Title 3 — The President
Chapter 1 — Presidential Elections and Vacancies
§ 20. Resignation or refusal of office
Statutory text
The only evidence of a refusal to accept, or of a resignation of the office of President or Vice President, shall be an instrument in writing, declaring the same, and subscribed by the person refusing to accept or resigning, as the case may be, and delivered into the office of the Secretary of State.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
The President
Pub. L. 80–644 · 62 Stat. 672
Enacted · 3 U.S.C. § 20
(June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 678.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 678.)
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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act
For protection and preservation of tape recordings of conversations involving former President Richard M. Nixon, see sections 101 to 106 of Pub. L. 93–526, set out as a note under section 2107 of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents.
Credits
(June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 678.)