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2025 Delaware Code
Title 7 - Conservation
Chapter 7. REGULATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS CONCERNING GAME AND FISH
Subchapter III. Muskrats
§ 753. Muskrat nailing; destroying or damaging muskrat house, den; penalties.
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§ 753. Muskrat nailing; destroying or damaging muskrat house, den; penalties.
(a) No person shall take, capture or kill, at any time, within this State, any muskrat by the method commonly known as nailing; or dig into, tear down, remove, interfere with, destroy or damage in any way any muskrat house, nest, den, lair or refuge.
(b) Whoever violates this section shall be guilty of a class C environmental violation for each muskrat house, nest, den, lair or refuge, dug into, torn down, removed, interfered with, destroyed or damaged in any way.
Code 1915, § 2388A; 32 Del. Laws, c. 172, § 1; Code 1935, § 2840; 7 Del. C. 1953, § 764; 70 Del. Laws, c. 275, §§ 80, 86; 9 Del. Laws, c. 421, § 3;
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