Title 1, General Provisions
13 chapters · 146 sections in this title.
1 V.I.C. § 1 Designation and citation of Code
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(a) The laws embraced in the titles herein contained, as amended from time to time, constitute the “Virgin Islands Code.” (b) This Code may be cited by the abbreviation “V.I.C.” preceded by the number of the title and followed by the number of the section, chapter, or part in the…
1 V.I.C. § 10 Effect of repeal of validating Acts
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The repeal by section 5 of this title of any Act or ordinance validating any previous Act, ordinance, contract or transaction does not affect the validity of the previous Act, ordinance, contract or transaction, but the same remains as valid as if there had been no such repeal.
1 V.I.C. § 11 Supplements and substitute volumes as part of Code
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The laws contained in any current pocket supplements or substitute or replacement volumes to this Code, printed and published under contract or otherwise as authorized by law, constitute, prima facie, a part of this Code if the laws, as so contained, purport to represent reproduc…
1 V.I.C. § 14 Correction of errors; classification of acts
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(a) In preparing the laws to be published in any current pocket supplement or substitute or replacement volumes to this Code, prepared under contract or otherwise as authorized by law, the publisher may not alter the sense, meaning or effect of any act of the Legislature but it m…
1 V.I.C. § 2 Territorial scope of Code
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This Code applies throughout the territory of the Virgin Islands, except as otherwise expressly provided.
1 V.I.C. § 3 Effective date of Code
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This Code shall take effect and be in force in the Virgin Islands on and after September 1, 1957, except as otherwise expressly provided.
1 V.I.C. § 4 Application of common law; restatements
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The rules of the common law, as expressed in the restatements of the law approved by the American Law Institute, and to the extent not so expressed, as generally understood and applied in the United States, shall be the rules of decision in the courts of the Virgin Islands in cas…
1 V.I.C. § 5 Repeal of prior laws
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(1) The following laws, ordinances, resolutions, regulations, and executive orders are hereby repealed—(1) all local laws, ordinances, resolutions, regulations, and executive orders, or parts thereof, heretofore having application in any part of the Virgin Islands, the provisions…
1 V.I.C. § 6 Danish laws and ordinances
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(a) Unless expressly continued by provisions of this Code, and except as otherwise provided herein, no general, local, or colonial law, ordinance, decree, order, placard, or regulation which prior to the effective date of this Code was applicable in the Virgin Islands or any part…
1 V.I.C. § 7 Continuation of existing rights and liabilities
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(a) The repeal of the codes, laws, ordinances, resolutions and executive orders provided for in section 5 of this title does not affect any act done, or any cause of action accruing or accrued, or established, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil action, or any…
1 V.I.C. § 8 Effect on private or special laws and resolutions
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No private or special Act, ordinance, or resolution, in effect on the effective date of this Code, and not revised and brought into this Code, is affected by any provision of this Code.
1 V.I.C. § 9 Effect on laws heretofore repealed
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No law, resolution, or executive order which heretofore has been repealed is revived by the repeal provided for in section 5 of this title.
1 V.I.C. § 20 Distribution of current session laws
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(1) The Lieutenant Governor shall send, immediately after enactment of any session law of the Legislature of the Virgin Islands, a copy thereof to each of the following libraries:(1) the Enid M. Baa Library, St. Thomas,(2) the St. Thomas Campus Library of the College of the Virgi…
1 V.I.C. § 21 Preparation in slip form and volumes
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(a) [Deleted.] (b) Before the final printing and publication of any slip laws, session laws volumes pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the publishers are authorized to correct any errors in the official text that are strictly typographical or errors in format, such as th…
1 V.I.C. § 22 Quantities, distribution, and prices
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(a) The slip laws and volumes provided for in this chapter shall, within the limits of appropriations therefor, be printed and published in such quantities as the Office of the Code Revisor determines. (b) The Governor of the Virgin Islands shall prescribe the manner in which the…
1 V.I.C. § 23 Certificate of the Lieutenant Governor
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The laws contained in each volume provided for in this chapter shall, upon certification by the Lieutenant Governor as to their being correct transcripts of the texts of the originals of such Acts, be accepted as legal evidence thereof in all courts of the Virgin Islands and by a…
1 V.I.C. § 24 Purchase of binders for slip laws
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(a) The Office of the Code Revisor is authorized to negotiate for and purchase, from time to time, loose-leaf binders in such form and quantities as it directs, to be used for the purpose of containing the slip laws provided for in sections 21 and 22 of this title. (b) The Govern…
1 V.I.C. § 25 Authorization for appropriations
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There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
1 V.I.C. § 41 Words denoting number, gender, etc.; definitions
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As used in this Code or in any Act of the Legislature, unless it is otherwise provided or the context requires a different construction, application, or meaning— words importing the singular include and apply to several persons, parties, or things; words importing the plural incl…
1 V.I.C. § 42 Words and phrases
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Words and phrases shall be read with their context and shall be construed according to the common and approved usage of the English language. Technical words and phrases, and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in the law, shall be construed and un…
1 V.I.C. § 43 Words giving joint authority
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Words giving a joint authority to three or more public officers, or other persons, shall be construed as giving the authority to a majority of them, unless it be otherwise expressed in the provisions of law giving the authority.
