(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to trespass over, along, on, or through any real estate which the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government has acquired or may hereafter acquire as a right-of-way and easement for flood protection purposes and on which there has been constructed or may hereafter be constructed a floodwall or levee, or appurtenance thereto, except for where a path has been constructed for a Greenway Trail. Under no circumstances are there to be any unauthorized motor vehicles on any portion of the real estate regardless of whether a path has been constructed. The right of ingress and egress over, on, and through any such easement is confined to the privilege of using any established gate or opening in the floodwall or levee and other crossing officially provided for crossing, for the sole purpose of access to and from the outside of or riverward side thereof.
(B) The privilege herein given may be had and enjoyed subject to the following express reservations and restrictions:
(1) The Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government reserves the right, without notice, to cancel and annul or to suspend such privilege whenever in its discretion the public interest may so require.
(2) The privilege shall always be subject and subservient to the public use and enjoyment of the flood protection system and of all the parts hereof and subject and subservient to maintenance, operation, control, and use of the rights- of-way, easements, floodwall, levee, gates, and openings, in the public interest, and for the uses and purposes for which these are intended.
(3) The privilege shall be limited to the use thereof for access to and from property lying outside of and riverward from the floodwall or levee, and shall not be used as a means of trespass on the rights-of-way, easements, floodwall, levee, gates, or openings or on the lands or property of others.
(1999 Lou. Code, § 152.02) (Lou. Ord. No. 0039-2002, § 1, approved 3-15-2002; Lou. Metro Am. Ord. No. 125-2005, approved 8-29-2005; Lou. Metro Am. Ord. No. 81-2024, approved 6-11-2024) Penalty, see § 157.99