[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 7]
[Revised as of October 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR804.3]

[Page 141]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
           CHAPTER VIII--NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
 
PART 804_RULES IMPLEMENTING THE GOVERNMENT IN THE SUNSHINE ACT--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  804.3  Definitions.

    As used in this part: Meeting means the deliberations of three or 
more Members where such deliberations determine or result in the joint 
conduct or disposition of official NTSB business, and includes 
conference telephone calls otherwise coming within the definition. A 
meeting does not include:
    (a) Notation voting or similar consideration of business, whether by 
circulation of material to the Members individually in writing or by a 
polling of the Members individually by telephone.
    (b) Deliberations by three or more Members (1) to open or to close a 
meeting or to release or to withhold information pursuant to Sec.  
804.6, (2) to call a meeting on less than seven days' notice as 
permitted by Sec.  804.7(b), or (3) to change the subject matter or the 
determination to open or to close a publicly announced meeting under 
Sec.  804.8(b).
    (c) An internal session attended by three or more Members for which 
the sole purpose is to have the staff brief the Board concerning an 
accident, incident, or safety problem.
    Member means an individual duly appointed and confirmed to the 
collegial body, known as ``the Board,'' which heads the NTSB.
    National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) means the agency set up 
under the Independent Safety Board Act of 1974.

[42 FR 13284, Mar. 10, 1977, as amended at 42 FR 31794, June 23, 1977]