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2025 Delaware Code
Title 7 - Conservation
Chapter 7. REGULATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS CONCERNING GAME AND FISH
Subchapter III. Muskrats
§ 756. Diving or box trap; penalty.
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§ 756. Diving or box trap; penalty.
(a) No person shall take, capture or kill, at any time, within the State, any muskrat with a trap commonly known as a diving or box trap. The setting of any such trap in any muskrat den, lead, or runway shall be prima facie evidence of an offense against this section.
(b) Whoever violates this section shall be guilty of a class D environmental violation for each offense.
Code 1915, § 2388C; 34 Del. Laws, c. 183, §§ 1, 2; Code 1935, § 2842; 43 Del. Laws, c. 195, § 1; 7 Del. C. 1953, § 768; 70 Del. Laws, c. 275, §§ 84, 86; 79 Del. Laws, c. 421, § 3;
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