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92_SB0080

 
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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 3-5 as follows:

 6        (35 ILCS 105/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.3-5)
 7        Sec. 3-5.  Exemptions.  Use  of  the  following  tangible
 8    personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
 9        (1)  Personal  property  purchased  from  a  corporation,
10    society,    association,    foundation,    institution,    or
11    organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
12    organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
13    for  the  benefit  of persons 65 years of age or older if the
14    personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
15    purpose of resale by the enterprise.
16        (2)  Personal  property  purchased  by  a  not-for-profit
17    Illinois county  fair  association  for  use  in  conducting,
18    operating, or promoting the county fair.
19        (3)  Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit arts
20    or  cultural organization that establishes, by proof required
21    by the Department by rule, that it has received an  exemption
22    under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that
23    is  organized and operated for the presentation or support of
24    arts or cultural programming, activities, or services.  These
25    organizations include, but are  not  limited  to,  music  and
26    dramatic  arts  organizations such as symphony orchestras and
27    theatrical groups, arts and cultural  service  organizations,
28    local  arts  councils,  visual  arts organizations, and media
29    arts organizations.
30        (4)  Personal property purchased by a governmental  body,
31    by   a  corporation,  society,  association,  foundation,  or
 
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 1    institution   organized   and   operated   exclusively    for
 2    charitable,  religious,  or  educational  purposes,  or  by a
 3    not-for-profit corporation, society, association, foundation,
 4    institution, or organization that has no compensated officers
 5    or employees and that is organized and operated primarily for
 6    the recreation of persons 55 years of age or older. A limited
 7    liability company may qualify for the  exemption  under  this
 8    paragraph  only if the limited liability company is organized
 9    and operated exclusively for  educational  purposes.  On  and
10    after July 1, 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for
11    this exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
12    active   exemption   identification   number  issued  by  the
13    Department.
14        (5)  A passenger car that is a replacement vehicle to the
15    extent that the purchase price of the car is subject  to  the
16    Replacement Vehicle Tax.
17        (6)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
18    repair   and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,  and
19    including that manufactured on special  order,  certified  by
20    the   purchaser   to  be  used  primarily  for  graphic  arts
21    production, and including machinery and  equipment  purchased
22    for lease.
23        (7)  Farm chemicals.
24        (8)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold  or
25    silver   coinage   issued  by  the  State  of  Illinois,  the
26    government of the United States of America, or the government
27    of any foreign country, and bullion.
28        (9)  Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
29    student  organization  affiliated  with  an   elementary   or
30    secondary school located in Illinois.
31        (10)  A  motor  vehicle  of  the  first division, a motor
32    vehicle of the second division that is a self-contained motor
33    vehicle designed or permanently converted to  provide  living
34    quarters  for  recreational,  camping,  or  travel  use, with
 
