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91_HB2184

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning taxation.

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

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

 6        (35 ILCS 105/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.3-5)
 7        Sec. 3-5.  Exemptions.  Use  of  the  following  tangible
 8    personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
 9        (1)  Personal  property  purchased  from  a  corporation,
10    society,    association,    foundation,    institution,    or
11    organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
12    organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
13    for  the  benefit  of persons 65 years of age or older if the
14    personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
15    purpose of resale by the enterprise.
16        (2)  Personal  property  purchased  by  a  not-for-profit
17    Illinois county  fair  association  for  use  in  conducting,
18    operating, or promoting the county fair.
19        (3)  Personal  property  purchased  by  a  not-for-profit
20    music  or  dramatic  arts  organization  that establishes, by
21    proof required  by  the  Department  by  rule,  that  it  has
22    received an exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
23    Revenue  Code  and  that  is  organized  and operated for the
24    presentation  of  live  public  performances  of  musical  or
25    theatrical works on a regular basis.
26        (4)  Personal property purchased by a governmental  body,
27    by   a  corporation,  society,  association,  foundation,  or
28    institution   organized   and   operated   exclusively    for
29    charitable,  religious,  or  educational  purposes,  or  by a
30    not-for-profit corporation, society, association, foundation,
31    institution, or organization that has no compensated officers
 
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 1    or employees and that is organized and operated primarily for
 2    the recreation of persons 55 years of age or older. A limited
 3    liability company may qualify for the  exemption  under  this
 4    paragraph  only if the limited liability company is organized
 5    and operated exclusively for  educational  purposes.  On  and
 6    after July 1, 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for
 7    this exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
 8    active   exemption   identification   number  issued  by  the
 9    Department.
10        (5)  A passenger car that is a replacement vehicle to the
11    extent that the purchase price of the car is subject  to  the
12    Replacement Vehicle Tax.
13        (6)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
14    repair   and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,  and
15    including that manufactured on special  order,  certified  by
16    the   purchaser   to  be  used  primarily  for  graphic  arts
17    production, and including machinery and  equipment  purchased
18    for lease.
19        (7)  Farm chemicals.
20        (8)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold  or
21    silver   coinage   issued  by  the  State  of  Illinois,  the
22    government of the United States of America, or the government
23    of any foreign country, and bullion.
24        (9)  Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
25    student  organization  affiliated  with  an   elementary   or
26    secondary school located in Illinois.
27        (10)  A  motor  vehicle  of  the  first division, a motor
28    vehicle of the second division that is a self-contained motor
29    vehicle designed or permanently converted to  provide  living
30    quarters  for  recreational,  camping,  or  travel  use, with
31    direct walk through to the living quarters from the  driver's
32    seat,  or  a  motor vehicle of the second division that is of
33    the van configuration designed for the transportation of  not
34    less  than  7  nor  more  than  16  passengers, as defined in
 
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 1    Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used  for
 2    automobile  renting,  as  defined  in  the Automobile Renting
 3    Occupation and Use Tax Act.
 4        (11)  Farm machinery and  equipment  purchased  for  more
 5    than  $250, both new and used, including that manufactured on
 6    special  order,  certified  by  the  purchaser  to  be   used
 7    primarily  for  production  agriculture  or  State or federal
 8    agricultural programs, including individual replacement parts
 9    for the machinery  and  equipment,  including  machinery  and
10    equipment  purchased  for  lease, and including implements of
11    husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of  the  Illinois  Vehicle
12    Code, farm machinery and agricultural chemical and fertilizer
13    spreaders,  and  nurse wagons required to be registered under
14    Section 3-809 of the Illinois  Vehicle  Code,  but  excluding
15    other  motor  vehicles  required  to  be registered under the
16    Illinois  Vehicle  Code.  Horticultural  polyhouses  or  hoop
17    houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering plants
18    shall be considered farm machinery and equipment  under  this
19    item  (11).  Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry boxes
20    shall include units sold  separately  from  a  motor  vehicle
21    required  to  be  licensed  and units sold mounted on a motor
22    vehicle required to be licensed if the selling price  of  the
23    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 (11) is exempt
 5    from the provisions of Section 3-90.
 6        (12)  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        (13)  Proceeds of mandatory  service  charges  separately
14    stated  on  customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
15    of food and beverages purchased at retail from a retailer, to
16    the extent that the proceeds of the  service  charge  are  in
17    fact  turned  over as tips or as a substitute for tips to the
18    employees who participate  directly  in  preparing,  serving,
19    hosting  or  cleaning  up  the food or beverage function with
20    respect to which the service charge is imposed.
21        (14)  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        (15)  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        (16)  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        (17)  Distillation machinery and  equipment,  sold  as  a
 8    unit   or  kit,  assembled  or  installed  by  the  retailer,
 9    certified by the user to be used only for the  production  of
10    ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption as motor fuel
11    or  as  a component of motor fuel for the personal use of the
12    user, and not subject to sale or resale.
13        (18)  Manufacturing   and   assembling   machinery    and
14    equipment  used  primarily in the process of manufacturing or
15    assembling tangible personal property for wholesale or retail
16    sale or lease, whether that sale or lease is made directly by
17    the  manufacturer  or  by  some  other  person,  whether  the
18    materials used in the process are owned by  the  manufacturer
19    or  some  other person, or whether that sale or lease is made
20    apart from or as an incident to the seller's engaging in  the
21    service  occupation of producing machines, tools, dies, jigs,
22    patterns, gauges, or other similar  items  of  no  commercial
23    value on special order for a particular purchaser.
24        (19)  Personal  property  delivered  to  a  purchaser  or
25    purchaser's donee inside Illinois when the purchase order for
26    that  personal  property  was  received  by a florist located
27    outside Illinois who has a florist  located  inside  Illinois
28    deliver the personal property.
29        (20)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
30    for direct agricultural production.
31        (21)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
32    meeting  the  requirements  of  any of the Arabian Horse Club
33    Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club,  American  Quarter
34    Horse  Association,  United  States  Trotting Association, or
 
