MSUFFOLK COUNTY LAW REGARDING
LICENSED OCCUPATIONS HOME
IMPROVEMENT TEST STUDY GUIDE
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 - 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.
563-2 PERSON - Includes the definition contained in § 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 - 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 - Any act or practice which unfairly takes advantage of the
lack of knowledge, ability, experience, or capacity of the consumer
563-3 LICENSE REQUIRED - 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.
563-4 EXEMPT EMPLOYEES - A. Employees of any federal, state or local government, or any agencies
thereof, or of a state or local authority.
B. Employees of and on behalf of any gas or electric corporation, waterworks corporation or telegraph
and telephone corporation
C. Maintenance work by bona fide employees in an industrial, commercial, institutional or other such
establishment within the building or property
563-5 Application procedure; information required; qualifications; issuance of license. - All applications
for licenses shall be submitted in writing on forms furnished by the Office and shall be accompanied by a
nonrefundable application fee in the amount set forth in the appropriate article of this chapter.
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LICENSED OCCUPATIONS HOME
IMPROVEMENT TEST STUDY GUIDE
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 - 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.
563-2 PERSON - Includes the definition contained in § 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 - 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 - Any act or practice which unfairly takes advantage of the
lack of knowledge, ability, experience, or capacity of the consumer
563-3 LICENSE REQUIRED - 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.
563-4 EXEMPT EMPLOYEES - A. Employees of any federal, state or local government, or any agencies
thereof, or of a state or local authority.
B. Employees of and on behalf of any gas or electric corporation, waterworks corporation or telegraph
and telephone corporation
C. Maintenance work by bona fide employees in an industrial, commercial, institutional or other such
establishment within the building or property
563-5 Application procedure; information required; qualifications; issuance of license. - All applications
for licenses shall be submitted in writing on forms furnished by the Office and shall be accompanied by a
nonrefundable application fee in the amount set forth in the appropriate article of this chapter.
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