Penalties and enforcement for violating this article

(a) General Provisions. The provisions of this section are in addition to any other applicable remedy or penalty provided by law. (b) In case the parties responsible for violating any provisions of this article fail, neglect, or refuse to comply or correct a violation, the County may submit the matter to the proper authority for penal enforcement. (c) Any person, firm, or corporation violating any provisions of this article shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a petty misdemeanor and each person so convicted shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day or portion thereof during which any violation of any provision of this article is committed, continued or permitted; and upon conviction of any such violation, such person shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or by both fine and imprisonment. 14-51 SUPP. 1 (1-2017) (d) Any officer or inspector designated by the County, who has been deputized by the chief of police as a special officer for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this article, pursuant to section 803-6, Hawai‘i Revised Statutes, may arrest without warrant alleged violators by issuing a summons or citation in accordance with the procedure specified in this section. Nothing in this section shall be construed as barring such authorized personnel from initiating prosecution by warrant or such other judicial process as is permitted by statute or rule of court. (e) Any authorized personnel designated by the County, upon making an arrest for a violation of this article, may take the name and address of the alleged violator and shall issue to the violator in writing a summons or citation hereinafter described, notifying the violator to answer the complaint to be entered against the violator at a place and at a time provided in the summons or citation. (f) There shall be provided for use by authorized personnel a form of summons or citation for use in citing violators of this article which does not mandate the physical arrest of such violators. The form and content of such summons or citation shall be as adopted or prescribed by the administrative judge of the district court and shall be printed on a form commensurate with the form of other summonses or citations used in modern methods of arrest, so designed to include all necessary information to make the same valid within the laws and regulations of the State of Hawai‘i and County of Hawai‘i. (g) In every case when a citation is issued, the original of the same shall be given to the violator; provided, that the administrative judge of the district court may prescribe by giving to the violator a copy of the citation and provide for the disposition of the original and any other copies. (h) Every citation shall be consecutively numbered and each copy shall bear the number of its respective original. (2013, ord 13-115, sec 2.)14-126