Title 19 — Health
55 chapters · 745 sections in this title.
19 V.I.C. § 1570m Waste Tire Management and Vehicle Disposal Fund
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(a) There is established a separate and distinct fund within the Treasury of the Government of the Virgin Islands designated “The Waste Tire Management and Vehicle Disposal Fund” (“the Fund”). (b) The Commissioner of Finance shall direct all fees and sums collected under sections…
19 V.I.C. § 1570n Regulations
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The Authority shall promulgate regulations for the collection, storage, transportation, recordkeeping, management, and disposal of waste tires throughout the Territory, and for administrative hearings and procedures.
19 V.I.C. § 1570o Exclusions
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Tire retailers and their employees are prohibited from participating in tire redemption programs.
19 V.I.C. § 1571 Regulations for elimination of pests and vermin
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(a) The Commissioner of Health shall by regulations approved by the Governor, not inconsistent with any law, provide for the eradication or control of dangerous or harmful pests, including rats, insects and vermin. (b) The regulations authorized in subsection (a) of this section …
19 V.I.C. § 1600 Definitions
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(1) “Autologous Blood Transfusion” means a transfusion of the patients own blood that has been donated prior to surgery and stored for use by the patient at a later date. (2) “Designated Blood Transfusion” means a transfusion of blood that was donated by another person specifical…
19 V.I.C. § 1601 Informing patients of options
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(A) Whenever a blood transfusion may be necessary during a surgical procedure, a physician or surgeon shall inform the surgery patient, prior to performing the surgical procedure, of the options of receiving autologous blood transfusions, designated blood transfusions or homologo…
19 V.I.C. § 1602 Blood banks
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(A) A health care facility which performs a transfusion shall be required to accept autologous or designated blood for a potential transfusion to a patient, if the blood is received from a blood bank licensed by the Virgin Islands Department of Health, and has been tested and pre…
19 V.I.C. § 1603 Powers and duties of the Commissioner of Health
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The Commissioner of Health shall have general oversight and shall establish rules and regulations for the implementation and carrying out of the provisions of this chapter.
19 V.I.C. § 1604 Virgin Islands Employee Blood Donor Act
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(a) The Commissioner of Health shall promulgate regulations to implement an Employee Blood Donation Program that provides for participants to receive time off from their employment to donate blood, as provided in subsection (d). (b) Only fulltime employees who are employed by the…
19 V.I.C. § 1700 Erection, maintenance and operation of crematories; fees
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(a) Any funeral home licensed to do business in the Virgin Islands, or individual or corporation formed under the laws of this territory with at least three (3) years training in mortuary science or five (5) years of operating experience, may erect, maintain and operate a cremato…
19 V.I.C. § 1701 Public crematory
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The Department of Health may erect, maintain and operate a crematory for the cremation after dead bodies which have been held in its morgue for at least one year, and have not been identified or claimed. The crematory shall be erected, maintained and operated in accordance with t…
19 V.I.C. § 1702 Records and certificates
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The managers of each crematory shall keep books of record, which shall be open at reasonable times for inspection, in which shall be entered the name, age, sex and residence of each dead body cremated, together with the authority for such cremation and the disposition of the ashe…
19 V.I.C. § 1703 Cremation authorized; certificate required; fees
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(a) A dead body may be disposed of by cremation in the Territory of the Virgin Islands, or may be removed from the Territory for such purpose. If death occurred in the Virgin Islands, the death certificate required by law shall be filed with the registrar of vital statistics for …
19 V.I.C. § 1704 Penalty
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Any person who makes any false statement in procuring any permit required by this chapter, or who removes any dead body from this Territory for the purpose of cremation upon an ordinary removal permit, or who violates any provision of this chapter, upon conviction shall be fined …
19 V.I.C. § 2001 Management of cemeteries
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The Commissioner of Public Works shall have jurisdiction over all public cemeteries. He shall appoint personnel of the Department of Public Works to supervise, manage and maintain all such cemeteries. The Commissioner shall cause to be installed in all public cemeteries an electr…
19 V.I.C. § 2002 Regulation of public cemeteries
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(1) The Commissioner of Public Works shall by regulations approved by the Governor, not inconsistent with any laws, provide for the establishment, maintenance, and improvement of public cemeteries in the Virgin Islands, and for the procedure governing their operation. Such regula…
19 V.I.C. § 2003 Public Cemetery Revolving Fund
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(a) There is established in the Treasury of the Virgin Islands a special fund designated the “Public Cemetery Revolving Fund” and a separate and distinct fund administered by the Commissioner of Finance. The Fund consists of all monies collected from fees paid for the burial of p…
19 V.I.C. § 2005 Short title
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This subchapter may be cited as “Virgin Islands Cemetery Act”.
