Suffolk County Law Regarding Licensed Occupations Home Improvement Test Study Guide Questions & Answers
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Suffolk County Law Regarding
563-1 Legislative Findings: - ANSWERThe 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 ...
Suffolk County Law Regarding Licensed
Occupations Home Improvement Test
Study Guide Questions & Answers
563-1 Legislative Findings: - ANSWERThe 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 - ANSWERIncludes occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other
calling for hire.
563-2 COMISSIONER or DIRECTOR - ANSWERThe Commissioner of the Department
of Labor, Licensing and Consumer Affairs.
563-2 CONSUMER - ANSWERAn 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 - ANSWERThose
which are primarily for personal, household or family purposes.
563-2 CONTRACT - ANSWERAn 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 - ANSWERAny 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 - ANSWERThe Department of Labor, Licensing and
Consumer Affairs.
563-2 ENGAGES - ANSWERThe undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or
agreement to perform a contract.
563-2 LICENSEE - ANSWERA person permitted to engage in a business licensed
pursuant to the provisions of the appropriate article of this chapter.
, 563-2 PERSON - ANSWERIncludes 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 - ANSWERA 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 - ANSWERAny act or practice which
unfairly takes advantage of the lack of knowledge, ability, experience, or capacity of the
consumer
563-3 LICENSE REQUIRED - ANSWERIt 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 - ANSWERA. 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. -
ANSWERAll applications for licenses shall be submitted in writing on forms furnished by
the Office and shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee in the amount
set forth in the appropriate article of this chapter.
563-6
Term of licenses; renewal; conditions; display required. - ANSWERAll licenses, except
temporary licenses, shall be for a period of two years from the date of issuance thereof
at the discretion of the Office and shall expire on the last day of the 24th month of such
issuance. Subsequent renewals shall be for periods of two years.
563-7 Duplicate and supplementary licenses; fees - ANSWERA duplicate license may
be issued for a license which has been lost, destroyed or mutilated, upon application
therefor on a form prescribed by the Director and the payment of a fee of $25. Each
such duplicate license shall have the word "duplicate" stamped across the face thereof
and shall bear the same number as the one it replaces.
563-8 Effect on validity of contracts. - ANSWERA contract entered into after one year
after the effective date of the appropriate article of this chapter by a person who
engages in a business regulated by this chapter, who on the date of the contract does
not possess a valid license to engage in such business, is unenforceable by him and
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