Suffolk County Law Regarding Licensed
Occupations Home Improvement Test Study
Guide Questions with Detailed Verified Answers
for Accuracy
563-1 Legislative Findings:
✓✓ 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.
563-2 Business
✓✓ Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other
calling for hire.
563-2 COMISSIONER or DIRECTOR
✓✓ The Commissioner of the Department of Labor, Licensing
and Consumer Affairs.
563-2 CONSUMER
✓✓ 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
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
✓✓ Those which are primarily for personal, household or
family purposes.
563-2 CONTRACT
✓✓ 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
✓✓ 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 DEPARTMENT or OFFICE
✓✓ The Department of Labor, Licensing and Consumer Affairs.
563-2 ENGAGES
✓✓ The undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or
agreement to perform a contract.
563-2 LICENSEE
✓✓ A person permitted to engage in a business licensed
pursuant to the provisions of the appropriate article of this
chapter.