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(d) An enforcement officer's appointment, power and authority shall be for a period of not more than two years unless the same is sooner terminated by the enforcement officer's discharge as an employee of the humane society or animal care center or dischazge as an enforcement officer by the police chief. The police chief may terminate and discharge an enforcement officer's appointment upon recommendation of the humane society or animal care center of which the enforcement officer is an employee or upon a finding by the police chief that the enforcement officer has failed to comply with the minimum qualification and training requirements established for enforcement officers by the police chief. (e) No proceeding for the appointment, termination or discharge of enforcement officers shall be subject to laws governing civil service or public employees. Section 4-39. Complaint and summons or other form of citation. (a) There shall be provided for use by officers authorized to enforce laws relating to the regulation and control of animals, a form of complaint and summons or other form of citation for use in citing violators of the provisions of chapter 143, Hawaii Revised Statutes and this chapter. Said complaint and summons or other form of citation shall be printed in a form commensurate with the form of other complaints and summonses or other forms of citations 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 County of Hawaii. The form and content of such complaint and summons or other form of citation shall be as adopted or prescribed by the administrative judge of the district courts. (b) In every case when a complaint and summons or other form of citation 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 a copy of the complaint and summons or other form of citation, and provide for the disposition of the original and any other copies. (c) Every complaint and summons or other form of citation shall be consecutively numbered and each copy shall bear the number of its respective original. Section 4-40. Failure to obey complaint and summons or other form of citation. It shall be unlawful for any person to fail to appeaz at the place and within the time specified in the complaint and summons or other form of citation issued to such person by an officer for any violation of any section of this article, regazdless of the disposition of the charge for which such person was originally cited. However, if the minimum payment set by the issuing officer is paid in full prior to the scheduled court date, then this section will not apply. Section 4-40. Issuance of complaint and summons or other form of citation; when. In the event any person fails to comply with a complaint and summons or other form of citation given to such person or if any person fails or refuses to deposit bail as required and within the time permitted, the violations bureau shall forthwith have a complaint and summons or other form of citation entered against such person and secure the issuance of a warrant for such person's arrest. Orajt jar consideratian by the Public Sajety and Parks and Recreatian Committee, 4/24/2006