Every retailer engaging in business in this state and making sales of tangible personal property or prewritten computer software delivered electronically or by load and leave, or vendor-hosted prewritten computer software, or specified digital products, or services as defined in § 44-18-7.3, for storage, use, or other consumption in this state, not exempted under this chapter shall, at the time of making the sales, or if the storage, use, or other consumption of the tangible personal property, prewritten computer software delivered electronically or by load and leave, vendor-hosted prewritten computer software, or specified digital products, or services as defined in § 44-18-7.3, is not then taxable under this chapter, at the time the storage, use, or other consumption becomes taxable, collect the tax from the purchaser and give to the purchaser a receipt in the manner and form prescribed by the tax administrator.

History of Section.
P.L. 1947, ch. 1887, art. 2, § 23; P.L. 1951, ch. 2733, art. 2, § 2; P.L. 1952, ch. 3026, art. 2, § 2; P.L. 1953, ch. 3150, art. 2, § 2; P.L. 1954, ch. 3254, art. 2, § 2; P.L. 1955, ch. 3521, art. 2, § 2; P.L. 1956, ch. 3739, art. 2, § 2; P.L. 1956, ch. 3800, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 44-18-22; R.P.L. 1957, ch. 44, art. 2, § 2; P.L. 1958, ch. 17, art. 7, § 1; P.L. 2011, ch. 151, art. 19, § 24; P.L. 2012, ch. 241, art. 21, § 3; P.L. 2018, ch. 47, art. 4, § 10; P.L. 2019, ch. 88, art. 5, § 9.