Police use of tickets instead of arrest for violations

(a) There shall be provided for use by a police officer a form of summons or citation for citing, not physically arresting, an alleged violator of this article. The form and content of the summons or citation shall be as adopted or prescribed by the administrative judge of the district court, designed to include all information necessary under the laws and rules of the State of Hawaii and City and County of Honolulu, and commensurate with the form of other summons or citations used in modern methods of arrest. Every summons or citation shall be consecutively numbered and each carbon copy shall bear the number of its respective original. (b) A police officer may arrest, without warrant, an alleged violator of this article by issuing the summons or citation in accordance with this section. Nothing in this section shall be construed as barring a police officer from initiating prosecution by penal summons, complaint, warrant, or other judicial process as is permitted by statute or rule of court. A police officer making an arrest for an alleged violation may take the name and address of the alleged violator and shall issue to the alleged violator the summons or citation. The summons or citation shall direct the alleged violator to answer at a place and time provided in the summons or citation. When a summons or citation is issued, the original shall be given to the alleged violator; provided that the administrative judge of the district court may prescribe the giving of a carbon copy to the alleged violator and other disposition of the original.