Suffolk County Law Regarding Licensed Occupations
Home Improvement Test Study Guide – Q&A
563-1 Legislative Findings: Correct Ans - 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 Correct Ans - Includes occupation, profession, trade,
craft or any other calling for hire.
563-2 COMISSIONER or DIRECTOR Correct Ans - The Commissioner of
the Department of Labor, Licensing and Consumer Affairs.
563-2 CONSUMER Correct Ans - 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 Ans -
Those which are primarily for personal, household or family purposes.
563-2 CONTRACT Correct Ans - 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 Ans - 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.
563-2 DEPARTMENT or OFFICE Correct Ans - The Department of
Labor, Licensing and Consumer Affairs.
, 563-2 ENGAGES Correct Ans - The undertaking, offering to undertake,
solicitation or agreement to perform a contract.
563-2 LICENSEE Correct Ans - A person permitted to engage in a
business licensed pursuant to the provisions of the appropriate article of this
chapter.
563-2 PERSON Correct Ans - Includes the definition contained in § 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 Ans - 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 Ans - Any act or
practice which unfairly takes advantage of the lack of knowledge, ability,
experience, or capacity of the consumer
563-3 LICENSE REQUIRED Correct Ans - 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.
563-4 EXEMPT EMPLOYEES Correct Ans - A. Employees of any federal,
state or local government, or any agencies thereof, or of a state or local
authority.
B. Employees of and on behalf of any gas or electric corporation, waterworks
corporation or telegraph and telephone corporation
C. Maintenance work by bona fide employees in an industrial, commercial,
institutional or other such establishment within the building or property
563-5 Application procedure; information required; qualifications; issuance of
license. Correct Ans - All applications for licenses shall be submitted in
writing on forms furnished by the Office and shall be accompanied by a
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