[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 3]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR702.51]



[Page 277-278]

 

                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

                 CHAPTER VII--COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

 

PART 702_RULES ON HEARINGS, REPORTS, AND MEETINGS OF THE COMMISSION

--Table of Contents

 

                           Subpart B_Meetings

 

Sec. 702.51  Definitions.



    (a) Commission means the United States Commission on Civil Rights 

and any subcommittee of the Commission authorized under the United 

States Commission on Civil Rights Act of 1983, 97 Stat. 1301, as amended 

by the Civil Rights Commission Amendments Act of 1994, 108 Stat. 4339. 

The statutes are codified in 42 U.S.C. 1975 through 1975d.

    (b) Commissioner means a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil 

Rights appointed by the President, the President pro tempore of the 

Senate, or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as provided in 

42 U.S.C. 1975.

    (c) Meeting means the deliberations of at least the number of 

Commissioners required to take action on behalf of the Commission where 

such deliberations determine or result in the joint conduct or 

disposition of official Commission business.

    (1) The number of Commissioners required to take action on behalf of 

the Commission is four, except that such number is two when the 

Commissioners are a subcommittee of the Commission authorized under 42 

U.S.C. 1975a(e)(1).

    (2) Deliberations among Commissioners regarding the setting of the 

time, location, or subject matter of a meeting, whether the meeting is 

open or closed, whether to withhold information discussed at a closed 

meeting,



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and any other deliberations required or permitted by 5 U.S.C. 552b (d) 

and (e) and Sec. 702.54 and Sec. 702.55 of this subpart, are not 

meetings for the purposes of this subpart.

    (3) The consideration by Commissioners of Commission business that 

is not discussed through conference calls or a series of two party calls 

by the number of Commissioners required to take action on behalf of the 

Commission is not a meeting for the purposes of this subpart.

    (d) Public announcement or publicly announce means the use of 

reasonable methods, such as the posting on the Commission's website or 

public notice bulletin boards and the issuing of press releases, to 

communicate information to the public regarding Commission meetings.

    (e) Staff Director means the Staff Director of the Commission.