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 1    direct walk through to the living quarters from the  driver's
 2    seat,  or  a  motor vehicle of the second division that is of
 3    the van configuration designed for the transportation of  not
 4    less  than  7  nor  more  than  16  passengers, as defined in
 5    Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used  for
 6    automobile  renting,  as  defined  in  the Automobile Renting
 7    Occupation and Use Tax Act.
 8        (11)  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 (11). 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 (11) is exempt
 8    from the provisions of Section 3-90.
 9        (12)  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        (13)  Proceeds of mandatory  service  charges  separately
17    stated  on  customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
18    of food and beverages purchased at retail from a retailer, to
19    the extent that the proceeds of the  service  charge  are  in
20    fact  turned  over as tips or as a substitute for tips to the
21    employees who participate  directly  in  preparing,  serving,
22    hosting  or  cleaning  up  the food or beverage function with
23    respect to which the service charge is imposed.
24        (14)  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        (15)  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        (16)  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        (17)  Distillation machinery and  equipment,  sold  as  a
11    unit   or  kit,  assembled  or  installed  by  the  retailer,
12    certified by the user to be used only for the  production  of
13    ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption as motor fuel
14    or  as  a component of motor fuel for the personal use of the
15    user, and not subject to sale or resale.
16        (18)  Manufacturing   and   assembling   machinery    and
17    equipment  used  primarily in the process of manufacturing or
18    assembling tangible personal property for wholesale or retail
19    sale or lease, whether that sale or lease is made directly by
20    the  manufacturer  or  by  some  other  person,  whether  the
21    materials used in the process are owned by  the  manufacturer
22    or  some  other person, or whether that sale or lease is made
23    apart from or as an incident to the seller's engaging in  the
24    service  occupation of producing machines, tools, dies, jigs,
25    patterns, gauges, or other similar  items  of  no  commercial
26    value on special order for a particular purchaser.
27        (19)  Personal  property  delivered  to  a  purchaser  or
28    purchaser's donee inside Illinois when the purchase order for
29    that  personal  property  was  received  by a florist located
30    outside Illinois who has a florist  located  inside  Illinois
31    deliver the personal property.
32        (20)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
33    for direct agricultural production.
34        (21)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
 
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 1    meeting  the  requirements  of  any of the Arabian Horse Club
 2    Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club,  American  Quarter
 3    Horse  Association,  United  States  Trotting Association, or
 4    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
 5    racing for prizes.
 6        (22)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
 7    any hospital purpose and equipment  used  in  the  diagnosis,
 8    analysis,  or  treatment  of hospital patients purchased by a
 9    lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
10    longer executed or in effect at the  time  the  lessor  would
11    otherwise  be  subject  to  the tax imposed by this Act, to a
12    hospital  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax  exemption
13    identification  number  by the Department under Section 1g of
14    the Retailers' Occupation  Tax  Act.   If  the  equipment  is
15    leased  in  a manner that does not qualify for this exemption
16    or is used in any other non-exempt manner, the  lessor  shall
17    be  liable  for the tax imposed under this Act or the Service
18    Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based  on  the  fair  market
19    value  of  the  property  at  the time the non-qualifying use
20    occurs.  No lessor shall collect or  attempt  to  collect  an
21    amount  (however  designated) that purports to reimburse that
22    lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax
23    Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by  the
24    lessor.  If a lessor improperly collects any such amount from
25    the  lessee,  the  lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
26    refund of that amount from the  lessor.   If,  however,  that
27    amount  is  not  refunded  to  the lessee for any reason, the
28    lessor is liable to pay that amount to the Department.
29        (23)  Personal property purchased by a lessor who  leases
30    the  property,  under a lease of  one year or longer executed
31    or in effect at  the  time  the  lessor  would  otherwise  be
32    subject  to  the  tax  imposed by this Act, to a governmental
33    body that has been  issued  an  active  sales  tax  exemption
34    identification  number  by the Department under Section 1g of
 
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 1    the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the property is  leased
 2    in  a manner that does not qualify for this exemption or used
 3    in any other non-exempt manner, the lessor  shall  be  liable
 4    for  the  tax  imposed  under this Act or the Service Use Tax
 5    Act, as the case may be, based on the fair  market  value  of
 6    the  property  at the time the non-qualifying use occurs.  No
 7    lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount (however
 8    designated) that purports to reimburse that  lessor  for  the
 9    tax  imposed  by  this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
10    case may be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor.   If
11    a lessor improperly collects any such amount from the lessee,
12    the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a refund of that
13    amount  from  the  lessor.   If,  however, that amount is not
14    refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor  is  liable
15    to pay that amount to the Department.
16        (24)  Beginning  with  taxable  years  ending on or after
17    December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on  or
18    before  December  31, 2004, personal property that is donated
19    for disaster relief to  be  used  in  a  State  or  federally
20    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
21    manufacturer  or retailer that is registered in this State to
22    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
23    institution that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax  exemption
24    identification  number by the Department that assists victims
25    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
26        (25)  Beginning with taxable years  ending  on  or  after
27    December  31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
28    before December 31, 2004, personal property that is  used  in
29    the  performance  of  infrastructure  repairs  in this State,
30    including but not limited to  municipal  roads  and  streets,
31    access  roads,  bridges,  sidewalks,  waste disposal systems,
32    water and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution  and
33    purification  facilities,  storm water drainage and retention
34    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
 
