2025 Delaware Code
Title 7 - Conservation
Chapter 7. REGULATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS CONCERNING GAME AND FISH
Subchapter III. Muskrats
§ 751. Muskrats driven from shelter by flood or freshet.

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7 DE Code § 751 (2025)
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§ 751. Muskrats driven from shelter by flood or freshet.

No person shall take, kill or capture, by any means whatever, any muskrat during the time of any flood or freshet, when such flood or freshet may cause any muskrat to leave its usual and accustomed place of shelter and protection.

Whoever violates this section shall be guilty of a class D environmental violation for each offense.

26 Del. Laws, c. 165, § 14;  Code 1915, § 2387;  Code 1935, § 2838;  7 Del. C. 1953, § 762;  70 Del. Laws, c. 275, §§ 78, 86;  79 Del. Laws, c. 421, § 3; 
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