 manner, the lessor shall be liable for the tax imposed under
35 this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based
36 on the fair market value of the property at the time the

 

 

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1 non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or attempt
2 to collect an amount (however designated) that purports to
3 reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
4 Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been
5 paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such
6 amount from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to
7 claim a refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however,
8 that amount is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the
9 lessor is liable to pay that amount to the Department.
10     (24) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
11 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
12 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated for
13 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
14 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
15 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
16 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
17 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
18 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
19 who reside within the declared disaster area.
20     (25) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
21 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
22 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in the
23 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
24 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
25 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
26 line extensions, water distribution and purification
27 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
28 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
29 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
30 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
31 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
32     (26) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds purchased
33 at a "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic
34 game hunting area" as those terms are used in the Wildlife Code
35 or at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
36 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from

 

 

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1 the provisions of Section 3-90.
2     (27) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
3 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
4 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
5 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
6 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
7 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
8 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,
9 or institution organized and operated exclusively for
10 educational purposes" means all tax-supported public schools,
11 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
12 branches of learning by methods common to public schools and
13 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
14 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
15 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and
16 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
17 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
18 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
19 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
20     (28) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
21 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
22 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
23 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
24 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
25 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
26 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
27 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
28 private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising
29 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
30 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
31 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
32 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
33 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
34     (29) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
35 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
36 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other

 

 

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1 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
2 January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines and parts
3 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
4 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
5 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
6 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
7 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
8     (30) Food for human consumption that is to be consumed off
9 the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages,
10 soft drinks, and food that has been prepared for immediate
11 consumption) and prescription and nonprescription medicines,
12 drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine testing
13 materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for human
14 use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
15 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
16 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
17 the Nursing Home Care Act. This paragraph is exempt from the
18 provisions of Section 3-90.
19     (31) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
20 of the 92nd General Assembly, computers and communications
21 equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and equipment used
22 in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of hospital patients
23 purchased by a lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease
24 of one year or longer executed or in effect at the time the
25 lessor would otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this
26 Act, to a hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
27 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
28 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased in a
29 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
30 any other nonexempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
31 tax imposed under this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
32 case may be, based on the fair market value of the property at
33 the time the nonqualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect
34 or attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that
35 purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
36 Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax

 

 

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1 has not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly
2 collects any such amount from the lessee, the lessee shall have
3 a legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the lessor.
4 If, however, that amount is not refunded to the lessee for any
5 reason, the lessor is liable to pay that amount to the
6 Department. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
7 Section 3-90.
8     (32) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
9 of the 92nd General Assembly, personal property purchased by a
10 lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year or
11 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
12 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
13 governmental body that has been issued an active sales tax
14 exemption identification number by the Department under
15 Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the
16 property is leased in a manner that does not qualify for this
17 exemption or used in any other nonexempt manner, the lessor
18 shall be liable for the tax imposed under this Act or the
19 Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based on the fair
20 market value of the property at the time the nonqualifying use
21 occurs. No lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount
22 (however designated) that purports to reimburse that lessor for
23 the tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
24 case may be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor. If a
25 lessor improperly collects any such amount from the lessee, the
26 lessee shall have a legal right to claim a refund of that
27 amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount is not
28 refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is liable to
29 pay that amount to the Department. This paragraph is exempt
30 from the provisions of Section 3-90.
31     (33) On and after July 1, 2003 and through June 30, 2004,
32 the use in this State of motor vehicles of the second division
33 with a gross vehicle weight in excess of 8,000 pounds and that
34 are subject to the commercial distribution fee imposed under
35 Section 3-815.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code. Beginning on July
36 1, 2004 and through June 30, 2005, the use in this State of

 

 

