44th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2000

RELATING TO TAXATION; PROVIDING A DEDUCTION FROM GROSS RECEIPTS AND GOVERNMENTAL GROSS RECEIPTS FOR ALL RECEIPTS FROM THE SALE OF PROSTHETIC DEVICES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. Section 7-9-73 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1970, Chapter 78, Section 2, as amended) is amended to read:

"7-9-73. DEDUCTION--GROSS RECEIPTS TAX--GOVERNMENTAL GROSS RECEIPTS--SALE OF PROSTHETIC DEVICES.--Receipts from selling prosthetic devices may be deducted from gross receipts or from governmental gross receipts [if the sale is made to a person who is licensed to practice medicine, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, podiatry, optometry, chiropractic or professional nursing and who delivers a nontaxable transaction certificate to the seller. The buyer delivering the nontaxable transaction certificate must deliver the prosthetic device incidental to the performance of a service and must include the value of the prosthetic device in his charge for the service]. For purposes of this section, "prosthetic device" means an artificial substitute for a missing body part."

Section 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this act is July 1, 2000.