ROH §42-6.2
Police ticket forms and how they are given out
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗This section sets up the ticket (summons or citation) that police or special officers use when they do not arrest someone for breaking this chapter's rules. It says the district court judge decides the ticket's form, the violator gets the original or a copy, and every ticket has a unique number.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — 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) There shall be provided for use by police officers or special officers, a form of summons or citation for use in citing violators of this chapter where the circumstances do 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 Hawaii and the City and County of Honolulu.
(b) 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.
(c) Every citation shall be consecutively numbered and each carbon copy shall bear the number of its respective original.
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