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12 <br /> Animal Control Ordinance <br /> (d) Animal Control Officers are not authorized to carry on their person firearms of <br /> any kind except as provided herein. The Orange County Animal Control <br /> Program may store firearms at the Animal Services Department and use those <br /> firearms when necessary to enforce sections of this Chapter or under <br /> applicable law for the control of wild, viciousdangerous, or diseased animals. <br /> (1) Any Animal Control Officer or law enforcement officer, in carrying out <br /> their duties under this Chapter, shall make every reasonable effort to deal <br /> humanely with all animals. <br /> (2) An Animal Control Officer or law enforcement officer may inject an <br /> animal with a chemical tranquilizer which will result in limiting the <br /> activity of an animal when, in the officer's judgment, any attempt to seize <br /> the animal would be dangerous to the person attempting the seizure, the <br /> animal, or the public at large. <br /> (3) An Animal Control Officer or law enforcement officer may humanely put <br /> an animal to death, if in the judgment of the officer an attempt to otherwise <br /> seize or impound the animal would be dangerous to the officer or others. It <br /> is the intent of this subsection that the killing of an animal would be done <br /> only after, within the sole discretion of the officer, other reasonable <br /> procedures are judged impossible. <br /> (e) The Animal Control Program shall: <br /> (1) Have the responsibility along with law enforcement agencies and where <br /> applicable with animal control officers to enforce all laws of North <br /> Carolina and all ordinances of Orange County pertaining to animals and <br /> shall cooperate with all law enforcement officers within Orange County in <br /> fulfilling this duty. Animal Control Officers in the performance of their <br /> duties, shall have all the power, authority, and immunity granted under this <br /> Ordinance and by the general laws of this State to enforce the provisions of <br /> this Ordinance, and the laws of North Carolina as they relate to the care, <br /> treatment, control or impounding of animals. All investigations of reported <br /> or observed animal cruelty or animal abuse shall be the responsibility of <br /> and shall be carried out by the Animal Control Officers. <br /> (2) Enforce and carry out all laws of North Carolina and all ordinances of <br /> Orange County pertaining to rabies control. <br /> (3) Be responsible for the investigation of all reported animal bites, for the <br /> quarantine of any dog or cat exposed to or suspected of having rabies, for a <br /> period of not less than ten days, and for reporting to the Health Director as <br /> Adopted 1/21/2016 Unified Animal Control Ordinance Page 11 <br /> Effective 3/1/2016 <br />