Substantial participation definition

Substantial participation means that the employee's involvement must be of significance to the matter or create a reasonable appearance of such significance. Sofaer, 728 A.2d at 643. A single act of approving or participating in a critical step may be substantial if the act is of significance to the matter. Id. at 643. This requires more than official responsibility, knowledge, perfunctory involvement, or involvement in only administrative or peripheral issues. Id. at 643.
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Substantial participation means active participation in actual production of the product for at least one-third of the production time, for "most" of the Market season for indirectly produced products and for "much" of the Market season for directly produced products.
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Related to Substantial participation

  • Material Participation means involvement in the development and operation of the project on a basis which is regular, continuous, and substantial as defined in Code Section 42 and 469(h) of the regulations promulgated hereunder.

  • L/C Participation shall have the meaning provided in Section 3.3(a).

  • Active participation means an ongoing process of good faith negotiation between the state licensing agency and the Indiana elected committee of licensed managers to achieve joint planning of:

  • Direct Loan Participation means a Loan in respect of which, pursuant to a participation agreement, the Issuer is capable of creating, or procuring the creation of, a contractual right in favour of a notional protection seller that provides such notional seller with recourse to the participation seller for a specified share in any payments due under the relevant Loan which are received by such participation seller, any such agreement to be entered into between (i) such notional seller and (ii) either (A) the Issuer (to the extent the Issuer was then a lender or a member of the relevant lending syndicate), or (B) a Qualifying Participation Seller (if any) (to the extent such Qualifying Participation Seller is then a lender or a member of the relevant lending syndicate);

  • Unit Participation means the ratio of the surface acreage of a specific tract in the unit area to the total surface acreage of the unit area as that total surface acreage is specified in paragraph one of the Plan for Unit Operations of this order.