Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 718 – Requiring wearing of hunter orange in the hunting of deer; violation …
(a) “Hunter orange” means a daylight fluorescent orange color with a dominant wave length between 595 and 605 nanometers, and exotation purity of not less than 85 percent and illuminous factor of not less than 40 percent.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 718
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) During a time when it is lawful to take deer with a firearm, any person hunting any wildlife except migratory game birds in this State shall display on that person’s head, chest and back a total of not less than 400 square inches of hunter orange material.
(c) If a hunter utilizes a ground blind to hunt deer during a time when it is lawful to take deer with a firearm and the hunter is completely concealed within a blind, then 400 square inches of hunter orange material shall be placed within 10 feet outside of the blind and at least 3 feet off of the ground.
(d) Whoever violates this section shall be guilty of a class D environmental violation.
7 Del. C. 1953, § ?705; 59 Del. Laws, c. 97, § ?1; 60 Del. Laws, c. 302, § ?1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 275, §§ ?61, 62, 71; 70 Del. Laws, c. 502, § ?1; 76 Del. Laws, c. 301, §§ ?1, 2; 79 Del. Laws, c. 421, § ?3;