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 1    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
 2    racing for prizes.
 3        (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
11    the Retailers' Occupation  Tax  Act.   If  the  equipment  is
12    leased  in  a manner that does not qualify for this exemption
13    or is used in any other non-exempt manner, the  lessor  shall
14    be  liable  for the tax imposed under this Act or the Service
15    Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based  on  the  fair  market
16    value  of  the  property  at  the time the non-qualifying use
17    occurs.  No lessor shall collect or  attempt  to  collect  an
18    amount  (however  designated) that purports to reimburse that
19    lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax
20    Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by  the
21    lessor.  If a lessor improperly collects any such amount from
22    the  lessee,  the  lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
23    refund of that amount from the  lessor.   If,  however,  that
24    amount  is  not  refunded  to  the lessee for any reason, the
25    lessor is liable to pay that amount to the Department.
26        (23)  Personal property purchased by a lessor who  leases
27    the  property,  under a lease of  one year or longer executed
28    or in effect at  the  time  the  lessor  would  otherwise  be
29    subject  to  the  tax  imposed by this Act, to a governmental
30    body that has been  issued  an  active  sales  tax  exemption
31    identification  number  by the Department under Section 1g of
32    the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the property is  leased
33    in  a manner that does not qualify for this exemption or used
34    in any other non-exempt manner, the lessor  shall  be  liable
 
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 1    for  the  tax  imposed  under this Act or the Service Use Tax
 2    Act, as the case may be, based on the fair  market  value  of
 3    the  property  at the time the non-qualifying use occurs.  No
 4    lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount (however
 5    designated) that purports to reimburse that  lessor  for  the
 6    tax  imposed  by  this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
 7    case may be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor.   If
 8    a lessor improperly collects any such amount from the lessee,
 9    the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a refund of that
10    amount  from  the  lessor.   If,  however, that amount is not
11    refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor  is  liable
12    to pay that amount to the Department.
13        (24)  Beginning  with  taxable  years  ending on or after
14    December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on  or
15    before  December  31, 2004, personal property that is donated
16    for disaster relief to  be  used  in  a  State  or  federally
17    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
18    manufacturer  or retailer that is registered in this State to
19    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
20    institution that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax  exemption
21    identification  number by the Department that assists victims
22    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
23        (25)  Beginning with taxable years  ending  on  or  after
24    December  31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
25    before December 31, 2004, personal property that is  used  in
26    the  performance  of  infrastructure  repairs  in this State,
27    including but not limited to  municipal  roads  and  streets,
28    access  roads,  bridges,  sidewalks,  waste disposal systems,
29    water and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution  and
30    purification  facilities,  storm water drainage and retention
31    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
32    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
33    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
34    located in the declared disaster area within 6  months  after
 
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 1    the disaster.
 2    (Source:  P.A.  89-16,  eff.  5-30-95;  89-115,  eff. 1-1-96;
 3    89-349, eff. 8-17-95;  89-495,  eff.  6-24-96;  89-496,  eff.
 4    6-25-96;  89-626,  eff.  8-9-96;  90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-552,
 5    eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98.)

