Delaware Code
Subchapter VII. Offenses Against Public Health, Order and Decency
§ § 1334. Unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system; unclassified misdemeanor; class B misdemeanor; class A misdemeanor.

(a) Definitions. —
The following terms shall have the following meanings as used in this section.
(1) “Critical infrastructure” means petroleum refineries, petroleum storage facilities, chemical storage facilities, chemical manufacturing facilities, fuel storage facilities, electric substations, power plants, electric generation facilities, military facilities, commercial port and harbor facilities, rail yard facilities, drinking water treatment or storage facilities, correctional facilities, government buildings, and public safety buildings or facilities.
(2) “First responder” means federal, state, and local law-enforcement officers, fire, and emergency medical services personnel, hazardous materials response team members, 9-1-1 dispatchers, or any individual who is responsible for the protection and preservation of life and is directed to respond to an incident that could result in death or serious injury.
(3) “Unmanned aircraft system” means a powered, aerial vehicle that:

a. Does not carry a human operator;
b. Uses aerodynamic forces to provide vehicle lift;
c. Can fly autonomously or be piloted remotely; and
d. Can be expendable or recoverable.
(b) Prohibited acts. —
Except as provided in this section, no person shall knowingly operate, direct, or program an unmanned aircraft system to fly:

(1) Over any sporting event, concert, automobile race, festival, or other event at which more than 1500 people are in attendance; or
(2) Over any critical infrastructure; or
(3) Over any incident where first responders are actively engaged in response or air, water, vehicular, ground, or specialized transport; or
(4) So as to subject another person, who is on private property, to harassment in violation of § 1311(a) of this title; or
(5) So as to invade the privacy of another person, who is on private property, in violation of § 1335(a)(1), (2), (3), (4), or (6) of this title; or
(6) So as to violate or fail to obey any provision of a protective order issued by any of the following:

a. The Family Court.
b. A court of any state, territory, or Indian nation in the United States, as long as such violation or failure to obey occurs in Delaware.
c. A court of Canada, as long as such violation or failure to obey occurs in Delaware.
(c) Exemptions. —
The prohibitions set forth in subsection (b) of this section shall not apply to:

(1) An unmanned aircraft system used for law enforcement purposes; or
(2) An unmanned aircraft system flying over property where written permission has been granted by the property owner or occupier; or
(3) An unmanned aircraft system operated by an institution of higher education for educational purposes in compliance with Federal Aviation Administration regulations; or
(4) An unmanned aircraft system that is being used for a commercial or other purpose if the operator is authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration.
(d) Penalties. —
Except as set forth in § 1256 of this title, unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system is an unclassified misdemeanor for a first offense and a class B misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense, except that in any case where physical injury to a person or damage to property occurs as a result of a violation of this section unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system is a class A misdemeanor.
(e) Preemption. —
Only the State may enact a law or take any other action to prohibit, restrict, or regulate the testing or operation of an unmanned aircraft systems in the State. This section preempts the authority of a county or municipality to prohibit, restrict, or regulate the testing or operating of unmanned aircraft systems and supersedes any existing law or ordinance of a county or municipality that prohibits, restricts, or regulates the testing or operating of unmanned aircraft systems.

Structure Delaware Code

Delaware Code

Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure

Chapter 5. SPECIFIC OFFENSES

Subchapter VII. Offenses Against Public Health, Order and Decency

§ 1301. Disorderly conduct; unclassified misdemeanor.

§ 1302. Riot; class F felony.

§ 1303. Disorderly conduct; funeral or memorial service.

§ 1304. Hate crimes; class A misdemeanor, class G felony, class F felony, class E felony, class D felony, class C felony, class B felony, class A felony.

§ 1305. Desecration; class A misdemeanor.

§ 1306. Cross or religious symbol burning; class A misdemeanor.

§ 1307. Civil remedies for violations of hate crimes and related offenses.

§ 1308. Hate crime reporting requirement.

§ 1309. Deprivation of Civil Rights.

§ 1311. Harassment; class A misdemeanor.

