Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 19

INCLUDING CHUKAR PARTRIDGE IN GAME BIRD CLASSIFICATION

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 7 TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE OF 1953 RELATING TO REGULATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS CONCERNING GAME AND FISH; GAME BIRDS; BY INCLUDING CHUKAR PARTRIDGE IN THE GAME BIRD CLASSIFICATION.

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

Section 1. § 702, Chapter 7, Title 7 of the Delaware Code of 1953 is amended to read as follows:

§ 702. Game birds

The following shall be considered game birds: the Anatidae, commonly known as geese, brant and river and sea ducks; the Rallidae, commonly known as rails, coots, mudhens and gallinules; the Limicolae, commonly known as shore birds, plovers, surf birds, snipe, woodcock, sandpipers, tattlers and curlews; the Gallinae, commonly known as wild turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens, pheasants, chukar partridges, partridges and quail; also the reed bird of the Icteridae and the dove.

Approved March 23, 1953.