Title 14 — Crimes
77 chapters · 525 sections in this title.
14 V.I.C. § 741 Impersonation of law enforcement officer
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Whoever directly or indirectly represents himself as a law enforcement officer, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
14 V.I.C. § 742 Acting in assumed character
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(1) Whoever impersonates another and in such assumed character does any act—(1) which, if it were done by the individual impersonated, might result in his liability—(A) to any suit or prosecution;(B) to pay any sum of money; or(C) to incur any charge, forfeiture or penalty; or(2)…
14 V.I.C. § 743 Falsifying driver's licenses or identification cards
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(a) It is unlawful for any person to:(1) Make a driver’s license or identification card if the person has no legal authority or right to make the license or identification card;(2) Obtain or possess a driver’s license or identification card that has been made by a person who has …
14 V.I.C. § 791 Forgery
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(1) Whoever, with intent to defraud another—(1) falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any charter, articles or certificate of incorporation, letters patent, deed, lease, indenture, obligation, will, testament, codicil, annuity, bond, covenant, bankbill or note, post-note…
14 V.I.C. § 792 Passing forged bills or notes; possession of; penalty
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(1) Whoever—(1) has in his possession or receives from another person any forged promissory note or bankbill, or bills for payment of money or property, with the intention to pass the same or to permit, cause, or procure the same to be uttered or passed in order to defraud any pe…
14 V.I.C. § 793 Making and passing fictitious bills and notes
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Whoever, with intent to defraud another person, makes, utters, passes, or publishes, or attempts to utter, pass or publish, any fictitious bill, note, or check, or other instrument in writing for the payment of money or property of some bank, corporation, partnership, or individu…
14 V.I.C. § 794 Sending or delivering false messages
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(1) Whoever, with intent to deceive, injure or defraud another person—(1) knowingly and willfully sends by telegraph, radio or cable a false or forged message, purporting to be from such telegraph, radio or cable office or from any other person;(2) willfully delivers or causes to…
14 V.I.C. § 795 Filing or recording forged instruments
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Whoever knowingly procures or offers any false or forged instrument to be filed, registered, or recorded in any public office within the Virgin Islands, which instrument if genuine, might be filed, registered or recorded under the laws of the Virgin Islands or under the laws of t…
14 V.I.C. § 831 Intent to defraud, sufficiency
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Whenever, by any provisions of this Code, an intent to defraud is necessary to constitute a crime, it is sufficient if any intent appears to defraud any person, as such term is defined in section 41 of Title 1, or any body politic.
14 V.I.C. § 832 Conveyance or concealment of property in fraud of creditors
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(1) Whoever—(1) fraudulently removes his property or effects beyond the jurisdiction of the courts or fraudulently sells, conveys, assigns, or conceals his property, with intent to defraud, hinder, or delay his creditors of their rights, claims, or demands; or(2) having an action…
14 V.I.C. § 833 Participating in frauds on creditors
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(1) Whoever—(1) is a party to any fraudulent conveyance of any property, real or personal, or any right or interest issuing out of the same, or to any bond, suit, judgment, or execution, contract or conveyance, had, made or contrived, with intent to deceive and defraud others, or…
14 V.I.C. § 834 Obtaining money by false pretense
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(1) Whoever knowingly and designedly, by false or fraudulent representation or pretenses, defrauds any other person of money or property, shall—(1) if such property or money was less than $100 in value, be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both; or(2…
14 V.I.C. § 835 Drawing and delivering worthless checks
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(a) Whoever makes, draws, utters, or delivers any check, draft or order for the payment of money—(1) to the value of $100 or more upon any bank or other depository knowing at the time of such making, drawing, uttering or delivering that the maker or drawer has not sufficient fund…
14 V.I.C. § 836 Production of fraudulent heir
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Whoever fraudulently produces an infant, falsely pretending it to have been born of any parent whose child would be entitled to inherit, with intent to intercept the inheritance, shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years.
