ROH §13-10.5
Penalty and arrest procedure for breaking this article
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗If you break this article, you can be fined or jailed. When police arrest you for it, they must give you a written summons or citation telling you when and where to appear in court. The citation form is set by the district court judge.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Penalty - Procedure on arrest - Summons or citation
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) Penalty. Any person violating this article shall be, upon conviction, subject to a fine of $250 or 30 days in the city jail, or both.
(b) Procedure on arrest. Any authorized police officer, or authorized special police officer, upon making an arrest for a violation of this article, shall take the name and address of the alleged violator and shall issue to the alleged violator in writing a summons or citation hereinafter described, notifying the alleged violator to answer to the complaint to be entered against such person at a place and at a time provided in the summons or citation.
(c) Summons or citation.
(1) There shall be provided for use by authorized police officers or authorized special police officers, a form of summons or citation for use in citing violators of this article that 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 and the city.
(2) 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 carbon copy of the citation and provide for the disposition of the original and any other copies.
(3) Every citation shall be consecutively numbered and each carbon copy shall bear the number of its respective original.
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