19 V.I.C. § 2006 Scope
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The provisions of this subchapter shall apply to all persons engaged in the business of operating a cemetery as defined herein, except cemeteries owned and operated by governmental agencies or churches.
19 V.I.C. § 2007 Definitions
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(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Persons” means an individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, or association.(2) “Human remains” or “remains” means the bodies of deceased persons, and includes the bodies in any stage of decomposition, and cremated remains.(3) “Cemete…
19 V.I.C. § 2008 Application to organize; filing fee
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(a) No person shall engage in the business of operating a cemetery company except as authorized by this subchapter, and without first obtaining a license from the Commissioner. (b) A written application for authority to organize a cemetery shall be filed with the Commissioner and…
19 V.I.C. § 2009 Application for change of control; filing fee
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In any case where a person, a group of persons, or a corporation proposes to purchase or acquire control of an existing cemetery company either by purchasing the outstanding capital stock of any cemetery company, or the interest of the owner or owners, and thereby to change the c…
19 V.I.C. § 2010 Commissioner; powers
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(a) In addition to other powers conferred by this subchapter, the Commissioner shall have the power to:(1) Formulate and promulgate reasonable rules and regulations governing the operation of cemetery companies doing business in the Virgin Islands, which shall have the force and …
19 V.I.C. § 2011 Records
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A record shall be kept of every burial in the cemetery of a cemetery company, showing the date of burial, name of the person buried, together with lot, plot, and space in which such burial was made therein. All sales, trust fund, accounting records, and all other accounting recor…
19 V.I.C. § 2012 Investigation of applications
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(1) Upon receipt of application for authority under sections 2008 and 2009 of this subchapter, the Commissioner shall investigate the following:(1) Character, reputation, financial standing, business qualifications, and motives of the proponents.(2) The need for a cemetery in the…
19 V.I.C. § 2013 Issuance of certificate of authorization
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If the Commissioner finds that the proposed cemetery company has in good faith complied with all lawful requirements, he shall, within thirty (30) days, issue a certificate of authorization to transact a cemetery business. This authorization shall be valid for a period of six (6)…
19 V.I.C. § 2014 Required trust fund for care and maintenance; remedy of Commissioner for noncompliance
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No cemetery company shall be permitted to establish, or operate if already established, a cemetery without providing for the future care and maintenance of such cemetery, for which a trust fund shall be established, to be known as the “care and maintenance trust fund of (here use…
19 V.I.C. § 2015 Individual contracts for care and maintenance
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At the time of making a sale or receiving the initial deposit hereunder, the cemetery company shall deliver to the person to whom such sale is made, or who makes such deposit, an instrument in writing which shall specifically state that the net income of the care and maintenance …
19 V.I.C. § 2016 Trust fund, percentage of payments for burial rights to be deposited
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(a) There shall be set aside and deposited in the care and maintenance trust fund by the cemetery company, the following percentages for all burial rights sold, which percentage shall apply to:(1) All such payments received until such time as the amount of the corpus of such trus…
19 V.I.C. § 2017 Trust Fund; financial reports
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Within ninety (90) days after the end of the calendar or fiscal year of the cemetery company, the trustee shall furnish adequate financial reports with respect to the care fund on forms provided by the Commissioner; Provided, however, the Commissioner may require the trustee to m…
19 V.I.C. § 2018 Financial report of company affairs
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The Commissioner shall require each cemetery company to submit a report of its condition, on forms provided by the Commissioner, as of such date as he may fix, at least once each calendar or fiscal year, or as often as he may order, and such report shall be submitted within ninet…
19 V.I.C. § 2019 License fee
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The Commissioner shall collect from every cemetery company operating under the provisions of this chapter, an annual license fee based on receipts from the sale of cemetery spaces during the preceding twelve month fiscal period. On receipts under $25,000 the fee shall be $50 per …
19 V.I.C. § 2020 License not assignable or transferable
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No license issued under section 2019 of this subchapter shall be transferable or assignable and no licensee shall develop or operate any cemetery authorized by this subchapter under any name or at any location other than that contained in the application for such license.
