2025 Delaware Code
Title 7 - Conservation
Chapter 7. REGULATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS CONCERNING GAME AND FISH
Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 718. Requiring wearing of hunter orange in the hunting of deer; violation and penalty.

Universal Citation:
7 DE Code § 718 (2025)
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§ 718. Requiring wearing of hunter orange in the hunting of deer; violation and penalty.

(a) “Hunter orange” means a daylight fluorescent orange color with a dominant wave length between 595 and 605 nanometers, and exotation purity of not less than 85 percent and illuminous factor of not less than 40 percent.

(b) During a time when it is lawful to take deer with a firearm, any person hunting any wildlife except migratory game birds in this State shall display on that person's head, chest and back a total of not less than 400 square inches of hunter orange material.

(c) If a hunter utilizes a ground blind to hunt deer during a time when it is lawful to take deer with a firearm and the hunter is completely concealed within a blind, then 400 square inches of hunter orange material shall be placed within 10 feet outside of the blind and at least 3 feet off of the ground.

(d) Whoever violates this section shall be guilty of a class D environmental violation.

7 Del. C. 1953, § 705;  59 Del. Laws, c. 97, § 1;  60 Del. Laws, c. 302, § 1;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1;  70 Del. Laws, c. 275, §§ 61, 62, 71;  70 Del. Laws, c. 502, § 1;  76 Del. Laws, c. 301, §§ 1, 2;  79 Del. Laws, c. 421, § 3; 
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