Suffolk County Home Improvement
License Exam Questions And Answers
(Verified And Well Detailed Answers)
Latest Update 2025/2026
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
563-3 License Required - CORRECT ANSWER -It is unlawful for any person, other
than exempt employees, 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 - CORRECT ANSWER -Exempt employees and operations
563-4 Exempt employees and operations - CORRECT ANSWER -1. employees of any
federal, state or local government.
2. employees of and on behalf of any gas or electric corporation, waterworks
corporation or telegraph and telephone corporation, provided that they are working on
behalf of the corporation.
3. maintenance work by bona fide employees in an industrial, commercial, institutional
or other such establishment within the building or property limits of the employer.
License Exam Questions And Answers
(Verified And Well Detailed Answers)
Latest Update 2025/2026
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
563-3 License Required - CORRECT ANSWER -It is unlawful for any person, other
than exempt employees, 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 - CORRECT ANSWER -Exempt employees and operations
563-4 Exempt employees and operations - CORRECT ANSWER -1. employees of any
federal, state or local government.
2. employees of and on behalf of any gas or electric corporation, waterworks
corporation or telegraph and telephone corporation, provided that they are working on
behalf of the corporation.
3. maintenance work by bona fide employees in an industrial, commercial, institutional
or other such establishment within the building or property limits of the employer.
