Title 20, Highways and Motor Vehicles

(1) The operator of a taxi may continually or alternately use, at his option, his taxi in one of two ways as follows:(1) As a public car, picking up and discharging passengers along a main route limited only by the vehicles passengers capacity; or(2) As a car for hire, transporti…

(a) In automobiles operated for hire no person shall be carried without the consent of the person engaging the automobile. (b) No motor bus, safari, surrey, or commercial carrying passenger vehicle shall carry any passenger in excess of its capacity. The carrying capacity of all …

(a) The maximum rates to be collected for the service of motor vehicles operated for hire shall be fixed by the Taxicab Commission after investigation and receipt of evidence from any interested parties, provided that the rates fixed by law prior to and together with the enactmen…

SCHEDULE I SCHEDULE I ISLAND OF ST. CROIX ISLAND OF ST. CROIX *MAXIMUM RATES — MOTOR VEHICLES FOR HIRE *MAXIMUM RATES — MOTOR VEHICLES FOR HIRE (per person) (per person) TOFROM CHRISTIANSTEDAnnaly$10.25Anna's Hope1.50Bethlehem, Upper or Lower, Exp. Station, King's Hill, LaReine3.…

(a) After October 30, 1978, no person, company, corporation, or partnership may register an automobile for hire or purchase license plates therefor or own an automobile for hire enterprise within the Virgin Islands who has not first obtained an automobile-for-hire medallion as pr…

(a) The Taxicab Commission shall keep and maintain an accurate Registry of Medallions which shall include each medallion registration number, the island for which it is valid, its owner, the attachment and cancellation of any lien or encumbrances against any medallion, the number…

(a) Any medallion valid under this subchapter may be encumbered with a lien or other such evidence of debenture. No such encumbrance shall attach to any medallion until the encumbrance is reported to the Taxicab Commission and recorded in the Registry of Medallions. No encumbranc…

Whenever the Taxicab Commission is required to sell a medallion by auction, and in selling all medallions newly issued on or after January 1, 1979, the Taxicab Commission shall cause to be advertised on the island for which a medallion is issued, timely notice of the sale by auct…

Upon the death of the owner of any medallion, the Taxicab Commission shall, at the option of the heirs, sell the medallion at auction to an approved buyer and pay the proceeds to the estate of the deceased, or transfer the registration of the medallion to an heir or group of heir…

Any owner of a medallion which is lost, destroyed, stolen, or involuntarily mutilated shall report such incident to the Taxicab Commission promptly after discovery of such happening. Such report shall be made by sworn declaration under penalty of perjury and the owner shall state…

(a) No person shall willfully mutilate, carve, engrave, destroy, or otherwise deface in such a manner as to render undistinguishable the number and island of issue on any medallion minted under this subchapter. (b) No person shall forge, imitate, reproduce or otherwise falsely co…