(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.

Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 753

  • 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) 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;