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 1    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
 2    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
 3    located in the declared disaster area within 6  months  after
 4    the disaster.
 5        (26)  Beginning   July   1,  1999,  game  or  game  birds
 6    purchased at a "game breeding and hunting preserve  area"  or
 7    an  "exotic game hunting area" as those terms are used in the
 8    Wildlife Code or at  a  hunting  enclosure  approved  through
 9    rules  adopted  by the Department of Natural Resources.  This
10    paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
11        (27)  A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
12    1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,  that  is  donated  to  a
13    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
14    foundation,   or   institution  that  is  determined  by  the
15    Department to  be  organized  and  operated  exclusively  for
16    educational  purposes.    For  purposes of this exemption, "a
17    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
18    foundation, or institution organized and operated exclusively
19    for educational  purposes"  means  all  tax-supported  public
20    schools, private schools that offer systematic instruction in
21    useful  branches  of  learning  by  methods  common to public
22    schools  and  that  compare  favorably  in  their  scope  and
23    intensity with the course of study presented in tax-supported
24    schools, and vocational or technical  schools  or  institutes
25    organized  and  operated  exclusively  to provide a course of
26    study of not less than  6  weeks  duration  and  designed  to
27    prepare  individuals to follow a trade or to pursue a manual,
28    technical, mechanical, industrial,  business,  or  commercial
29    occupation.
30        (28)  Beginning  January  1,  2000,   personal  property,
31    including  food, purchased through fundraising events for the
32    benefit of  a  public  or  private  elementary  or  secondary
33    school,  a  group  of  those  schools,  or one or more school
34    districts if the events are sponsored by an entity recognized
 
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 1    by the school district that consists primarily of  volunteers
 2    and  includes  parents  and  teachers of the school children.
 3    This paragraph does not apply to fundraising events  (i)  for
 4    the benefit of private home instruction or (ii) for which the
 5    fundraising  entity  purchases  the personal property sold at
 6    the events from another individual or entity  that  sold  the
 7    property  for the purpose of resale by the fundraising entity
 8    and that profits from the sale  to  the  fundraising  entity.
 9    This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
10        (29)  Beginning  January  1,  2000, new or used automatic
11    vending  machines  that  prepare  and  serve  hot  food   and
12    beverages,  including  coffee,  soup,  and  other  items, and
13    replacement parts for these  machines.    This  paragraph  is
14    exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
15        (30)  Food  for  human consumption that is to be consumed
16    off the premises where  it  is  sold  (other  than  alcoholic
17    beverages,  soft  drinks, and food that has been prepared for
18    immediate consumption) and prescription  and  nonprescription
19    medicines,  drugs,  medical  appliances,  and  insulin, urine
20    testing materials, syringes, and needles used  by  diabetics,
21    for  human  use, when purchased for use by a person receiving
22    medical assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid
23    Code who resides in a licensed long-term  care  facility,  as
24    defined in the Nursing Home Care Act.
25        (31)  Beginning  on  January 1, 2002, the following items
26    used in connection with commercial grain elevators: (i) grain
27    bins used to store grain for resale, (ii) aeration equipment,
28    and (iii) grain handling equipment.
29    (Source: P.A. 90-14,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-552,  eff.  12-12-97;
30    90-605,  eff.  6-30-98;  91-51,  eff.  6-30-99;  91-200, eff.
31    7-20-99; 91-439, eff. 8-6-99; 91-637, eff.  8-20-99;  91-644,
32    eff. 8-20-99; 91-901, eff. 1-1-01.)

