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<br /> . . 1 be administered by the Orange County Health Director. Specifically,
<br /> A. 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 ha' e all the powers, authority, and immunity granted under
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<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, control or impounding of animals.
<br /> B. Except as may be otherwise provided by law, no officer, agent,
<br /> or employee of 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 /> 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 /> molest any Animal Control Officer, Rabies Control Officer, Animal Cruelty
<br /> 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 /> 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,
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