§ 1105.735-3 - Definitions.

(a) Employee means an officer or employee of the National Endowment for the Arts or the National Endowment for the Humanities or a member of the shared staff of both Endowments. The term employee includes both a regular employee (as defined in this section) and a special Government employee unless expressly qualified.

(b) Regular employee means a person holding an appointment in the competitive or excepted service, occupying a position on the staff of either Endowment or the shared staff of both Endowments, without regard to assigned working schedule (that is, including full-time, part-time and intermittent schedules), but excluding all special Government employees who have not been designated as regular employees by the Chairman of either Endowment for purposes of these regulations.

(c) Full-time employee means a regular employee with an assigned full-time working schedule.

(d) Part-time employee means a regular employee with an assigned part-time (less than 40 hours a week) work schedule.

(e) Intermittent employee means a regular employee with an assigned intermittent working schedule.

(f) Shared staff and joint employees mean employees performing services for both Endowments on a shared basis.

(g) Special Government employee means a special Government employee as defined in section 202 of title 18 of the United States Code who is employed by the National Endowment for the Arts or the National Endowment for the Humanities, or by both Endowments jointly.

(h) Endowment means either the National Endowment for the Arts or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

(i) Foundation means the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities.

(j) Chairman means the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, or the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.