Title 3 — Executive
37 chapters · 651 sections in this title.
3 V.I.C. § 1011 Sale by Government Secretary; prices; deposit of moneys
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The Lieutenant Governor may sell the publications provided for in this chapter at such prices as may be fair to the Government of the United States Virgin Islands. All moneys received from such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury and credited to the General Fund.
3 V.I.C. § 1012 Purchase of binders for Register
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(a) The Lieutenant Governor is authorized to negotiate for and purchase, from time to time, loose-leaf binders in such form and quantities as he directs, to be used for the purpose of containing copies of the Virgin Islands Register provided for in subchapter IV of this chapter. …
3 V.I.C. § 1031 Authorization of appropriations
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There is authorized to be appropriated to the Lieutenant Governor such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
3 V.I.C. § 911 Definitions
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(a) In this chapter, unless specifically otherwise indicated:(a) “agency” means any officer, department, bureau, division, board, authority, agency, commission or institution of the Virgin Islands of the United States except the judicial and legislative branches.(b) “Regulation” …
3 V.I.C. § 912 Authority to adopt regulations
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Except as provided in section 934 of this title, nothing in this chapter confers authority upon or augments the authority of any agency to adopt, administer or enforce any regulation. Each regulation adopted, to be effective, must be within the scope of authority conferred and in…
3 V.I.C. § 913 Approval by the Governor; review by the Legislature; public notice
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(a) On and after July 1, 1968, no executive or administrative regulation, duly promulgated and issued in accordance with authority granted by law, may have the force and effect of law unless it is approved by the Governor, filed and published as required by section 933 of this ch…
3 V.I.C. § 931 Prior regulations
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Within three months after June 24, 1958, every agency shall prepare and file with the Government Secretary an original and two duplicate copies of every regulation adopted by it and which is still in force and effect, together with a citation of the statutory authority pursuant t…
3 V.I.C. § 932 Invalidity of unfiled prior regulations
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Any regulation made by an agency of the Virgin Islands prior to June 24, 1958, and not filed in the office of the Government Secretary within three months after June 24, 1958, as required by section 931 of this title, shall be void and of no effect. The Government Secretary may, …
3 V.I.C. § 933 Filing of new regulations; publication in Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations
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In addition to the requirements of section 913 of this chapter, no regulation hereafter made by an agency of the Virgin Islands shall become effective until an original and two duplicates, have been filed in the office of the Lieutenant Governor, and until it has been published i…
3 V.I.C. § 934 Regulations as to preparation and form; statutory references
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The Lieutenant Governor shall prescribe by regulations, the style in which regulations filed pursuant to section 933 of this title shall be prepared. His regulations shall prescribe a standard size form to be used in filing regulations pursuant to that section and shall provide t…
3 V.I.C. § 935 Indorsement of time of filing; public inspection
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The Lieutenant Governor shall indorse on all copies of the regulations presented for filing in his office the time and date of filing. He shall maintain a permanent file of such regulations in his office for public inspection.
3 V.I.C. § 936 Approval by Lieutenant Governor
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The Lieutenant Government Secretary shall examine each regulation filed with him pursuant to section 933 of this title to determine whether it complies with the regulations issued by him pursuant to section 934 of this title. If he approves, he shall indorse his approval on each …
3 V.I.C. § 937 Correction of regulations
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(a) If upon examination the Lieutenant Governor determines that a regulation does not comply with the regulations issued pursuant to section 934 of this title, he may—(a) return it to the issuing agency, with notice of his objections, for correction and conformance; or(b) make su…
3 V.I.C. § 938 Circumstances requiring effectiveness prior to publication
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The provisions of section 933 of this subchapter requiring publication of regulations in the Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations may be dispensed with in all cases in which the regulations have been approved by the Governor and he certifies that because of emergency or other com…
3 V.I.C. § 939 Presumption of correctness of published regulation; judicial notice
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(a) The publication of a regulation in the Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations or the Virgin Islands Register raises a rebuttable presumption that the text of the regulation so published is the text of the regulation adopted. (b) The courts of the Virgin Islands shall take judic…
3 V.I.C. § 940 Regulations of federal agency
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Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 933 and 934 of this subchapter, an agency of the Virgin Islands may in a regulation incorporate by reference regulations promulgated by an agency of the United States as set forth in the Federal Register, without publishing such regulati…
3 V.I.C. § 941 Distribution of new regulations
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(1) The Lieutenant Governor shall distribute, within five weekdays after approval by the Governor, at least two copies of any regulation hereafter made by any agency of the Government of the Virgin Islands to each of the following libraries:(1) the Enid M. Baa Library, St. Thomas…
3 V.I.C. § 942 Distribution of documents other than regulations
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The Lieutenant Governor shall distribute or cause to be distributed within five weekdays after issuance of any document required to be published in accordance with section 982, subsection (a) of this title and immediately after issuance by the Attorney General of any written opin…
3 V.I.C. § 943 Repeal and mandatory update of rules and regulations
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(a) Any Board or Commission, Department, Division or Agency, mandated by statute to promulgate rules and regulations as may be reasonably necessary for the administration of their Board, Commission, Department, Division or Agency, shall review every five years their rules and reg…
3 V.I.C. § 961 Preparation and publication
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(a) The Lieutenant Governor is authorized to—(a) Contract for the compilation, codification and publication of all regulations filed with him pursuant to section 931 of this title. The publication of compiled regulations shall be known as the Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations.…
3 V.I.C. § 981 Supplements to Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations
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(a) The Lieutenant Secretary, at the time he contracts pursuant to section 961 of this title, is authorized to—(a) Contract for the continuing upkeep of the “Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations” through the preparation, compilation and publication of periodic supplements designe…
3 V.I.C. § 982 Documents other than regulations to be contained in Register
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The Virgin Islands Register shall also contain: (1) All gubernatorial proclamations, Executive Orders and Reorganization Plans except such as have no general applicability and legal effect or are effective only against Virgin Islands agencies or persons in their capacity as offic…
3 V.I.C. § 983 Filing of other documents; periodic publication of Register
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Material which, pursuant to section 982 of this title, should be printed in the Virgin Islands Register shall be filed in triplicate in the office of the Lieutenant Governor before the last day of each month in order to be printed in the Register appearing in the following monthl…
3 V.I.C. § 984 Notice section of Register; separate classification and distribution of other documents
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The material which, pursuant to section 982 of this title, is to be printed in the Virgin Islands Register, shall, as far as practicable, be grouped into a separate section of the Register so that this material will form a separate notice register which may be sold by the Lieuten…