Bill Text: IL HB4440 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that a teacher who is employed by an educational institution that is exempt from the tax under the Act is presumed to be making an exempt purchase if he or she (i) purchases materials and supplies, (ii) possesses a copy of the educational institution's exemption number, and (iii) presents identification at the time of the sale.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-03 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4440 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB4440-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB4440 Introduced , by Rep. Jonathan Carroll SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
35 ILCS 120/2-5
Amends the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that a teacher who is employed by an educational institution that is exempt from the tax under the Act is presumed to be making an exempt purchase if he or she (i) purchases materials and supplies, (ii) possesses a copy of the educational institution's exemption number, and (iii) presents identification at the time of the sale.
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AN ACT concerning revenue.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Retailers' Occupation Tax Act is amended by
changing Section 2-5 as follows:
(35 ILCS 120/2-5)
Sec. 2-5. Exemptions. Gross receipts from proceeds from the
sale of the following tangible personal property are exempt
from the tax imposed by this Act:
(1) Farm chemicals.
(2) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
including that manufactured on special order, certified by
the purchaser to be used primarily for production
agriculture or State or federal agricultural programs,
including individual replacement parts for the machinery
and equipment, including machinery and equipment purchased
for lease, and including implements of husbandry defined in
Section 1-130 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery
and agricultural chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and
nurse wagons required to be registered under Section 3-809
of the Illinois Vehicle Code, but excluding other motor
vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois
Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or hoop houses used

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for propagating, growing, or overwintering plants shall be
considered farm machinery and equipment under this item
(2). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry boxes shall
include units sold separately from a motor vehicle required
to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor vehicle
required to be licensed, if the selling price of the tender
is separately stated.
Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but
not limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters,
seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment
includes, but is not limited to, soil testing sensors,
computers, monitors, software, global positioning and
mapping systems, and other such equipment.
Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in
the computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not
limited to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of
animal and crop data for the purpose of formulating animal
diets and agricultural chemicals. This item (2) is exempt
from the provisions of Section 2-70.
(3) Until July 1, 2003, distillation machinery and
equipment, sold as a unit or kit, assembled or installed by
the retailer, certified by the user to be used only for the

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production of ethyl alcohol that will be used for
consumption as motor fuel or as a component of motor fuel
for the personal use of the user, and not subject to sale
or resale.
(4) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again September 1,
2004 through August 30, 2014, graphic arts machinery and
equipment, including repair and replacement parts, both
new and used, and including that manufactured on special
order or purchased for lease, certified by the purchaser to
be used primarily for graphic arts production. Equipment
includes chemicals or chemicals acting as catalysts but
only if the chemicals or chemicals acting as catalysts
effect a direct and immediate change upon a graphic arts
product. Beginning on July 1, 2017, graphic arts machinery
and equipment is included in the manufacturing and
assembling machinery and equipment exemption under
paragraph (14).
(5) A motor vehicle that is used for automobile
renting, as defined in the Automobile Renting Occupation
and Use Tax Act. This paragraph is exempt from the
provisions of Section 2-70.
(6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored
student organization affiliated with an elementary or
secondary school located in Illinois.
(7) Until July 1, 2003, proceeds of that portion of the
selling price of a passenger car the sale of which is

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subject to the Replacement Vehicle Tax.
(8) Personal property sold to an Illinois county fair
association for use in conducting, operating, or promoting
the county fair.
(9) Personal property sold to a not-for-profit arts or
cultural organization that establishes, by proof required
by the Department by rule, that it has received an
exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
Code and that is organized and operated primarily for the
presentation or support of arts or cultural programming,
activities, or services. These organizations include, but
are not limited to, music and dramatic arts organizations
such as symphony orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and
cultural service organizations, local arts councils,
visual arts organizations, and media arts organizations.
On and after July 1, 2001 (the effective date of Public Act
92-35), however, an entity otherwise eligible for this
exemption shall not make tax-free purchases unless it has
an active identification number issued by the Department.
(10) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
association, foundation, institution, or organization,
other than a limited liability company, that is organized
and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the
benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal
property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
purpose of resale by the enterprise.

