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