Title 20 — Highways and Motor Vehicles
18 chapters · 279 sections in this title.
20 V.I.C. § 401 Registration and licenses; operators' badges; identification cards
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(a) No person may operate an automobile for hire until he has applied for and been issued an operator's badge and an identification card by the Virgin Islands Taxicab Commission, hereinafter the “Commission”. The Taxicab Commission may not issue an operator's badge or an identifi…
20 V.I.C. § 401a Issuance of badge and identification card without compliance with requirements; number of operators; renewal
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The Taxicab Commission shall issue a badge and identification card to each person who applies under section 401, Title 20, Virgin Islands Code, for his first badge and card as an operator of an automobile for hire licensed and registered as such in the name of a person who, prior…
20 V.I.C. § 401b Issuance of citations: Procedure before Taxicab Commission
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(1) Taxicab inspectors are authorized to issue citations, returnable before the Taxicab Commission for violations of chapter 37, Title 20, Virgin Islands Code, or of any regulations of the Taxicab Commission:(1) Whenever any person is apprehended for any violation of this chapter…
20 V.I.C. § 402 Operation of automobiles for hire
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(a) Operators of automobiles for hire shall be decently attired and shall be polite to passengers. (b) Automobiles operated for hire shall be maintained in a clean condition. (c) Articles mislaid by passengers in automobiles for hire shall be given to the passengers or turned in …
20 V.I.C. § 402a Classification of taxi service
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(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…
20 V.I.C. § 403 Number of passengers
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(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 …
20 V.I.C. § 404 Tariff of automobiles for hire
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(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…
20 V.I.C. § 405 Maximum rates for service of motor vehicles operated for hire in Virgin Islands
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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.…
20 V.I.C. § 406 Repealed. Dec. 27, 1974, No. 3640, § 2, Sess. L. 1974, p. 265
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20 V.I.C. § 406 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.
20 V.I.C. § 407 Medallion—Required for automobiles-for-hire, description, issuance, fees
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(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…
20 V.I.C. § 408 Registry of Medallions, resale, two medallion limit, approved buyers
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(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…
20 V.I.C. § 409 Medallions—Liens and encumbrances against, limits of same
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(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…
20 V.I.C. § 410 Sale of medallions by auction
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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…
20 V.I.C. § 411 Death of medallion owner
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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…
20 V.I.C. § 412 Medallion—Lost, destroyed, stolen, or mutilated
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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…
20 V.I.C. § 413 Crimes and penalties
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(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…