Cr Shields has resigned, effective noon on Thursday.

Dubbo Regional Council interim chief executive officer Dean Frost confirmed the election on Monday afternoon.

"Interim acting mayoral arrangements will take immediate effect [from the mayor's resignation], with councillors to elect a new mayor at an extraordinary meeting on Thursday, June 3, at 1pm," he said.

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Cr Shields said he would be "long gone" by the time the meeting is held and had no plans to attend.

The mayor announced his resignation on Monday after 22 years on council.

He told the Daily Liberal he no longer had the strength to battle against the "ridiculous" accusations against him.

"Most Dubbo people can see how ridiculous they are but I can't fight them back," Cr Shields said.

"In previous years as a councillor or even as a mayor a lot of this would be water off a duck's back. I've had code of conduct complaints in the past and I've lived through it but this time I can't do it."

Cr Shields said his parents now look "10 years older" and he had to ask himself if the job was "almost worth dying for".

"I've got this significant mental illness which almost killed me," Cr Shields said.

He said he would be taking a long time off and was "too sick" to even contemplate running again in September.

"I really don't know what I'm going to do tonight or over the next couple of months really. I've never had a situation in my life before where I have nothing to do," Cr Shields said.

"I know nothing but local government in my life. I've lived it ever since I left school.

"It's interesting, John Howard once said all political careers end in tears. And mine is certainly one of them."

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