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Improvement License
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563-1 - Correct Answer: Legislative Findings
563-1 Legislative Findings - Correct 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 - Correct Answer: Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other
calling for hire
563-2 Commissioner or Director - Correct Answer: The Commissioner of the Department of
Consumer Affairs
563-2 Consumer - Correct 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 - Correct Answer: Those which are primarily
for personal, household or family purposes.
563-2 Contract - Correct 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 - Correct 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 - Correct Answer: The Department of Consumer Affairs
563-2 Engages - Correct Answer: The undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or
agreement to perform a contract.
563-2 Licensee - Correct Answer: A person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant
to the provisions of the appropriate article of this chapter.
563-2 Person - Correct 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 - Correct 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 - Correct 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 - Correct Answer: License Required
Improvement License
Questions with Verified
Answers Graded A+
563-1 - Correct Answer: Legislative Findings
563-1 Legislative Findings - Correct 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 - Correct Answer: Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other
calling for hire
563-2 Commissioner or Director - Correct Answer: The Commissioner of the Department of
Consumer Affairs
563-2 Consumer - Correct 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 - Correct Answer: Those which are primarily
for personal, household or family purposes.
563-2 Contract - Correct 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 - Correct 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 - Correct Answer: The Department of Consumer Affairs
563-2 Engages - Correct Answer: The undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or
agreement to perform a contract.
563-2 Licensee - Correct Answer: A person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant
to the provisions of the appropriate article of this chapter.
563-2 Person - Correct 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 - Correct 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 - Correct 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 - Correct Answer: License Required
