Compliance required.

All relevant criteria of this article must be met by any permission or permit granted in accordance with the terms of this title.

Criminal prosecution

A. Anyone found guilty of violating this title will receive the following punishment:

1. A fine of no more than $1,000 and one of the following for a first offence:

The Hawaii Revised Statutes, as amended, specify and authorise thirty-two hours of community service, or forty-eight hours of imprisonment.

2. A fine of no more than $1,000 and either sixty-four hours of community service, as defined in section by the Hawaii Revised Statutes, as amended, or ninety-six hours of imprisonment, for a second offence that takes place within five years of any prior conviction for violating this title.

3. If convicted again within five years of any two prior convictions for a violation of this title, the offender shall pay a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $1,000, and one of the following sentences:

a. Community service as defined and permitted by the Hawaii Revised Statutes, as amended, lasting no less than sixty-four hours or no more than one hundred and forty hours; or b. Imprisonment lasting no less than ninety-six hours or no more than thirty calendar days.

B. If a violation is a continuation of the offence that was the subject of the first conviction, each subsequent day of the violation shall constitute a separate offence after a conviction for a first violation under this title.

C. The Hawaii Penal Code's fine-related provisions, subject to Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall govern the imposition of a fine under this section.

D. The county may bring a lawsuit for an injunction to stop any infringement of this title's provisions, and it may also take any other legal steps to stop or correct any infringement.

E. Any staff member authorised by the director of public works may issue a summons or citation in accordance with the process outlined in this section and then arrest alleged violators without a warrant. Nothing in this section should be interpreted as prohibiting such authorised personnel from starting a case using a warrant, complaint, or any other legal procedure that is allowed by law or a court rule.

F. Any person making an arrest for a violation of this title who is authorised by the director of public works may obtain the name and address of the alleged offender and issue a written summons or citation to the alleged offender, instructing him or her to appear at the location and time specified in the summons or citation.

G. A summons or citation that does not require the physical arrest of those who violate this title must be made available for use by authorised personnel. The administrative judge of the district court shall adopt or prescribe the form and content of such summons or citations, which shall be printed on a form comparable to other summons or citations used in contemporary methods of arrest and which shall be designed to include all information necessary to make it valid under the laws and regulations of the state and the county.

H. The original of every citation that is issued must be handed to the offender, with the exception that the administrative judge of the district court may order that only a carbon copy be supplied to the offender and specify how the original and any other copies should be handled.

I. Each reference must be numbered sequentially, and each carbon copy must include the original's corresponding number.