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

 8        (35 ILCS 110/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-5)
 9        Sec.  3-5.   Exemptions.   Use  of the following tangible
10    personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
11        (1)  Personal  property  purchased  from  a  corporation,
12    society,    association,    foundation,    institution,    or
13    organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
14    organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
15    for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or  older  if  the
16    personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
17    purpose of resale by the enterprise.
18        (2)  Personal property purchased by a non-profit Illinois
19    county  fair association for use in conducting, operating, or
20    promoting the county fair.
21        (3)  Personal  property  purchased  by  a  not-for-profit
22    music or dramatic  arts  organization  that  establishes,  by
23    proof  required  by  the  Department  by  rule,  that  it has
24    received an exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
25    Revenue Code and that  is  organized  and  operated  for  the
26    presentation  of  live  public  performances  of  musical  or
27    theatrical works on a regular basis.
28        (4)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold  or
29    silver   coinage   issued  by  the  State  of  Illinois,  the
30    government of the United States of America, or the government
31    of any foreign country, and bullion.
32        (5)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
 
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 1    repair  and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,   and
 2    including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
 3    lease,  certified  by  the purchaser to be used primarily for
 4    graphic arts production.
 5        (6)  Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
 6    student  organization  affiliated  with  an   elementary   or
 7    secondary school located in Illinois.
 8        (7)  Farm machinery and equipment purchased for more than
 9    $250,  both  new  and  used,  including  that manufactured on
10    special  order,  certified  by  the  purchaser  to  be   used
11    primarily  for  production  agriculture  or  State or federal
12    agricultural programs, including individual replacement parts
13    for the machinery  and  equipment,  including  machinery  and
14    equipment  purchased  for  lease, and including implements of
15    husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of  the  Illinois  Vehicle
16    Code, farm machinery and agricultural chemical and fertilizer
17    spreaders,  and  nurse wagons required to be registered under
18    Section 3-809 of the Illinois  Vehicle  Code,  but  excluding
19    other  motor  vehicles  required  to  be registered under the
20    Illinois  Vehicle  Code.  Horticultural  polyhouses  or  hoop
21    houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering plants
22    shall be considered farm machinery and equipment  under  this
23    item  (7).  Agricultural  chemical tender tanks and dry boxes
24    shall include units sold  separately  from  a  motor  vehicle
25    required  to  be  licensed  and units sold mounted on a motor
26    vehicle required to be licensed if the selling price  of  the
27    tender is separately stated.
28        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  shall  include precision
29    farming equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to  be
30    installed  on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
31    limited  to,  tractors,   harvesters,   sprayers,   planters,
32    seeders,  or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
33    but is not  limited  to,  soil  testing  sensors,  computers,
34    monitors,  software,  global positioning and mapping systems,
 
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 1    and other such equipment.
 2        Farm machinery and  equipment  also  includes  computers,
 3    sensors,  software,  and  related equipment used primarily in
 4    the computer-assisted  operation  of  production  agriculture
 5    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
 6    limited  to,  the  collection, monitoring, and correlation of
 7    animal and crop data for the purpose  of  formulating  animal
 8    diets  and  agricultural  chemicals.  This item (7) is exempt
 9    from the provisions of Section 3-75.
10        (8)  Fuel and petroleum products sold to or  used  by  an
11    air  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
14    or returning from a location or locations outside the  United
15    States  without  regard  to  previous  or subsequent domestic
16    stopovers.
17        (9)  Proceeds of  mandatory  service  charges  separately
18    stated  on  customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
19    of food and beverages acquired as an incident to the purchase
20    of a service from  a  serviceman,  to  the  extent  that  the
21    proceeds  of  the  service  charge are in fact turned over as
22    tips or as  a  substitute  for  tips  to  the  employees  who
23    participate   directly  in  preparing,  serving,  hosting  or
24    cleaning up the food or beverage  function  with  respect  to
25    which the service charge is imposed.
26        (10)  Oil  field  exploration,  drilling,  and production
27    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
28    cable tool rigs, and workover rigs,  (ii)  pipe  and  tubular
29    goods,  including  casing  and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
30    pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines,  (v)  any
31    individual   replacement  part  for  oil  field  exploration,
32    drilling, and production equipment, and  (vi)  machinery  and
33    equipment  purchased  for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
34    required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
 
