On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:21 PM, omd <c.ome...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Geoffrey Spear <geoffsp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> But being able to arbitrarily resign any office is just too much. >> >> I agree, although I don't think that actually worked anyway. > > Yes, it does, as ais523 pointe out to me. > > The holder of an elected office CAN resign it by announcement, > causing it to become vacant. > > Although the ordinary language definition of "resign" is something > along the lines of "cease to be the holder of the office", that > paragraph clearly defines "resign" as an action that causes an office > to become vacant, which just happens to be performable only by the > holder of the office. If anyone else did it, it would still cause the > office to become vacant.
The rule doesn't "specify" that the Assessor can resign.
