REGARDING LICENSED
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, 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. - Answer: 563-1 Legislative Findings:
Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other calling for hire. - Answer: 563-2 Business
The Commissioner of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Consumer Affairs. - Answer: 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. - Answer: 563-2 CONSUMER
Those which are primarily for personal, household or family purposes. - Answer: 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. - Answer: 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. - Answer: 563-2 DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES
The Department of Labor, Licensing and Consumer Affairs. - Answer: 563-2 DEPARTMENT or OFFICE
The undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or agreement to perform a contract. - Answer: 563-2
ENGAGES
A person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant to the provisions of the appropriate article
of this chapter. - Answer: 563-2 LICENSEE