SUFFOLK COUNTY REGARDING LICENSED
LATEST UPDATE Suffolk County Law Regarding Licensed
Occupations Home Improvements Test Study Guide.
The County Legislature hereby 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 the occupations regulated by this chapter. - ✔✔✔ - 563-1 Legislative
Findings:
Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other calling for hire. - ✔✔✔ - 563-2
Business
The Commissioner of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Consumer Affairs. - ✔✔✔ - 563-
2 COMISSIONER or DIRECTOR
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
Those which are primarily for personal, household or family purposes. - ✔✔✔ - 563-2
CONSUMER GOODS, SERVICES, CREDIT AND DEBTS
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 CONTRACT
Any false, falsely disparaging or misleading oral or written statement, visual description, or other
representation of any kind, 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 DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES
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, SUFFOLK COUNTY REGARDING LICENSED
The Department of Labor, Licensing and Consumer Affairs. - ✔✔✔ - 563-2 DEPARTMENT or
OFFICE
The undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or agreement to perform a contract. - ✔✔✔
- 563-2 ENGAGES
A person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant to the provisions of the
appropriate article of this chapter. - ✔✔✔ - 563-2 LICENSEE
Includes the definition contained in § 37 of the General Construction Law of the State of New
York, as well as an individual, partnership or other entity. - ✔✔✔ - 563-2 PERSON
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 TEMPORARY LICENSE
Any act or practice which unfairly takes advantage of the lack of knowledge, ability, experience,
or capacity of the consumer - ✔✔✔ - 563-2 UNCONSCIONABLE TRADE PRACTICE
It is unlawful for any person, other than those exempt under the provisions of § 563-4, 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. -
✔✔✔ - 563-3 LICENSE REQUIRED
A. Employees of any federal, state or local government, or any agencies thereof, or of a state or
local authority.
B. Employees of and on behalf of any gas or electric corporation, waterworks corporation or
telegraph and telephone corporation
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LATEST UPDATE Suffolk County Law Regarding Licensed
Occupations Home Improvements Test Study Guide.
The County Legislature hereby 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 the occupations regulated by this chapter. - ✔✔✔ - 563-1 Legislative
Findings:
Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other calling for hire. - ✔✔✔ - 563-2
Business
The Commissioner of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Consumer Affairs. - ✔✔✔ - 563-
2 COMISSIONER or DIRECTOR
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
Those which are primarily for personal, household or family purposes. - ✔✔✔ - 563-2
CONSUMER GOODS, SERVICES, CREDIT AND DEBTS
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 CONTRACT
Any false, falsely disparaging or misleading oral or written statement, visual description, or other
representation of any kind, 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 DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES
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, SUFFOLK COUNTY REGARDING LICENSED
The Department of Labor, Licensing and Consumer Affairs. - ✔✔✔ - 563-2 DEPARTMENT or
OFFICE
The undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or agreement to perform a contract. - ✔✔✔
- 563-2 ENGAGES
A person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant to the provisions of the
appropriate article of this chapter. - ✔✔✔ - 563-2 LICENSEE
Includes the definition contained in § 37 of the General Construction Law of the State of New
York, as well as an individual, partnership or other entity. - ✔✔✔ - 563-2 PERSON
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 TEMPORARY LICENSE
Any act or practice which unfairly takes advantage of the lack of knowledge, ability, experience,
or capacity of the consumer - ✔✔✔ - 563-2 UNCONSCIONABLE TRADE PRACTICE
It is unlawful for any person, other than those exempt under the provisions of § 563-4, 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. -
✔✔✔ - 563-3 LICENSE REQUIRED
A. Employees of any federal, state or local government, or any agencies thereof, or of a state or
local authority.
B. Employees of and on behalf of any gas or electric corporation, waterworks corporation or
telegraph and telephone corporation
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