The following persons may refuse an honorary office:
1. members of the Federal Government or of a Land Government,
2. members of the European Parliament, the German Bundestag or a Landtag,
3. persons eligible to vote who will have reached the age of sixty-five by election day,
4. persons eligible to vote who substantiate that care of their family is a particular impedi-ment to carrying out the functions of the office,
5. persons eligible to vote who substantiate that they are prevented from carrying out the functions of the office properly on urgent professional grounds or by illness or infirmity or on other substantial grounds.