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

 2        (35 ILCS 110/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-5)
 3        Sec. 3-5.  Exemptions.  Use  of  the  following  tangible
 4    personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
 5        (1)  Personal  property  purchased  from  a  corporation,
 6    society,    association,    foundation,    institution,    or
 7    organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
 8    organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
 9    for  the  benefit  of persons 65 years of age or older if the
10    personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
11    purpose of resale by the enterprise.
12        (2)  Personal property purchased by a non-profit Illinois
13    county fair association for use in conducting, operating,  or
14    promoting the county fair.
15        (3)  Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit arts
16    or  cultural organization that establishes, by proof required
17    by the Department by rule, that it has received an  exemption
18    under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that
19    is  organized and operated for the presentation or support of
20    arts or cultural programming, activities, or services.  These
21    organizations include, but are  not  limited  to,  music  and
22    dramatic  arts  organizations such as symphony orchestras and
23    theatrical groups, arts and cultural  service  organizations,
24    local  arts  councils,  visual  arts organizations, and media
25    arts organizations.
26        (4)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold  or
27    silver  coinage  issued  by  the  State  of   Illinois,   the
28    government of the United States of America, or the government
29    of any foreign country, and bullion.
30        (5)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
31    repair   and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,  and
32    including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
33    lease, certified by the purchaser to be  used  primarily  for
 
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 1    graphic arts production.
 2        (6)  Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
 3    student   organization   affiliated  with  an  elementary  or
 4    secondary school located in Illinois.
 5        (7)  Farm machinery and equipment,  both  new  and  used,
 6    including  that  manufactured  on special order, certified by
 7    the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
 8    or  State  or  federal   agricultural   programs,   including
 9    individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
10    including  machinery  and  equipment purchased for lease, and
11    including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
12    the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm  machinery  and  agricultural
13    chemical  and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
14    to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois  Vehicle
15    Code,  but  excluding  other  motor  vehicles  required to be
16    registered under the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code.  Horticultural
17    polyhouses  or  hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
18    overwintering plants shall be considered farm  machinery  and
19    equipment  under  this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender
20    tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately  from
21    a  motor  vehicle  required  to  be  licensed  and units sold
22    mounted on a motor vehicle required to  be  licensed  if  the
23    selling price of the tender is separately stated.
24        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  shall  include precision
25    farming equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to  be
26    installed  on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
27    limited  to,  tractors,   harvesters,   sprayers,   planters,
28    seeders,  or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
29    but is not  limited  to,  soil  testing  sensors,  computers,
30    monitors,  software,  global positioning and mapping systems,
31    and other such equipment.
32        Farm machinery and  equipment  also  includes  computers,
33    sensors,  software,  and  related equipment used primarily in
34    the computer-assisted  operation  of  production  agriculture
 
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 1    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
 2    limited  to,  the  collection, monitoring, and correlation of
 3    animal and crop data for the purpose  of  formulating  animal
 4    diets  and  agricultural  chemicals.  This item (7) is exempt
 5    from the provisions of Section 3-75.
 6        (8)  Fuel and petroleum products sold to or  used  by  an
 7    air  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
10    or 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
15    of food and beverages acquired as an incident to the purchase
16    of a service from  a  serviceman,  to  the  extent  that  the
17    proceeds  of  the  service  charge are in fact turned over as
18    tips or as  a  substitute  for  tips  to  the  employees  who
19    participate   directly  in  preparing,  serving,  hosting  or
20    cleaning up the food or beverage  function  with  respect  to
21    which the service charge is imposed.
22        (10)  Oil  field  exploration,  drilling,  and production
23    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
24    cable tool rigs, and workover rigs,  (ii)  pipe  and  tubular
25    goods,  including  casing  and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
26    pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines,  (v)  any
27    individual   replacement  part  for  oil  field  exploration,
28    drilling, and production equipment, and  (vi)  machinery  and
29    equipment  purchased  for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
30    required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
31        (11)  Proceeds from the sale of photoprocessing machinery
32    and equipment, including repair and replacement  parts,  both
33    new  and  used, including that manufactured on special order,
34    certified  by  the  purchaser  to  be  used   primarily   for
 
