Stripping car parts on public streets and the ticket process

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally act to remove, destroy, deface, or disguise any part of a motor vehicle parked on a public street, highway, or pedestrian mall, except for repairs necessitated by an emergency. (b) Any police officer may arrest without a warrant alleged violators of this section by issuing a summons or citation to the alleged violator. Nothing in this section shall be construed as barring any police officer from initiating prosecution by warrant or such other judicial process as is permitted by statute or rule of court. (c) 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 designated to include all necessary information to make the same valid within the laws and regulations of the State of Hawaii and the City and County of Honolulu. (d) 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. (e) Every citation shall be consecutively numbered and each carbon copy shall bear the number of its respective original. (f) Any person who violates subsection (a) shall be guilty of a petty misdemeanor.