KRS 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 perso nal 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.