Suffolk County Home Improvement License Exam 2025/2026 | Verified Questions & Correct Answers | Complete Study Guide | Graded A+

Terms in this set (75) 563-1 Legislative Findings 563-1 Legislative Findings 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 Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other calling for hire 563-2 Commissioner or Director The Commissioner of the Department of 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, 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 15/10/2025, 15:53 Suffolk County Home Improvement License 2/ 13 estimate or invoice, in the extension of consumer credit, or in the collection of consumer debts. 563-2 Department or Office The Department of Consumer Affairs 563-2 Engages The undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or agreement to perform a contract. 563-2 Licensee A person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant to the provisions of the appropriate article of this chapter. 563-2 Person 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 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. 15/10/2025, 15:53 Suffolk County Home Improvement License 3/ 13 563-2 Unconscionable Trade Practice 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 License Required 563-3 License Required 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 Exempt employees and operations 563-4 Exempt employees and operations 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 Application procedure: information required; qualifications; issuance of license. 563-5 Application procedure: information required; qualifications; issuance of license. all applications for licenses shall be submitted in writing on forms furnished by the Office and shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee. License application shall be filed by an actual owner or partner of a business and shall be signed under oath. Applications shall include the residence address of applicant. Office shall issue a license or temporary license