19 V.I.C. § 2021 Minimum acreage; sale or disposition of cemetery lands
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(a) Each licensee shall set aside a minimum of five (5) acres of land for use by said licensee as a cemetery, and shall not sell, mortgage, lease or encumber the same without prior written approval of the Commissioner. (b) The fee simple title, or lesser estate, in any lands owne…
19 V.I.C. § 2022 Bond requirement
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(a) A bond shall be required of every licensee after ninety (90) days under the following circumstances:(1) Where, after an official examination of said licensee, a deficit in the care and maintenance trust fund, as required by section 2014 of this subchapter was established by t…
19 V.I.C. § 2023 Bond; form of
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The surety bond required by all licensees under this subchapter shall be in the following form:“Territory of the Virgin Islands” KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That of the Virgin Islands, having a place of business in , Virgin Islands, as principal, and the of , and authorized t…
19 V.I.C. § 2024 Penalties
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Any person violating a provision of the subchapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500.00 or imprisonment for a term of not more than six months, or both, such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of th…
19 V.I.C. § 2025 Burial at sea
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Remains of deceased persons may be taken by boat from any harbor in this territory, or, if cremated, may be taken by boat or by air, for burial at sea at a point not less than ten miles from the nearest shoreline. Cremated remains shall be removed from their container before such…
19 V.I.C. § 2031 Findings
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It is found and declared that there exist in the Virgin Islands dwellings which are unfit for human habitation due to dilapidation, defects increasing the hazards of fire, accidents or other calamities, lack of ventilation, light or sanitary facilities, or due to other conditions…
19 V.I.C. § 2032 Powers of Government of the Virgin Islands
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Power is conferred upon the Government of the Virgin Islands to require or cause the repair, closing or removal of such structures in the manner provided in this chapter. For this purpose and other governmental purposes, the Commissioner of Public Works or his designated represen…
19 V.I.C. § 2033 Procedures
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(a) Whenever a petition is filed with the Commissioner by the Commissioner of Housing and Community Renewal or his designee or by at least 25 residents of a community wherein the dwelling is located charging that any dwelling is unfit for human habitation, he shall, if his prelim…
19 V.I.C. § 2034 Powers of Commissioner
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The Commissioner may exercise such powers as may be necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this chapter, including the following powers in addition to others granted in this chapter: (1) to investigate the dwelling conditions in the com…
19 V.I.C. § 2035 Determination of reasonable cost
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(1) The determination of “reasonable cost” as such term is used in clauses (1) and (2) of section 2033(b) of this title shall be made in each case by the Commissioner based upon expert testimony respecting the value and repair of the dwelling under consideration.
19 V.I.C. § 2036 Cooperation with Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority
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The Commissioner shall, with respect to those areas designated by the Legislature as urban renewal areas, work closely with and cooperate with the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority in achieving its objectives in the urban renewal area and shall coordinate his activities wi…
19 V.I.C. § 2037 Estimates of expenses of administration and enforcement
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The Commissioner, as soon as possible after appointment and designation, shall prepare an estimate of the annual expense or costs to provide the equipment, personnel and supplies necessary for periodic examinations and investigations of dwellings in the communities of the Virgin …
19 V.I.C. § 2038 Provisions of chapter additional and supplemental to other laws
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Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to abrogate or impair the powers of the courts or of any department, bureau or agency of the Government of the Virgin Islands, or any political subdivision thereof, to enforce any provisions of local codes or regulations, nor to prevent …
19 V.I.C. § 2039 Powers of Government of Virgin Islands not limited
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Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to impair or limit in any way the power of the Government of the Virgin Islands or of any political subdivisions thereof to define and declare nuisances and to cause their removal or abatement, by summary proceedings or otherwise.
19 V.I.C. § 2041 Definitions
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(a) The following words, terms and phrases have the following meanings:(a) “Authorized emergency vehicle” means a vehicle equipped with a siren, exhaust whistle or bell necessary to warn other vehicle operators or pedestrians of the approach of the emergency vehicle, including an…
19 V.I.C. § 2042 Prohibitions
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(a) It is unlawful—(1) to operate a sound-producing device that creates a noise disturbance;(2) to operate or cause to be operated an indoor or outdoor sound amplification device that creates a noise disturbance;(3) to sell anything by using a sound producing device within a resi…
19 V.I.C. § 2042a Sound standards
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(a) Sound standards for noise or music emanating from a business establishment are as provided in paragraphs (1) through (3):(1) Sunday through Thursday, 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight - 80 decibels;(2) Sunday through Thursday, 12:00 midnight to 7:00 a.m. - 65 decibels; and(3) Frida…