411.100 Liability of city for property damaged by mob.
If, within any city, any church, convent, chapel, dwelling house, house used or designed
for the transaction of lawful business, vessel or shipyard, railroad or property of any kind
belonging to any street or other railroad company, or any article of personal property is
damaged, or if any property is taken away or damaged by any riotous or tumultuous
assemblage of people, the full amount of the damage done may be recovered by the
person injured by action against the city, if the city authorities themselves, or with the aid
of their own citizens, could have prevented the damage. However, no such liability shall
be incurred by the city unless the city authorities had notice or good reason to believe that
a riot or tumultuous assemblage was about to take place in time to prevent the
destruction, either by their own force or by the aid of the citizens of the city. No person
may maintain an action under this section if he has unlawfully contributed by word or
deed toward exciting or inflaming the tumult or riot, or if he failed to do what he
reasonably could toward preventing, allaying or suppressing it.
Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky.
Stat. sec. 8.
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