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 1        (11)  Proceeds from the sale of photoprocessing machinery
 2    and equipment, including repair and replacement  parts,  both
 3    new  and  used, including that manufactured on special order,
 4    certified  by  the  purchaser  to  be  used   primarily   for
 5    photoprocessing,  and including photoprocessing machinery and
 6    equipment purchased for lease.
 7        (12)  Coal  exploration,  mining,   offhighway   hauling,
 8    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
 9    replacement  parts  and  equipment,  and  including equipment
10    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
11    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
12        (13)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
13    for direct agricultural production.
14        (14)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
15    meeting the requirements of any of  the  Arabian  Horse  Club
16    Registry  of  America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
17    Horse Association, United  States  Trotting  Association,  or
18    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
19    racing for prizes.
20        (15)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
21    any  hospital  purpose  and  equipment used in the diagnosis,
22    analysis, or treatment of hospital patients  purchased  by  a
23    lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
24    longer  executed  or  in  effect at the time the lessor would
25    otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by  this  Act,  to  a
26    hospital  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax  exemption
27    identification  number  by the Department under Section 1g of
28    the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased
29    in a manner that does not qualify for this  exemption  or  is
30    used  in  any  other  non-exempt  manner, the lessor shall be
31    liable for the tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act,
32    as the case may be, based on the fair  market  value  of  the
33    property  at  the  time  the  non-qualifying  use occurs.  No
34    lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount (however
 
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 1    designated) that purports to reimburse that  lessor  for  the
 2    tax  imposed  by this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
 3    be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor.  If a  lessor
 4    improperly  collects  any  such  amount  from the lessee, the
 5    lessee shall have a legal right to claim  a  refund  of  that
 6    amount  from  the  lessor.   If,  however, that amount is not
 7    refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor  is  liable
 8    to pay that amount to the Department.
 9        (16)  Personal  property purchased by a lessor who leases
10    the property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or
11    in effect at the time the lessor would otherwise  be  subject
12    to  the  tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that
13    has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
14    by  the  Department  under  Section  1g  of  the   Retailers'
15    Occupation  Tax  Act.   If the property is leased in a manner
16    that does not qualify for this exemption or is  used  in  any
17    other  non-exempt  manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
18    tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act,  as  the  case
19    may be, based on the fair market value of the property at the
20    time  the non-qualifying use occurs.  No lessor shall collect
21    or attempt to collect an  amount  (however  designated)  that
22    purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
23    Act  or  the  Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has
24    not been paid by the lessor.  If a lessor improperly collects
25    any such amount from the lessee,  the  lessee  shall  have  a
26    legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the lessor.
27    If,  however,  that  amount is not refunded to the lessee for
28    any reason, the lessor is liable to pay that  amount  to  the
29    Department.
30        (17)  Beginning  with  taxable  years  ending on or after
31    December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on  or
32    before  December  31, 2004, personal property that is donated
33    for disaster relief to  be  used  in  a  State  or  federally
34    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
 
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 1    manufacturer  or retailer that is registered in this State to
 2    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
 3    institution that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax  exemption
 4    identification  number by the Department that assists victims
 5    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
 6        (18)  Beginning with taxable years  ending  on  or  after
 7    December  31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
 8    before December 31, 2004, personal property that is  used  in
 9    the  performance  of  infrastructure  repairs  in this State,
10    including but not limited to  municipal  roads  and  streets,
11    access  roads,  bridges,  sidewalks,  waste disposal systems,
12    water and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution  and
13    purification  facilities,  storm water drainage and retention
14    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
15    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
16    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
17    located in the declared disaster area within 6  months  after
18    the disaster.
19    (Source:  P.A.  89-16,  eff.  5-30-95;  89-115,  eff. 1-1-96;
20    89-349, eff. 8-17-95;  89-495,  eff.  6-24-96;  89-496,  eff.
21    6-25-96;  89-626,  eff.  8-9-96;  90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-552,
22    eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98.)