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(11) Personal property sold to a governmental body, to
a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
institution organized and operated exclusively for
charitable, religious, or educational purposes, or to a
not-for-profit corporation, society, association,
foundation, institution, or organization that has no
compensated officers or employees and that is organized and
operated primarily for the recreation of persons 55 years
of age or older. A limited liability company may qualify
for the exemption under this paragraph only if the limited
liability company is organized and operated exclusively
for educational purposes. On and after July 1, 1987,
however, no entity otherwise eligible for this exemption
shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an active
identification number issued by the Department.
A teacher who is employed by an educational institution
that is exempt from the tax under this Act is presumed to
be making an exempt purchase if he or she (i) purchases
materials and supplies, (ii) possesses a copy of the
educational institution's exemption number, and (iii)
presents identification at the time of the sale. As used in
this paragraph (11), "materials and supplies" means
amounts paid for instructional materials or supplies that
are designated for classroom use in any public or
non-public school in the State.
(12) (Blank).

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(12-5) On and after July 1, 2003 and through June 30,
2004, motor vehicles of the second division with a gross
vehicle weight in excess of 8,000 pounds that are subject
to the commercial distribution fee imposed under Section
3-815.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code. Beginning on July 1,
2004 and through June 30, 2005, the use in this State of
motor vehicles of the second division: (i) with a gross
vehicle weight rating in excess of 8,000 pounds; (ii) that
are subject to the commercial distribution fee imposed
under Section 3-815.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code; and
(iii) that are primarily used for commercial purposes.
Through June 30, 2005, this exemption applies to repair and
replacement parts added after the initial purchase of such
a motor vehicle if that motor vehicle is used in a manner
that would qualify for the rolling stock exemption
otherwise provided for in this Act. For purposes of this
paragraph, "used for commercial purposes" means the
transportation of persons or property in furtherance of any
commercial or industrial enterprise whether for-hire or
not.
(13) Proceeds from sales to owners, lessors, or
shippers of tangible personal property that is utilized by
interstate carriers for hire for use as rolling stock
moving in interstate commerce and equipment operated by a
telecommunications provider, licensed as a common carrier
by the Federal Communications Commission, which is

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permanently installed in or affixed to aircraft moving in
interstate commerce.
(14) Machinery and equipment that will be used by the
purchaser, or a lessee of the purchaser, primarily in the
process of manufacturing or assembling tangible personal
property for wholesale or retail sale or lease, whether the
sale or lease is made directly by the manufacturer or by
some other person, whether the materials used in the
process are owned by the manufacturer or some other person,
or whether the sale or lease is made apart from or as an
incident to the seller's engaging in the service occupation
of producing machines, tools, dies, jigs, patterns,
gauges, or other similar items of no commercial value on
special order for a particular purchaser. The exemption
provided by this paragraph (14) does not include machinery
and equipment used in (i) the generation of electricity for
wholesale or retail sale; (ii) the generation or treatment
of natural or artificial gas for wholesale or retail sale
that is delivered to customers through pipes, pipelines, or
mains; or (iii) the treatment of water for wholesale or
retail sale that is delivered to customers through pipes,
pipelines, or mains. The provisions of Public Act 98-583
are declaratory of existing law as to the meaning and scope
of this exemption. Beginning on July 1, 2017, the exemption
provided by this paragraph (14) includes, but is not
limited to, graphic arts machinery and equipment, as

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defined in paragraph (4) of this Section.
(15) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
stated on customers' bills for purchase and consumption of
food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
substitute for tips to the employees who participate
directly in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the
food or beverage function with respect to which the service
charge is imposed.
(16) Tangible personal property sold to a purchaser if
the purchaser is exempt from use tax by operation of
federal law. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions
of Section 2-70.
(17) Tangible personal property sold to a common
carrier by rail or motor that receives the physical
possession of the property in Illinois and that transports
the property, or shares with another common carrier in the
transportation of the property, out of Illinois on a
standard uniform bill of lading showing the seller of the
property as the shipper or consignor of the property to a
destination outside Illinois, for use outside Illinois.
(18) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or
silver coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the
government of the United States of America, or the
government of any foreign country, and bullion.
(19) Until July 1, 2003, oil field exploration,