§ 1312. Stalking; class G felony, class F felony, class C felony.

§ 1313. Malicious interference with emergency communications; class B misdemeanor.

§ 1315. Public intoxication; unclassified misdemeanor; violation.

§ 1316. Registration of out-of-state liquor agents; violation.

§ 1320. Loitering on property of a state-supported school, college or university; violation.

§ 1321. Loitering; violation.

§ 1322. Criminal nuisance; unclassified misdemeanor.

§ 1323. Obstructing public passages; violation.

§ 1324. Obstructing ingress to or egress from public buildings; unclassified misdemeanor.

§ 1325. Cruelty to animals; class A misdemeanor; class F felony.

§ 1325A. The unlawful trade in dog or cat by-products; class B misdemeanor; class A misdemeanor, penalties.

§ 1326. Animals; fighting and baiting prohibited; class E felony.

§ 1327. Maintaining a dangerous animal; class E felony; class F felony; class A misdemeanor.

§ 1330. Smoking on trolleys and buses.

§ 1332. Abusing a corpse; class A misdemeanor.

§ 1333. Trading in human remains and Associated Funerary Objects.

§ § 1334. Unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system; unclassified misdemeanor; class B misdemeanor; class A misdemeanor.

§ 1335. Violation of privacy; class A misdemeanor; class G felony.

§ 1337. Definitions relating to riot, disorderly conduct and related offenses.

§ 1338. Bombs, incendiary devices, Molotov cocktails and explosive devices; class D felony.

§ 1339. Adulteration; class G felony; class E felony; class A felony.

§ 1341. Lewdness; class B misdemeanor.

§ 1342. Prostitution; class B misdemeanor.

§ 1343. Patronizing a prostitute prohibited.

§ 1344. Prostitution and patronizing a prostitute; no defense.

§ 1345. Screening for sexually transmissible diseases.

§ 1351. Promoting prostitution in the third degree; class F felony.

§ 1352. Promoting prostitution in the second degree; class E felony.

§ 1353. Promoting prostitution in the first degree; class C felony.

§ 1354. Promoting prostitution; attempt to promote prostitution; corroboration.

§ 1355. Permitting prostitution; class B misdemeanor.

§ 1356. Definitions relating to prostitution.

§ 1361. Obscenity; acts constituting; class E felony or class G felony; subsequent violations.

§ 1362. Obscenity; defenses.

§ 1363. Obscenity; presumption.

§ 1364. Definition of obscene.

§ 1365. Obscene literature harmful to minors; class A misdemeanor.

§ 1366. Outdoor motion picture theaters.

§ 1367. Unauthorized promotion of boxing, mixed martial arts or of a combative sports or combative sports entertainment or combative fighting match, contest, or event; class A misdemeanor.

§ 1368. Unauthorized participation in a boxing, mixed martial arts or in a combative sports or combative sports entertainment or combative fighting match, contest, or event; class A misdemeanor.

§ 1401. Advancing gambling in the second degree; class A misdemeanor.

§ 1402. Foreign lotteries; prima facie evidence; class A misdemeanor.

§ 1403. Advancing gambling in the first degree; class A misdemeanor.

§ 1404. Providing premises for gambling; class A misdemeanor; unclassified misdemeanor.

§ 1405. Possessing a gambling device; class A misdemeanor.

§ 1406. Being concerned in interest in keeping any gambling device; class A misdemeanor.

§ 1407. Engaging in a crap game; violation.

§ 1408. Merchandising plans are not gambling.

§ 1408A. Savings promotion raffle not gambling.

§ 1409. Exemption of law-enforcement officer.

§ 1411. Unlawfully disseminating gambling information; class A misdemeanor.

§ 1412. Revocation of service contracts or denial of application for service; exemption from liability.

§ 1413. Exemption for operations of lottery under State control.

§ 1421. Obstructions; service of notice.

§ 1422. Posting of notice.

§ 1423. Contents of notice.

§ 1424. Hearing.

§ 1425. Findings of Court; order for removal.

§ 1426. Official removal upon noncompliance with removal order.

