2.__Responsibility for issuance and disposition.__ Responsibility for issuance and disposition is as follows.

A.__The commissioner is responsible for all fish and wildlife citation forms approved by the Chief Judge of the District Court prior to May 1, 1991.__The Department of Public Safety is responsible for all Uniform Summons and Complaints issued to the warden service.__The commissioner or the commissioner's designee is responsible for the further issuance of Uniform Summons and Complaint books to individual wardens and for the proper disposition of those books.

3.__Lawful complaint.__If the citation provided for in this section or a Uniform Summons and Complaint is duly sworn to as required by law and otherwise legally sufficient in respect to the form of a complaint and charging an offense, it may be filed in a court having jurisdiction and constitutes a lawful complaint for the purpose of the commencement of any criminal prosecution or civil violation proceeding.

4.__Lawful summons.__A citation as provided for in this section or a Uniform Summons and Complaint, when served upon a person by a law enforcement officer, acts as a summons to appear in court or to otherwise respond in accordance with law on or before the date specified in the summons.__Any person who fails to appear in court as directed by the summons or to otherwise respond in accordance with law on or before the date specified in the summons commits a Class E crime.__Upon that person's failure to appear or respond in accordance with law, the court may issue a warrant of arrest.__It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this subsection that the failure to appear or respond resulted from just cause.

§10452.__Refusal to sign

A person who refuses to sign a citation or Uniform Summons and Complaint after having been ordered to do so by a law enforcement officer commits a Class E crime.

§10453.__Unlawful disposition of citations

It is unlawful and official misconduct for a warden or other public employee to dispose of an official citation form or Uniform Summons and Complaint, except in accordance with law and