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1 motor vehicles of the second division: (i) with a gross vehicle
2 weight rating in excess of 8,000 pounds; (ii) that are subject
3 to the commercial distribution fee imposed under Section
4 3-815.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code; and (iii) that are
5 primarily used for commercial purposes. Through June 30, 2005,
6 this exemption applies to repair and replacement parts added
7 after the initial purchase of such a motor vehicle if that
8 motor vehicle is used in a manner that would qualify for the
9 rolling stock exemption otherwise provided for in this Act. For
10 purposes of this paragraph, the term "used for commercial
11 purposes" means the transportation of persons or property in
12 furtherance of any commercial or industrial enterprise,
13 whether for-hire or not.
14 (Source: P.A. 92-35, eff. 7-1-01; 92-227, eff. 8-2-01; 92-337,
15 eff. 8-10-01; 92-484, eff. 8-23-01; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02;
16 93-23, eff. 6-20-03; 93-24, eff. 6-20-03; 93-840, eff. 7-30-04;
17 93-1033, eff. 9-3-04; revised 10-21-04.)
 
18     Section 10. The Service Use Tax Act is amended by changing
19 Section 3-5 as follows:
 
20     (35 ILCS 110/3-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-5)
21     Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. Use of the following tangible
22 personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
23     (1) Personal property purchased from a corporation,
24 society, association, foundation, institution, or
25 organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
26 organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
27 for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the
28 personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
29 purpose of resale by the enterprise.
30     (2) Personal property purchased by a non-profit Illinois
31 county fair association for use in conducting, operating, or
32 promoting the county fair.
33     (3) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit arts or
34 cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by

 

 

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1 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
2 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
3 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
4 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
5 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
6 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
7 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
8 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
9 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
10 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
11 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
12 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification
13 number issued by the Department.
14     (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
15 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
16 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
17 country, and bullion.
18     (5) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again on September 1,
19 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
20 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
21 manufactured on special order or purchased for lease, certified
22 by the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
23 production. Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals acting
24 as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals acting as
25 catalysts effect a direct and immediate change upon a graphic
26 arts product.
27     (6) Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
28 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
29 secondary school located in Illinois.
30     (7) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
31 including that manufactured on special order, certified by the
32 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
33 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
34 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
35 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
36 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the

 

 

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1 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
2 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
3 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
4 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
5 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or
6 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
7 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under
8 this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry boxes
9 shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle
10 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
11 vehicle required to be licensed if the selling price of the
12 tender is separately stated.
13     Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
14 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
15 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
16 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
17 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
18 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
19 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
20 such equipment.
21     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
22 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
23 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
24 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
25 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
26 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
27 agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt from the
28 provisions of Section 3-75.
29     (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
30 common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
31 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
32 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for or
33 returning from a location or locations outside the United
34 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
35 stopovers.
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1 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption of
2 food and beverages acquired as an incident to the purchase of a
3 service from a serviceman, to the extent that the proceeds of
4 the service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
5 substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
6 in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or
7 beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
8 imposed.
9     (10) Until July 1, 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
10 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
11 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
12 tubular goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps
13 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
14 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
15 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
16 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
17 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
18     (11) Proceeds from the sale of photoprocessing machinery
19 and equipment, including repair and replacement parts, both new
20 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) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,
25 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation
26 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
27 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor
28 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
29 Code.
30     (13) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
31 for direct agricultural production.
32     (14) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
33 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
34 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
35 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
36 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or

 

 

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

 

 

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1 reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
2 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
3 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount
4 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
5 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
6 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
7 liable to pay that amount to the Department.
8     (17) 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 for
11 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
12 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
13 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
14 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
15 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
16 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
17 who reside within the declared disaster area.
18     (18) 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 the
21 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
22 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
23 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
24 line extensions, water distribution and purification
25 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
26 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
27 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
28 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
29 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
30     (19) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds purchased
31 at a "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic
32 game hunting area" as those terms are used in the Wildlife Code
33 or at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
34 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from
35 the provisions of Section 3-75.
36     (20) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section

 

 

