Any officer or employee of the city charged with the responsibility of and granted the authority to enforce any or all of the ordinances of the city may, in lieu of taking a person arrested for a violation of a city ordinance before a Magistrate, issue a written citation and notice to appear in court. The citation and notice is to be in duplicate, containing the name and address of the person arrested, the offense charged and the time and place where and when such person shall appear in court. The time specified in the notice to appear must be at least five days after such arrest.
(`78 Code, § 1.08.040.)