ROH §12-4.6
Dog law violation summons form and delivery
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗This section sets up the official ticket form for dog law violations. It says the court judge decides what the ticket looks like, the person ticketed gets a copy, and every ticket has its own number.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Summons
A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Honolulu is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(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.
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Published by the City and County of Honolulu through American Legal Publishing.
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