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2025 Delaware Code
Title 7 - Conservation
Chapter 7. REGULATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS CONCERNING GAME AND FISH
Subchapter II. Wild Birds Other Than Game Birds, Migratory Wild Fowl
§ 734. Prohibitions respecting wild birds other than game birds; birds not protected.
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§ 734. Prohibitions respecting wild birds other than game birds; birds not protected.
No person shall catch, kill, have in possession (living or dead), purchase, sell or expose for sale, transport or ship any wild bird other than a game bird, or any part of the plumage, skin or body of any such bird, or any game bird, except as expressly permitted by law; but house sparrows, and starlings may be killed, sold or shipped by any person in any manner and at any time.
26 Del. Laws, c. 165, §§ 1, 4; Code 1915, §§ 2373, 2377; 28 Del. Laws, c. 197, § 1; 30 Del. Laws, c. 176, § 1; Code 1935, §§ 2818, 2825, 2890; 7 Del. C. 1953, § 741; 57 Del. Laws, c. 85; 57 Del. Laws, c. 739, § 59; 59 Del. Laws, c. 148, § 2; 70 Del. Laws, c. 275, § 77;
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