[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 16, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
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[CITE: 16CFR1115.3]

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                     TITLE 16--COMMERCIAL PRACTICES
 
             CHAPTER II--CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
 
PART 1115--SUBSTANTIAL PRODUCT HAZARD REPORTS--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart A--General Interpretation
 
Sec. 1115.3  Definitions.

    In addition to the definitions given in section 3 of the CPSA (15 
U.S.C. 2052), the following definitions apply:
    (a) Adequately informed under section 15(b) of the CPSA means that 
the Commission staff has received the information requested under 
Secs. 1115.12 and/or 1115.13 of this part insofar as it is reasonably 
available and applicable or that the staff has informed the subject firm 
that the staff is adequately informed.
    (b) Commission meeting means the joint deliberations of at least a 
majority of the Commission where such deliberations determine or result 
in the conduct or disposition of official Commission business. This term 
is synonymous with ``Commission meeting'' as defined in the Commission's 
regulation issued under the Government in the Sunshine Act, 16 CFR part 
1012.
    (c) Noncompliance means the failure of a consumer product to comply 
with an applicable consumer product safety rule or with a voluntary 
consumer product safety standard upon which the Commission has relied 
under section 9 of the CPSA.
    (d) A person means a corporation, company, association, firm, 
partnership, society, joint stock company, or individual.
    (e) Staff means the staff of the Consumer Product Safety Commission 
unless otherwise stated.
    (f) Subject firm means any manufacturer (including an importer), 
distributor, or retailer of a consumer product.

[43 FR 34998, Aug. 7, 1978, as amended at 57 FR 34227, Aug. 4, 1992]