Specifications include, but are not limited to: Shelter services 24 hours per day/seven (7) days a week. • Emergency Animal Control Services when Municipality ACO unavailable. • Response time within one (1) hour time during normal business hours. Unless deemed an emergency response time for calls received after hours within four (4) hours. Emergency service is defined as the care of injured, trapped, sick, and animals whose lives are endangered or pose a danger to humans. • Maintain adequate, sanitary and secure kennel facilities (including isolation cages for sick or diseased animals) to house and care for stray and impounded animals for the mandatory hold periods. • Provide animal cruelty investigative services. • Contractor shall adhere to the Best Practices in Municipal Animal Control in accordance with the State of New Jersey Department of Health. • Provide the Health Officer with monthly service reports regarding at a minimum intake and disposition of animals.