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1 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
2 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
3 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
4 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
5 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
6 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,
7 or institution organized and operated exclusively for
8 educational purposes" means all tax-supported public schools,
9 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
10 branches of learning by methods common to public schools and
11 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
12 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
13 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and
14 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
15 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
16 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
17 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
18     (21) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
19 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
20 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
21 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
22 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
23 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
24 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
25 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
26 private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising
27 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
28 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
29 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
30 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
31 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
32     (22) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
33 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
34 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other
35 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
36 January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines and parts

 

 

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1 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
2 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
3 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
4 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
5 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
6     (23) Food for human consumption that is to be consumed off
7 the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages,
8 soft drinks, and food that has been prepared for immediate
9 consumption) and prescription and nonprescription medicines,
10 drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine testing
11 materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for human
12 use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
13 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
14 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
15 the Nursing Home Care Act. This paragraph is exempt from the
16 provisions of Section 3-75.
17     (24) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
18 of the 92nd General Assembly, computers and communications
19 equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and equipment used
20 in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of hospital patients
21 purchased by a lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease
22 of one year or longer executed or in effect at the time the
23 lessor would otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this
24 Act, to a hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
25 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
26 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased in a
27 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
28 any other nonexempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
29 tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
30 be, based on the fair market value of the property at the time
31 the nonqualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or
32 attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that purports
33 to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
34 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
35 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount
36 from 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 amount
2 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
3 liable to pay that amount to the Department. This paragraph is
4 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
5     (25) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
6 of the 92nd General Assembly, personal property purchased by a
7 lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year or
8 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
9 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
10 governmental body that has been issued an active tax exemption
11 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
12 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the property is leased in a
13 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
14 any other nonexempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
15 tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
16 be, based on the fair market value of the property at the time
17 the nonqualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or
18 attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that purports
19 to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
20 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
21 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount
22 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
23 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
24 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
25 liable to pay that amount to the Department. This paragraph is
26 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
27 (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-35, eff. 7-1-01; 92-227,
28 eff. 8-2-01; 92-337, eff. 8-10-01; 92-484, eff. 8-23-01;
29 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; 93-24, eff. 6-20-03; 93-840, eff.
30 7-30-04.)
 
31     Section 15. The Service Occupation Tax Act is amended by
32 changing Section 3-5 as follows:
 
33     (35 ILCS 115/3-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-5)
34     Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. The following tangible personal

 

 

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1 property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
2     (1) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
3 association, foundation, institution, or organization, other
4 than a limited liability company, that is organized and
5 operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the benefit
6 of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal property
7 was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose of resale
8 by the enterprise.
9     (2) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
10 Illinois county fair association for use in conducting,
11 operating, or promoting the county fair.
12     (3) Personal property purchased by any not-for-profit arts
13 or cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
14 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
15 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
16 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
17 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
18 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
19 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
20 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
21 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
22 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
23 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
24 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
25 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification
26 number issued by the Department.
27     (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
28 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
29 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
30 country, and bullion.
31     (5) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again on September 1,
32 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
33 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
34 manufactured on special order or purchased for lease, certified
35 by the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
36 production. Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals acting

 

 

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1 as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals acting as
2 catalysts effect a direct and immediate change upon a graphic
3 arts product.
4     (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored student
5 organization affiliated with an elementary or secondary school
6 located in Illinois.
7     (7) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
8 including that manufactured on special order, certified by the
9 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
10 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
11 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
12 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
13 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
14 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
15 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
16 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
17 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
18 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or
19 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
20 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under
21 this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry boxes
22 shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle
23 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
24 vehicle required to be licensed if the selling price of the
25 tender is separately stated.
26     Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
27 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
28 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
29 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
30 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
31 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
32 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
33 such equipment.
34     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
35 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
36 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture

 

 

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1 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
2 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
3 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
4 agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt from the
5 provisions of Section 3-55.
6     (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
7 common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
8 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
9 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for or
10 returning from a location or locations outside the United
11 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
12 stopovers.
13     (9) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
14 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption of
15 food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
16 service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
17 substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
18 in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or
19 beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
20 imposed.
21     (10) Until July 1, 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
22 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
23 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
24 tubular goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps
25 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
26 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
27 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
28 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
29 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
30     (11) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
31 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including that
32 manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser to be
33 used primarily for photoprocessing, and including
34 photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased for lease.
35     (12) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,
36 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation

