[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR1201.4]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
               CHAPTER II--MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD
 
PART 1201--PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart A--Jurisdiction and Definitions
 
Sec. 1201.4  General definitions.

    (a) Judge. Any person authorized by the Board to hold a hearing or 
to decide a case without a hearing, including an attorney-examiner, an 
administrative judge, an administrative law judge, the Board, or any 
member of the Board.
    (b) Pleading. Written submission setting out claims, allegations, 
arguments, or evidence. Pleadings include briefs, motions, petitions, 
attachments, and responses.
    (c) Motion. A request that a judge take a particular action.
    (d) Appropriate regional or field office. The regional or field 
office of the Board that has jurisdiction over the area where the 
appellant's duty station was located when the agency took the action. 
Appeals of Office of Personnel Management reconsideration decisions 
concerning retirement benefits, and appeals of adverse suitability 
determinations under 5 CFR part 731, must be filed with the regional or 
field office that has jurisdiction over the area where the appellant 
lives. Appendix II of these regulations lists the geographic areas over 
which each of the Board's regional and field offices has jurisdiction. 
Appeals, however, may be transferred from one regional or field office 
to another.
    (e) Party. A person, an agency, or an intervenor, who is 
participating in a Board proceeding. This term applies to the Office of 
Personnel Management and to the Office of Special Counsel when those 
organizations are participating in a Board proceeding.
    (f) Appeal. A request for review of an agency action.
    (g) Petition for review. A request for review of an initial decision 
of a judge.
    (h) Day. Calendar day.
    (i) Service. The process of furnishing a copy of any pleading to 
Board officials, other parties, or both, either by mail, by facsimile, 
by personal delivery, or by commercial overnight delivery.
    (j) Date of service. The date on which documents are served on other 
parties.
    (k) Certificate of Service. A document certifying that a party has 
served copies of pleadings on the other parties.
    (l) Date of filing. A document that is filed with a Board office by 
personal delivery is considered filed on the date on which the Board 
office receives it. The date of filing by facsimile is the date of the 
facsimile. The date of filing by mail is determined by the postmark 
date; if no legible postmark date appears on the mailing, the submission 
is presumed to have been mailed five days (excluding days on which the 
Board is closed for business) before its receipt. The date of filing by 
commercial overnight delivery is the date the document was delivered to 
the commercial overnight delivery service.

[54 FR 53504, Dec. 29, 1989, as amended at 58 FR 36345, July 7, 1993; 59 
FR 65235, Dec. 19, 1994]