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. . e Ord inance No. , Page 5. tires and ten thousand (10,000) pounds on low pressure tires, nor any axle a load in excess of sixteen thousand (16,000) pounds on high pressure tires, and twenty thousand ( 20,000) pounds on low pressure tires. e (3) Nothing in this section shall be construed as pennitting size or weight limits on the national system of interstate and defense highways within the corporate limits of the City of La Porte in excess of those per- mitted under 23 U.S.C. Section 127. If the federal goverrunent pre- scribes or adopts vehicle size or weight limits greater than those prescribed by 23 U.S.C. Section 127 for the national system of inter- state and defense highways, the increased limits shall become effective on the national system of interstate and defense highways within the corporate limits of the City of La Porte. e (4) In this section, an axle load is defined as the total load transmitted to the road by all wheels whose centers may be included between two ( 2) parallel transverse vertical planes forty (40 r inches apart, extend- ing across the full width of the vehicle. Tandem axle group is defined as two (2) or IIK>re axles spaced forty (40) or IIK>re inches apart from center to center having at least one coIIlllOn point of weight suspension. (5) (a) Any police officer having reason to believe that the gross weight or axle load of a loaded motor vehicle... is unlawful, is -.authorized to weigh the same by means of portable or stationary scales approved by the police departnent of the Ci ty of La Porte for such use, or the police officer may cause the loaded IIK>tor vehicle to be weighed by any public weigher and may require such vehicle to be driven to the nearest available scales for the purpose of weighing. e (b) In the event that the gross weight of a vehicle weighed pursuant to subsection (a) above is found to exceed the maximum gross weight