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

25        (35 ILCS 115/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-5)
26        Sec. 3-5.  Exemptions.  The following  tangible  personal
27    property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
28        (1)  Personal  property  sold  by a corporation, society,
29    association, foundation, institution, or organization,  other
30    than  a  limited  liability  company,  that  is organized and
31    operated as  a  not-for-profit  service  enterprise  for  the
32    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        (2)  Personal  property  purchased  by  a  not-for-profit
 4    Illinois  county  fair  association  for  use  in conducting,
 5    operating, or promoting the county fair.
 6        (3)  Personal property purchased  by  any  not-for-profit
 7    music  or  dramatic  arts  organization  that establishes, by
 8    proof required  by  the  Department  by  rule,  that  it  has
 9    received   an  exemption   under  Section  501(c)(3)  of  the
10    Internal Revenue Code and that is organized and operated  for
11    the  presentation  of  live public performances of musical or
12    theatrical works on a regular basis.
13        (4)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold  or
14    silver  coinage  issued  by  the  State  of   Illinois,   the
15    government of the United States of America, or the government
16    of any foreign country, and bullion.
17        (5)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
18    repair   and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,  and
19    including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
20    lease, certified by the purchaser to be  used  primarily  for
21    graphic arts production.
22        (6)  Personal   property   sold  by  a  teacher-sponsored
23    student  organization  affiliated  with  an   elementary   or
24    secondary school located in Illinois.
25        (7)  Farm machinery and equipment sold for more than $250
26    ,  both  new and used, including that manufactured on special
27    order, certified by the purchaser to be  used  primarily  for
28    production  agriculture  or  State  or  federal  agricultural
29    programs,  including  individual  replacement  parts  for the
30    machinery and equipment, including  machinery  and  equipment
31    purchased  for  lease,  and including implements of husbandry
32    defined in Section 1-130 of the Illinois Vehicle  Code,  farm
33    machinery and agricultural chemical and fertilizer spreaders,
34    and  nurse  wagons  required  to  be registered under Section
 
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 1    3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, but excluding other motor
 2    vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
 3    Code.  Horticultural  polyhouses  or  hoop  houses  used  for
 4    propagating,  growing,  or  overwintering  plants  shall   be
 5    considered  farm machinery and equipment under this item (7).
 6    Agricultural  chemical  tender  tanks  and  dry  boxes  shall
 7    include units sold separately from a motor  vehicle  required
 8    to  be  licensed  and  units  sold mounted on a motor vehicle
 9    required to be licensed if the selling price of the tender is
10    separately stated.
11        Farm machinery  and  equipment  shall  include  precision
12    farming  equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to be
13    installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but  not
14    limited   to,   tractors,   harvesters,  sprayers,  planters,
15    seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment  includes,
16    but  is  not  limited  to,  soil  testing sensors, computers,
17    monitors, software, global positioning and  mapping  systems,
18    and other such equipment.
19        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  also includes computers,
20    sensors, software, and related equipment  used  primarily  in
21    the  computer-assisted  operation  of  production agriculture
22    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
23    limited to, the collection, monitoring,  and  correlation  of
24    animal  and  crop  data for the purpose of formulating animal
25    diets and agricultural chemicals.  This item  (7)  is  exempt
26    from the provisions of Section 3-55 3-75.
27        (8)  Fuel  and  petroleum  products sold to or used by an
28    air common carrier, certified by the carrier to be  used  for
29    consumption,  shipment,  or  storage  in  the  conduct of its
30    business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined  for
31    or  returning from a location or locations outside the United
32    States without regard  to  previous  or  subsequent  domestic
33    stopovers.
34        (9)  Proceeds  of  mandatory  service  charges separately
 
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 1    stated on customers' bills for the purchase  and  consumption
 2    of food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
 3    service  charge  are  in  fact  turned  over  as tips or as a
 4    substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
 5    in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning  up  the  food  or
 6    beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
 7    imposed.
 8        (10)  Oil  field  exploration,  drilling,  and production
 9    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
10    cable tool rigs, and workover rigs,  (ii)  pipe  and  tubular
11    goods,  including  casing  and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
12    pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines,  (v)  any
13    individual   replacement  part  for  oil  field  exploration,
14    drilling, and production equipment, and  (vi)  machinery  and
15    equipment  purchased  for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
16    required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
17        (11)  Photoprocessing machinery and equipment,  including
18    repair  and  replacement  parts, both new and used, including
19    that  manufactured  on  special  order,  certified   by   the
20    purchaser  to  be  used  primarily  for  photoprocessing, and
21    including photoprocessing machinery and  equipment  purchased
22    for lease.
23        (12)  Coal   exploration,   mining,  offhighway  hauling,
24    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
25    replacement parts  and  equipment,  and  including  equipment
26    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
27    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
28        (13)  Food  for  human consumption that is to be consumed
29    off the premises where  it  is  sold  (other  than  alcoholic
30    beverages,  soft  drinks  and food that has been prepared for
31    immediate consumption) and prescription and  non-prescription
32    medicines,  drugs,  medical  appliances,  and  insulin, urine
33    testing materials, syringes, and needles used  by  diabetics,
34    for  human  use, when purchased for use by a person receiving
 
