[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR1632.2]

[Page 243]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
         CHAPTER VI--FEDERAL RETIREMENT THRIFT INVESTMENT BOARD
 
PART 1632_RULES REGARDING PUBLIC OBSERVATION OF MEETINGS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1632.2  Definitions.

    For purposes of this part, the following definitions shall apply:
    (a) The term Act means the Government in the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 
552b.
    (b) The term Board means the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment 
Board and subdivisions thereof.
    (c) The term meeting means the deliberations of at least the number 
of individual agency members required to take action on behalf of the 
Board where such deliberations determine or result in the joint conduct 
or disposition of official Board business. However, this term does not 
include--
    (1) Deliberations required or permitted by subsection (d) or (e) of 
the Act (relating to decisions to close all or a portion of a meeting, 
or to decisions on the timing or content of an announcement of a 
meeting), or
    (2) The conduct or disposition of official agency business by 
circulating written material to individual members.
    (d) The term number of individual agency members required to take 
action on behalf of the agency means three members.
    (e) The term member means a member of the Board appointed under 
section 101 of the Federal Employees' Retirement System Act of 1986, 5 
U.S.C. 8472.
    (f) The term public observation means that the public shall have the 
right to listen and observe but not the right to participate in the 
meeting or to record any of the meeting by means of cameras or 
electronic or other recording devices unless approval in advance is 
obtained from the Secretary of the Board.

[[Page 244]]