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 1    photoprocessing,  and including photoprocessing machinery and
 2    equipment purchased for lease.
 3        (12)  Coal  exploration,  mining,   offhighway   hauling,
 4    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
 5    replacement  parts  and  equipment,  and  including equipment
 6    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
 7    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
 8        (13)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
 9    for direct agricultural production.
10        (14)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
11    meeting the requirements of any of  the  Arabian  Horse  Club
12    Registry  of  America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
13    Horse Association, United  States  Trotting  Association,  or
14    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
15    racing for prizes.
16        (15)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
17    any  hospital  purpose  and  equipment used in the diagnosis,
18    analysis, or treatment of hospital patients  purchased  by  a
19    lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
20    longer  executed  or  in  effect at the time the lessor would
21    otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by  this  Act,  to  a
22    hospital  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax  exemption
23    identification  number  by the Department under Section 1g of
24    the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased
25    in a manner that does not qualify for this  exemption  or  is
26    used  in  any  other  non-exempt  manner, the lessor shall be
27    liable for the tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act,
28    as the case may be, based on the fair  market  value  of  the
29    property  at  the  time  the  non-qualifying  use occurs.  No
30    lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount (however
31    designated) that purports to reimburse that  lessor  for  the
32    tax  imposed  by this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
33    be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor.  If a  lessor
34    improperly  collects  any  such  amount  from the lessee, the
 
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 1    lessee shall have a legal right to claim  a  refund  of  that
 2    amount  from  the  lessor.   If,  however, that amount is not
 3    refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor  is  liable
 4    to pay that amount to the Department.
 5        (16)  Personal  property purchased by a lessor who leases
 6    the property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or
 7    in effect at the time the lessor would otherwise  be  subject
 8    to  the  tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that
 9    has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
10    by  the  Department  under  Section  1g  of  the   Retailers'
11    Occupation  Tax  Act.   If the property is leased in a manner
12    that does not qualify for this exemption or is  used  in  any
13    other  non-exempt  manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
14    tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act,  as  the  case
15    may be, based on the fair market value of the property at the
16    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  Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has
20    not been paid by the lessor.  If a lessor improperly collects
21    any such amount from the lessee,  the  lessee  shall  have  a
22    legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the lessor.
23    If,  however,  that  amount is not refunded to the lessee for
24    any reason, the lessor is liable to pay that  amount  to  the
25    Department.
26        (17)  Beginning  with  taxable  years  ending on or after
27    December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on  or
28    before  December  31, 2004, personal property that is donated
29    for disaster relief to  be  used  in  a  State  or  federally
30    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
31    manufacturer  or retailer that is registered in this State to
32    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
33    institution that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax  exemption
34    identification  number by the Department that assists victims
 
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 1    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
 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  used  in
 5    the  performance  of  infrastructure  repairs  in this State,
 6    including but not limited to  municipal  roads  and  streets,
 7    access  roads,  bridges,  sidewalks,  waste disposal systems,
 8    water and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution  and
 9    purification  facilities,  storm water drainage and retention
10    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
11    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
12    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
13    located in the declared disaster area within 6  months  after
14    the disaster.
15        (19)  Beginning   July   1,  1999,  game  or  game  birds
16    purchased at a "game breeding and hunting preserve  area"  or
17    an  "exotic game hunting area" as those terms are used in the
18    Wildlife Code or at  a  hunting  enclosure  approved  through
19    rules  adopted  by the Department of Natural Resources.  This
20    paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
21        (20) (19)  A motor vehicle, as that term  is  defined  in
22    Section  1-146  of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated
23    to  a  corporation,  limited  liability   company,   society,
24    association, foundation, or institution that is determined by
25    the  Department  to be organized and operated exclusively for
26    educational purposes.  For purposes  of  this  exemption,  "a
27    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
28    foundation, or institution organized and operated exclusively
29    for  educational  purposes"  means  all  tax-supported public
30    schools, private schools that offer systematic instruction in
31    useful branches of  learning  by  methods  common  to  public
32    schools  and  that  compare  favorably  in  their  scope  and
33    intensity with the course of study presented in tax-supported
34    schools,  and  vocational  or technical schools or institutes
 