 

 

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1 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
2 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor
3 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
4 Code.
5     (13) Food for human consumption that is to be consumed off
6 the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages,
7 soft drinks and food that has been prepared for immediate
8 consumption) and prescription and non-prescription medicines,
9 drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine testing
10 materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for human
11 use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
12 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
13 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
14 the Nursing Home Care Act. This paragraph is exempt from the
15 provisions of Section 3-55.
16     (14) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
17 for direct agricultural production.
18     (15) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
19 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
20 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
21 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
22 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
23 racing for prizes.
24     (16) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
25 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
26 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
27 who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
28 executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
29 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
30 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
31 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.
32     (17) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
33 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
34 effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental body that
35 has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
36 by the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation

 

 

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1 Tax Act.
2     (18) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
3 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
4 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated for
5 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
6 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
7 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
8 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
9 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
10 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
11 who reside within the declared disaster area.
12     (19) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
13 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
14 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in the
15 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
16 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
17 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
18 line extensions, water distribution and purification
19 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
20 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
21 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
22 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
23 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
24     (20) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold at a
25 "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic game
26 hunting area" as those terms are used in the Wildlife Code or
27 at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
28 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from
29 the provisions of Section 3-55.
30     (21) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
31 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
32 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
33 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
34 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
35 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
36 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,

 

 

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1 or institution organized and operated exclusively for
2 educational purposes" means all tax-supported public schools,
3 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
4 branches of learning by methods common to public schools and
5 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
6 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
7 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and
8 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
9 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
10 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
11 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
12     (22) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
13 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
14 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
15 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
16 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
17 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
18 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
19 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
20 private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising
21 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
22 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
23 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
24 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
25 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
26     (23) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
27 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
28 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other
29 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
30 January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines and parts
31 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
32 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
33 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
34 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
35 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
36     (24) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act

 

 

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

 

 

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1 shall maintain all necessary books and records to substantiate
2 the use and consumption of all such tangible personal property
3 outside of the State of Illinois.
4 (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-35, eff. 7-1-01; 92-227,
5 eff. 8-2-01; 92-337, eff. 8-10-01; 92-484, eff. 8-23-01;
6 92-488, eff. 8-23-01; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; 93-24, eff.
7 6-20-03; 93-840, eff. 7-30-04.)
 
8     Section 20. The Retailers' Occupation Tax Act is amended by
9 changing Section 2-5 as follows:
 
10     (35 ILCS 120/2-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 441-5)
11     Sec. 2-5. Exemptions. Gross receipts from proceeds from the
12 sale of the following tangible personal property are exempt
13 from the tax imposed by this Act:
14     (1) Farm chemicals.
15     (2) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
16 including that manufactured on special order, certified by the
17 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
18 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
19 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
20 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
21 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
22 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
23 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
24 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
25 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
26 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or
27 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
28 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under
29 this item (2). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry boxes
30 shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle
31 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
32 vehicle required to be licensed, if the selling price of the
33 tender is separately stated.
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1 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
2 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
3 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
4 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
5 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
6 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
7 such equipment.
8     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
9 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
10 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
11 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
12 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
13 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
14 agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt from the
15 provisions of Section 2-70.
16     (3) Until July 1, 2003, distillation machinery and
17 equipment, sold as a unit or kit, assembled or installed by the
18 retailer, certified by the user to be used only for the
19 production of ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption
20 as motor fuel or as a component of motor fuel for the personal
21 use of the user, and not subject to sale or resale.
22     (4) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again September 1,
23 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
24 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
25 manufactured on special order or purchased for lease, certified
26 by the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
27 production. Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals acting
28 as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals acting as
29 catalysts effect a direct and immediate change upon a graphic
30 arts product.
31     (5) A motor vehicle of the first division, a motor vehicle
32 of the second division that is a self-contained motor vehicle
33 designed or permanently converted to provide living quarters
34 for recreational, camping, or travel use, with direct walk
35 through access to the living quarters from the driver's seat,
36 or a motor vehicle of the second division that is of the van

