The process in proceedings to enforce any ordinance prescribing a fine or imprisonment, or a fine and imprisonment, for the violation thereof, shall be a summons, in the name of the City of Point Pleasant, as plaintiff, directed to the Marshal, police officer of the City, or any constable of any district within said County, requiring him to summon the person accused of such violation, and who may thereafter be designated as defendant, to appear before the Mayor at any time and place therein named, to make answer to such accusation and to be dealt with according to law. Such summons shall contain such statement of the facts alleged as will inform such person of the general nature of the offense against the City with which he may stand charged; and, except in cases of arrest upon view, shall be issued only upon complaint on oath. The Mayor shall have, possess and may exercise the power and authority of a justice under sections two hundred and twenty-four and two hundred and twenty-five of chapter fifty of the code of West Virginia, in summoning and enforcing the attendance and examination of witnesses; in punishing for contempts; in granting continuances, and in securing and enforcing the further attendance of the accused, with a view to a trial or hearing. If any recognizance taken for such further attendance be forfeited, the Mayor may record the default, and an action may be maintained in the name of the City, before any justice having jurisdiction, against the accused and his sureties, if any, to recover the penalty thereof.