---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 715.202"
title: "5"
number: "715.202"
heading: "Resignation."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/715.202"
---

# §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.

## Notes

### Amendments

[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]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 1302, 3301, 3302, 7301; E.O. 10577, 3 CFR, 1954-1958 Comp., p. 218; E.O. 11222, 3 CFR, 1964-1965 Comp., p. 306.

### Amendments

[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]