 

 

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1 configuration designed for the transportation of not less than
2 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in Section 1-146 of
3 the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for automobile renting,
4 as defined in the Automobile Renting Occupation and Use Tax
5 Act.
6     (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored student
7 organization affiliated with an elementary or secondary school
8 located in Illinois.
9     (7) Until July 1, 2003, proceeds of that portion of the
10 selling price of a passenger car the sale of which is subject
11 to the Replacement Vehicle Tax.
12     (8) Personal property sold to an Illinois county fair
13 association for use in conducting, operating, or promoting the
14 county fair.
15     (9) Personal property sold to a not-for-profit arts or
16 cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
17 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
18 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
19 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
20 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
21 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
22 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
23 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
24 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
25 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
26 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
27 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
28 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification
29 number issued by the Department.
30     (10) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
31 association, foundation, institution, or organization, other
32 than a limited liability company, that is organized and
33 operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the benefit
34 of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal property
35 was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose of resale
36 by the enterprise.

 

 

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1     (11) Personal property sold to a governmental body, to a
2 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
3 organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious,
4 or educational purposes, or to a not-for-profit corporation,
5 society, association, foundation, institution, or organization
6 that has no compensated officers or employees and that is
7 organized and operated primarily for the recreation of persons
8 55 years of age or older. A limited liability company may
9 qualify for the exemption under this paragraph only if the
10 limited liability company is organized and operated
11 exclusively for educational purposes. On and after July 1,
12 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for this exemption
13 shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an active
14 identification number issued by the Department.
15     (12) Tangible personal property sold to interstate
16 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate
17 commerce or to lessors under leases of one year or longer
18 executed or in effect at the time of purchase by interstate
19 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate
20 commerce and equipment operated by a telecommunications
21 provider, licensed as a common carrier by the Federal
22 Communications Commission, which is permanently installed in
23 or affixed to aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
24     (12-5) On and after July 1, 2003 and through June 30, 2004,
25 motor vehicles of the second division with a gross vehicle
26 weight in excess of 8,000 pounds that are subject to the
27 commercial distribution fee imposed under Section 3-815.1 of
28 the Illinois Vehicle Code. Beginning on July 1, 2004 and
29 through June 30, 2005, the use in this State of motor vehicles
30 of the second division: (i) with a gross vehicle weight rating
31 in excess of 8,000 pounds; (ii) that are subject to the
32 commercial distribution fee imposed under Section 3-815.1 of
33 the Illinois Vehicle Code; and (iii) that are primarily used
34 for commercial purposes. Through June 30, 2005, this exemption
35 applies to repair and replacement parts added after the initial
36 purchase of such a motor vehicle if that motor vehicle is used

 

 

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1 in a manner that would qualify for the rolling stock exemption
2 otherwise provided for in this Act. For purposes of this
3 paragraph, "used for commercial purposes" means the
4 transportation of persons or property in furtherance of any
5 commercial or industrial enterprise whether for-hire or not.
6     (13) Proceeds from sales to owners, lessors, or shippers of
7 tangible personal property that is utilized by interstate
8 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate
9 commerce and equipment operated by a telecommunications
10 provider, licensed as a common carrier by the Federal
11 Communications Commission, which is permanently installed in
12 or affixed to aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
13     (14) Machinery and equipment that will be used by the
14 purchaser, or a lessee of the purchaser, primarily in the
15 process of manufacturing or assembling tangible personal
16 property for wholesale or retail sale or lease, whether the
17 sale or lease is made directly by the manufacturer or by some
18 other person, whether the materials used in the process are
19 owned by the manufacturer or some other person, or whether the
20 sale or lease is made apart from or as an incident to the
21 seller's engaging in the service occupation of producing
22 machines, tools, dies, jigs, patterns, gauges, or other similar
23 items of no commercial value on special order for a particular
24 purchaser.
25     (15) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
26 stated on customers' bills for purchase and consumption of food
27 and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the service
28 charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a substitute for
29 tips to the employees who participate directly in preparing,
30 serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or beverage function
31 with respect to which the service charge is imposed.
32     (16) Petroleum products sold to a purchaser if the seller
33 is prohibited by federal law from charging tax to the
34 purchaser.
35     (17) Tangible personal property sold to a common carrier by
36 rail or motor that receives the physical possession of the

