Title 1 — General Provisions
13 chapters · 157 sections in this title.
1 V.I.C. § 1 Designation and citation of Code
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(a) The laws embraced in the titles herein contained, as amended from time to time, constitute the “Virgin Islands Code.” (b) This Code may be cited by the abbreviation “V.I.C.” preceded by the number of the title and followed by the number of the section, chapter, or part in the…
1 V.I.C. § 10 Effect of repeal of validating Acts
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The repeal by section 5 of this title of any Act or ordinance validating any previous Act, ordinance, contract or transaction does not affect the validity of the previous Act, ordinance, contract or transaction, but the same remains as valid as if there had been no such repeal.
1 V.I.C. § 11 Supplements and substitute volumes as part of Code
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The laws contained in any current pocket supplements or substitute or replacement volumes to this Code, printed and published under contract or otherwise as authorized by law, constitute, prima facie, a part of this Code if the laws, as so contained, purport to represent reproduc…
1 V.I.C. § 12 Repealed. Dec. 29, 2006, No. 6902, § 2, Sess. L. 2006, p. 323
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1 V.I.C. § 12 Statutes current through Act 9046 of the 2025 session of the 36th Legislature, including all code changes through October 25, 2025 Virgin Islands Code AnnotatedCopyright © 2026 All rights reserved.
1 V.I.C. § 13 Repealed. Dec. 29, 2006, No. 6902, § 2, Sess. L. 2006, p. 323
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1 V.I.C. § 13 Statutes current through Act 9046 of the 2025 session of the 36th Legislature, including all code changes through October 25, 2025 Virgin Islands Code AnnotatedCopyright © 2026 All rights reserved.
1 V.I.C. § 14 Correction of errors; classification of acts
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(a) In preparing the laws to be published in any current pocket supplement or substitute or replacement volumes to this Code, prepared under contract or otherwise as authorized by law, the publisher may not alter the sense, meaning or effect of any act of the Legislature but it m…
1 V.I.C. § 2 Territorial scope of Code
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This Code applies throughout the territory of the Virgin Islands, except as otherwise expressly provided.
1 V.I.C. § 3 Effective date of Code
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This Code shall take effect and be in force in the Virgin Islands on and after September 1, 1957, except as otherwise expressly provided.
1 V.I.C. § 4 Application of common law; restatements
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The rules of the common law, as expressed in the restatements of the law approved by the American Law Institute, and to the extent not so expressed, as generally understood and applied in the United States, shall be the rules of decision in the courts of the Virgin Islands in cas…
1 V.I.C. § 5 Repeal of prior laws
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(1) The following laws, ordinances, resolutions, regulations, and executive orders are hereby repealed—(1) all local laws, ordinances, resolutions, regulations, and executive orders, or parts thereof, heretofore having application in any part of the Virgin Islands, the provisions…
1 V.I.C. § 6 Danish laws and ordinances
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(a) Unless expressly continued by provisions of this Code, and except as otherwise provided herein, no general, local, or colonial law, ordinance, decree, order, placard, or regulation which prior to the effective date of this Code was applicable in the Virgin Islands or any part…
1 V.I.C. § 7 Continuation of existing rights and liabilities
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(a) The repeal of the codes, laws, ordinances, resolutions and executive orders provided for in section 5 of this title does not affect any act done, or any cause of action accruing or accrued, or established, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil action, or any…
1 V.I.C. § 8 Effect on private or special laws and resolutions
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No private or special Act, ordinance, or resolution, in effect on the effective date of this Code, and not revised and brought into this Code, is affected by any provision of this Code.
1 V.I.C. § 9 Effect on laws heretofore repealed
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No law, resolution, or executive order which heretofore has been repealed is revived by the repeal provided for in section 5 of this title.