45 CFR § 503.20 - Definitions.

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title: "45 CFR § 503.20 - Definitions."
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# 503.20 Definitions.

For purposes of this part: *Closed meeting* and *closed portion of a meeting* mean, respectively, a meeting or that part of a meeting designated as provided in § 503.27 as closed to the public by reason of one or more of the closure provisions listed in § 503.24.

*Commission* means the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, which is a collegial body that functions as a unit composed of three individual members, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.

*Meeting* means the deliberations of at least two (quorum) members of the Commission where such deliberations determine or result in joint conduct or disposition of official Commission business.

*Member* means any one of the three members of the Commission.

*Open meeting* means a meeting or portion of a meeting which is not a closed meeting or a closed portion of a meeting.

*Public observation* means the right of any member of the public to attend and observe, but not participate or interfere in any way, in an open meeting of the Commission within the limits of reasonable and comfortable accommodations made available for such purpose by the Commission.