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Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 701. Game animals. - The following shall be considered game animals:
§ 702. Game birds. - The following shall be considered game birds:
§ 703. Open season for game. - The open season during which it shall be lawful to...
§ 704. Prohibited hunting and trapping devices and methods; confiscation of devices; primitive weapon season. - (a) No person shall make use of any pitfall, deadfall,...
§ 705. Visiting traps within 24-hour periods; killing of trapped animals. - (a) No person who sets or makes use of any...
§ 706. Damaging nest, den or lair of protected wildlife or trees, stumps or logs on another's property. - No person shall needlessly destroy, break or interfere with any...
§ 707. Hunting or shooting from motor vehicle, boats or farm machinery prohibited; penalty. - (a) No person shall shoot at or kill any bird...
§ 708. Loaded firearms prohibited in or on motor vehicles, motorboats or farm machinery. - No person shall have a loaded shotgun or rifle in...
§ 709. Hours for hunting; federal laws and regulations; prohibitions and exceptions. - No person shall pursue, catch, take or kill any migratory...
§ 710. Use of silencer on gun; penalty. - Whoever uses a silencer or noise-reducing contrivance on any gun,...
§ 711. Hunting with automatic-loading gun prohibited; penalty. - (a) No person shall hunt for game birds or game...
§ 712. Prohibition against Sunday hunting. - (a) On Sundays, no person shall hunt or pursue any...
§ 713. Fire regulations; penalty. - (a) No person shall: (1) Fire or cause to be...
§ 714. Trespassing; penalty. - Whoever enters upon the lands or waters of another within...
§ 715. Possession of protected wildlife; prohibitions. - (a) No person shall have more than 2 times the...
§ 716. Hunting, fishing or trapping without a license; penalties. - Any person required by this title to obtain a license...
§ 717. Frightening or harassing migratory birds; penalties. - Any person who shall frighten or harass migratory birds while...
§ 718. Requiring wearing of hunter orange in the hunting of deer; violation and penalty. - (a) “Hunter orange” means a daylight fluorescent orange color with...
§ 719. Discharge of firearms on or near public roads and public rights-of-way; penalty. - (a) No person, except in lawful self-defense, shall discharge any...
§ 720. Conditional permits for disabled persons. - Notwithstanding §§ 707, 708 and 719 of this title, the...
§ 721. Killer, body-gripping traps. - Anyone who sets, tends or attempts to set or tend...
§ 722. Prohibition against use of lights; penalties. - (a) No person or persons shall hunt or attempt to...
§ 723. Hunting or trapping in safety zones; penalty. - (a) (1) No person, except the owner or occupant, shall...
§ 724. Wilful obstruction or impeding of lawful hunting, fishing or trapping activities. - (a) No person shall wilfully obstruct or impede the participation...
§ 725. Falconry; permit; regulations; hunting. - (a) No person may take, transport or possess any raptor...
§ 726. Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact. - (1) The Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact is an interstate agreement...
Subchapter II. Wild Birds Other Than Game Birds, Migratory Wild Fowl
§ 734. Prohibitions respecting wild birds other than game birds; birds not protected. - No person shall catch, kill, have in possession (living or...
§ 735. Nests and eggs protected. - No person shall take or needlessly destroy the nests or...
§ 736. State game refuges; wildlife refuges. - (a) All state lands, except as otherwise provided, and state,...
§ 737. Exception to application of §§ 734, 735 and 736 for holder of license for scientific purposes. - Sections 734, 735 and 736 of this title shall not...
§ 738. Erection and removal of booby, brush or stake blinds. - No booby, brush or stake blinds shall be erected sooner...
§ 739. Prohibitions respecting bald eagles; disturbing, damaging or destroying nests; eggs; penalties. - (a) Any person who disturbs, destroys or in any manner...
§ 740. Crows. - The crow may be hunted in accordance with federal regulations.
§ 741. Snow geese. - Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, a person may...