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 1    organized and operated exclusively to  provide  a  course  of
 2    study  of  not  less  than  6  weeks duration and designed to
 3    prepare individuals to follow a trade or to pursue a  manual,
 4    technical,  mechanical,  industrial,  business, or commercial
 5    occupation.
 6        (21) (20)  Beginning January 1, 2000,  personal property,
 7    including food, purchased through fundraising events for  the
 8    benefit  of  a  public  or  private  elementary  or secondary
 9    school, a group of those  schools,  or  one  or  more  school
10    districts if the events are sponsored by an entity recognized
11    by  the school district that consists primarily of volunteers
12    and includes parents and teachers  of  the  school  children.
13    This  paragraph  does not apply to fundraising events (i) for
14    the benefit of private home instruction or (ii) for which the
15    fundraising entity purchases the personal  property  sold  at
16    the  events  from  another individual or entity that sold the
17    property for the purpose of resale by the fundraising  entity
18    and  that  profits  from  the sale to the fundraising entity.
19    This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
20        (22)  (19)  Beginning  January  1,  2000,  new  or   used
21    automatic  vending  machines  that prepare and serve hot food
22    and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other  items,  and
23    replacement  parts  for  these  machines.   This paragraph is
24    exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
25        (23)  Beginning on January 1, 2002, the  following  items
26    used in connection with commercial grain elevators: (i) grain
27    bins used to store grain for resale, (ii) aeration equipment,
28    and (iii) grain handling equipment.
29    (Source:  P.A.  90-14,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-552, eff. 12-12-97;
30    90-605, eff.  6-30-98;  91-51,  eff.  6-30-99;  91-200,  eff.
31    7-20-99;  91-439,  eff. 8-6-99; 91-637, eff. 8-20-99; 91-644,
32    eff. 8-20-99; revised 9-29-99.)

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

 2        (35 ILCS 115/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-5)
 3        Sec. 3-5.  Exemptions.  The following  tangible  personal
 4    property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
 5        (1)  Personal  property  sold  by a corporation, society,
 6    association, foundation, institution, or organization,  other
 7    than  a  limited  liability  company,  that  is organized and
 8    operated as  a  not-for-profit  service  enterprise  for  the
 9    benefit  of  persons 65 years of age or older if the personal
10    property was not purchased by the enterprise for the  purpose
11    of resale by the enterprise.
12        (2)  Personal  property  purchased  by  a  not-for-profit
13    Illinois  county  fair  association  for  use  in conducting,
14    operating, or promoting the county fair.
15        (3)  Personal property purchased  by  any  not-for-profit
16    arts  or  cultural  organization  that  establishes, by proof
17    required by the Department by rule, that it has  received  an
18    exemption   under  Section  501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
19    Code and that is organized and operated for the  presentation
20    or  support  of  arts or cultural programming, activities, or
21    services.  These organizations include, but are  not  limited
22    to,  music  and  dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
23    orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and  cultural  service
24    organizations,    local    arts    councils,    visual   arts
25    organizations, and media arts organizations.
26        (4)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold  or
27    silver  coinage  issued  by  the  State  of   Illinois,   the
28    government of the United States of America, or the government
29    of any foreign country, and bullion.
30        (5)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
31    repair   and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,  and
32    including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
33    lease, certified by the purchaser to be  used  primarily  for
 
