Receipts from sales of production machinery, apparatus or equipment for use or consumption directly and primarily in the publication of newspapers in the production departments of a newspaper plant or in the production of tangible personal property for sale by persons engaged in the business of commercial printing, periodical, book, manifold business form, greeting card or miscellaneous publishing and typesetting, photoengraving, electrotyping and stereotyping and lithographic platemaking, including, but not limited to: engraving, enlarging and development equipment, internal process cameras and news and other similar transmission equipment, composing and pressroom apparatus and equipment, binding apparatus and equipment, type fonts, lead, mats, ink, plates, conveyors, stackers, sorting, bundling, stuffing, labeling and wrapping equipment and supplies for any of the foregoing are exempt from the tax imposed under the Sales and Use Tax Act; but sales of motor vehicles, typewriters, and other equipment and supplies otherwise taxable under this act are not exempt.

L. 1980, c. 105, s. 41, eff. Sept. 11, 1980. Amended by L. 1985, c. 440, s. 1, eff. March 1, 1986.