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e Ordinance No. 952, Page 5. . . tenninal, provided that such vehicle proceeds by the nost direct route to or from the applicable truck term.i.na1. See. 25-85. Sane-- IDading, unloading. Truck traffic restricted to tle streets designated as truck routes may depart from such truck routes where it is necessary to load or unload at a location or locations situated off designated truck routes. Pro- vided, however, such truck traffic shall not leave any designated truck route until such has reached a point on sane designated truck route which is nearest the applicable place of loading or unloading by the nost direct route possible. After leaving a designated truck route to load or unload, truck traffic may continue off truck routes to as many points of destina- . tion as necessary. Provided, further, however, that if, in the course of making the necessary stops for loading and unloading, the truck traffic shall cross a designated. truck route, then, in that event, such truck shall not again leave any designated truck routes mti1 it has reached a point on so.rre designated truck route which is nearest to the next place of loading and unloading by the nost direct route possible. Sec. 25-86. Gross weight limit. No person shall operate upon any of the' public streets, highways, or a11~ys within the corporate limits of the City of La Porte, not herein designated as a truck route, any carrmercial notor vehicle, truck, truck tractor, trailer, pole trailer, or semi-trailer, having a gross weight . of thirty thousand (30,000) pounds or nore. No person shall operate upon any of the public streets, highways or alleys within the corporate limits of the City of La Porte, herein desig- nated as truck routes, any c:x:mrercial IIDtor vehicle, truck, truck tractor, trailer, pole trailer, or semi-trailer, having a ,gross weight of fifty . thousand (50,000) pomds or nore. Provided, however, the gross \\eight limits of this section shall not apply to state Highway 225 nor to New state Highway 146, which are subject to state gross weight limits. !my police officer, shall have the authority to require any person driving or in control of any truck to proceed to any public or private scale available for the pw:pose of weighing and detennining whether this article has been conp1ied with.