 

 

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1 property in Illinois and that transports the property, or
2 shares with another common carrier in the transportation of the
3 property, out of Illinois on a standard uniform bill of lading
4 showing the seller of the property as the shipper or consignor
5 of the property to a destination outside Illinois, for use
6 outside Illinois.
7     (18) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
8 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
9 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
10 country, and bullion.
11     (19) Until July 1 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
12 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
13 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
14 tubular goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps
15 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
16 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
17 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
18 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
19 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
20     (20) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
21 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including that
22 manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser to be
23 used primarily for photoprocessing, and including
24 photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased for lease.
25     (21) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,
26 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation
27 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
28 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor
29 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
30 Code.
31     (22) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
32 carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for consumption,
33 shipment, or storage in the conduct of its business as an air
34 common carrier, for a flight destined for or returning from a
35 location or locations outside the United States without regard
36 to previous or subsequent domestic stopovers.

 

 

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1     (23) A transaction in which the purchase order is received
2 by a florist who is located outside Illinois, but who has a
3 florist located in Illinois deliver the property to the
4 purchaser or the purchaser's donee in Illinois.
5     (24) Fuel consumed or used in the operation of ships,
6 barges, or vessels that are used primarily in or for the
7 transportation of property or the conveyance of persons for
8 hire on rivers bordering on this State if the fuel is delivered
9 by the seller to the purchaser's barge, ship, or vessel while
10 it is afloat upon that bordering river.
11     (25) Except as provided in item (25-5) of this Section, a
12 motor vehicle sold in this State to a nonresident even though
13 the motor vehicle is delivered to the nonresident in this
14 State, if the motor vehicle is not to be titled in this State,
15 and if a drive-away permit is issued to the motor vehicle as
16 provided in Section 3-603 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or if
17 the nonresident purchaser has vehicle registration plates to
18 transfer to the motor vehicle upon returning to his or her home
19 state. The issuance of the drive-away permit or having the
20 out-of-state registration plates to be transferred is prima
21 facie evidence that the motor vehicle will not be titled in
22 this State.
23     (25-5) The exemption under item (25) does not apply if the
24 state in which the motor vehicle will be titled does not allow
25 a reciprocal exemption for a motor vehicle sold and delivered
26 in that state to an Illinois resident but titled in Illinois.
27 The tax collected under this Act on the sale of a motor vehicle
28 in this State to a resident of another state that does not
29 allow a reciprocal exemption shall be imposed at a rate equal
30 to the state's rate of tax on taxable property in the state in
31 which the purchaser is a resident, except that the tax shall
32 not exceed the tax that would otherwise be imposed under this
33 Act. At the time of the sale, the purchaser shall execute a
34 statement, signed under penalty of perjury, of his or her
35 intent to title the vehicle in the state in which the purchaser
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1 the payment to the State of Illinois of tax in an amount
2 equivalent to the state's rate of tax on taxable property in
3 his or her state of residence and shall submit the statement to
4 the appropriate tax collection agency in his or her state of
5 residence. In addition, the retailer must retain a signed copy
6 of the statement in his or her records. Nothing in this item
7 shall be construed to require the removal of the vehicle from
8 this state following the filing of an intent to title the
9 vehicle in the purchaser's state of residence if the purchaser
10 titles the vehicle in his or her state of residence within 30
11 days after the date of sale. The tax collected under this Act
12 in accordance with this item (25-5) shall be proportionately
13 distributed as if the tax were collected at the 6.25% general
14 rate imposed under this Act.
15     (26) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
16 for direct agricultural production.
17     (27) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
18 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
19 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
20 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
21 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
22 racing for prizes.
23     (28) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
24 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
25 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
26 who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
27 executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
28 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
29 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
30 this Act.
31     (29) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
32 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
33 effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental body that
34 has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
35 by the Department under Section 1g of this Act.
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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 donated for
3 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
4 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
5 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
6 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
7 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
8 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
9 who reside within the declared disaster area.
