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AGREEMENT FOR ANIMAL CONTROL SERVICES <br /> Page 3 of 6 pages <br /> personnel, an animal may be taken to the Center. Sick and injured animals <br /> will be handled according to departmental operating policies. <br /> iv. The County may, in its discretion, bear the cost of emergency care and <br /> shelter costs for animals that do not appear to have an owner or keeper, or <br /> where the owner or keeper can be identified, charge the owner or keeper <br /> with the cost of emergency care and shelter costs of the animals consistent <br /> with the departmental operating policies. <br /> V. County employees or their designees shall attempt to contact at a time <br /> which is reasonable under the circumstances in each situation, the owner <br /> or custodian of each animal involved in an emergency requiring <br /> assistance. <br /> vi. Where law enforcement officers are also on the scene of an animal-related <br /> emergency, the County personnel shall cooperate with them in matters <br /> involving safety of persons and enforcement of the Animal Control <br /> Ordinance. <br /> 2. Compensation. The City shall pay the County $500.00 for the current fiscal year and each <br /> year thereafter this agreement is in effect; however, the amount of the compensation shall <br /> be reviewed annually and adjusted based on actual use of service. <br /> 3. Term. This agreement shall be in effect at 12:01 AM on the day after the Animal Control <br /> Ordinance is permitted to apply in the Area of the City of Durham Located in Orange <br /> County by a resolution adopted by the Durham City Council pursuant to N. C. G. S. <br /> 153A-122. This agreement shall automatically renew for annual periods thereafter, unless <br /> either party gives 30 days notice to cancel this agreement. After this agreement is no <br /> longer in effect, all obligations that are still executory on both sides are discharged except <br /> that any right based on prior breach or performance survives. The governing body of each <br /> party hereto has determined that duration to be reasonable. In this agreement, a"year" is <br /> based on such periods and is not a calendar or fiscal year. <br /> 4. Termination. Either party may terminate this Agreement for any reason by providing the <br /> other party sixty (60) days written notice of intention to terminate the Agreement on the <br /> anniversary of the date the Animal Control ordinance is no longer permitted to apply in <br /> the Area of the City of Durham Located in Orange County. <br /> 5. Notice. <br /> a. All notices and other communications required or permitted by this agreement <br /> shall be in writing and shall be given either by personal delivery, fax, or certified <br /> United States mail,return receipt requested, addressed as follows: <br />