Suffolk County Home Improvement
License EXAM with 100% correct
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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.
563-2 Person - 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 - 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 - 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 - answer License Required
563-3 License Required - 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 - answer Exempt employees and operations
563-4 Exempt employees and operations - 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.
563-5 - answer Application procedure: information required; qualifications; issuance of license.
License EXAM with 100% correct
answers already graded A+ 2024
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.
563-2 Person - 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 - 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 - 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 - answer License Required
563-3 License Required - 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 - answer Exempt employees and operations
563-4 Exempt employees and operations - 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.
563-5 - answer Application procedure: information required; qualifications; issuance of license.
