Title 14, Crimes

Any person who is required or authorized to arrest any person for a violation of the provisions of this chapter, is also authorized and required to seize any table, cards, dice or other apparatus or article suitable for gambling purposes including any digital devices, found in th…

(a) Property, whether real or personal, offered as a stake, or any money, property, or other things of value staked, paid, bet, wagered, laid, or deposited in connection with or as a part of any game of chance, lottery, gambling scheme or device, gift enterprise, or other trade s…

Whoever maliciously mutilates, tears, defaces, obliterates or destroys any written instrument, the property of another, the false making of which would be forgery, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.

(1) Whoever maliciously digs up, removes, displaces, breaks or otherwise injures, obstructs or destroys—(1) any public highway or bridge;(2) any private way laid out by authority of law; or(3) any bridge upon such highway or private way—shall be fined not more than $500 or impris…

(a) As used in this section, “utility” includes any person, firm, corporation, or association, whether private, public, quasi-public, or cooperative which is engaged in the sale, generation, provision, or delivery of gas, electricity, heat, water, oil, sewer service, telephone se…

(1) Whoever—(1) without authority of the owner or managing agent and with intent to defraud, takes water from any canal, well, cistern, ditch, flume or reservoir used for the purpose of holding or conveying water for manufacturing, agriculture, irrigation, generation of power or …

(1) Whoever—(1) willfully and maliciously defaces, breaks, destroys or removes any—(A) tomb, monument or gravestone erected to any deceased person;(B) memento or memorial; or(C) ornamental plant, tree or shrub appertaining to the place of burial of a human being; or(2) marks, def…

(a) Whoever willfully and without lawful authority defaces, damages, destroys or otherwise injures, in any way, any property, real or personal, of the Government of the Virgin Islands on the premises or grounds of a public school shall be fined not less than $5,000 nor more than …

The parents, guardians or other person having legal custody of a minor less than 18 years of age who shall injure any public or private school property shall be liable to (i) in the case of public school property, the Government of the Virgin Islands, or (ii) in the case of priva…

(a) Whoever willfully destroys or damages in any manner a public fire hydrant shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, shall be fined not less than $100 and not more than $500, or imprisoned not less than one month and not more than nine months or both, and shall pay to the Government o…

Whoever maliciously injures or destroys any real or personal property not his own, in cases not otherwise specified in this Code, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.

(a) Whoever willfully defaces, breaks, destroys, removes or otherwise damages:(1) any church, synagogue or other building, structure or place used primarily for religious worship or for other religious purposes;(2) any cemetery, mortuary or other facility used for the purpose of …

(1) Whoever takes any woman unlawfully, against her will, and by force, menace or duress, compels her—(1) to marry him;(2) to marry any other person; or(3) to be defiled—shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years. (1) to marry him; (2) to marry any other person; or (3) to be defi…

Whoever, being authorized to solemnize marriages, willfully and knowingly solemnizes any marriage forbidden by law, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.

(1) Whoever—(1) being authorized to solemnize any marriage, willfully makes a false return of any marriage or pretended marriage to the court;(2) contracts such a marriage;(3) knowingly takes part in the celebration of such a marriage; or(4) makes a false record of any marriage r…

(a) Whoever willfully and with intent to commit a felony or to injure, disfigure or disable, inflicts upon the person of another any injury which—(1) seriously disfigures his person by any mutilation thereof;(2) destroys or disables any member or organ of his body; or(3) seriousl…

To constitute mayhem, it is immaterial by what means or instrument, or in what manner, the injury was inflicted.

Whoever, with design to disable himself from performing a legal duty, existing or anticipated, inflicts upon himself an injury, whereby he is so disabled, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.

When, upon a trial for mayhem, it appears that the person injured has, before the time of trial, so far recovered from the injury, that he is no longer disfigured by it in personal appearance, or disabled in any member or organ of his body, or affected in physical vigor, no convi…

As used in this chapter “vehicle” means a device in, upon, or by which a person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except a device moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks, and also means any watercraft of any description…

A person not entitled to possession of a vehicle who, without the consent of the owner and with intent to deprive him, temporarily or otherwise, of the vehicle or its possession, takes, uses or drives the vehicle is guilty of a felony.

A person, not entitled to the possession of a vehicle who receives, possesses, conceals, sells or disposes of it, knowing it to be stolen or converted under circumstances constituting a crime, is guilty of a felony.