1 V.I.C. § 44 Classification and arrangement of titles, etc
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The classification and organization of the titles, parts, chapters, subchapters, and sections of this Code, and the headings thereto, are made for the purpose of convenient reference and orderly arrangement, and no implication, inference, or presumption of a legislative construct…
1 V.I.C. § 45 Analyses of titles, parts, chapters, etc.; section headings; notes
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(a) The following matter does not constitute part of the law —(1) the various analyses set out in this Code, constituting enumerations or lists of the titles, parts, chapters, subchapters and sections of this Code;(2) the descriptive headings or catchlines, other than the section…
1 V.I.C. § 46 Amendments of Acts and Code provisions
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(a) Any Act that amends another Act or provision of this Code which previously had been amended by any other Act, shall be construed as amending, also, the amendatory provisions of the other Act, though it make no reference thereto. (b) Any Act that amends the provisions of any o…
1 V.I.C. § 47 Repeal of amended Acts and Code provisions
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The repeal of any Act or part thereof, or provision of this Code, includes all amendments to that Act, part, or provision, though the repealing Act makes no reference to the amendments.
1 V.I.C. § 48 Repeal of amending Acts
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The repeal of any provision of an Act, which amends a provision of a prior Act or of this Code, leaves the prior provision in force unless the amendatory provision is a substantial reenactment of the prior provision.
1 V.I.C. § 49 Repeal of repealing Acts
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The repeal of the provision of any Act, which repeals a prior Act, or part of a prior Act, or provision of this Code, does not revive the prior Act, part, or provision, unless it is expressly so provided.
1 V.I.C. § 50 Repeal or expiration of statutes as affecting rights and liabilities
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(a) The repeal of any Act, part of any Act, or provision of this Code does not release or extinguish any right acquired, or penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred, under the Act, part, or provision, and existing at the time of the repeal, unless the repealing Act expressly so…
1 V.I.C. § 51 Severability of code and of statutory provisions
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Except as otherwise specifically provided, if any provision of this Code, of any amendment hereto, or of any Act or statute of the Virgin Islands, or the application of any such provision to any person, thing, or circumstance, is determined by any court of competent jurisdiction …
1 V.I.C. § 52 Effective date of acts
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Unless otherwise specifically provided therein, the effective date of bills enacted by the Legislature shall be the date of approval of same by the Governor, or the date such bill becomes law without his approval as provided in section 9, subsection (d) of the Revised Organic Act…
1 V.I.C. § 60a Short title
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This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act.
1 V.I.C. § 60b Definitions
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(1) In this chapter:(1) “Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.(2) “Legal material” means, whether or not in effect:(A) the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands;(B) the Sessi…
1 V.I.C. § 60c Applicability
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This chapter applies to all legal material in an electronic record that is designated as official under § 60d and first published electronically on or after the effective date of this chapter.
