There are hereby specifically exempted from the tax levied by this chapter:
(A) Transportation of school pupils to and from elementary schools or high schools in motor or other vehicles;
(B) Transportation of persons where the fare of each person does not exceed $1, or local transportation of persons within the corporate limits of a municipality except by taxicab;
(C) Carrier sales of newspapers and periodicals made directly to consumers. Other sales of newspapers and periodicals where any individual transaction does not exceed $0.75. A carrier is a person who regularly delivers newspapers or periodicals to subscribers on an assigned route;
(D) Sales for resale to persons engaged in the business of reselling the articles purchased, whether within or without the state, provided that such sales to residents of the state are made to persons to whom sales tax permits have been issued as provided in this chapter. This exemption shall not apply to the sales of articles made to persons holding permits when such persons purchase items for their use and which they are not regularly engaged in the business of reselling; neither shall this exemption apply to sales of tangible personal property to peddlers, solicitors, and other salespeople who do not have an established place of business and a sales tax permit;
(E) Sales of advertising space in newspapers and periodicals and billboard advertising service, and any advertising through the electronic media, including radio, television, and cable television;
(F) Eggs, feed, supplies, machinery, and equipment purchased by persons regularly engaged in the business of raising worms, fish, any insect or any other form of terrestrial or aquatic animal life and used for the purpose of raising same for marketing. This exemption shall only be granted and extended to the purchaser when the items are to be used and in fact are used in the raising of animal life as set out above. Each purchaser shall certify, in writing, on the invoice or sales ticket retained by the vendor that he, she, or they is regularly engaged in the business of raising such animal life and that the items purchased will be used only in such business. The vendor shall certify to the state’s Tax Commission that the price of the items has been reduced to grant the full benefit of the exemption. Violation hereof by the purchaser or vendor shall be a misdemeanor;
(G) Sales of medicine or drugs prescribed for the treatment of human beings by a person licensed to prescribe the medicine or drugs. This exemption shall not apply to proprietary or patient medicines as defined by 59 O.S. § 353.1; and
(H) Nothing herein shall be construed as limiting or prohibiting the town from levying and collecting taxes on the sale of natural or artificial gas and electricity, whether sold for residential or any other use after December 31, 1980. The sales tax levied by the town on natural or artificial gas and electricity shall be in effect regardless of any ordinance or contractual provisions referring to previously imposed state sales tax on such items.
(Prior Code, § 7-211) Penalty, see § 32.99