(a) A person who, with intent and without right to do so, damages a vehicle or damages or removes any of its parts or components is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) A person who, without right to do so and with intent to commit a crime, tampers with a vehicle, or goes in or on it, or…

A person who knowingly makes a false report of the theft or conversion of a vehicle to a peace officer or to the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (V.I.P.D.) is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(a) A person who wilfully removes or falsifies an identification number of a vehicle or an engine for a vehicle is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) A person who, wilfully and with intent to conceal or misrepresent the identity of a vehicle or engine, removes or falsifies an identific…

In a prosecution of a crime specified in this act, evidence that the defendant has committed a prior act or acts of the same kind is admissible to prove criminal intent or knowledge.

A person who, whether present or absent, aids, abets, induces, procures or causes the commission of an act which, if done directly by him, would be a felony or a misdemeanor under a provision of this chapter, is guilty of the same felony or misdemeanor.

Whoever, knowing that he has by the operation of a motor vehicle injured any person, fails to remain at the place where the injury occurred to render assistance to the injured person, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.

The penal provisions of this chapter in no way repeal or modify any existing provision of criminal law but are additional and supplementary thereto.

(1) Whoever, with intent to bring any vessel into danger, willfully—(1) marks, alters or removes any light or signal; or(2) exhibits any light or signal—shall be imprisoned not more than 15 years. (1) marks, alters or removes any light or signal; or (2) exhibits any light or sign…

(1) Whoever, without permission of the harbormaster—(1) throws overboard from any vessel the ballast, or any part thereof, within any port, harbor or cove, into which vessels may enter for the purpose of receiving or discharging cargo; or(2) otherwise places in such port, harbor …

(a) Whoever—(1) moors any vessel, boat, raft or scow to any buoy or beacon placed in the water within the jurisdiction of the Virgin Islands by authority of the Government of the Virgin Islands or the United States Lighthouse Service;(2) in any manner, hangs onto the same with an…

(1) Anything which—(1) is injurious to health, indecent, offensive to the senses or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by a considerable number of persons; or(2) unlawfully obstructs the customary free…

(1) Whoever—(1) maintains or commits any public nuisance for which no punishment is prescribed elsewhere in this title or other law; or(2) willfully omits to perform any legal duty relating to the removal of a public nuisance—shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not mo…

(1) Whoever corruptly attempts to influence a juror, or any person summoned or drawn as a juror, chosen as an arbitrator or appointed as a commissioner or referee, in respect to his verdict in, or decision of, any cause or proceeding, pending or about to be brought before him, by…

(1) Whoever, being a juror, or a person summoned as a juror, chosen as an arbitrator or appointed as a commissioner or referee—(1) makes any promise or agreement to give a verdict or decision for or against any party; or(2) willfully and corruptly permits any communication to be …

Whoever prepares any false or antedated book, paper, record, instrument or other matter or thing, with intent to produce it or to allow it to be produced as genuine or true, upon any trial, proceeding or inquiry whatever, authorized by law, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or …

Whoever, upon any trial, proceeding, inquiry or investigation authorized or permitted by law, offers in evidence as genuine or true, any book, paper, document, record or other instrument or writing, knowing the same to have been forged or fraudulently altered or antedated, shall …

(1) Whoever—(1) practices any fraud or deceit on; or(2) knowingly makes or exhibits any false statement, representation, token or writing to—any witness, or person about to be called as a witness, upon any trial, proceeding, inquiry or investigation authorized by law, shall be fi…

Whoever, knowing that any book, paper, record, instrument, writing or other matter or thing is about to be produced in evidence upon any trial, inquiry or investigation authorized by law, willfully destroys or conceals the same, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned n…

Whoever willfully prevents or dissuades any person who is or may become a witness, from attending any trial, proceeding or inquiry authorized by law, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.

(a) No person, without privilege to do so and with purpose to prevent, obstruct, or delay the performance by a peace officer, firefighter, or first responder of any authorized act within the peace officer’s, firefighter’s, or first responder’s official capacity, shall do any act …

(a) As used in this section(1) “Emergency communication” means any telephone call or any other form of communication made, transmitted or facilitated by radio, computer, or any other electronic device that is intended by its maker to provide warning or information pertaining to a…

Whoever willfully injures, destroys or takes from the custody of any officer or person, any personal property which such officer or person has in charge under any process of law, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.

(a) Whoever—(1) uses force, threat, or intimidation against any person called or to be called as a witness at any trial, proceeding, inquiry or investigation authorized by law relating to a felony (as defined in section 2 of this title), with intent to influence or prevent the te…

(1) Whoever, in or in connection with, any action, proceeding, hearing or inquiry or on any occasion when an oath may be lawfully administered—(1) swears or affirms—(A) that he will truly testify, declare, depose or certify; or(B) that any testimony, declaration, deposition, cert…