14 V.I.C. § 837 Reselling sold property
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(1) Whoever, after once selling, bartering, or disposing of any property, real or personal, or any interest therein, or after executing any bond or agreement for the sale of such property, again willfully and with intent to defraud previous or subsequent purchasers—(1) sells, bar…
14 V.I.C. § 838 Misrepresentation of competency by a married person
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Whoever, being married, falsely and fraudulently represents himself or herself as competent to sell or mortgage any real estate to the validity of which sale or mortgage the assent or concurrence of his wife or her husband is necessary, and under such representation, willfully co…
14 V.I.C. § 839 Defrauding hotels, restaurants
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(a) Any person who shall put up at any hotel, motel, inn, restaurant or cafe as a guest and shall procure any food, entertainment or accommodation without paying therefor, except when credit is given therefor by express agreement, with intent to defraud such keeper thereof out of…
14 V.I.C. § 840 Defrauding pledgees
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(1) Whoever, after pledging as security any real or personal property whatever, for a loan or other security, during the existence of said pledge, with the intent to defraud the pledgee, his representatives or assigns, transfers, sells, takes, drives or carries away or otherwise …
14 V.I.C. § 841 Fraudulent burning of insured property
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Whoever willfully burns or in any other manner injures or destroys any property which is at the time insured against loss or damage by fire, or by any other casualty, with intent to defraud or prejudice the insurer, whether the same be the property or in possession of such person…
14 V.I.C. § 842 Fraudulent insurance claims
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(1) Whoever—(1) presents any false or fraudulent claim, or any proof in support of such claim, upon any contract of insurance for the payment of any loss; or(2) prepares, makes, or subscribes any account, certificate of survey, affidavit, or proof of loss, or other book, paper, o…
14 V.I.C. § 843 Fraudulent claims upon the government
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(a) Whoever knowingly or willfully(1) makes or presents any false, fictitious or fraudulent claim upon or against the Government of the Virgin Islands or any officer, department, board, commission, or other agency thereof; or(2) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, sch…
14 V.I.C. § 844 Evidence of false pretenses
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(1) Upon a trial for having, by any false pretense, obtained—(1) the signature of any person to any written instrument; or(2) from any person any valuable thing—no evidence shall be admitted of a false pretense expressed orally and unaccompanied by a false token or writing; unles…
14 V.I.C. § 845 Failure to supply full and truthful statement
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Whoever, being a seller, knowingly and willfully makes or delivers or causes to be made or delivered statements as provided for in sections 6-104 and 6-108 of Title 11A which do not include the names of all his creditors with the correct amount due and to become due to each of th…
14 V.I.C. § 846 Failure of purchaser to demand statement or to distribute proceeds or to notify creditors
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Whoever, being a purchaser, knowingly and willfully fails or neglects to demand from the seller the statement provided for in section 6-104 of Title 11A; or knowingly or willfully fails or neglects to perform any of the acts required of him by sections 6-105 and 6-106 of Title 11…
14 V.I.C. § 847 Issue of receipt for goods not received
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A warehouseman, or any officer, agent, or servant of a warehouseman, who issues or aids in issuing a receipt knowing that the goods for which such receipt is issued have not been actually received by such warehouseman, or are not under his actual control at the time of issuing su…
14 V.I.C. § 848 Issue of receipt containing false statement
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A warehouseman, or any officer, agent or servant of a warehouseman, who fraudulently issues or aids in fraudulently issuing a receipt for goods knowing that it contains any false statement shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
14 V.I.C. § 849 Issue of duplicate receipts not so marked
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A warehouseman, or any officer, agent, or servant of a warehouseman, who issues or aids in issuing a duplicate or additional negotiable receipt for goods knowing that a former negotiable receipt for the same goods or any part of them is outstanding and uncancelled, without plainl…
14 V.I.C. § 850 Issue for warehouseman's goods of receipts which do not state that fact
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Where there are deposited with or held by a warehouseman goods of which he is owner, either solely or jointly or in common with others, such warehouseman, or any of his officers, agents, or servants who, knowing this ownership, issues or aids in issuing a negotiable receipt for s…
14 V.I.C. § 851 Delivery of goods without obtaining negotiable receipt
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A warehouseman, or any officer, agent, or servant of a warehouseman who delivers goods out of the possession of such warehouseman, knowing that a negotiable receipt the negotiation of which would transfer the right to the possession of such goods is outstanding and uncancelled, w…
14 V.I.C. § 852 Negotiation of receipt for mortgaged goods
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Any person who deposits goods to which he has not title, or upon which there is a lien or mortgage, and who takes for such goods a negotiable receipt which he afterwards negotiates for value with intent to deceive and without disclosing his want of title or the existence of the l…
14 V.I.C. § 881 Negligently allowing boiler to burst
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(1) Whoever having charge of any steam boiler or steam engine, or other apparatus for generating or employing steam, willfully or from neglect, creates or allows to be created, such an undue quantity of steam as to burst or break the boiler, engine, or apparatus, or to cause any …
