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F. The SPAN Board shall administer the operation of SPAN as its agent as authorized by this Agreement. Each Municipality retains the right and duty to administer and enforce its own municipal laws, concurrent with the activities of SPAN. G. The Chairman of the SPAN Board shall have the duty of formulating a program to implement the activities of SPAN, which shall include, but are not limited to, the following items: 1) Records. Creation of a file system to include any crimes related to the operation of SPAN. 2) Interchange of Equipment. When necessary, equipment may be requested by any Municipality from any of the other Municipalities. 3) Sharing of Personnel. Personnel may be requested by any Municipality. The request will be made through the Chairman of the SPAN Board and the number of personnel and duration of service will be determined by the nature of the request, i.e., investigation of major crimes, crowd control, etc. Any officer acting outside his municipal limits, through SPAN, will be treated as though the officer were within his or her own municipality with respect to liabilities and pension, including Worker's Compensation and overtime compensation, which shall be paid by the lending Municipality in accordance with its policies. 4) Purchasing and Replacing Technical Equipment. In order to avoid duplication of equipment and to allow the purchase of equipment not otherwise obtainable due to prohibitive costs for individual municipalities, each Municipality will share costs of needed or replacement equipment, thereby making such purchases possible. Each Municipality will cooperate and participate in the seeking of grants or other funds to assist SPAN and will share equally in the cost of any new or replacement equipment or matching funds required. V. SPECIALIZED UNITS. The following specialized units have been established by SPAN: Crisis Intervention, Bomb Squad, Traffic Investigation, and Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU), and a Tactical SWAT Unit for purposes of controlling active threats or shootings, civil disorders, strikes, and crowd control during disasters, etc. A. All officers will work together when operating as a SPAN Unit. B. Specialized units may be activated by the SPAN Board Chairman or any SPAN Board Member, as necessary. VI. NEW MEMBERS. Subject to unanimous approval of the COG, any additional municipality which desires to join the COG and participate in SPAN shall be required to pay its proportionate share of the costs of operation, computed on the same basis used to compute the shares paid by the existing members, as determined by the SPAN Board. VII. WITHDRAWAL FROM AGREEMENT. Any Municipality may withdraw from this Agreement, however, any such withdrawal shall be effective only on December 31st of any given year, and shall be preceded by written notice of withdrawal delivered to the SPAN Board by registered mail or by personal service not later than July 1st prior to the effective date of such withdrawal. In the event that any Municipality should exercise its right to withdraw from this Agreement, the obligations of this Agreement relative to auditing and distribution of funds shall continue in effect until final settlement has been made for all monies collected from the Municipality, prior to the effective date of such withdrawal.