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 1    graphic arts production.
 2        (6)  Personal   property   sold  by  a  teacher-sponsored
 3    student  organization  affiliated  with  an   elementary   or
 4    secondary school located in Illinois.
 5        (7)  Farm  machinery  and  equipment,  both new and used,
 6    including that manufactured on special  order,  certified  by
 7    the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
 8    or   State   or   federal  agricultural  programs,  including
 9    individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
10    including machinery and equipment purchased  for  lease,  and
11    including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
12    the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code, farm machinery and agricultural
13    chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons  required
14    to  be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
15    Code, but excluding  other  motor  vehicles  required  to  be
16    registered  under  the  Illinois  Vehicle Code. Horticultural
17    polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating,  growing,  or
18    overwintering  plants  shall be considered farm machinery and
19    equipment under this item (7). Agricultural  chemical  tender
20    tanks  and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
21    a motor vehicle  required  to  be  licensed  and  units  sold
22    mounted  on  a  motor  vehicle required to be licensed if the
23    selling price of the tender is separately stated.
24        Farm machinery  and  equipment  shall  include  precision
25    farming  equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to be
26    installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but  not
27    limited   to,   tractors,   harvesters,  sprayers,  planters,
28    seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment  includes,
29    but  is  not  limited  to,  soil  testing sensors, computers,
30    monitors, software, global positioning and  mapping  systems,
31    and other such equipment.
32        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  also includes computers,
33    sensors, software, and related equipment  used  primarily  in
34    the  computer-assisted  operation  of  production agriculture
 
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 1    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
 2    limited to, the collection, monitoring,  and  correlation  of
 3    animal  and  crop  data for the purpose of formulating animal
 4    diets and agricultural chemicals.  This item  (7)  is  exempt
 5    from the provisions of Section 3-55.
 6        (8)  Fuel  and  petroleum  products sold to or used by an
 7    air 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
10    or  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
15    of 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)  Oil  field  exploration,  drilling,  and production
22    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
23    cable tool rigs, and workover rigs,  (ii)  pipe  and  tubular
24    goods,  including  casing  and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
25    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
32    that  manufactured  on  special  order,  certified   by   the
33    purchaser  to  be  used  primarily  for  photoprocessing, and
34    including photoprocessing machinery and  equipment  purchased
 
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 1    for lease.
 2        (12)  Coal   exploration,   mining,  offhighway  hauling,
 3    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
 4    replacement parts  and  equipment,  and  including  equipment
 5    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
 6    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
 7        (13)  Food  for  human consumption that is to be consumed
 8    off the premises where  it  is  sold  (other  than  alcoholic
 9    beverages,  soft  drinks  and food that has been prepared for
10    immediate consumption) and prescription and  non-prescription
11    medicines,  drugs,  medical  appliances,  and  insulin, urine
12    testing materials, syringes, and needles used  by  diabetics,
13    for  human  use, when purchased for use by a person receiving
14    medical assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid
15    Code who resides in a licensed long-term  care  facility,  as
16    defined in the Nursing Home Care Act.
17        (14)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
18    for direct agricultural production.
19        (15)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
20    meeting  the  requirements  of  any of the Arabian Horse Club
21    Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club,  American  Quarter
22    Horse  Association,  United  States  Trotting Association, or
23    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
24    racing for prizes.
25        (16)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
26    any hospital purpose and equipment  used  in  the  diagnosis,
27    analysis,  or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
28    who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
29    executed or in effect at the  time  of  the  purchase,  to  a
30    hospital  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax  exemption
31    identification  number  by the Department under Section 1g of
32    the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.
33        (17)  Personal property sold to a lessor who  leases  the
34    property,  under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
 
