Home Improvement Test with correct answers 100% 2025

Home Improvement Test with correct answers 100% 2025 563-1 Legislative Findings - Correct Answers The county. legislature hereby finds and determines the health, safety and general welfare of the consumers of Suffolk County will be enyanced if provision is made for the licensing of persons engaged in the occupations regulated by this chapter Business - Correct Answers Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other calling for hire commissioner or director - Correct Answers The Commissioner of the Department of Consumer Affairs Consumer - Correct Answers an individual who buys or leases or agrees to buy or lease consumer goods or services or credit including a co guarantor or surety consumer goods, services, credits and debts - Correct Answers Those which are primarily for personal, household or family purposes contract - Correct Answers an oral or written agreement contained one or more documents for the performance of work and includes all labor, goods and services Deceptive trade practices - Correct Answers 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. Department or Office - Correct Answers The department of consumer affairs engages - Correct Answers the undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or agreement to perform a contract licensee - Correct Answers a person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant to the provisions of the appropriate article of this chapter person - Correct Answers includes the defiition contained in 37 of the general construction law of the state of new york as well as an individual partnership or other entity temporary license - Correct Answers a license issue 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 unconscionable trade practice - Correct Answers 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. This shall include acts or practices which unfairly take advantage of sudden disaster such as hurricanes tornadoes flooding blizzards explosions airplan ecrashes earthquakes nuclear war radiological emergencies war civil unrest or disobedience or acts of god and comparable acts whichh result in gross disparity between the value received by a consumer and the price ordinarily paid by the consumer in hte absence of one of these above occurences. The existences of such a disaster shall be established for the purposes of this chapter by a written declaration by either the county executive or a majority of the entire membership of the county legislature. the director shall initiate investigation of such unconscionable trade practices immediately after any one of the natural disasters or other acts of god described above 563-3 LICENSE REQUIRED - Correct Answers a. 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 b. a license issued pursuant to this chapter may not be construed to authorize the licensee to perform any work or engage in any business which is reseerved to qualified licensees under separate provisions of state or local law or subsequent articles of this chapter 563-4 exempt employees and operations - Correct Answers a. federal, state or local government employees. does not apply to an individual working on behalf of or pursuant to an agreement with these b. gas, electric, waterwork, telegraph and telephphone corporation does not apply to an individual working on behalf of or pursuant to an agreement with these c. 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 application procedure - Correct Answers a. all apps submitted in writing with nonrefundable app fee b. the license shall be filed by an actual owner or partner of a business and shall be signed under oath. where a corporation is an applicant, shall be signed under oath by an officer c. residential address of the individual applying d. may require names and residence of employees and officers of the paplicant in addition to any other info e. 18+, good character, financially responsible maintained f. director shall investigate good cahracter before license is given g. applicant shall meet further qualifications further described h. office shall issue a license or temp license to each applicant who has submitted satisfactory evidence of qual and has complied with requirements i. no outstanding judgement of child support j. shall include a federal tax id or ny state sale tax i.d k. need to prove i am in compliance with 8 usc 1324a with respect to hiring employees. if broken during, fine, suspension or revocation or denial of app for renewal l. prove making all payroll tax payments for employees including SS, medicarem state and federal unemployemnet. if broken during, fine, suspension or revocation or denial of app for renewal 536-6 license renewal - Correct Answers a. 2 years from the date of issuance and shall expire on the last day of the 24 month of such issuance. rennewals shall be for periods of two years b. no license shall be assignable or transferable c. failure to make application and pay fee for licnese renewal prior to the expiratino date of said license shall render the license null and void on expiration, open to to lenewal if not suspended or revoked d. if individual enlists in the armed forces, licnese shall continue in force after the date of his entrance until 6 months after the date of termination of his first enlisthment. if no renewal, it shall terminate without notice e. the death of the individual terminates the license f. may be transferred fo rremainder of the licensed period to a partnership corportation or other entity provided that the individual holding owns more than 25% of voting shares or more than 25% interest in any other entity at have evidence and with 25$ fee g. post licenses visibly h. need to within 7 business day of a change of control of ownerhsip or management apply for the assignment or transfer, wiull be void otherwise. like f i. no licnesee shall permit the use of a licnese on his behalf j. must notify of change of address or trade name k, license can work for mane one entity in the same business with the issuance of a supp license provided they hold more than 50% interest in each entity. must submit evidence l. can shelf lcinese for up to 3 years. each shelfing is up to the board and will need reapp every cycle with 509$ fee 563-7 duplicate and supplementary licneses - Correct Answers a. can replace lost destoryed or mutilated licnese for 25$ will say duplicate b. each supp license has 50$ annual fee and will say supplementary 563-8 effect on validity of contracts - Correct Answers a contract is void if the contract was signed before the license was issued 563-9 Civil Penalties - Correct Answers 1. has power to impose civil penalty not to exceed 750 for first violation and 1500 for any subsequent violation or to suspend or revoke or deny an app or renewal a. fraud, deceit, bribery in securing or attmpeting to secure a license b. making of any false statement in an app c. violation of any provision d. violation of any provision of county law related to consumers e. engaging in prohibited acts f. conducting business wihtout a valid license g. failing ot maintain good cahracter standing h. failing ot maintain good financial standing 2. power to suspend revoke etc if they have dumped or littered 3. civil penalyty only happen after a hearing with 7 business day warning, can have lawyer witnesses may take oaths etc 563-10 Prohibited Acts - Correct Answers a. abandonement of contract engaged b. willful deviation from contract specifications without consent c. being deceitful in procurement of a contract or of work estmate or invoice or in collection of debt d. lying on advertising ftc cant be false e. advertising one contract with the intent not to accpet f. conducting business with a different name than the license g. 563-6H and J H. can't bribe them to take the contract I. not obeying director or office of local authority having jur