Subchapter III. Muskrats
§ 750. Placement of traps for muskrats. - The habitat of a muskrat shall be a marsh of...
§ 751. Muskrats driven from shelter by flood or freshet. - No person shall take, kill or capture, by any means...
§ 752. Hunting muskrats with dog; penalty. - (a) No person shall hunt, take, catch or kill any...
§ 753. Muskrat nailing; destroying or damaging muskrat house, den; penalties. - (a) No person shall take, capture or kill, at any...
§ 754. Trespassing on property of another to kill muskrats; violations and penalties. - (a) Whoever enters into or upon, or trespasses upon the...
§ 755. Taking muskrat on public road or highway; penalties. - (a) No person shall take, capture or kill, in any...
§ 756. Diving or box trap; penalty. - (a) No person shall take, capture or kill, at any...
§ 757. Trapping muskrats or other fur-bearing animals adjacent to Broadkiln Creek without consent of landowner; penalty. - (a) No person shall trap or take muskrats or other...
§ 758. Extension of muskrat open season. - Notwithstanding § 703(1) of this title, the open season during...
Subchapter IV. Rabbits
§ 767. Rabbit or hare hunting with ferret. - No person shall hunt, take, kill or destroy any rabbit...
§ 768. Receipt of rabbits from without the State; penalties. - (a) No person shall receive from without the State any...
§ 769. License to sell rabbits received from another state. - A special license shall not be required for the purpose...
§ 770. Identifying rabbits received from another state. - All persons exposing rabbits for sale, which were received from...
§ 771. Bill of lading to be shown on demand. - All persons having rabbits in their possession and offering them...
Subchapter V. Terrapin
§ 781. Taking or destroying terrapin eggs; penalty. - Whoever takes or destroys any terrapin eggs found, or collected,...
§ 783. Terrapin taken or caught in Indian River or Rehoboth Bay — Use of dredges to take terrapin; penalty. - Whoever uses any dredge for the purpose of catching or...
§ 784. Terrapin raised in private ponds. - Nothing contained in this subchapter shall prevent any person from...
Subchapter VI. Other Game and Fish
§ 786. Raccoon and opossum. - (a) No person shall kill any raccoon or opossum, or...
§ 787. Protection of deer; penalties. - (a) No person shall hunt, chase or pursue with the...
§ 788. Exceptions to the prohibition against the killing of red fox. - (a) Notwithstanding § 703(2) of this title, red foxes may...
§ 789. Sale or shipment of red fox or red fox hides; penalty. - (a) No live red fox shall be sold, purchased, possessed...
§ 790. Digging out or killing female fox or her young whelps; penalty. - (a) No person shall dig out or in any manner...
§ 791. Possession of red fox whelps. - Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter to the contrary,...
§ 792. Legal limit on bullfrogs; penalty. - No person shall take or kill more than 24 bullfrogs...
§ 793. Sale of bullfrogs. - Notwithstanding any other provisions of Part I of this title,...
§ 794. Deer accidentally killed by motor vehicle. - Any person, who, while operating a motor vehicle upon any...
§ 795. Prohibition of sale or transportation of live skunks or raccoons. - No live skunks or raccoons shall be sold or possessed...
§ 796. Limitations on harvesting gray fox. - (a) It shall be unlawful to harvest gray fox except...
Subchapter VII. Woodchuck or Groundhog
§ 797. Woodchuck or groundhog not protected wildlife. - The animal known as woodchuck or groundhog shall not be...
§ 798. Taking of woodchuck or groundhog. - The woodchuck or groundhog may be hunted, trapped, caught, shot,...
Subchapter VIII. Non-native Wildlife
§ 800. Definitions. - For the purposes of Part I of this title, unless...
§ 801. Non-native wildlife; rules and regulations. - The Department, with the advice and recommendations of the Freshwater...
§ 802. Non-native wildlife injurious to native wildlife, agriculture, and other interests. - The Department may issue an appropriate order authorizing and specifying...