Title 19 — Health
55 chapters · 745 sections in this title.
19 V.I.C. § 4101 Definitions
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(a) As used in this chapter:(a) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Health of the Virgin Islands.(b) “The Federal Act” means the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers Construction Act of 1963 (P.L. 88–164), as now and hereafter amended.(c) “The Secretary…
19 V.I.C. § 4102 Administration
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(1) The Department of Health, through the Commissioner thereof, shall constitute the sole agency of the Government of the Virgin Islands for the purpose of:(1) making inventories of existing facilities, surveying the need for construction of facilities for the mentally retarded a…
19 V.I.C. § 4103 General powers and duties
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(a) In carrying out the purposes of this chapter the Commissioner is authorized, subject to the approval of the Governor:(a) To require such reports, make such inspections and investigations and prescribe such regulations as he deems necessary;(b) To provide such methods of admin…
19 V.I.C. § 4104 Repealed. June 24, 1987, No. 5265, § 1304(j), Sess. L. 1987, p. 104
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19 V.I.C. § 4104 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.
19 V.I.C. § 4105 Administrative appropriations
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For the purposes of administering the provisions of this chapter, there is hereby appropriated such funds as may be received from the Federal Government and other sources for such purposes which shall be expended upon proper certification by the Commissioner.
19 V.I.C. § 4110 Construction program
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The Commissioner is authorized to develop construction programs for facilities for the mentally retarded and community behavioral health centers for the mentally ill, which shall be based respectively on Insular-wide inventories of existing facilities for the mentally retarded an…
19 V.I.C. § 4111 State plans
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The Commissioner is authorized to prepare and submit to the Secretary, State plans which shall include the programs for construction of facilities developed under section 4110 of this chapter and which shall provide for the establishment, administration and operation of such cons…
19 V.I.C. § 4112 Standards for maintenance and operation
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The Commissioner shall by regulation prescribe, and shall be authorized to enforce, standards for the maintenance and operation of facilities for the mentally retarded and community behavioral health centers which receive Federal aid for construction under the State plans.
19 V.I.C. § 4113 Priority of projects
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The State plans shall set forth the relative need for the several projects included in the construction programs determined in accordance with the regulations prescribed pursuant to the Federal Act, and shall provide for the construction insofar as financial resources available t…
19 V.I.C. § 4114 Applications
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Applications for mental retardation facility or community behavioral health center construction projects for which Federal funds are requested shall be submitted to the Commissioner by the Government of the Virgin Islands, a political subdivision thereof or by a public or other n…
19 V.I.C. § 4115 Hearing; forwarding of applications
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The Commissioner shall afford to every applicant for a construction project an opportunity for a fair hearing. If the Commissioner, after affording reasonable opportunity for development and submission of applications, finds that a project application complies with the requiremen…
19 V.I.C. § 4116 Inspection of projects
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From time to time the Commissioner, or his duly authorized agents, shall inspect each construction project approved by the Secretary, and if the inspection so warrants, the Commissioner shall certify to the Secretary that work has been performed upon the project, or purchases hav…
19 V.I.C. § 4117 Mental Retardation Facilities Fund and Community Behavioral Health Centers Construction Fund
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The Commissioner is hereby authorized to receive federal funds in behalf of, and transmit them to, such applicant. There is hereby established, separate and apart from all public monies of this territory, a Mental Retardation Facilities Construction Fund and a Community Behaviora…