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AGREEMENT FOR ANIMAL CONTROL SERVICES, Page 2 of 4 pages All County employees responding to service calls under this agreement will receive training by the County pertaining to the Animal Control Ordinance and North Carolina statutes pertinent to animals. The County agrees to provide an animal control vehicle and necessary animal control equipment for the use in the Area of the City of Durham Located in Orange County. 2. B. After Hour On Call Emergency Services: The County will provide after hour on-call services for all holidays observed by County government, every day that is not a holiday from 5:00 pm to 8:00 am and Saturday and Sunday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. A County Animal Control Officer will respond to service requests within the Area of the City of Durham Located in Orange County 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. 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 Gaze is not needed in the judgment of County personnel, an animal may be taken to the Center. Sick and injured animals will be handled according to departmental operating policies. 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, chazge the owner or keeper with the cost of emergency care and shelter costs of the animals consistent with the departmental operating policies. 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 assistance. Where law enforcement officers are also on the scene of an animal-related emergency, the County personnel shall cooperate with them in matters involving safety of persons and enforcement of the Animal Control Ordinance. 2. Compensation to County. The City shall pay the County $500.00 for the current fiscal year and each year thereafter this agreement is in effect; however, the amount of the compensation shall be reviewed annually and adjusted based on actual use of service. 3. Duration. This agreement shall be in effect at 12:01 AM on the day after the Animal Control Ordinance is permitted to apply in the Area of the City of Durham Located in Orange County by a resolution adopted by the Durham City Council pursuant to N. C. G. S. 153A-122. This agreement shall cease to be in effect at midnight on the anniversary of the date the Animal Control ordinance is permitted to apply in the Area of the City of Durham Located in Orange County. This agreement shall automatically renew for annual periods, unless either party gives 30 days notice to cancel this agreement. After this agreement is no longer in effect, all obligations that are still executory on both sides are discharged except that any right based on prior breach or performance survives, The governing body of each party hereto has determined that duration to be reasonable. In this agreement, a "year" is based on such periods and is not a calendar or fiscal year. 4