563-1 - Correct Answers Legislative Findings
563-1 Legislative Findings - Correct Answers 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 - Correct Answers Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other calling for
hire
563-2 Commissioner or Director - Correct Answers The Commissioner of the Department of Consumer
Affairs
563-2 Consumer - Correct Answers 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 - Correct Answers Those which are primarily for
personal, household or family purposes.
563-2 Contract - Correct Answers 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 - Correct Answers 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 - Correct Answers The Department of Consumer Affairs
563-2 Engages - Correct Answers The undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or agreement to
perform a contract.
, 563-2 Licensee - Correct Answers A person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant to the
provisions of the appropriate article of this chapter.
563-2 Person - Correct Answers 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 - Correct Answers 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 - Correct Answers 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 - Correct Answers License Required
563-3 License Required - Correct Answers 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 - Correct Answers Exempt employees and operations
563-4 Exempt employees and operations - Correct Answers 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.
563-5 - Correct Answers Application procedure: information required; qualifications; issuance of license.
563-1 Legislative Findings - Correct Answers 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 - Correct Answers Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other calling for
hire
563-2 Commissioner or Director - Correct Answers The Commissioner of the Department of Consumer
Affairs
563-2 Consumer - Correct Answers 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 - Correct Answers Those which are primarily for
personal, household or family purposes.
563-2 Contract - Correct Answers 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 - Correct Answers 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 - Correct Answers The Department of Consumer Affairs
563-2 Engages - Correct Answers The undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or agreement to
perform a contract.
, 563-2 Licensee - Correct Answers A person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant to the
provisions of the appropriate article of this chapter.
563-2 Person - Correct Answers 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 - Correct Answers 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 - Correct Answers 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 - Correct Answers License Required
563-3 License Required - Correct Answers 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 - Correct Answers Exempt employees and operations
563-4 Exempt employees and operations - Correct Answers 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.
563-5 - Correct Answers Application procedure: information required; qualifications; issuance of license.