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drilling, and production equipment, including (i) rigs and
parts of rigs, rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover
rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular goods, including casing and
drill strings, (iii) pumps and pump-jack units, (iv)
storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any individual
replacement part for oil field exploration, drilling, and
production equipment, and (vi) machinery and equipment
purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles required
to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
(20) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment,
including repair and replacement parts, both new and used,
including that manufactured on special order, certified by
the purchaser to be used primarily for photoprocessing, and
including photoprocessing machinery and equipment
purchased for lease.
(21) Until July 1, 2023, coal and aggregate
exploration, mining, off-highway hauling, processing,
maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
replacement parts and equipment, and including equipment
purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required
to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. The
changes made to this Section by Public Act 97-767 apply on
and after July 1, 2003, but no claim for credit or refund
is allowed on or after August 16, 2013 (the effective date
of Public Act 98-456) for such taxes paid during the period
beginning July 1, 2003 and ending on August 16, 2013 (the

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effective date of Public Act 98-456).
(22) Until June 30, 2013, fuel and petroleum products
sold to or used by an air carrier, certified by the carrier
to be used for consumption, shipment, or storage in the
conduct of its business as an air common carrier, for a
flight destined for or returning from a location or
locations outside the United States without regard to
previous or subsequent domestic stopovers.
Beginning July 1, 2013, fuel and petroleum products
sold to or used by an air carrier, certified by the carrier
to be used for consumption, shipment, or storage in the
conduct of its business as an air common carrier, for a
flight that (i) is engaged in foreign trade or is engaged
in trade between the United States and any of its
possessions and (ii) transports at least one individual or
package for hire from the city of origination to the city
of final destination on the same aircraft, without regard
to a change in the flight number of that aircraft.
(23) A transaction in which the purchase order is
received by a florist who is located outside Illinois, but
who has a florist located in Illinois deliver the property
to the purchaser or the purchaser's donee in Illinois.
(24) Fuel consumed or used in the operation of ships,
barges, or vessels that are used primarily in or for the
transportation of property or the conveyance of persons for
hire on rivers bordering on this State if the fuel is

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delivered by the seller to the purchaser's barge, ship, or
vessel while it is afloat upon that bordering river.
(25) Except as provided in item (25-5) of this Section,
a motor vehicle sold in this State to a nonresident even
though the motor vehicle is delivered to the nonresident in
this State, if the motor vehicle is not to be titled in
this State, and if a drive-away permit is issued to the
motor vehicle as provided in Section 3-603 of the Illinois
Vehicle Code or if the nonresident purchaser has vehicle
registration plates to transfer to the motor vehicle upon
returning to his or her home state. The issuance of the
drive-away permit or having the out-of-state registration
plates to be transferred is prima facie evidence that the
motor vehicle will not be titled in this State.
(25-5) The exemption under item (25) does not apply if
the state in which the motor vehicle will be titled does
not allow a reciprocal exemption for a motor vehicle sold
and delivered in that state to an Illinois resident but
titled in Illinois. The tax collected under this Act on the
sale of a motor vehicle in this State to a resident of
another state that does not allow a reciprocal exemption
shall be imposed at a rate equal to the state's rate of tax
on taxable property in the state in which the purchaser is
a resident, except that the tax shall not exceed the tax
that would otherwise be imposed under this Act. At the time
of the sale, the purchaser shall execute a statement,

