(a) There shall be provided for use by officers authorized to enforce laws relating to the regulation and control of dogs, a form of summons for use in citing violators of this article or of HRS Chapter 143. The summons shall be printed in a form commensurate with the form of other summonses used in modern methods of arrest, so designed to include all necessary information to make the same valid and legal within the laws and regulations of the State of Hawaii and the City and County of Honolulu. The form and content of such summons shall be as adopted or prescribed by the administrative judge of the district courts.
(b) In every case when a summons is issued, the original of the same shall be given to the violator; provided that the administrative judge of the district courts may prescribe the giving to the violator of a carbon copy of the summons, and provide for the disposition of the original and any other copies.
(c) Every summons shall be consecutively numbered and each carbon copy shall bear the number of its respective original.
(Sec. 13-23.6, R.O. 1978 (1983 Ed.)) (1990 Code, Ch. 7, Art. 4, § 7-4.6)