(a) The Virgin Islands Police Department shall develop and maintain an automated license plate reader system database.
(b) The Department and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles may collect, and store captured images and plate data for the purposes described and as prescribed in this subchapter.
(c) The captured images and plate data must be stored immediately upon collection and immediately transferred to the database of the Bureau and not accessed except for a purpose identified in section 523(a).
(d) All captured images and plate data collected must be destroyed no later than 24 months after the data was originally collected unless the data is the subject matter for a law enforcement purpose.