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
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
✓✓
✓✓ 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.