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signed under penalty of perjury, of his or her intent to
title the vehicle in the state in which the purchaser is a
resident within 30 days after the sale and of the fact of
the payment to the State of Illinois of tax in an amount
equivalent to the state's rate of tax on taxable property
in his or her state of residence and shall submit the
statement to the appropriate tax collection agency in his
or her state of residence. In addition, the retailer must
retain a signed copy of the statement in his or her
records. Nothing in this item shall be construed to require
the removal of the vehicle from this state following the
filing of an intent to title the vehicle in the purchaser's
state of residence if the purchaser titles the vehicle in
his or her state of residence within 30 days after the date
of sale. The tax collected under this Act in accordance
with this item (25-5) shall be proportionately distributed
as if the tax were collected at the 6.25% general rate
imposed under this Act.
(25-7) Beginning on July 1, 2007, no tax is imposed
under this Act on the sale of an aircraft, as defined in
Section 3 of the Illinois Aeronautics Act, if all of the
following conditions are met:
(1) the aircraft leaves this State within 15 days
after the later of either the issuance of the final
billing for the sale of the aircraft, or the authorized
approval for return to service, completion of the

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maintenance record entry, and completion of the test
flight and ground test for inspection, as required by
14 C.F.R. 91.407;
(2) the aircraft is not based or registered in this
State after the sale of the aircraft; and
(3) the seller retains in his or her books and
records and provides to the Department a signed and
dated certification from the purchaser, on a form
prescribed by the Department, certifying that the
requirements of this item (25-7) are met. The
certificate must also include the name and address of
the purchaser, the address of the location where the
aircraft is to be titled or registered, the address of
the primary physical location of the aircraft, and
other information that the Department may reasonably
require.
For purposes of this item (25-7):
"Based in this State" means hangared, stored, or
otherwise used, excluding post-sale customizations as
defined in this Section, for 10 or more days in each
12-month period immediately following the date of the sale
of the aircraft.
"Registered in this State" means an aircraft
registered with the Department of Transportation,
Aeronautics Division, or titled or registered with the
Federal Aviation Administration to an address located in

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this State.
This paragraph (25-7) is exempt from the provisions of
Section 2-70.
(26) Semen used for artificial insemination of
livestock for direct agricultural production.
(27) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with
and meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse
Club Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American
Quarter Horse Association, United States Trotting
Association, or Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for
purposes of breeding or racing for prizes. This item (27)
is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70, and the
exemption provided for under this item (27) applies for all
periods beginning May 30, 1995, but no claim for credit or
refund is allowed on or after January 1, 2008 (the
effective date of Public Act 95-88) for such taxes paid
during the period beginning May 30, 2000 and ending on
January 1, 2008 (the effective date of Public Act 95-88).
(28) Computers and communications equipment utilized
for any hospital purpose and equipment used in the
diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of hospital patients
sold to a lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of
one year or longer executed or in effect at the time of the
purchase, to a hospital that has been issued an active tax
exemption identification number by the Department under
Section 1g of this Act.

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(29) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or
in effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental
body that has been issued an active tax exemption
identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
this Act.
(30) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on
or before December 31, 2004, personal property that is
donated for disaster relief to be used in a State or
federally declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering
Illinois by a manufacturer or retailer that is registered
in this State to a corporation, society, association,
foundation, or institution that has been issued a sales tax
exemption identification number by the Department that
assists victims of the disaster who reside within the
declared disaster area.
(31) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on
or before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used
in the performance of infrastructure repairs in this State,
including but not limited to municipal roads and streets,
access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems,
water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and
purification facilities, storm water drainage and
retention facilities, and sewage treatment facilities,

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resulting from a State or federally declared disaster in
Illinois or bordering Illinois when such repairs are
initiated on facilities located in the declared disaster
area within 6 months after the disaster.
(32) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold at
a "game breeding and hunting preserve area" as that term is
used in the Wildlife Code. This paragraph is exempt from
the provisions of Section 2-70.
(33) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in
Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated
to a corporation, limited liability company, society,
association, foundation, or institution that is determined
by the Department to be organized and operated exclusively
for educational purposes. For purposes of this exemption,
"a corporation, limited liability company, society,
association, foundation, or institution organized and
operated exclusively for educational purposes" means all
tax-supported public schools, private schools that offer
systematic instruction in useful branches of learning by
methods common to public schools and that compare favorably
in their scope and intensity with the course of study
presented in tax-supported schools, and vocational or
technical schools or institutes organized and operated
exclusively to provide a course of study of not less than 6
weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical,

