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New York Acts of a Sheriff, Proposal 1 (1989)
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The New York Acts of a Sheriff, Proposal 1, also known as Proposal 1, was on the 1989 ballot in New York as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved.
The measure proposed amending Section 13, Article 13 of the state Constitution. The measure was "in relation to making a county responsible and liable for the acts of its sheriff."[1]
Election results
| New York Proposal 1 (1989) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 1,551,559 | 67.07% | ||
| No | 761,841 | 32.93% | ||
Election results via: New York Board of Elections
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- ↑ Information obtained by email from John Conklin, the Director of Public Information and Records Access Officer at the New York Board of Elections
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