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 1    medical assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid
 2    Code who resides in a licensed long-term  care  facility,  as
 3    defined in the Nursing Home Care Act.
 4        (14)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
 5    for direct agricultural production.
 6        (15)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
 7    meeting  the  requirements  of  any of the Arabian Horse Club
 8    Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club,  American  Quarter
 9    Horse  Association,  United  States  Trotting Association, or
10    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
11    racing for prizes.
12        (16)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
13    any hospital purpose and equipment  used  in  the  diagnosis,
14    analysis,  or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
15    who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
16    executed or in effect at the  time  of  the  purchase,  to  a
17    hospital  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax  exemption
18    identification  number  by the Department under Section 1g of
19    the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.
20        (17)  Personal property sold to a lessor who  leases  the
21    property,  under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
22    effect at the time of the purchase, to  a  governmental  body
23    that  has  been issued an active tax exemption identification
24    number by the Department under Section 1g of  the  Retailers'
25    Occupation Tax Act.
26        (18)  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        (19)  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    (Source: P.A.  89-16,  eff.  5-30-95;  89-115,  eff.  1-1-96;
16    89-349,  eff.  8-17-95;  89-495,  eff.  6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
17    6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96;  90-14,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-552,
18    eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98; revised 2-10-99.)

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

21        (35 ILCS 120/2-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 441-5)
22        Sec. 2-5.  Exemptions.  Gross receipts from proceeds from
23    the  sale  of  the  following  tangible personal property are
24    exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
25        (1)  Farm chemicals.
26        (2)  Farm machinery and equipment sold for more than $250
27    , both new and used, including that manufactured  on  special
28    order,  certified  by  the purchaser to be used primarily for
29    production  agriculture  or  State  or  federal  agricultural
30    programs, including  individual  replacement  parts  for  the
31    machinery  and  equipment,  including machinery and equipment
32    purchased for lease, and including  implements  of  husbandry
 
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 1    defined  in  Section 1-130 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm
 2    machinery and agricultural chemical and fertilizer spreaders,
 3    and nurse wagons required  to  be  registered  under  Section
 4    3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, but excluding other motor
 5    vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
 6    Code.  Horticultural  polyhouses  or  hoop  houses  used  for
 7    propagating,   growing,  or  overwintering  plants  shall  be
 8    considered farm machinery and equipment under this item  (2).
 9    Agricultural  chemical  tender  tanks  and  dry  boxes  shall
10    include  units  sold separately from a motor vehicle required
11    to be licensed and units sold  mounted  on  a  motor  vehicle
12    required  to  be licensed, if the selling price of the tender
13    is separately stated.
14        Farm machinery  and  equipment  shall  include  precision
15    farming  equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to be
16    installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but  not
17    limited   to,   tractors,   harvesters,  sprayers,  planters,
18    seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment  includes,
19    but  is  not  limited  to,  soil  testing sensors, computers,
20    monitors, software, global positioning and  mapping  systems,
21    and other such equipment.
22        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  also includes computers,
23    sensors, software, and related equipment  used  primarily  in
24    the  computer-assisted  operation  of  production agriculture
25    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
26    limited to, the collection, monitoring,  and  correlation  of
27    animal  and  crop  data for the purpose of formulating animal
28    diets and agricultural chemicals.  This item  (7)  is  exempt
29    from the provisions of Section 2-70 3-75.
30        (3)  Distillation machinery and equipment, sold as a unit
31    or  kit, assembled or installed by the retailer, certified by
32    the user to be used only for the production of ethyl  alcohol
33    that  will  be  used  for  consumption  as motor fuel or as a
34    component of motor fuel for the personal use of the user, and
 
