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Section 14-24.1. Enforcement and administration. (a) Summons or Citation. (1) There shall be provided for use by an officer or employee of the County duly authorized to issue a summons or citation, or any police officer a form of summons or citation for use in citing violators of this article which does not provide for 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, shall be printed on a form commensurate with the form of other summons or citations used in modern methods of arrest, and so designed to include all necessary information to make the same valid within the laws and regulations of the State and the County. (2) 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 that the violator be given a carbon copy of the citation and provide for the disposition of the original and any other copies. (3) Every citation shall be numbered, and each carbon copy shall bear the same number as its original. (b) Enforcement and administration of the provisions of section 14-23 shall be under the jurisdiction of the department of public works of the County, which department shall have the power to formulate any applicable rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of section 14-23. (c) Except as provided in section 14-24.1(6), enforcement of this ordinance shall be under the jurisdiction of the County police department. (d) In addition to the foregoing, any police officer or other officer or employee of the County duly authorized to issue a summons or citation may eject, or cause to be ejected, from the premises any person to whom a citation has been issued and who continues to smoke after the person has been requested by the police officer or other duly authorized officer or employee to stop smoking. Section 14-24.2. Fire Code. Nothing in this article shall be construed as superseding applicable fire code provisions. Where a conflict between the provisions of this article and the fire code arises, the fire code provision will prevail." SECTION 2. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the ordinance which may be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this ordinance are severable.