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2025 Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure
Chapter 77. Lethal Violence Protective Order
§ 7707. Limitation on liability.

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10 DE Code § 7707 (2025)
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§ 7707. Limitation on liability.

(a) Nothing in this chapter precludes a petitioner or law-enforcement officer from removing a firearm, projectile weapon, or ammunition under other authority or filing criminal charges when probable cause exists.

(b) A law-enforcement officer, who in good faith does not seek a lethal violence protective order under this chapter, is immune from civil liability.

(c) A law-enforcement agency is immune from civil or criminal liability for any damage or deterioration of a firearm, projectile weapon, or ammunition stored or transported under this section. This subsection does not apply if the damage or deterioration occurred as a result of recklessness, gross negligence, or intentional misconduct by the law-enforcement agency or federally-licensed firearms dealer.

81 Del. Laws, c. 274, § 1;  84 Del. Laws, c. 525, § 44; 
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