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 1    not subject to sale or resale.
 2        (4)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
 3    repair  and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,   and
 4    including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
 5    lease,  certified  by  the purchaser to be used primarily for
 6    graphic arts production.
 7        (5)  A motor vehicle  of  the  first  division,  a  motor
 8    vehicle of the second division that is a self-contained motor
 9    vehicle  designed  or permanently converted to provide living
10    quarters for  recreational,  camping,  or  travel  use,  with
11    direct  walk  through  access to the living quarters from the
12    driver's seat, or a motor vehicle of the second division that
13    is of the van configuration designed for  the  transportation
14    of not less than 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in
15    Section  1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for
16    automobile renting, as  defined  in  the  Automobile  Renting
17    Occupation and Use Tax Act.
18        (6)  Personal   property   sold  by  a  teacher-sponsored
19    student  organization  affiliated  with  an   elementary   or
20    secondary school located in Illinois.
21        (7)  Proceeds  of  that portion of the selling price of a
22    passenger car the sale of which is subject to the Replacement
23    Vehicle Tax.
24        (8)  Personal property sold to an  Illinois  county  fair
25    association  for  use  in conducting, operating, or promoting
26    the county fair.
27        (9)  Personal property sold to a not-for-profit music  or
28    dramatic   arts   organization  that  establishes,  by  proof
29    required by the Department by rule, that it has  received  an
30    exemption  under  Section  501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue
31    Code and that is organized and operated for the  presentation
32    of live public performances of musical or theatrical works on
33    a regular basis.
34        (10)  Personal  property  sold by a corporation, society,
 
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 1    association, foundation, institution, or organization,  other
 2    than  a  limited  liability  company,  that  is organized and
 3    operated as  a  not-for-profit  service  enterprise  for  the
 4    benefit  of  persons 65 years of age or older if the personal
 5    property was not purchased by the enterprise for the  purpose
 6    of resale by the enterprise.
 7        (11)  Personal property sold to a governmental body, to a
 8    corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
 9    organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious,
10    or  educational purposes, or to a not-for-profit corporation,
11    society,    association,    foundation,    institution,    or
12    organization that has no compensated  officers  or  employees
13    and   that  is  organized  and  operated  primarily  for  the
14    recreation of persons 55 years of age  or  older.  A  limited
15    liability  company  may  qualify for the exemption under this
16    paragraph only if the limited liability company is  organized
17    and  operated  exclusively  for  educational purposes. On and
18    after July 1, 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for
19    this exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
20    active identification number issued by the Department.
21        (12)  Personal property sold to interstate  carriers  for
22    hire  for  use as rolling stock moving in interstate commerce
23    or to lessors under leases of one year or longer executed  or
24    in  effect at the time of purchase by interstate carriers for
25    hire for use as rolling stock moving in  interstate  commerce
26    and  equipment  operated  by  a  telecommunications provider,
27    licensed as a common carrier by  the  Federal  Communications
28    Commission,  which  is permanently installed in or affixed to
29    aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
30        (13)  Proceeds from sales to owners, lessors, or shippers
31    of tangible personal property that is utilized by  interstate
32    carriers  for  hire  for  use  as  rolling  stock  moving  in
33    interstate    commerce    and   equipment   operated   by   a
34    telecommunications provider, licensed as a common carrier  by
 
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 1    the  Federal  Communications Commission, which is permanently
 2    installed in or affixed  to  aircraft  moving  in  interstate
 3    commerce.
 4        (14)  Machinery  and  equipment  that will be used by the
 5    purchaser, or a lessee of the  purchaser,  primarily  in  the
 6    process  of  manufacturing  or  assembling  tangible personal
 7    property for wholesale or retail sale or lease,  whether  the
 8    sale or lease is made directly by the manufacturer or by some
 9    other  person,  whether the materials used in the process are
10    owned by the manufacturer or some other  person,  or  whether
11    the sale or lease is made apart from or as an incident to the
12    seller's  engaging  in  the  service  occupation of producing
13    machines, tools,  dies,  jigs,  patterns,  gauges,  or  other
14    similar  items  of no commercial value on special order for a
15    particular purchaser.
16        (15)  Proceeds of mandatory  service  charges  separately
17    stated  on  customers'  bills for purchase and consumption of
18    food and beverages, to the extent that the  proceeds  of  the
19    service  charge  are  in  fact  turned  over  as tips or as a
20    substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
21    in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning  up  the  food  or
22    beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
23    imposed.
24        (16)  Petroleum  products  sold  to  a  purchaser  if the
25    seller is prohibited by federal law from charging tax to  the
26    purchaser.
27        (17)  Tangible personal property sold to a common carrier
28    by rail or motor that receives the physical possession of the
29    property  in  Illinois  and  that transports the property, or
30    shares with another common carrier in the  transportation  of
31    the  property,  out of Illinois on a standard uniform bill of
32    lading showing the seller of the property as the  shipper  or
33    consignor  of the property to a destination outside Illinois,
34    for use outside Illinois.
 
