---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 1612.2"
title: "29"
number: "1612.2"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/1612.2"
---

# §1612.2. Definitions.


The following definitions apply for purposes of this part:

- (a) The term agency means the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and any subdivision thereof authorized to act on its behalf.
- (b) The term meeting means the deliberations of at least three of the members of the agency, which is a quorum of Commissioners, where such deliberations determine or result in the joint conduct or disposition of official agency business (including conference calls), but does not include:
  - (1) Individual members' consideration of official agency business circulated to the members in writing for disposition by notation or other separate, sequential consideration of Commission business by Commissioners,
  - (2) Deliberations to decide whether a meeting or portion(s) of a meeting or series of meetings should be open or closed.
  - (3) Deliberations to decide whether to withhold from disclosure information pertaining to a meeting or portions of a meeting or a series of meetings, or
  - (4) Deliberations pertaining to any change in any meeting or to changes in the public announcement of such meeting.
- (c) The term member means each Commissioner of the agency.
- (d) The term entire membership means the number of members holding office at the time of the meeting in question.
- (e) The term person means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or public or private organization.
- (f) The term public observation means attendance at any meeting open to the public but does not include participation, or attempted participation, in such meeting in any manner.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552b, sec. 713, 78 Stat. 265; 42 U.S.C. 2000e-12.

### Source

Source: 42 FR 13830, Mar. 14, 1977, unless otherwise noted.