Kentucky Revised Statutes

Ky. Rev. Stat. § 411.100 (2026)

Liability of city for property damaged by mob

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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.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 4 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1964–2024 · leading case: Haney v. City of Lexington, 386 S.W.2d 738 (Ky. Ct. App. 1964).

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Haney v. City of Lexington, 386 S.W.2d 738 (Ky. Ct. App. 1964). · cites it 2× “KRS 411.100.) We will not trace the history of the attempt of the courts to lessen the severity of the rule of municipal immunity.”

JJ Wig Shop, LLC v. louisville/jefferson Cnty. Metro Gov't (Ky. Ct. App. 2024). · cites it 10× “However, the Shop argued that Louisville Metro could not claim sovereign immunity as a defense because it was a “city” under KRS 411.100, which waives sovereign immunity for cities.”

Dukes v. City of Louisville, 415 S.W.2d 110 (Ky. Ct. App. 1967). “The plaintiff through her attorney gave to the city the notice required by KRS 411.100, the pertinent portion of which was as follows : “She was caused to sustain these injuries on the 26th of September, 1962, at or about the hour of 12:40 P.”

City of Louisville v. Habeeb, 556 S.W.2d 665 (Ky. 1977). · cites it 3× “Their action was predicated upon the provisions of KRS 411.100 which provides: “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…”

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