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563-1 Legislative Findings: - CORRECT ANSWER 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 ANSWER Includes occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other calling for hire. 563-2 COMISSIONER or DIRECTOR - CORRECT ANSWER The Commissioner of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Consumer Affairs. 563-2 CONSUMER - CORRECT ANSWER 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 ANSWER Those which are primarily for personal, household or family purposes. 563-2 CONTRACT - CORRECT ANSWER 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 ANSWER 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 ANSWER The Department of Labor, Licensing and Consumer Affairs. 563-2 ENGAGES - CORRECT ANSWER The undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or agreement to perform a contract. 563-2 LICENSEE - CORRECT ANSWER A person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant to the provisions of the appropriate article of this chapter. 563-2 PERSON - CORRECT ANSWER 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 ANSWER 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 ANSWER 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 ANSWER 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 ANSWER 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 ANSWER All 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