The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter,
shall have the following meanings:
(1) "Governmental body" means a governmental body as
defined in Texas Government Code §552.003(1).
(2) "Request for decision" means a request for an attorney
general open records decision made by a governmental body pursuant
to Texas Government Code §552.301 and §552.309.
(3) "Requestor" means a requestor as defined in Texas
Government Code §552.003(6).
(4) "Interested third party" means any third party
who wishes to submit comments, documents, or other materials for consideration
in the attorney general's open records decision process under Texas
Government Code §552.304 or §552.305.
(5) "Attorney general's designated electronic filing
system" means the online, electronic filing system designated by the
attorney general as the system for submitting documents and other
materials to the attorney general under Texas Government Code §552.309.
(6) "Impractical" means:
(A) the responsive information is in a format the attorney
general's designated electronic filing system cannot accept at the
time of filing, and the governmental body cannot otherwise comply
with its procedural submission requirements through use of a representative
sample under Texas Government Code §552.301(e), or
(B) the responsive information is recorded on paper
or physical material that would take more than one hour of labor to
convert into an electronic format that is compatible with the attorney
general's designated electronic filing system, and the governmental
body cannot otherwise comply with its procedural submission requirements
through use of a representative sample under Texas Government Code §552.301(e).
(7) "Impossible" means:
(A) the size of the information attachment exceeds
the attorney general's designated e-filing system's capacity at time
of filing, and the governmental body cannot otherwise comply with
its procedural submission requirements through use of a representative
sample under Texas Government Code §552.301(e), or
(B) the format of the information is not compatible
the attorney general's designated e-filing system at time of filing,
cannot be converted without altering the character of the information
in a manner that would prevent proper review by the attorney general,
and the governmental body cannot otherwise comply with its procedural
submission requirements through use of a representative sample under
Texas Government Code §552.301(e), or
(C) the attorney general's designated e-filing system
is down at the time the governmental body attempts to submit the filing,
or
(D) the governmental body is experiencing a technical
outage that prevents it from e-filing at the time of the attempted
submission.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §63.21 adopted to be effective March 18, 2012, 37 TexReg 1695; amended to be effective January 26, 2017, 42 TexReg 213; amended to be effective August 13, 2024, 49 TexReg 5937 |
