(a) This section applies to each of the following:
(1) Nonprofit parent-teacher associations chartered by the California Congress of Parents, Teachers, and Students, Incorporated, and equivalent organizations performing the same type of service for public or private schools and authorized to operate within the school by the governing authority of the school.
(2) Nonprofit parent cooperative nursery schools.
(3) Nonprofit associations commonly called The Friends of the Library, and equivalent organizations performing auxiliary services to any library district, municipal library, or county library in the state, which are authorized to operate within the library by the governing authority of the library.
(b) An organization described in subdivision (a) is a consumer of, and shall not be considered a retailer within the provisions of this part with respect to, tangible personal property which it sells, if the profits are used exclusively in furtherance of the purposes of the organization.
(c) This section shall not be applicable to the state or any of its political subdivisions.
(Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1213, Sec. 1. Effective September 27, 1987. Operative January 1, 1988, by Sec. 3 of Ch. 1213.)