Guest janettemoore1 Posted November 11, 2014 at 08:57 PM Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 at 08:57 PM Please help I can not find my answer. Can a President of a non-profit league, in Texas give written notice to the Board that she is resigning in January for the Elections, and then at General meeting tell the members she is resigning cause of personal issues. Can she 2 weeks later say she changed her mind since no one accepted her resignation. I did not know we had to accept it if she told the whole town and board. What can we do on this situation? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Ed Posted November 11, 2014 at 09:20 PM Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 at 09:20 PM She can give any reason she chooses for resigning, but a resignation does not take effect until the group with the power to accept resignations has formally accepted the resignation. As such, if the resignation has not been accepted, then it can be withdrawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Guest Posted November 11, 2014 at 09:26 PM Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 at 09:26 PM I did not know we had to accept it if she told the whole town and board. RONR says that a resignation is a request to be excused from a duty. Such a request could be denied (though it rarely makes sense to do so). In any case, as noted, until it's been formally accepted (or otherwise acted upon), it can be withdrawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Goldsworthy Posted November 12, 2014 at 12:30 AM Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 at 12:30 AM Can a President of a non-profit league, in Texas give written notice to the Board that she is resigning in January for the Elections, and then at General meeting tell the members she is resigning cause of personal issues?Can she 2 weeks later say she changed her mind since no one accepted her resignation? Review the time line.* Today is the month of November of 2014.* Your president is resigning as of January 2015.* That is a buffer of two (2) months. -- 60 days. Since your P never left office (i.e., since January 2015 has not yet arrived), then the P is still P. If the resignation had taken effect, then we would have having a different conversation. I see nothing wrong with withdrawing a resignation where no loss-of-office had occurred. Please review the defined term of office for the office of president, per your bylaws.If you do not have a way of truncating the term of office early, then the P will remain in office. A resignation is a voluntary act by two parties.If one side is unwilling, then it isn't a resignation, but an expulsion, or something other than a "request to be excused from a duty" (Robert's Rules of Order's terminology). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Brown Posted November 12, 2014 at 03:32 AM Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 at 03:32 AM Edgar Guest and Rev. Ed are correct when they say that according to RONR, a resignation is not effective until it is accepted by the appropriate body.... usually the general membership unless there is a board which is authorized to accept resignations. However, some bylaws provide that a resignation is effective upon receipt by a certain officer, usually the president or the secretary. Check your bylaws for such a provision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ShannonO Posted November 12, 2014 at 07:58 PM Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 at 07:58 PM Similar question - we are having a lot of drama in our small club and several of the newly elected officers already want to resign. Our bylaws do not have any provision regarding resignation - only on how to appoint in the event of a vacancy. So if the bylaws do not specify how a resignation takes place, am I reading above correctly that the membership needs to accept the resignation of an officer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Guest Posted November 12, 2014 at 08:38 PM Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 at 08:38 PM So if the bylaws do not specify how a resignation takes place, am I reading above correctly that the membership needs to accept the resignation of an officer? The person or body authorized to fill the vacancy would (usually) be the person or body authorized to accept (or, rarely, reject) the resignation. That could be the president, the board, or the general membership. For future reference, this forum works best if you'll post new questions as a new topic, even if you find an existing topic that's similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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