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agree to exchange their emergency preparedness plans, and other documents that may be <br />beneficial in preparing personnel from another Party to respond to a request for Assistance. <br />ARTICLE VIII <br />COMMAND AND CONTROL <br />Resources from the Assisting Party shall be under the operational control of the Requesting <br />Parties emergency leadership . All personnel provided by an Assisting Party will be under the <br />authority of the Local Health Officer in the Requesting Parties jurisdiction, and under the <br />direction ofNIMS the Assisting Party's resources are working for the Requesting Party's <br />Incident Commander. The Party intends to follow the National Incident Management System's <br />"Incident Command System" when such system is activated. The ultimate responsibility for <br />resource tracking falls upon the Requesting Party. <br />ARTICLE IX <br />ASSISTING PARTY EMPLOYEES <br />Employees of an Assisting Party shall at all times while performing Assistance continue to be <br />employees of the Assisting Party for any purpose. Wages, hours and other terms and conditions <br />of employment of Assisting Party shall remain applicable to all of its employees who perform <br />Assistance under this Agreement. Assisting Parties shall be solely responsible for payment of its <br />employees' wages, any required payroll taxes and any benefits or other compensation. <br />Requesting Party shall not be responsible for paying any wages, benefits, taxes or other <br />compensation to Assisting Parties employees. <br />ARTICLE X <br />INJURY COMPENSATION AND DEATH BENEFITS <br />Each Party shall provide for the payment of Workers' Compensation benefits to its own injured <br />personnel and/or to representatives of its own personnel in case such personnel sustain injuries or <br />are killed while rendering aid under this Agreement, in the same manner and on the same terms <br />as if the injury or death were sustained within its own jurisdiction. <br />Nothing in this Agreement shall abrogate or waive any Parties right to reimbursement or other <br />payment available from any local, state or federal governments or abrogate or waive the effect of <br />any waiver, indemnity or immunity available to a Party under local, state or federal law or other <br />governmental action. To the extent that such reimbursement, payment, waiver, indemnity or <br />immunity does not apply, then each Party shall remain fully responsible as employer for all <br />taxes, assessments, fees, premiums, wages, withholdings, Workers' Compensation, and other <br />direct and indirect compensation, benefits, and related obligations with respect to its own <br />employees. Each Party shall provide Workers' Compensation in compliance with the statutory <br />requirements of the State of Washington.