1 V.I.C. § 60d Legal material in official electronic record
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(a) If an official publisher publishes legal material only in an electronic record, the publisher shall:(1) designate the electronic record as official; and(2) comply with §§ 60e, 60g, and 60h. (1) designate the electronic record as official; and (2) comply with §§ 60e, 60g, and …
1 V.I.C. § 60e Authentication of official electronic record
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An official publisher of legal material in an electronic record that is designated as official under § 60d shall authenticate the record. To authenticate an electronic record, the publisher shall provide a method for a user to determine that the record received by the user from t…
1 V.I.C. § 60f Effect of authentication
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(a) Legal material in an electronic record that is authenticated under § 60e is presumed to be an accurate copy of the legal material. (b) If another state has adopted a law substantially similar to this chapter, legal material in an electronic record that is designated as offici…
1 V.I.C. § 60g Preservation and security of legal material in official electronic record
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(a) An official publisher of legal material in an electronic record that is or was designated as official under § 60d shall provide for the preservation and security of the record in an electronic form or a form that is not electronic. (b) If legal material is preserved under sub…
1 V.I.C. § 60h Public access to legal material in official electronic record
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An official publisher of legal material in an electronic record that is required to be preserved under § 60g shall ensure that the material is reasonably available for use by the public on a permanent basis.
1 V.I.C. § 60i Standards
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(1) In implementing this chapter, an official publisher of legal material in an electronic record shall consider:(1) standards and practices of other jurisdictions;(2) the most recent standards regarding authentication of, preservation and security of, and public access to, legal…
1 V.I.C. § 60j Uniformity of application and construction
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In applying and construing this chapter, as a uniform law, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.
1 V.I.C. § 60k Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
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This chapter modifies, limits, and supersedes the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001 et seq., but does not modify, limit, or supersede Section 101(c) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001(c), or authorize electronic delivery of any of …
1 V.I.C. § 81 Territorial limits of the town of Charlotte Amalie; quarters
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(a) The territorial limits of the town of Charlotte Amalie, Island of St. Thomas, are as follows:Starting at a point on the shore line at Crown Bay (see Harbor Chart U.S.C. & G.S. No. 933) due south of the Point on the main road from town to Nisky where the concrete culvert carry…
1 V.I.C. § 82 Territorial limits of the town of Christiansted
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The territorial limits of the town of Christiansted, Island of St. Croix, as shown on Public Works Department Map, designated as the Map of Christiansted Town, dated May 19, 1952, are as follows: Beginning at the North Eastern corner of No. 2 Garden Street, the Line runs: South a…
1 V.I.C. § 83 Territorial limits of the town of Frederiksted
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The territorial limits of the town of Frederiksted, Island of St. Croix, as more clearly defined on the map of Frederiksted as compiled from the protocol of Frederiksted town, dated 1887, are as follows: Beginning at the South-West corner of Frederiksted where Fisher Street adjoi…
1 V.I.C. § 84 Quarters of St. Croix
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That portion of the island of St. Croix outside the limits of the towns of Christiansted and Frederiksted is divided into the Company's, East End A, East End B, King's, North Side A, North Side B, Prince's, Queen's and West End quarters, with limits as now established.
1 V.I.C. § 85 Quarters of St. Thomas
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That portion of the island of St. Thomas outside the limits of the town of Charlotte Amalie is divided into the East End, Frenchman's Bay, Great Northside, Little Northside, New, Red Hook, Southside, and West End quarters, with limits as now established.
1 V.I.C. § 86 Quarters of St. John
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The island of St. John is divided into the Coral Bay, Cruz Bay, East End, Maho Bay and Reef Bay quarters, with limits as now established.
1 V.I.C. § 87 Census Subdistricts of St. Thomas
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(a) The Island of St. Thomas is divided into the Charlotte Amalie, South Side, East End, Tutu, Northside, West End, and Water Island Census Subdistricts with limits as follows:(a) The limits of the Charlotte Amalie Census Subdistrict are as follows:Beginning at a point on the sho…
1 V.I.C. § 88 Census Subdistricts of St. John
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(a) The Island of St. John is divided into the Cruz Bay, Central, Coral Bay and East End Census Subdistricts with limits as follows:(a) The limits of the Cruz Bay Census Subdistrict are as follows:Beginning at a point along the Fish Bay shoreline where the National Park boundary …
1 V.I.C. § 89 Census Subdistricts of St. Croix
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(a) The Island of St. Croix is divided into the Christiansted, Sion Farm, Northcentral, Northwest, Frederiksted, Southwest, Southcentral, Anna's Hope Village, and East End Census Subdistricts with limits as follows:(a) The limits of Christiansted Census Subdistrict are as follows…