SUFFOLK COUNTY HOME IMPROVEMENT LICENSE
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563-1 Answer: Legislative Findings
563-1 Legislative Findings Answer: The County Legislature finds and determines that the
health, safety and general welfare of the consumers of Suffolk County will be enhanced if
provision is made for the licensing of persons engaged in home improvement.
563-2 Business Answer: Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other calling
for hire
563-2 Commissioner or Director Answer: The Commissioner of the Department of
Consumer Affairs
563-2 Consumer Answer: An individual who buys or leases or agrees to buy or lease
consumer goods or services or credit, including a co-guarantor or surety.
563-2 Consumer goods, services, credit and debts Answer: Those which are primarily for
personal, household or family purposes.
563-2 Contract Answer: An oral or written agreement contained in one or more documents
for the performance of work and includes all labor, goods and services.
563-2 Deceptive Trade Practices Answer: Any false, falsely disparaging or misleading oral
or written statement, visual description, which has the capacity, tendency or effect of
deceiving or misleading consumers or the consuming public and is made in connection
with a contract, preparation of or performance of a work estimate or invoice, in the
extension of consumer credit, or in the collection of consumer debts.
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, 563-2 Department or Office Answer: The Department of Consumer Affairs
563-2 Engages Answer: The undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or agreement to
perform a contract.
563-2 Licensee Answer: A person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant to
the provisions of the appropriate article of this chapter.
563-2 Person Answer: Includes the definition contained in section 37 of the General
Construction Law of the State of New York, as well as an individual, partnership or other
entity.
563-2 Temporary License Answer: A license issued to a person for a period of time to
perform work in accordance with the conditions as specified by the Director, provided that
the holder thereof pays the required license fee.
563-2 Unconscionable Trade Practice Answer: Any act or practice which unfairly takes
advantage of the lack of knowledge, ability, experience, or capacity of the consumer or
which results in a gross disparity between the value received by a consumer and the price
paid by the consumer.
563-3 Answer: License Required
563-3 License Required Answer: It is unlawful for any person, other than exempt
employees, to engage in any business in the County regulated by this chapter without
obtaining a license therefor from the Office in accordance with and subject to the
provisions of this chapter.
563-4 Answer: Exempt employees and operations
563-4 Exempt employees and operations Answer: 1. employees of any federal, state or
local government.
2. employees of and on behalf of any gas or electric corporation, waterworks corporation or
telegraph and telephone corporation, provided that they are working on behalf of the
corporation.
3. maintenance work by bona fide employees in an industrial, commercial, institutional or
other such establishment within the building or property limits of the employer.
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563-1 Answer: Legislative Findings
563-1 Legislative Findings Answer: The County Legislature finds and determines that the
health, safety and general welfare of the consumers of Suffolk County will be enhanced if
provision is made for the licensing of persons engaged in home improvement.
563-2 Business Answer: Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other calling
for hire
563-2 Commissioner or Director Answer: The Commissioner of the Department of
Consumer Affairs
563-2 Consumer Answer: An individual who buys or leases or agrees to buy or lease
consumer goods or services or credit, including a co-guarantor or surety.
563-2 Consumer goods, services, credit and debts Answer: Those which are primarily for
personal, household or family purposes.
563-2 Contract Answer: An oral or written agreement contained in one or more documents
for the performance of work and includes all labor, goods and services.
563-2 Deceptive Trade Practices Answer: Any false, falsely disparaging or misleading oral
or written statement, visual description, which has the capacity, tendency or effect of
deceiving or misleading consumers or the consuming public and is made in connection
with a contract, preparation of or performance of a work estimate or invoice, in the
extension of consumer credit, or in the collection of consumer debts.
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, 563-2 Department or Office Answer: The Department of Consumer Affairs
563-2 Engages Answer: The undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or agreement to
perform a contract.
563-2 Licensee Answer: A person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant to
the provisions of the appropriate article of this chapter.
563-2 Person Answer: Includes the definition contained in section 37 of the General
Construction Law of the State of New York, as well as an individual, partnership or other
entity.
563-2 Temporary License Answer: A license issued to a person for a period of time to
perform work in accordance with the conditions as specified by the Director, provided that
the holder thereof pays the required license fee.
563-2 Unconscionable Trade Practice Answer: Any act or practice which unfairly takes
advantage of the lack of knowledge, ability, experience, or capacity of the consumer or
which results in a gross disparity between the value received by a consumer and the price
paid by the consumer.
563-3 Answer: License Required
563-3 License Required Answer: It is unlawful for any person, other than exempt
employees, to engage in any business in the County regulated by this chapter without
obtaining a license therefor from the Office in accordance with and subject to the
provisions of this chapter.
563-4 Answer: Exempt employees and operations
563-4 Exempt employees and operations Answer: 1. employees of any federal, state or
local government.
2. employees of and on behalf of any gas or electric corporation, waterworks corporation or
telegraph and telephone corporation, provided that they are working on behalf of the
corporation.
3. maintenance work by bona fide employees in an industrial, commercial, institutional or
other such establishment within the building or property limits of the employer.
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