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mechanical, industrial, business, or commercial
occupation.
(34) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
including food, purchased through fundraising events for
the benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary
school, a group of those schools, or one or more school
districts if the events are sponsored by an entity
recognized by the school district that consists primarily
of volunteers and includes parents and teachers of the
school children. This paragraph does not apply to
fundraising events (i) for the benefit of private home
instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising entity
purchases the personal property sold at the events from
another individual or entity that sold the property for the
purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that
profits from the sale to the fundraising entity. This
paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
(35) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare
and serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup,
and other items, and replacement parts for these machines.
Beginning January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003,
machines and parts for machines used in commercial,
coin-operated amusement and vending business if a use or
occupation tax is paid on the gross receipts derived from
the use of the commercial, coin-operated amusement and

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vending machines. This paragraph is exempt from the
provisions of Section 2-70.
(35-5) Beginning August 23, 2001 and through June 30,
2016, food for human consumption that is to be consumed off
the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic
beverages, soft drinks, and food that has been prepared for
immediate consumption) and prescription and
nonprescription medicines, drugs, medical appliances, and
insulin, urine testing materials, syringes, and needles
used by diabetics, for human use, when purchased for use by
a person receiving medical assistance under Article V of
the Illinois Public Aid Code who resides in a licensed
long-term care facility, as defined in the Nursing Home
Care Act, or a licensed facility as defined in the ID/DD
Community Care Act, the MC/DD Act, or the Specialized
Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013.
(36) Beginning August 2, 2001, computers and
communications equipment utilized for any hospital purpose
and equipment used in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment
of hospital patients sold to a lessor who leases the
equipment, under a lease of one year or longer executed or
in effect at the time of the purchase, to a hospital that
has been issued an active tax exemption identification
number by the Department under Section 1g of this Act. This
paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
(37) Beginning August 2, 2001, personal property sold

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to a lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one
year or longer executed or in effect at the time of the
purchase, to a governmental body that has been issued an
active tax exemption identification number by the
Department under Section 1g of this Act. This paragraph is
exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
(38) Beginning on January 1, 2002 and through June 30,
2016, tangible personal property purchased from an
Illinois retailer by a taxpayer engaged in centralized
purchasing activities in Illinois who will, upon receipt of
the property in Illinois, temporarily store the property in
Illinois (i) for the purpose of subsequently transporting
it outside this State for use or consumption thereafter
solely outside this State or (ii) for the purpose of being
processed, fabricated, or manufactured into, attached to,
or incorporated into other tangible personal property to be
transported outside this State and thereafter used or
consumed solely outside this State. The Director of Revenue
shall, pursuant to rules adopted in accordance with the
Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, issue a permit to
any taxpayer in good standing with the Department who is
eligible for the exemption under this paragraph (38). The
permit issued under this paragraph (38) shall authorize the
holder, to the extent and in the manner specified in the
rules adopted under this Act, to purchase tangible personal
property from a retailer exempt from the taxes imposed by

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this Act. Taxpayers shall maintain all necessary books and
records to substantiate the use and consumption of all such
tangible personal property outside of the State of
Illinois.
(39) Beginning January 1, 2008, tangible personal
property used in the construction or maintenance of a
community water supply, as defined under Section 3.145 of
the Environmental Protection Act, that is operated by a
not-for-profit corporation that holds a valid water supply
permit issued under Title IV of the Environmental
Protection Act. This paragraph is exempt from the
provisions of Section 2-70.
(40) Beginning January 1, 2010, materials, parts,
equipment, components, and furnishings incorporated into
or upon an aircraft as part of the modification,
refurbishment, completion, replacement, repair, or
maintenance of the aircraft. This exemption includes
consumable supplies used in the modification,
refurbishment, completion, replacement, repair, and
maintenance of aircraft, but excludes any materials,
parts, equipment, components, and consumable supplies used
in the modification, replacement, repair, and maintenance
of aircraft engines or power plants, whether such engines
or power plants are installed or uninstalled upon any such
aircraft. "Consumable supplies" include, but are not
limited to, adhesive, tape, sandpaper, general purpose

