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NORTH CAROLINA <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> TOWN OF HILLSBOROUGH ANIMAL CONTROL, <br /> PROTECTIVE SERVICES AND EMERGENCY AFTER HOUR <br /> ANIMAL SERVICES AGREEMENT <br /> This Animal Control, Protection Services and Emergency After Hour Animal Services <br /> Agreement is entered into by and between Orange County, North Carolina, (hereinafter the <br /> "County") by and through its Animal Services Department ("Department") and the Town of <br /> Hillsborough, North Carolina (hereinafter the "Town") as of the 1St day of July 2012. <br /> WHEREAS, the Town desires that the County provide animal control and emergency <br /> after hour calls services within the Town during the 2012-2013 fiscal year; and <br /> WHEREAS, the County desires to provide animal control and emergency animal calls <br /> services within the Town during the 2012-2013 fiscal year; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Town Board of Commissioners has previously adopted a resolution <br /> authorizing the County to enforce the Orange County Animal Control Ordinance (the <br /> "Ordinance") within the jurisdictional limits of the Town; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Town Board of Commissioners desires that the County continue to <br /> enforce the County's Ordinance within the jurisdictional limits of the Town; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Town has, and hereby does, designate the Orange County Animal. <br /> Services Director to be responsible for determining when a dog located within the Town is a <br /> "potentially dangerous dog" pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 67.4.1; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Town has, and hereby does, designate the Appeals Committee <br /> established by Section 5 of the "Rules of Procedure Governing the Organization and <br /> Operation of the Orange County Animal Services Advisory Board" to hear any appeals for a <br /> "potentially dangerous dog" determination pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 67-4.1. <br /> NOW THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration the receipt and <br /> sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto mutually agree as follows: <br /> 1. Designation of Office of Animal Control. <br /> a. The Town shall and hereby does designate Orange County's Animal Services <br /> Department as its "Office of Animal Control," ("Office"). <br /> b. The County will designate and schedule one (1) Animal Control Officer <br /> employed by the County ("ACO") to respond to emergency and routine animal <br /> service calls within the Town. <br /> 2. Scope of Services. <br /> 1 <br />