(a) Railroads seeking to make purchases of railroad track materials or locomotive radiators subject to the exemption provided in § 67-6-340 shall apply to the commissioner for a certificate. This application shall be made upon forms provided by the commissioner, and shall require information deemed necessary by the commissioner to establish that the applicant is a railroad making purchases of railroad track materials or locomotive radiators for use outside this state. The certificate may be revoked by the commissioner at any time, if the commissioner finds that the holder no longer meets the conditions precedent for the exemption.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 67-6-529

  • Commissioner: means and includes the commissioner of revenue or the commissioner's duly authorized assistants. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Use: means and includes the exercise of any right or power over tangible personal property incident to the ownership thereof, except that it does not include the sale at retail of that property in the regular course of business. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
(b) Railroads making purchases subject to the exemption provided in part 3 of this chapter shall keep records of all such purchases, establishing to the satisfaction of the commissioner that railroad track materials or locomotive radiators purchased were not used in Tennessee, but were removed from this state for use and consumption outside this state.
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