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thoroughfares within the corporate limits of the city except <br />on those which are designated as truck routes in section 70- <br />231, and subject to the gross weight limits established by <br />division 3 of this article. Neither shall any person operate <br />a heavy truck traveling through the city, with no origin or <br />destination within the city, except on limited access state <br />highways, i.e. State Highway 225 and State Highway 146." <br />Section 8. Chapter 70, "Traffic and Vehicles", Article VI, <br />"Truck Routes and Gross Weight Limits", Division 2, "Truck <br />Routes", Section 70-233, "Exception to section 70-232; point of <br />origin", is hereby amended and shall hereafter read as follows, <br />to -wit: <br />"Sec. 70-233. Exception to section 70-232; point of origin. <br />(a) The provisions of section 70-232 notwithstanding, in <br />those instances where any truck traffic, originating within <br />the corporate limits of the city, shall have as its point of <br />origin a point located off a designated truck route, it <br />shall proceed to the nearest point on a designated truck <br />route by the most direct route possible. If such truck <br />traffic shall originate outside the corporate limits of the <br />city and enter the city at a point which is not on a <br />designated truck route, it shall proceed to the nearest <br />point on a designated truck route by the most direct route <br />possible. <br />(b) In those cases where truck traffic originates off a <br />designated truck route, whether inside or outside the <br />corporate limits of the city, and the destination of the <br />truck traffic is nearer the origin or point of entering the <br />corporate limits of the city than is the nearest point on a <br />designated truck route by the most direct route possible, it <br />shall not be necessary to proceed to the nearest designated <br />truck route. <br />(c) In those instances where the truck traffic has neither <br />its point of origin nor destination within the corporate <br />limits of the City of La Porte, its extraterritorial <br />jurisdiction, or the corporate limits of any city adjacent <br />to La Porte, then such truck traffic shall only be allowed <br />on a limited -access State Highway, i.e. State Highway 225 <br />and State Highway 146." <br />Section 9. Chapter 70, "Traffic and Vehicles", Article VI, "Truck <br />Routes and Gross Weight Limits", Division 2, "Truck Routes", <br />