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NORTH CAROLINA
ORANGE COUNTY
ANIMAL CONTROL AND PROTECTION SERVICES AGREEMENT
This Animal Control and Protection Services Agreement is entered into by and
between Orange County, North Carolina, (hereinafter the "County"); and the Town of
Hillsborough, North Carolina (hereinafter the "Town") as of the 1St day of July 2009.
WHEREAS, the Town desires that the County provide animal control and emergency
after hour calls services within the Town during the 2009-2010 fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, the County desires to provide animal control and emergency animal calls
services within the Town during the 2009-2010 fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, the Town Board of Commissioners has previously adopted a resolution
authorizing the County to enforce the County's "Animal Control Ordinance" (the
"Ordinance") within the jurisdictional limits of the Town; and
WHEREAS, the Town Board of Commissioners desires that the County continue to
enforce the County's Ordinance within the jurisdictional limits of the Town; and
WHEREAS, the Town has, and hereby does, designate the Orange County Animal
Services Director to be responsible for determining when a dog located within the Town is a
"potentially dangerous dog" pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 67.4.1; and
WHEREAS, the Town has, and hereby does, designate the Appeals Committee
established by Section 5 of the "Rules of Procedure Governing the Organization and
Operation of the Orange County Animal Services Advisory Board" to hear any appeals for a
"potentially dangerous dog" determination pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 67-4.1.
NOW THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency
of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto mutually agree as follows:
Designation of Office of Animal Control.
(i) The Town shall and hereby does designate Orange County's Animal
Services Center as its "Office of Animal Control," (hereafter"the
OAC").
(ii) The County will designate and schedule one (1) Animal Control Officer
employed by the County (hereafter the "ACO") to respond to
emergency and routine animal service calls within the Town.
(iii) The ACO shall provide animal control and protection services to the
Town during the hours of 8:00 am through 5:00 pm, Monday through
Friday.
(iv) The scheduled on-call ACO will respond to emergency after hour calls
as described below.
2. A. Hillsborough Animal Control And Protection Services
(i) During the hours of 8:00 am through 5:00 pm, Monday through
Friday the ACO will respond to all routine and emergency animal
services calls related to animals located within the Town.
(ii) All service calls received and/or responded to on behalf of the Town
under this Agreement will be handled in accordance to the County's
Animal Control Ordinance, North Carolina General Statutes
pertaining to animals and policies developed by Orange County
Animal Services.
(iii) The OAC will receive animal service calls during the hours noted in
Section 1 above.
(iv) A quarterly report listing the number and types of calls handled by
OAC within the Town limits will be forwarded to the Hillsborough
Police Department.
(v) All County employees responding to service calls under this
agreement will receive training pertaining to the County's Animal
Control Ordinance.
(vi) The County agrees to provide adequate personnel and equipment to
respond to calls as required by this Agreement.
(vii) If the designated ACO who is responsible for the provision of services
under this Agreement to the Town of Hillsborough is on leave as a result
of illness, vacation, etc.,. then the County will only respond to emergency
service calls within the Town between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00
p.m., Monday through Friday.
2. B. Hillsborough Emergency After Hour Call Services
(i) After hour call service hours are from 5:00 pm to 8:00 am Monday
through Friday and all holidays and weekends.
(ii) The County shall provide trained, qualified personnel to respond to calls
for after hour service within the Town by going to the scene when necessary to protect and
preserve the health and safety of the public and the life and health of animals.
(iii) Qualified personnel of the County shall, when necessary and proper in the
judgment of County. personnel, provide first aid treatment and/or take animals requiring care
to veterinary facilities according to County policy. When immediate veterinary care is not
needed in the judgment of County personnel, an animal may be taken to the County' Animal
Services Center. Sick and injured animals will be handled according to the Shelter operating
policy.
(iv) The County may, in its discretion, bear the cost of emergency care and
shelter costs for animals that do not appear to have an owner or keeper, or where the owner
or keeper can be identified, charge the owner or keeper with the cost of emergency care and
shelter costs of the animals consistent with the County operating policy.
(v) County employees or their designees shall attempt to contact at a time
which is reasonable under the circumstances in each situation, the owner or custodian of each
animal involved in an emergency requiring the assistance of the County Animal Services
Center. .
(vi) Where Town Public Safety and/or Town officers are also on the scene of
ananimal-related emergency, the County personnel shall cooperate with Town personnel in
matters involving safety of persons and/or enforcement of the County's animal control
ordinance, and/or North Carolina General Statutes pertaining to animals.
3. Upon receipt of invoice for the services of Animal Control and Emergency After Hour
Calls, the Town shall make one payment on July 1St of each year to the County in the
amount of Nineteen Thousand Four Hundred and Twenty One Dollars and 00/100
($19,421.00).
4. This Agreement shall be in effect for the period beginning July 1, 2009 and ending June
30, 2010, subject to annual renewal as negotiated and agreed upon by both parties in
writing.
5. Either party may terminate this Agreement for any reason by providing the other party 30
days written notice of intention to terminate the Agreement.
6. The Town will indemnify and hold the County harmless for any and all claims, demands
or actions whatsoever arising from the County's provision of services under this
Agreement unless the same results from the intentional or negligent conduct of the
County. It is the intent of this Section 6 that the Town indemnify the County to the fullest
extent permitted by law.
In witness whereof, the parties hereunto cause this agreement to be executed in their respective
names to become effective on the date hereinabove written.
Orange Count C olin
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alerie P. Foushee, Chair, Board of Commissioners
Town of Hi~rough, North Carolina
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Eric Peterson, Town M a er
By:
Clarence F. Birkhead, Town of Hillsborough Chief of Police
Approved as to technical content:
Department Director
Approved as to form and legal sufficiency:
County Attorney
This instrument has been pre-audited in the manner required by the Local Government Fiscal and
Con Act.
Finance Offic ,Town of Hillsborough