14 V.I.C. § 882 Abandoning boiler under pressure
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Whoever willfully abandons a steam boiler while said boiler is under pressure of steam shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
14 V.I.C. § 883 Disobeying orders of fireman, policeman, etc
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Whoever disobeys the lawful orders of any police officer or fireman, or offers any resistance to or interferes with the lawful efforts of any fireman or company of firemen to extinguish a fire, or engages in any disorderly conduct calculated to prevent the fire from being extingu…
14 V.I.C. § 884 Explosion endangering human life
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Whoever maliciously by the explosion of gunpowder or other explosive substance, destroys, throws down, or injures the whole or any part of any building, by means of which the life or safety of a human being is endangered, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more…
14 V.I.C. § 885 Failure to perform duties under health laws
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Whoever, being charged with the performance of any duty under the laws relating to the preservation of the public health, willfully neglects or refuses to perform the same, shall, except in cases where a specific punishment is prescribed, be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned…
14 V.I.C. § 886 Exposure in public place while infected with contagious disease
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Whoever willfully exposes himself or another afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease in any public place or thoroughfare, except in his necessary removal in a manner the least dangerous to the public health, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more tha…
14 V.I.C. § 887 Intoxicated physician; acts performed by
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Whoever, being a physician and in a state of intoxication, does any act as a physician to another person by which the life of such person is endangered, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
14 V.I.C. § 888 Exposure by another of HIV
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(a) Any person who exposes another to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by engaging in unprotected sexual activity or by sharing hypodermic needles/syringes when the infected person knows at the time of the unprotected sex/sharing of needles that he is infected with HIV, has…
14 V.I.C. § 895 Conversion of government property
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(a) Whoever embezzles, steals, purloins, or knowingly converts to his use or the use of another, or without authority, sells conveys or disposes of any record, voucher, warrant, money, or thing of value of the Virgin Islands or any department or agency thereof, or any property ma…
14 V.I.C. § 921 Murder defined
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Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought.
14 V.I.C. § 922 First and second degree murder defined
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(a) All murder which—(1) is perpetrated by means of poison, lying in wait, torture, detonation of a bomb or by any other kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing;(2) is committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate arson, burglary, kidnapping, rape, robbery o…
14 V.I.C. § 923 Punishment for murder
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(a) Whoever commits murder in the first degree shall be imprisoned for the remainder of his natural life without parole. (b) Whoever commits murder in the second degree shall be imprisoned for not less than five (5) years, provided, that if such second degree murder was perpetrat…
14 V.I.C. § 924 Manslaughter defined and classified
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(1) Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought. It is of two kinds—(1) voluntary; upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion; or(2) involuntary; in the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony; or in the culpable omission of so…
14 V.I.C. § 925 Punishment for manslaughter
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(a) Whoever commits voluntary manslaughter shall be imprisoned for not more than ten (10) years, provided, that if such voluntary manslaughter is perpetrated upon a law enforcement officer while such officer is engaged in the performance of his official duties, the perpetrator sh…
14 V.I.C. § 926 Excusable homicide defined
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(1) Homicide is excusable—(1) when committed by accident and misfortune, or in doing any lawful act by lawful means, with usual and ordinary caution, and without any unlawful intent; or(2) when committed by accident and misfortune, in the heat of passion, upon any sudden and suff…
14 V.I.C. § 927 Justifiable homicide defined
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(1) Homicide is justifiable when committed by—(1) public officers and those acting by their command in their aid and assistance,(A) in obedience to any judgment of a competent court;(B) when necessarily committed in overcoming actual resistance to the execution of some legal proc…
14 V.I.C. § 928 Acquittal on showing of justification or excuse
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Whenever a homicide appears to be justifiable or excusable, the person charged must, upon his trial, be acquitted and discharged.
14 V.I.C. § 929 Law enforcement officer defined
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For purposes of this chapter, the term “law enforcement officer” shall mean a police officer, probation officer, parole officer, correction officer, warden, prison guard and marshal.
14 V.I.C. § 961 Incest defined; punishment
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Persons being within the degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are declared by law to be void, who knowingly intermarry with each other, or who commit fornication or adultery with each other shall each be imprisoned for not more than 10 years.
14 V.I.C. § 991 Cruelty toward incompetents
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Whoever treats harshly, cruelly, or unkindly, or neglects any duty towards, any idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane person, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.