The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

1. (1) Act--The Texas Unemployment Compensation Act, Texas Labor Code Annotated, Title 4, Subtitle A, as amended.
2. (2) Additional claim--A notice of new unemployment filed at the beginning of a second or subsequent series of claims within a benefit year or within a period of eligibility when a break of one week or more has occurred in the claim series with intervening employment. The employer named on an additional claim will have 14 days from the date notice of the claim is mailed to reply to the notice. The additional claim reopens a claim series and is not a payable claim since it is not a claim for seven days of compensable unemployment.
3. (3) Base period with respect to an individual--The first four consecutive completed calendar quarters within the last five completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of such individual's benefit year.
4. (4) Benefit period--The period of seven consecutive calendar days, ending at midnight on Saturday, with respect to which entitlement to benefits is claimed, measured, computed, or determined.
5. (5) Commission--The Texas Workforce Commission.
6. (6) Day--A calendar day.
7. (7) Landman--An individual who is qualified to do field work in the purchasing of right-of-way and leases of mineral interests, record searches, and related real property title determinations, and who is primarily engaged in performing such field work.
8. (8) Reopened claim--The first claim filed following a break in claim series during a benefit year which was caused by other than intervening employment, i.e., illness, disqualification, unavailability, or failure to report for any reason other than job attachment. The reopened claim reopens a claim series and is not a payable claim since it is not a claim for seven days of compensable unemployment.
9. (9) Week--A period of seven consecutive calendar days ending at midnight on Saturday.

Source Note:The provisions of this §815.1 adopted to be effective July 27, 1982, 7 TexReg 2630; amended February 10, 1983, 8 TexReg 332; amended to be effective January 7, 1988, 13 TexReg 4917; amended to be effective November 1, 1993, 18 TexReg 7298; transferred effective June 1, 1996, as published in the Texas Register June 18, 1996, 21 TexReg 5606; amended to be effective October 6, 1998, 23 TexReg 10049.