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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
§ 739. Prohibitions respecting bald eagles; disturbing, damaging or destroying nests; eggs; penalties.
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§ 739. Prohibitions respecting bald eagles; disturbing, damaging or destroying nests; eggs; penalties.
(a) Any person who disturbs, destroys or in any manner damages a bald eagle's nest or aerie shall be guilty of a class A environmental misdemeanor.
(b) Any person shooting, killing or attempting to kill a bald eagle or any person who removes, or attempts to remove eggs or eaglets from their nest or aerie shall be guilty of a class A environmental misdemeanor.
(c) Any person who barters, offers to barter, trades, offers to trade or possesses any bald eagle, bald eagle eggs or eaglets shall be guilty of a class A environmental misdemeanor.
7 Del. C. 1953, § 748; 57 Del. Laws, c. 88; 70 Del. Laws, c. 275, §§ 74-77;
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