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 1        (18)  Legal tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold  or
 2    silver   coinage   issued  by  the  State  of  Illinois,  the
 3    government of the United States of America, or the government
 4    of any foreign country, and bullion.
 5        (19)  Oil field  exploration,  drilling,  and  production
 6    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
 7    cable  tool  rigs,  and  workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
 8    goods, including casing and drill strings,  (iii)  pumps  and
 9    pump-jack  units,  (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
10    individual  replacement  part  for  oil  field   exploration,
11    drilling,  and  production  equipment, and (vi) machinery and
12    equipment purchased for lease; but excluding  motor  vehicles
13    required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
14        (20)  Photoprocessing  machinery and equipment, including
15    repair and replacement parts, both new  and  used,  including
16    that   manufactured   on  special  order,  certified  by  the
17    purchaser to  be  used  primarily  for  photoprocessing,  and
18    including  photoprocessing  machinery and equipment purchased
19    for lease.
20        (21)  Coal  exploration,  mining,   offhighway   hauling,
21    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
22    replacement  parts  and  equipment,  and  including equipment
23    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
24    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
25        (22)  Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used  by  an
26    air  carrier,  certified  by  the  carrier  to  be  used  for
27    consumption,  shipment,  or  storage  in  the  conduct of its
28    business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined  for
29    or  returning from a location or locations outside the United
30    States without regard  to  previous  or  subsequent  domestic
31    stopovers.
32        (23)  A  transaction  in  which  the  purchase  order  is
33    received  by  a  florist who is located outside Illinois, but
34    who has a florist located in Illinois deliver the property to
 
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 1    the purchaser or the purchaser's donee in Illinois.
 2        (24)  Fuel consumed or used in the  operation  of  ships,
 3    barges,  or  vessels  that  are  used primarily in or for the
 4    transportation of property or the conveyance of  persons  for
 5    hire  on  rivers  bordering  on  this  State  if  the fuel is
 6    delivered by the seller to the purchaser's  barge,  ship,  or
 7    vessel while it is afloat upon that bordering river.
 8        (25)  A motor vehicle sold in this State to a nonresident
 9    even though the motor vehicle is delivered to the nonresident
10    in  this  State,  if the motor vehicle is not to be titled in
11    this State, and if a driveaway decal permit is issued to  the
12    motor  vehicle  as  provided in Section 3-603 of the Illinois
13    Vehicle Code or if  the  nonresident  purchaser  has  vehicle
14    registration  plates  to  transfer  to the motor vehicle upon
15    returning to his or her home  state.   The  issuance  of  the
16    driveaway   decal   permit   or   having   the   out-of-state
17    registration plates to be transferred is prima facie evidence
18    that the motor vehicle will not be titled in this State.
19        (26)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
20    for direct agricultural production.
21        (27)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
22    meeting  the  requirements  of  any of the Arabian Horse Club
23    Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club,  American  Quarter
24    Horse  Association,  United  States  Trotting Association, or
25    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
26    racing for prizes.
27        (28)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
28    any hospital purpose and equipment  used  in  the  diagnosis,
29    analysis,  or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
30    who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
31    executed or in effect at the  time  of  the  purchase,  to  a
32    hospital  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax  exemption
33    identification  number  by the Department under Section 1g of
34    this Act.
 
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 1        (29)  Personal property sold to a lessor who  leases  the
 2    property,  under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
 3    effect at the time of the purchase, to  a  governmental  body
 4    that  has  been issued an active tax exemption identification
 5    number by the Department under Section 1g of this Act.
 6        (30)  Beginning with taxable years  ending  on  or  after
 7    December  31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
 8    before December 31, 2004, personal property that  is  donated
 9    for  disaster  relief  to  be  used  in  a State or federally
10    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
11    manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State  to
12    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
13    institution  that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax exemption
14    identification number by the Department that assists  victims
15    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
16        (31)  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 used in
19    the performance of  infrastructure  repairs  in  this  State,
20    including  but  not  limited  to municipal roads and streets,
21    access roads, bridges,  sidewalks,  waste  disposal  systems,
22    water  and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution and
23    purification facilities, storm water drainage  and  retention
24    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
25    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
26    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
27    located  in  the declared disaster area within 6 months after
28    the disaster.
29    (Source: P.A.  89-16,  eff.  5-30-95;  89-115,  eff.  1-1-96;
30    89-349, eff. 8-17-95;  89-495,  eff.  6-24-96;  89-496,  eff.
31    6-25-96;  89-626,  eff.  8-9-96;  90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-519,
32    eff. 6-1-98; 90-552, eff.  12-12-97;  90-605,  eff.  6-30-98;
33    revised 2-10-99.)
 
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 1        Section  99.   Effective  date.   This  Act  takes effect
 2    January 1, 2000.

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