§ 1427. Collection of removal expenses; status of contractor; amount of lien.

§ 1428. Maintaining an obstruction; class A misdemeanor; a violation.

§ 1431. Telephone messages received or overheard by police as evidence.

§ 1432. Gambling; definitions.

§ 1441. License to carry concealed deadly weapons.

§ 1441A. State implementation of the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004 (18 U.S.C. § 926B as amended in 2010 and 2013); carrying of concealed firearms by qualified law-enforcement officers.

§ 1441B. State implementation of the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004 (18 U.S.C. § 926C as amended in 2010 and 2013); carrying of concealed firearms by qualified retired law-enforcement officers.

§ 1442. Carrying a concealed deadly weapon; class G felony; class D felony.

§ 1443. Carrying a concealed dangerous instrument; class A misdemeanor.

§ 1444. Possessing a destructive weapon; class E felony.

§ 1445. Unlawfully dealing with a dangerous weapon; unclassified misdemeanor; Class E or G felony [Effective until June 30, 2025].

§ 1445. Unlawfully dealing with a dangerous weapon; unclassified misdemeanor; Class E or G felony [Effective June 30, 2025].

§ 1446. Unlawfully dealing with a switchblade knife; unclassified misdemeanor.

§ 1446A. Undetectable knives; commercial manufacture, import for commercial sale, or offers for commercial sale; or possession.

§ 1447. Possession of a deadly weapon during commission of a felony; class B felony.

§ 1447A. Possession of a firearm during commission of a felony; class B felony.

§ 1448. Possession and purchase of deadly weapons by persons prohibited; penalties [Effective until June 30, 2025].

§ 1448. Possession and purchase of deadly weapons by persons prohibited; penalties [Effective June 30, 2025].

§ 1448A. Background checks for sales of firearms.

§ 1448B. Background checks for sales of firearms — Unlicensed persons.

§ 1448C. Civil procedures to relinquish firearms or ammunition.

§ 1449. Wearing body armor during commission of felony; class B felony.

§ 1450. Receiving a stolen firearm; class F felony.

§ 1451. Theft of a firearm; class F felony.

§ 1452. Unlawfully dealing with knuckles-combination knife; class B misdemeanor.

§ 1453. Unlawfully dealing with martial arts throwing star; class B misdemeanor.

§ 1454. Giving a firearm to person prohibited; class F felony.

§ 1455. Engaging in a firearms transaction on behalf of another; class E felony; class C felony.

§ 1456. Unsafe storage of a firearm; class A or B misdemeanor.

§ 1457. Possession of a weapon in a Safe School and Recreation Zone; class D, E, or F felony; class A or B misdemeanor.

§ 1458. Removing a firearm from the possession of a law-enforcement officer; class C felony.

§ 1459. Possession of a weapon with a removed, obliterated or altered serial number.

§ 1459A. Possession of an unfinished firearm frame or receiver with no serial number.

§ 1460. Possession of firearm while under the influence.

§ 1461. Report of loss, theft of firearm.

§ 1462. Covert or undetectable firearms; class E or D felony.

§ 1463. Untraceable firearms; class E or D felony.

§ 1464. Legislative findings.

§ 1465. Definitions related to assault weapons.

§ 1466. Manufacture, sale, transport, transfer, purchase, receipt, and possession of assault weapons; class E or F felony.

§ 1467. Voluntary certificate of possession.

§ 1468. Definitions related to large-capacity magazines.

§ 1469. Large-capacity magazines prohibited; class E felony; class B misdemeanor; or civil violation [Effective until Jan. 1, 2024].

§ 1469. Large-capacity magazines prohibited; class E felony; class B misdemeanor; or civil violation [Effective Jan. 1, 2024].

§ 1469A. Possession of a large-capacity magazine during the commission of a felony; class B felony.

§ 1470. Definitions.

§ 1471. Prohibited acts.

§ 1472. Penalties.

§ 1473. Preclusions.

§ 1474. Detention and questioning of person suspected of violating § 1471 of this title; limitations on liability; posting of notice.