Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 257

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 17, TITLE 7, DELAWARE CODE, RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF A PERMIT FOR THE TRAINING OF DOGS.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware:

Section 1. § 1704, Title 7, Delaware Code, is hereby amended to include subsection (c) to read as follows :

The Board of Game and Fish Commissioners may issue an annual permit to the owner or custodian of any retriever dog, upon submission to the Board of satisfactory evidence that said owner or custodian is a trainer of retriever dogs, authorizing the holder of said permit to train retriever dogs at any time of the year provided that no wild game is used for training purposes.

Persons with a permit to train retriever dogs may, with shotgun, shoot at, kill and legally possess any artificially reared game. Said game must be only hand liberated during dog training.

Approved March 4, 1968.