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laboratories for scientific study and investigation in the field of
biology or ecology or operating educational television or radio
stations, schools, incorporated nonprofit organizations or their
affiliates whose purpose is to provide literacy assistance or free
clinical assistance to children with dyslexia and regularly
organized churches or houses of religious worship, excepting sales,
storage or use in activities that are mainly commercial
enterprises. "Schools" means incorporated nonstock educational
institutions, including institutions empowered to confer
educational, literary or academic degrees, that have a regular
faculty, curriculum and organized body of pupils or students in
attendance throughout the usual school year and that keep and
furnish to students and others records required and accepted for
entrance to schools of secondary, collegiate or graduate rank, no
part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any
individual.

 
Sec. 6. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§19 is amended to read:

 
19. Schools. Rental charged for living quarters, sleeping or
housekeeping accommodations to any student necessitated by
attendance at a school as defined in subsection 16.

 
Sec. 7. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§58, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 343, §5, is
amended to read:

 
58. Portable classrooms. Sales of tangible personal property
to be physically incorporated in and become a part of a portable
classrooms classroom for lease to schools entitled to exemption
under subsection 16 a school. If the portable classrooms are
classroom is used for an otherwise taxable use within 2 years
from the date of the first use, the lessor shall become is liable
for the use tax based on the original sale price.

 
Sec. 8. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§61, as amended by PL 1999, c. 414, §21, is
further amended to read:

 
61. Construction contracts with exempt organizations. Sales
to a construction contractor or its subcontractor of tangible
personal property, to a construction contractor, that are is to
be physically incorporated in, and become a permanent part of,
real property for sale to any organization or government agency
provided exemption under this section, except as otherwise
provided.

 
Sec. 9. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§64, as amended by PL 1995, c. 462, Pt. B,
§9, is further amended to read:

 
64. Schools and school-sponsored organizations. Sales of
tangible personal property and taxable services by public and


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