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• • Ordinance 1792 Page 5 "Sec. 25-87. Signs, Markings. (a) When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall operate any vehicle with a gross weight in excess of the amounts specified on such signs at any time upon any of the streets or parts of streets so signed. Under this section, as vehicle weight is indicated by the number of axles supporting such vehicles, signs limiting the number of axles on through vehicles shall be official. (b) When signs are erected stating "No Through Trucks, No Trucks or International 3lgnage," no person shall operate any commercial vehicle exceeding three tons gross weight at any time upon any of the streets or parts of streets so signed, except that such vehicles may be operated thereon for the purpose of delivering or picking up materials or merchandise and then only by entering such street at the intersection nearest the destination of the vehicle and proceeding no farther than the nearest intersection thereafter. "Sec. 25-89. Limitation on length of vehicles. No motor vehicle shall exceed the limits set forth in the Texas Traffic Laws V. C. 3. Art 6701d-11. Section 2. If any section, sentence, phrase, clause, or any part of any section, sentence, phrase, or clause, of this ordinance shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of this Ordinance, and it is hereby declared to be the intention of this City Council to have passed each section, sentence, phrase or clause, or part thereof, irrespective of the fact that any other section, sentence, phrase or clause, or part thereof, may be declared invalid. Section 3, Any person, as defined in Section 1.07(29), Texas Penal Code, who shall violate any provision of the ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed Two Nundred Dollars ($200.00).