10     (31) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
11 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
12 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in the
13 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
14 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
15 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
16 line extensions, water distribution and purification
17 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
18 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
19 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
20 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
21 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
22     (32) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold at a
23 "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic game
24 hunting area" as those terms are used in the Wildlife Code or
25 at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
26 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from
27 the provisions of Section 2-70.
28     (33) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
29 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
30 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
31 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
32 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
33 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
34 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,
35 or institution organized and operated exclusively for
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1 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
2 branches of learning by methods common to public schools and
3 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
4 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
5 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and
6 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
7 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
8 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
9 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
10     (34) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
11 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
12 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
13 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
14 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
15 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
16 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
17 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
18 private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising
19 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
20 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
21 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
22 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
23 exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
24     (35) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
25 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
26 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other
27 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
28 January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines and parts
29 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
30 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
31 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
32 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
33 is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
34     (35-5) Food for human consumption that is to be consumed
35 off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic
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1 immediate consumption) and prescription and nonprescription
2 medicines, drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine
3 testing materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for
4 human use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
5 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
6 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
7 the Nursing Home Care Act. This paragraph is exempt from the
8 provisions of Section 2-70.
9     (36) Beginning August 2, 2001, computers and
10 communications equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and
11 equipment used in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of
12 hospital patients sold to a lessor who leases the equipment,
13 under a lease of one year or longer executed or in effect at
14 the time of the purchase, to a hospital that has been issued an
15 active tax exemption identification number by the Department
16 under Section 1g of this Act. This paragraph is exempt from the
17 provisions of Section 2-70.
18     (37) Beginning August 2, 2001, personal property sold to a
19 lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year or
20 longer executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
21 governmental body that has been issued an active tax exemption
22 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
23 this Act. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
24 Section 2-70.
25     (38) Beginning on January 1, 2002, tangible personal
26 property purchased from an Illinois retailer by a taxpayer
27 engaged in centralized purchasing activities in Illinois who
28 will, upon receipt of the property in Illinois, temporarily
29 store the property in Illinois (i) for the purpose of
30 subsequently transporting it outside this State for use or
31 consumption thereafter solely outside this State or (ii) for
32 the purpose of being processed, fabricated, or manufactured
33 into, attached to, or incorporated into other tangible personal
34 property to be transported outside this State and thereafter
35 used or consumed solely outside this State. The Director of
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1 Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, issue a permit to any
2 taxpayer in good standing with the Department who is eligible
3 for the exemption under this paragraph (38). The permit issued
4 under this paragraph (38) shall authorize the holder, to the
5 extent and in the manner specified in the rules adopted under
6 this Act, to purchase tangible personal property from a
7 retailer exempt from the taxes imposed by this Act. Taxpayers
8 shall maintain all necessary books and records to substantiate
9 the use and consumption of all such tangible personal property
10 outside of the State of Illinois.
11 (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-35, eff. 7-1-01; 92-227,
12 eff. 8-2-01; 92-337, eff. 8-10-01; 92-484, eff. 8-23-01;
13 92-488, eff. 8-23-01; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; 92-680, eff.
14 7-16-02; 93-23, eff. 6-20-03; 93-24, eff. 6-20-03; 93-840, eff.
15 7-30-04; 93-1033, eff. 9-3-04; 93-1068, eff. 1-15-05.)
 
16     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
17 becoming law.