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14-B. Special mobile equipment. "Special mobile equipment"
means any self-propelled vehicle not designed or used primarily
for the transportation of persons or property that may be
operated or moved only incidentally over the highways, including,
but not limited to, road construction or maintenance machinery,
farm tractors, lumber harvesting vehicles or loaders, ditch-
digging apparatus, stone crushers, air compressors, power
shovels, cranes, graders, rollers, well drillers and wood sawing
equipment.

 
14-E. School. "School" means a public or incorporated
nonprofit primary, secondary or postsecondary educational
institution that has a regular faculty, curriculum and organized
body of pupils or students in attendance throughout the usual
school year and that keeps and furnishes to students and others
records required and accepted for entrance to schools of
secondary, collegiate or graduate rank.

 
15. Storage. "Storage" includes any keeping or retention in
this State of tangible personal property.

 
16. Storage or use. "Storage" or "use" does not include
keeping or retention or the exercise of power over tangible
personal property brought into this State for the purpose of
subsequently transporting it outside the State for use by the
purchaser thereafter solely outside the State, or for the purpose
of being processed, fabricated or manufactured into, attached to
or incorporated into, other tangible personal property to be
transported outside the State and thereafter used by the
purchaser solely outside the State.

 
17. Tangible personal property. "Tangible personal property"
means personal property that may can be seen, weighed, measured,
felt, or touched or that is in any other manner perceived by
perceptible to the senses, but does not include rights and
credits, insurance policies, bills of exchange, stocks and bonds
and similar evidences of indebtedness or ownership. "Tangible
personal property" includes electricity. "Tangible personal
property" includes any computer software that is not a custom,
water, gas, steam and prewritten computer software program.

 
17-B. Taxable service. "Taxable service" means the rental of
living quarters in a hotel, rooming house, tourist or trailer
camp; the transmission and distribution of electricity;, the
rental or lease of an automobile; tangible personal property, the
sale of prepaid wireless calling service and the sale of prepaid
calling service.


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