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Question 1

Legislative Findings

Answer 1

The County Legislature finds and determines that the health, safety and general welfare of the consumer

Question 2

BUSINESS

Answer 2

occupation, profession, trade, craft or any other calling for hire

Question 3

COMMISSIONER or DIRECTOR

Answer 3

The Commissioner of the Department of Consumer Affairs

Question 4

CONSUMER

Answer 4

An individual who buys or leases or agrees to buy or lease consumer goods or services or credit, including a co-guarantor or surety

Question 5

CONSUMER GOODS, SERVICES, CREDIT AND DEBTS

Answer 5

are primarily for personal, household or family purposes

Question 6

CONTRACT

Answer 6

An oral or written agreement contained in one or more documents for the performance of work and includes all labor, goods and services.

Question 7

DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES

Answer 7

false, falsely disparaging or misleading oral or written statement misleading consumers or the consuming public Deceptive trade practices include but are not limited to:

Question 8

DEPARTMENT or OFFICE

Answer 8

The Department of Consumer Affairs

Question 9

ENGAGES

Answer 9

The undertaking, offering to undertake, solicitation or agreement to perform a contract.

Question 10

LICENSEE

Answer 10

A person permitted to engage in a business licensed pursuant to the provisions of the appropriate article of this chapter.

Question 11

PERSON

Answer 11

an individual, partnership or other entity

Question 12

TEMPORARY LICENSE

Answer 12

A license issued to a person for a period of time to perform work

Question 13

UNCONSCIONABLE TRADE PRACTICE

Answer 13

Any act or practice which unfairly takes advantage of the lack of knowledge, ability, experience, or capacity of the consumer

Question 14

Exempt employees and operations

Answer 14

Employees of any federal, state or local government, or of a state or local authority, Employees of and on behalf of any gas or electric corporation, waterworks corporation or telegraph and telephone corporation, provided that such employees are performing the work on behalf of a gas or electric corporation, waterworks corporation or telegraph and telephone corporation

Question 15

Person

Answer 15

natural person

Question 16

Owner

Answer 16

homeowner, co-operative shareholder owner, or residential tenant, or any person who purchases a custom home as defined in this section.

Question 17

Home improvement

Answer 17

repairing, remodeling, altering, converting, or modernizing of, or adding to, residential property

Question 18

Home improvement” shall not include:

Answer 18

• the sale or construction of a new home
• the sale or installation of appliances, such as stoves, refrigerators, freezers, room air conditioners, dishwashers, clothes washers or dryers
• the sale or installation of decorative goods or services, such as draperies and carpets; or
• the performance of repairs, replacements, or other services pursuant to an express or implied warranty, or a maintenance agreement as defined in section three hundred ninety-five-a of this chapter.

Question 19

Home improvement goods or services

Answer 19

goods and services which are bought in connection with home improvement.

Such home improvement goods and services include burglar alarms, texture coating, fencing, air conditioning, heating equipment, and any other goods which, at the time of sale or subsequently, are to be so affixed to real property by the home improvement contractor as to become a part of real property whether or not severable therefrom.

Question 20

Home improvement contractor

Answer 20

person, firm or corporation which owns or operates a home improvement business or who undertakes, offers to undertake or agrees to perform any home improvement for a fee

Question 21

Home improvement contract

Answer 21

agreement for the performance of home improvement, between a home improvement contractor and an owner

Question 22

Custom home

Answer 22

a new single family residence to be constructed on premises owned of record by the purchaser at the time of contract,

Question 23

Contract provisions

Answer 23

contract subject to the provisions by a writing and shall be signed by all the parties to the contract