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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 730

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 730  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 4        "Section  5.   The  Use  Tax  Act  is amended by changing
 5    Section 3-55 as follows:

 6        (35 ILCS 105/3-55) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.3-55)
 7        Sec. 3-55.  Multistate exemption. The tax imposed by this
 8    Act does not apply to the use of tangible  personal  property
 9    in this State under the following circumstances:
10        (a)  The   use,  in  this  State,  of  tangible  personal
11    property  acquired  outside  this  State  by  a   nonresident
12    individual  and brought into this State by the individual for
13    his or her own use while temporarily  within  this  State  or
14    while passing through this State.
15        (b)  The   use,  in  this  State,  of  tangible  personal
16    property by an interstate carrier for hire as  rolling  stock
17    moving  in interstate commerce or by lessors under a lease of
18    one year or longer executed or  in  effect  at  the  time  of
19    purchase of tangible personal property by interstate carriers
20    for-hire  for  use  as  rolling  stock  moving  in interstate
21    commerce as long  as  so  used  by  the  interstate  carriers
22    for-hire,  and  equipment  operated  by  a telecommunications
 
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 1    provider,  licensed  as  a  common  carrier  by  the  Federal
 2    Communications Commission, which is permanently installed  in
 3    or affixed to aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
 4        (c)  The  use,  in  this  State,  by  owners, lessors, or
 5    shippers of tangible personal property that  is  utilized  by
 6    interstate  carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving
 7    in interstate commerce as long as so used by  the  interstate
 8    carriers    for   hire,   and   equipment   operated   by   a
 9    telecommunications provider, licensed as a common carrier  by
10    the  Federal  Communications Commission, which is permanently
11    installed in or affixed  to  aircraft  moving  in  interstate
12    commerce.
13        (d)  The   use,  in  this  State,  of  tangible  personal
14    property that is acquired outside this State and caused to be
15    brought into this State by a person who has  already  paid  a
16    tax in another State in respect to the sale, purchase, or use
17    of  that  property,  to  the  extent of the amount of the tax
18    properly due and paid in the other State.
19        (e)  The temporary storage, in this  State,  of  tangible
20    personal  property  that  is  acquired outside this State and
21    that, after being brought into this  State  and  stored  here
22    temporarily,   is  used  solely  outside  this  State  or  is
23    physically attached to or incorporated  into  other  tangible
24    personal  property that is used solely outside this State, or
25    is  altered  by   converting,   fabricating,   manufacturing,
26    printing,  processing,  or  shaping, and, as altered, is used
27    solely outside this State.
28        (f)  The temporary storage  in  this  State  of  building
29    materials and fixtures that are acquired either in this State
30    or  outside  this State by an Illinois registered combination
31    retailer and construction contractor, and that the  purchaser
32    thereafter  uses  outside  this  State  by incorporating that
33    property into real estate located outside this State.
34        (g)  The use or purchase of tangible personal property by
 
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 1    a common carrier by rail or motor that receives the  physical
 2    possession  of  the property in Illinois, and that transports
 3    the property, or shares with another common  carrier  in  the
 4    transportation of the property, out of Illinois on a standard
 5    uniform  bill of lading showing the seller of the property as
 6    the shipper or consignor of the  property  to  a  destination
 7    outside Illinois, for use outside Illinois.
 8        (h)  The  use, in this State, of a motor vehicle that was
 9    sold in this State to a nonresident, even  though  the  motor
10    vehicle is delivered to the nonresident in this State, if the
11    motor  vehicle  is  not  to be titled in this State, and if a
12    driveaway decal permit is issued  to  the  motor  vehicle  as
13    provided  in Section 3-603 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or if
14    the nonresident purchaser has vehicle registration plates  to
15    transfer  to  the  motor vehicle upon returning to his or her
16    home state.  The issuance of the driveaway  decal  permit  or
17    having the out-of-state registration plates to be transferred
18    shall be prima facie evidence that the motor vehicle will not
19    be titled in this State.
20        (i)  Beginning  July  1, 1999, the use, in this State, of
21    fuel acquired outside this State and brought into this  State
22    in  the  fuel  supply tanks of locomotives engaged in freight
23    hauling and passenger service for interstate  commerce.  This
24    subsection is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
25        (j)  Beginning  on  January  1, 2002, the use of tangible
26    personal property purchased from an Illinois  retailer  by  a
27    taxpayer  engaged  in  centralized  purchasing  activities in
28    Illinois who will, upon receipt of the property in  Illinois,
29    temporarily  store  the  property  in  Illinois  (i)  for the
30    purpose of subsequently transporting it  outside  this  State
31    for  use  or consumption thereafter solely outside this State
32    or (ii) for the purpose of being  processed,  fabricated,  or
33    manufactured  into,  attached  to, or incorporated into other
34    tangible personal property to  be  transported  outside  this
 
