health, safety and general welfare of the consumers of Suffolk County will be enyanced if provision is
made for the licensing of persons engaged in the occupations regulated by this chapter
Business - Correct Answers Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other calling for hire
commissioner or director - Correct Answers The Commissioner of the Department of Consumer Affairs
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
consumer goods, services, credits and debts - Correct Answers Those which are primarily for personal,
household or family purposes
contract - Correct Answers an oral or written agreement contained one or more documents for the
performance of work and includes all labor, goods and services
Deceptive trade practices - Correct Answers 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.
Department or Office - Correct Answers The department of consumer affairs
engages - Correct Answers the undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or agreement to perform
a contract
licensee - Correct Answers a person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant to the
provisions of the appropriate article of this chapter
, person - Correct Answers includes the defiition contained in 37 of the general construction law of the
state of new york as well as an individual partnership or other entity
temporary license - Correct Answers a license issue 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
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. This shall include acts or
practices which unfairly take advantage of sudden disaster such as hurricanes tornadoes flooding
blizzards explosions airplan ecrashes earthquakes nuclear war radiological emergencies war civil unrest
or disobedience or acts of god and comparable acts whichh result in gross disparity between the value
received by a consumer and the price ordinarily paid by the consumer in hte absence of one of these
above occurences. The existences of such a disaster shall be established for the purposes of this chapter
by a written declaration by either the county executive or a majority of the entire membership of the
county legislature. the director shall initiate investigation of such unconscionable trade practices
immediately after any one of the natural disasters or other acts of god described above
563-3 LICENSE REQUIRED - Correct Answers a. 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
b. a license issued pursuant to this chapter may not be construed to authorize the licensee to perform
any work or engage in any business which is reseerved to qualified licensees under separate provisions
of state or local law or subsequent articles of this chapter
563-4 exempt employees and operations - Correct Answers a. federal, state or local government
employees. does not apply to an individual working on behalf of or pursuant to an agreement with these
b. gas, electric, waterwork, telegraph and telephphone corporation does not apply to an individual
working on behalf of or pursuant to an agreement with these
c. 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 application procedure - Correct Answers a. all apps submitted in writing with nonrefundable app
fee