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lubricants, cleaning solution, latex gloves, and
protective films. This exemption applies only to the sale
of qualifying tangible personal property to persons who
modify, refurbish, complete, replace, or maintain an
aircraft and who (i) hold an Air Agency Certificate and are
empowered to operate an approved repair station by the
Federal Aviation Administration, (ii) have a Class IV
Rating, and (iii) conduct operations in accordance with
Part 145 of the Federal Aviation Regulations. The exemption
does not include aircraft operated by a commercial air
carrier providing scheduled passenger air service pursuant
to authority issued under Part 121 or Part 129 of the
Federal Aviation Regulations. The changes made to this
paragraph (40) by Public Act 98-534 are declarative of
existing law.
(41) Tangible personal property sold to a
public-facilities corporation, as described in Section
11-65-10 of the Illinois Municipal Code, for purposes of
constructing or furnishing a municipal convention hall,
but only if the legal title to the municipal convention
hall is transferred to the municipality without any further
consideration by or on behalf of the municipality at the
time of the completion of the municipal convention hall or
upon the retirement or redemption of any bonds or other
debt instruments issued by the public-facilities
corporation in connection with the development of the

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municipal convention hall. This exemption includes
existing public-facilities corporations as provided in
Section 11-65-25 of the Illinois Municipal Code. This
paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
(42) Beginning January 1, 2017, menstrual pads,
tampons, and menstrual cups.
(43) Merchandise that is subject to the Rental Purchase
Agreement Occupation and Use Tax. The purchaser must
certify that the item is purchased to be rented subject to
a rental purchase agreement, as defined in the Rental
Purchase Agreement Act, and provide proof of registration
under the Rental Purchase Agreement Occupation and Use Tax
Act. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
Section 2-70.
(44) Qualified tangible personal property used in the
construction or operation of a data center that has been
granted a certificate of exemption by the Department of
Commerce and Economic Opportunity, whether that tangible
personal property is purchased by the owner, operator, or
tenant of the data center or by a contractor or
subcontractor of the owner, operator, or tenant. Data
centers that would have qualified for a certificate of
exemption prior to January 1, 2020 had this amendatory Act
of the 101st General Assembly been in effect, may apply for
and obtain an exemption for subsequent purchases of
computer equipment or enabling software purchased or

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leased to upgrade, supplement, or replace computer
equipment or enabling software purchased or leased in the
original investment that would have qualified.
The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
shall grant a certificate of exemption under this item (44)
to qualified data centers as defined by Section 605-1025 of
the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of
the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
For the purposes of this item (44):
"Data center" means a building or a series of
buildings rehabilitated or constructed to house
working servers in one physical location or multiple
sites within the State of Illinois.
"Qualified tangible personal property" means:
electrical systems and equipment; climate control and
chilling equipment and systems; mechanical systems and
equipment; monitoring and secure systems; emergency
generators; hardware; computers; servers; data storage
devices; network connectivity equipment; racks;
cabinets; telecommunications cabling infrastructure;
raised floor systems; peripheral components or
systems; software; mechanical, electrical, or plumbing
systems; battery systems; cooling systems and towers;
temperature control systems; other cabling; and other
data center infrastructure equipment and systems
necessary to operate qualified tangible personal

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property, including fixtures; and component parts of
any of the foregoing, including installation,
maintenance, repair, refurbishment, and replacement of
qualified tangible personal property to generate,
transform, transmit, distribute, or manage electricity
necessary to operate qualified tangible personal
property; and all other tangible personal property
that is essential to the operations of a computer data
center. The term "qualified tangible personal
property" also includes building materials physically
incorporated in to the qualifying data center. To
document the exemption allowed under this Section, the
retailer must obtain from the purchaser a copy of the
certificate of eligibility issued by the Department of
Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
This item (44) is exempt from the provisions of Section
2-70.
(Source: P.A. 100-22, eff. 7-6-17; 100-321, eff. 8-24-17;
100-437, eff. 1-1-18; 100-594, eff. 6-29-18; 100-863, eff.
8-14-18; 100-1171, eff. 1-4-19; 101-31, eff. 6-28-19; 101-81,
eff. 7-12-19.)