HOME IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTOR
COMPLETE EXAM REVIEW WITH FULL
SOLUTIONS
●● 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.
●● 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
COMPLETE EXAM REVIEW WITH FULL
SOLUTIONS
●● 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.
●● 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
