Delaware § 102 - Powers and duties.

§ 102. Powers and duties.

(a) The Department shall protect, manage and conserve all forms of protected wildlife of this State, and enforce by proper actions and proceedings the law relating thereto. The Department shall authorize such studies as are necessary to the work of the Department, and shall collect, classify and preserve such statistics, data and information as in its discretion will tend to promote the objectives of Parts I and II of this title.

(b) The Secretary shall employ Fish and Wildlife Agents and other necessary employees and shall fix the salaries of all such employees, who shall have the power to arrest in the same manner provided in subsection (c) of this section, and for the same purpose therein described, and be subject to and serve during the pleasure of the Secretary.

(c) The Department shall prescribe the form of licenses issued by it; shall collect all fees for licenses issued by it and all fines and forfeitures imposed for violations of the game and fish laws of this State; shall have authority to arrest without warrant for all violations of the game and fish laws of this State in order to carry out the provisions thereof. The Fish and Wildlife Agents shall also have the power to make arrests of persons violating § 518 of Title 17 in their presence or view or otherwise upon the issuance of an arrest warrant based on a showing of probable cause that the individual named in the warrant committed the violation.

(d) The Department may issue a permit to any recognized sportsmen’s club having its principal location in the State to hold field trials at any time on liberated game legally possessed or on liberated artificially propagated game legally possessed and take such game by shooting. Such game taken shall be immediately tagged for identification with seals or tags supplied by the Department, for which it shall receive 5 cents each. Game so tagged may be possessed, transported, bought and sold at any time and seals shall not be removed until game is finally prepared for consumption.

26 Del. Laws, c. 162, §§  3, 6;  26 Del. Laws, c. 164, §  15;  27 Del. Laws, c. 154;  27 Del. Laws, c. 155, §  3;  Code 1915, §§  2358B, 2360, 2363;  40 Del. Laws, c. 191, §§  2, 3;  Code 1935, §§  2804, 2806;  47 Del. Laws, c. 148, §  1;  7 Del. C. 1953, §  106;  49 Del. Laws, c. 98, §  1;  56 Del. Laws, c. 224;  57 Del. Laws, c. 450, §  1;  57 Del. Laws, c. 739, §§  7-12;  70 Del. Laws, c. 105, §§  2, 3;  70 Del. Laws, c. 275, §  1;