[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR715.202]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
          CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED)
 
PART 715_NONDISCIPLINARY SEPARATIONS, DEMOTIONS, AND FURLOUGHS--Table of 
 
                     Subpart B_Voluntary Separations
 
Sec.  715.202  Resignation.

    (a) General. An employee is free to resign at any time, to set the 
effective date of his resignation, and to have his reasons for resigning 
entered in his official records.
    (b) Withdrawal of resignation. An agency may permit an employee to 
withdraw his resignation at any time before it has become effective. An 
agency may decline a request to withdraw a resignation before its 
effective date only when the agency has a valid reason and explains that 
reason to the employee. A valid reason includes, but is not limited to, 
administrative disruption or the hiring or commitment to hire a 
replacement. Avoidance of adverse action proceedings is not a valid 
reason.

[33 FR 12482, Sept. 4, 1968, as amended at 36 FR 9765, May 28, 1971; 38 
FR 18446, July 11, 1973; 38 FR 26601, Sept. 24, 1973]