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 1    effect at the time of the purchase, to  a  governmental  body
 2    that  has  been issued an active tax exemption identification
 3    number by the Department under Section 1g of  the  Retailers'
 4    Occupation Tax Act.
 5        (18)  Beginning  with  taxable  years  ending on or after
 6    December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on  or
 7    before  December  31, 2004, personal property that is donated
 8    for disaster relief to  be  used  in  a  State  or  federally
 9    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
10    manufacturer  or retailer that is registered in this State to
11    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
12    institution that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax  exemption
13    identification  number by the Department that assists victims
14    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
15        (19)  Beginning with taxable years  ending  on  or  after
16    December  31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
17    before December 31, 2004, personal property that is  used  in
18    the  performance  of  infrastructure  repairs  in this State,
19    including but not limited to  municipal  roads  and  streets,
20    access  roads,  bridges,  sidewalks,  waste disposal systems,
21    water and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution  and
22    purification  facilities,  storm water drainage and retention
23    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
24    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
25    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
26    located in the declared disaster area within 6  months  after
27    the disaster.
28        (20)  Beginning  July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold at
29    a "game breeding and hunting preserve  area"  or  an  "exotic
30    game  hunting  area"  as those terms are used in the Wildlife
31    Code or at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted
32    by the Department of Natural Resources.   This  paragraph  is
33    exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
34        (21)  (20)  A  motor  vehicle, as that term is defined in
 
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 1    Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that  is  donated
 2    to   a   corporation,  limited  liability  company,  society,
 3    association, foundation, or institution that is determined by
 4    the Department to be organized and operated  exclusively  for
 5    educational  purposes.   For  purposes  of this exemption, "a
 6    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
 7    foundation, or institution organized and operated exclusively
 8    for educational  purposes"  means  all  tax-supported  public
 9    schools, private schools that offer systematic instruction in
10    useful  branches  of  learning  by  methods  common to public
11    schools  and  that  compare  favorably  in  their  scope  and
12    intensity with the course of study presented in tax-supported
13    schools, and vocational or technical  schools  or  institutes
14    organized  and  operated  exclusively  to provide a course of
15    study of not less than  6  weeks  duration  and  designed  to
16    prepare  individuals to follow a trade or to pursue a manual,
17    technical, mechanical, industrial,  business,  or  commercial
18    occupation.
19        (22) (21)  Beginning January 1, 2000,  personal property,
20    including  food, purchased through fundraising events for the
21    benefit of  a  public  or  private  elementary  or  secondary
22    school,  a  group  of  those  schools,  or one or more school
23    districts if the events are sponsored by an entity recognized
24    by the school district that consists primarily of  volunteers
25    and  includes  parents  and  teachers of the school children.
26    This paragraph does not apply to fundraising events  (i)  for
27    the benefit of private home instruction or (ii) for which the
28    fundraising  entity  purchases  the personal property sold at
29    the events from another individual or entity  that  sold  the
30    property  for the purpose of resale by the fundraising entity
31    and that profits from the sale  to  the  fundraising  entity.
32    This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
33        (23)   (20)  Beginning  January  1,  2000,  new  or  used
34    automatic vending machines that prepare and  serve  hot  food
 
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 1    and  beverages,  including coffee, soup, and other items, and
 2    replacement parts for these  machines.    This  paragraph  is
 3    exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
 4        (24)  Beginning  on  January 1, 2002, the following items
 5    used in connection with commercial grain elevators: (i) grain
 6    bins used to store grain for resale, (ii) aeration equipment,
 7    and (iii) grain handling equipment.
 8    (Source: P.A. 90-14,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-552,  eff.  12-12-97;
 9    90-605,  eff.  6-30-98;  91-51,  eff.  6-30-99;  91-200, eff.
10    7-20-99; 91-439, eff. 8-6-99; 91-533, eff.  8-13-99;  91-637,
11    eff. 8-20-99; 91-644, eff. 8-20-99; revised 9-29-99.)

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

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

10        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
11    becoming law.

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