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LR 2951
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rummage sale, picnic or similar event by a civic, religious or
fraternal organization that is not a registered retailer. The sale
by a registered retailer of tangible personal property that that
retailer has used in the course of the retailer's business is not a
casual sale if that property is of like character to that sold by
the retailer in the ordinary course of repeated and successive
transactions. "Casual sale" does not include any transaction in
which a retailer sells tangible personal property or a taxable
service on behalf of the owner of that property or the provider of
that service. "Casual sale" does not include any sale of tangible
personal property or a taxable service that was purchased for
resale, lease or rental in the ordinary course of business by the
person making the sale.

 
Sec. 5. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§2, as amended by PL 1997, c. 729, Pt. A,
§1, is further amended to read:

 
2. Certain governmental entities. Sales to the State or any
political subdivision of the State, or to the Federal Government,
or to any unincorporated agency or instrumentality of either of
them or to any incorporated agency or instrumentality of them
wholly owned by them. This exemption does not apply where title
is held or taken as security for any financing arrangement. This
exemption also does not apply to corporations organized under
Title IV, Part E of the Farm Credit Act of 1971, 12 United States
Code, Sections 2211 to 2214.

 
Sec. 6. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§16, as amended by PL 2003, c. 689, Pt. B,
§6 and c. 705, §4 and affected by §14, is further amended to
read:

 
16. Hospitals, research centers, churches and schools. Sales
to incorporated hospitals, incorporated nonprofit nursing homes
licensed by the Department of Health and Human Services,
incorporated nonprofit residential care facilities and
incorporated nonprofit assisted housing programs for the elderly
licensed by the Department of Health and Human Services,
incorporated nonprofit home health agencies certified under the
United States Social Security Act of 1965, Title XVIII, as
amended, incorporated nonprofit rural community health centers,
incorporated nonprofit dental health centers, institutions
incorporated as nonprofit corporations for the sole purpose of
conducting medical research or for the purpose of establishing
and maintaining 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


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