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(2) Licensed dogs trained and used by the police department of the County of Hawaii or other law enforcement agencies in law enforcement work while such dogs are engaged in the performance of such work; (3) Licensed hunting dogs when accompanied by their owner on public or private hunting and/or shooting grounds; or (4) Licensed obedience trial, tracking, and show dogs accompanied by their owner and being trained or in competition in public parks or school grounds, provided permission is first obtained from the proper park or school authorities for such use. Section 4-23. Enforcement. For any violation of any of the provisions of this article or of the provisions of chapter 143, Hawaii Revised Statutes, it shall be the duty of any police officer and any other officer authorized to seize and impound any dog running at lazge within the meaning of this article to issue a complaint and summons to the owner or other person chazged with the responsibility of complying with the provisions of this article or with the provisions of chapter 143, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Said complaint and summons shall instruct such owner or person to report to the respective district court of the County of Hawaii. The complaint and summons may be satisfied by payment in person or by mailing the specified amount shown on said complaint and summons prior to the court date designated by the complaint and summons. Section 4-24. Summons. (a) There shall be provided for use by officers authorized to enforce laws relating to the regulation and control of dogs, a form of summons for use in citing violators of the provisions of this article or the provisions of chapter 143, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Said summons shall be printed in a form commensurate with the form of other summonses used in modern methods of arrest, so designed to include all necessazy 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 summons shall be as adopted or prescribed by the administrative judge of the district courts. (b) In every case when a summons 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 of a copy of the summons, and provide for the disposition of the original and any other copies. (c) Every summons shall be consecutively numbered and each copy shall bear the number of its respective original. Section 4-25. Failure to obey complaint and summons. Unless otherwise satisfied by payment as described in section 4-23, it is unlawful for any person to fail to appeaz at the place and within the time specified in the complaint and summons issued to such person by an officer for any violation of this article, regazdless of the disposition of the charge for which such person was originally cited. 7