New York Amendment Number One: County and City Debt (1973)
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The New York Amendment Number One: County and City Debt, also known as Proposed Amendment No. 1, was on the ballot in New York on November 6, 1973, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The referendum allowed for the state constitution to exclude certain indebtedness at the county, city, town or village level from January 1, 1962, to January 1, 1983.[1]
Election results
| New York Proposed Amendment No. 1 (1973) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 1,720,008 | 54.87% | ||
| No | 1,414,813 | 45.13% | ||
Election results via: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| Amendment Number One: amending paragraph E, sec. 5, Art. VIII (permitting the exclusion of indebtedness contracted by a county, city, town or village after January 1, 1962 and prior to January 1, 1983 for construction or re-construction of sewage facilities in ascertaining the power of such county, city, town or village to contract indebtedness within its constitutional debt limit.)[2] |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, "Referenda and Primary Election Materials, Part 9: Referenda Elections for New York," accessed August 25, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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