§  0.601   Definitions.

   For purposes of this section:

   (a) The term agency means:

   (1) The Commission,

   (2) A board of Commissioners (see §  0.212),

   (3) The Telecommunications Committee (see §  0.215), and

   (4) Any other group of Commissioners hereafter established by the
   Commission on a continuing or ad hoc basis and authorized to act on
   behalf of the Commission.

   (b) The term meeting means the deliberations among a quorum of the
   Commission, a Board of Commissioners, or a quorum of a committee of
   Commissioners, where such deliberations determine or result in the
   joint conduct or disposition of official agency business, except that
   the term does not include deliberations to decide whether to announce a
   meeting with less than seven days notice, or whether a meeting should
   be open or closed. (The term includes conference telephone calls, but
   does not include the separate consideration of Commission business by
   Commissioners.) For purposes of this subpart each item on the agenda of
   a meeting is considered a meeting or a portion of a meeting.

   [ 42 FR 12867 , Mar. 7, 1977, as amended at  48 FR 56391 , Dec. 21, 1983;
    64 FR 2149 , Jan. 13, 1999]

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