9.1.2.020 Summons

(a) A summons shall be issued under the following conditions:

(1) After a petition has been filed, unless the parties hereinafter named voluntarily appear, the Court shall set a time and place for the hearing, and shall issue a summons to the parents, guardian, spouse, other interested parties, or other persons having custody or control of said child, stating that they are to appear with the child before the Court at the time and place as set forth in the summons.

(2) When a petition alleging neglect or dependence or a petition to terminate parental rights is initiated by a person, the Clerk of the Court shall notify the Northern Pueblos Agency or its agent of the pendency of the case and of the time and place of the hearing.

(3) The Court may issue a subpoena requiring the appearance of any persons whose presence, in the opinion of the Court, is necessary.

(4) If it appears form the petition of by separate affidavit of a person having knowledge of the facts that the child is in a situation that his welfare requires that his custody be immediately assumed by the Court, the Court may order, by endorsement upon the summons, that the officer serving the summons shall take the child into custody at once.