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pursuant to this chapter and any contract between the County and the animal control contractor. (b) The police chief shall verify that a person designated by the animal control contractor to serve as an enforcement officer is qualified and trained to serve in that capacity. The police chief shall be empowered to establish minimum requirements for qualification and training, which may be revised from time to time, provided that a copy thereof, and of any revisions, shall be kept on file with the police chief s office thereof at all times. All County agencies, officers and employees shall render their cooperation and assistance to the police chief for purposes of this subsection. (c) The police chief, upon verification of an enforcement officer's qualification and training, shall issue an oath of office and identification badge or insignia to the enforcement officer. (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 animal control contractor or discharge as an enforcement officer by the police chief. The police chief may terminate and dischazge an enforcement officer's appointment upon recommendation of the animal control contractor 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 4-54. Complaint and summons or other form of citation. (a) There shall be provided for use by enforcement 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 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 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 beaz the number of its respective original. 17