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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. |
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| | Sec. 6. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§19 is amended to read: |
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| | 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. |
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| | Sec. 7. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§58, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 343, §5, is | amended to read: |
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| | 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. |
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| | Sec. 8. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§61, as amended by PL 1999, c. 414, §21, is | further amended to read: |
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| | 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. |
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| | Sec. 9. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§64, as amended by PL 1995, c. 462, Pt. B, | §9, is further amended to read: |
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| | 64. Schools and school-sponsored organizations. Sales of | tangible personal property and taxable services by public and |
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