Once accepted by BOD, can a resignation be rescinded a week later?

[Guest 1234]

A board member submitted her resignation and it was accepted. A week later has decided that she would like to continue to be on the board. Can she simply be reinstated ? or does the process need to follow a different process?

[Guest Edgar]

You can't really "rescind" the acceptance of a resignation (it would be like trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube), but there's nothing in RONR to prevent the person who resigned from being elected (or appointed if that's an option) to the same position she just vacated. But she'd have no automatic "right" to return (i.e. no more than any other eligible person).

[Steven Britton]

A board member submitted her resignation and it was accepted. A week later has decided that she would like to continue to be on the board. Can she simply be reinstated ? or does the process need to follow a different process?

It depends on if your definition of "accepted" is consistent with Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised.

If I offer my written resignation outsided or during a meeting, or I offer a verbal resignation during a meeting, and the assembly takes action to accept it, then yes it's accepted.

If before the assembly acts I withdraw my resignation, then there no longer is anything to accept.