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q-6-22 <br />h) If euthanasia is necessary for a sick or injured animal in the field, <br />perform the euthanasia which shall be conducted by trained personnel <br />who have been provided with all necessary equipment. This service <br />shall be available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. <br />i) Investigate and follow -up on dangerous and vicious animal complaints <br />as necessary, including but not limited to initially determining the <br />designation of animals as dangerous or vicious, testifying at hearings, <br />monitoring dangerous animal permits, investigating and citing owners <br />for permit violations, impounding all dangerous and vicious animals <br />posing an immediate threat to the public heath and safety, euthanizing <br />vicious animals, and performing annual inspections of residences <br />maintaining dangerous animals. <br />j) Assign animal control and/or humane officers to perform the functions <br />specified in Sections a through i above. Such officers shall conduct <br />routine patrols and respond to complaints, investigate and perform <br />rescues as manpower allows, comply with court subpoenas, impound <br />dangerous, vicious and injured or loose animals. <br />k) Employ sufficient staff and/or volunteers to provide the level of <br />service guaranteed in this Agreement in all areas. <br />2a. Field Enforcement Staffine_ and Services. County Contractor shall staff its <br />field services adequately to provide services throughout the County as <br />provided hereunder. Field Services enforcement shall be provided seven <br />days per week, twenty -four hours per day as specified below. Field <br />services, provided by County Contractor, shall consist of enforcement of all <br />local ordinances which are substantially similar to the County's ordinance <br />6.04, 6.12, 6.16 and all related State laws pertaining to animals, except as <br />otherwise noted in this Agreement. Field Enforcement shall include: <br />1) Cateeory 1 Calls County Contractor shall immediately respond, within <br />the limits allowed by the manpower availability, to all emergency calls. <br />For the purpose of this subsection, "emergency call" means an injured or <br />sick animal, complaint of a bite or attack in progress; a bite or attack <br />which has occurred and where the animal remains an immediate threat to <br />persons or property, or a dangerous animal permit violation that has <br />occurred and same dangerous animal remains a threat to persons or <br />property; <br />2) Cateeory 2 Calls County Contractor shall respond to calls pertaining to <br />other biting animals, dog packs, and non threatening dangerous animal <br />permit violations within eight (8) hours of receiving the call; <br />19 <br />