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be administeed by the Orange County Health Director. Specifically, <br /> Ail The Health Director shall designate employees or agents <br /> enforcing thiS ordinance as Animal Control Officers and Rabies Control Officers. <br /> Animal Cruelty Investigators shall be appointed by the Board of County <br /> Commissioners as provided by law. In the performance of their duties, Officers <br /> and Investigators shall have all the powers, authority, and immunity granted under <br /> this 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, cointrol or impounding of animals. <br /> B. Except as may be otherwise provided by law, no officer, agent, <br /> or employee Id the County charged with the duty of enforcing the provisions of <br /> this ordinance or other applicable laws, shall be personally liable for any damage <br /> that may accrue to persons or property as a result of any act required or <br /> g pemitted in the discharge of such duty unless he acts with actual malice. <br /> C. It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with, hinder, or <br /> t molest any Animal Control Officer, Rabies Control Officer, Animal Cruelty <br /> g Investigator, police officer, veterinarian, or other duly appointed agent while in <br /> the performance of any duty authorized by this ordinance or to seek to release <br /> a any animal in the custody of said agents, except in the manner as herein <br /> provided. <br /> D. Animal Control Officers, Rabies Control Officers and Animal <br /> Cruelty Investigators are not hereby authorized to carry on their person firearms <br /> of any kind ;except as provided herein. The Orange County Animal Control <br /> Program may !store at the Health Department or carry in departmental vehicles <br /> firearms approved for use, and use such firearms when necessary to enforce <br /> sections of this ordinance or under applicable law for the control of wild, vicious, <br /> 1 -5- <br />