SUFFOLK COUNTY HOME
IMPROVEMENT LICENSE EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
563-1 - ANS Legislative Findings
563-1 Legislative Findings - ANS 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 - ANS Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other calling for
hire
563-2 Commissioner or Director - ANS The Commissioner of the Department of Consumer
Affairs
563-2 Consumer - 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 - ANS Those which are primarily for
personal, household or family purposes.
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, 563-2 Contract - 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 - ANS 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 - ANS The Department of Consumer Affairs
563-2 Engages - ANS The undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or agreement to
perform a contract.
563-2 Licensee - ANS A person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant to the
provisions of the appropriate article of this chapter.
563-2 Person - ANS 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 - 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 - ANS 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 - ANS License Required
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IMPROVEMENT LICENSE EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
563-1 - ANS Legislative Findings
563-1 Legislative Findings - ANS 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 - ANS Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other calling for
hire
563-2 Commissioner or Director - ANS The Commissioner of the Department of Consumer
Affairs
563-2 Consumer - 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 - ANS Those which are primarily for
personal, household or family purposes.
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, 563-2 Contract - 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 - ANS 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 - ANS The Department of Consumer Affairs
563-2 Engages - ANS The undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or agreement to
perform a contract.
563-2 Licensee - ANS A person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant to the
provisions of the appropriate article of this chapter.
563-2 Person - ANS 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 - 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 - ANS 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 - ANS License Required
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