The Department shall make the Exemption Certificates available directly to each enterprise zone administrator, construction contractor, or other entity. The request for Enterprise Zone Building Materials Exemption Certificates from the enterprise zone administrator to the Department must include the following information:
The Department shall issue the Enterprise Zone Building Materials Exemption Certificates within 3 business days after receipt of request from the zone administrator. This requirement does not apply in circumstances where the Department, for reasonable cause, is unable to issue the Exemption Certificate within 3 business days. The Department may refuse to issue an Exemption Certificate if the owner, any partner, or a corporate officer, and in the case of a limited liability company, any manager or member, of the construction contractor or other entity is or has been the owner, a partner, a corporate officer, and in the case of a limited liability company, a manager or member, of a person that is in default for moneys due to the Department under this Act or any other tax or fee Act administered by the Department. The Enterprise Zone Building Materials Exemption Certificate shall contain language stating that if the construction contractor or other entity who is issued the Exemption Certificate makes a tax-exempt purchase, as described in this Section, that is not eligible for exemption under this Section or allows another person to make a tax-exempt purchase, as described in this Section, that is not eligible for exemption under this Section, then, in addition to any tax or other penalty imposed, the construction contractor or other entity is subject to a penalty equal to the tax that would have been paid by the retailer under this Act as well as any applicable local retailers' occupation tax on the purchase that is not eligible for the exemption.
The Department, in its discretion, may require that the request for Enterprise Zone Building Materials Exemption Certificates be submitted electronically. The Department may, in its discretion, issue the Exemption Certificates electronically. The Enterprise Zone Building Materials Exemption Certificate number shall be designed in such a way that the Department can identify from the unique number on the Exemption Certificate issued to a given construction contractor or other entity, the name of the Enterprise Zone, the project for which the Exemption Certificate is issued, and the construction contractor or other entity to whom the Exemption Certificate is issued. The Exemption Certificate shall contain an expiration date, which shall be no more than 2 years after the date of issuance. At the request of the zone administrator, the Department may renew an Exemption Certificate. After the Department issues Exemption Certificates for a given enterprise zone project, the enterprise zone administrator may notify the Department of additional construction contractors or other entities eligible for an Enterprise Zone Building Materials Exemption Certificate. Upon notification by the enterprise zone administrator and subject to the other provisions of this subsection (b), the Department shall issue an Enterprise Zone Building Materials Exemption Certificate to each additional construction contractor or other entity identified by the enterprise zone administrator. An enterprise zone administrator may notify the Department to rescind an Enterprise Zone Building Materials Exemption Certificate previously issued by the Department but that has not yet expired. Upon notification by the enterprise zone administrator and subject to the other provisions of this subsection (b), the Department shall issue the rescission of the Enterprise Zone Building Materials Exemption Certificate to the construction contractor or other entity identified by the enterprise zone administrator and provide a copy to the enterprise zone administrator.
If the Department of Revenue determines that a construction contractor or other entity that was issued an Exemption Certificate under this subsection (b) made a tax-exempt purchase, as described in this Section, that was not eligible for exemption under this Section or allowed another person to make a tax-exempt purchase, as described in this Section, that was not eligible for exemption under this Section, then, in addition to any tax or other penalty imposed, the construction contractor or other entity is subject to a penalty equal to the tax that would have been paid by the retailer under this Act as well as any applicable local retailers' occupation tax on the purchase that was not eligible for the exemption.
35 ILCS 120/5k