Section 63.21 - DefinitionsThe 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.1 Tex. Admin. Code § 63.21
The provisions of this §63.21 adopted to be effective March 18, 2012, 37 TexReg 1695; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 42, Number 03, January 20, 2017, TexReg 213, eff. 1/26/2017; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 32, August 9, 2024, TexReg 5937, eff. 8/13/2024