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 1    State  and  thereafter  used  or consumed solely outside this
 2    State.  The Director of  Revenue  shall,  pursuant  to  rules
 3    adopted   in  accordance  with  the  Illinois  Administrative
 4    Procedure Act,  issue  a  permit  to  any  taxpayer  in  good
 5    standing   with  the  Department  who  is  eligible  for  the
 6    exemption under this subsection (j).  The permit issued under
 7    this subsection (j) shall authorize the holder, to the extent
 8    and in the manner specified in the rules adopted  under  this
 9    Act,  to  purchase tangible personal property from a retailer
10    exempt from the taxes imposed by this Act.   Taxpayers  shall
11    maintain  all necessary books and records to substantiate the
12    use and consumption of all such  tangible  personal  property
13    outside of the State of Illinois.
14    (Source: P.A.  90-519,  eff.  6-1-98;  90-552, eff. 12-12-97;
15    91-51, eff.  6-30-99;  91-313,  eff.  7-29-99;  91-587,  eff.
16    8-14-99; revised 9-29-99.)

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

19        (35 ILCS 110/3-45) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-45)
20        Sec. 3-45.  Multistate exemption. The tax imposed by this
21    Act does not apply to the use of tangible  personal  property
22    in this State under the following circumstances:
23        (a)  The use, in this State, of property acquired outside
24    this  State by a nonresident individual and brought into this
25    State by  the  individual  for  his  or  her  own  use  while
26    temporarily  within  this State or while passing through this
27    State.
28        (b)  The use, in this State, of property that is acquired
29    outside this State and that is moved into this State for  use
30    as rolling stock moving in interstate commerce.
31        (c)  The use, in this State, of property that is acquired
32    outside  this  State and caused to be brought into this State
 
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 1    by a person who has already paid a tax in  another  state  in
 2    respect  to  the  sale, purchase, or use of that property, to
 3    the extent of the amount of the tax properly due and paid  in
 4    the other state.
 5        (d)  The  temporary  storage,  in this State, of property
 6    that is acquired outside this  State  and  that  after  being
 7    brought  into this State and stored here temporarily, is used
 8    solely outside this State or is  physically  attached  to  or
 9    incorporated  into other property that is used solely outside
10    this  State,  or  is  altered  by  converting,   fabricating,
11    manufacturing,  printing,  processing,  or  shaping,  and, as
12    altered, is used solely outside this State.
13        (e)  Beginning July 1, 1999, the use, in this  State,  of
14    fuel  acquired outside this State and brought into this State
15    in the fuel supply tanks of locomotives  engaged  in  freight
16    hauling  and  passenger service for interstate commerce. This
17    subsection is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
18        (f)  Beginning on January 1, 2002, the  use  of  tangible
19    personal  property  purchased  from an Illinois retailer by a
20    taxpayer engaged  in  centralized  purchasing  activities  in
21    Illinois  who will, upon receipt of the property in Illinois,
22    temporarily store  the  property  in  Illinois  (i)  for  the
23    purpose  of  subsequently  transporting it outside this State
24    for use or consumption thereafter solely outside  this  State
25    or  (ii)  for  the purpose of being processed, fabricated, or
26    manufactured into, attached to, or  incorporated  into  other
27    tangible  personal  property  to  be transported outside this
28    State and thereafter used or  consumed  solely  outside  this
29    State.   The  Director  of  Revenue  shall, pursuant to rules
30    adopted  in  accordance  with  the  Illinois   Administrative
31    Procedure  Act,  issue  a  permit  to  any  taxpayer  in good
32    standing  with  the  Department  who  is  eligible  for   the
33    exemption under this subsection (f).  The permit issued under
34    this subsection (f) shall authorize the holder, to the extent
 
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 1    and  in  the manner specified in the rules adopted under this
 2    Act, to purchase tangible personal property from  a  retailer
 3    exempt  from  the taxes imposed by this Act.  Taxpayers shall
 4    maintain all necessary books and records to substantiate  the
 5    use  and  consumption  of all such tangible personal property
 6    outside of the State of Illinois.
 7    (Source: P.A. 91-51,  eff.  6-30-99;  91-313,  eff.  7-29-99;
 8    91-587, eff. 8-14-99; revised 9-29-99.)

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

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

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

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

24        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
25    becoming law.".

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