Title 31 — Public Works and Property
8 chapters · 81 sections in this title.
31 V.I.C. § 1 Functions of Commissioner of Public Works
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(a) The Commissioner of Public Works shall—(1) participate in the planning of, supervise the construction of, and repair and maintain, all government buildings and grounds, public roads, highways, seawalls, wharves, seaways, public recreation areas, airports, and properties of li…
31 V.I.C. § 2 Repealed. Dec. 29, 2001, Act No. 6486, § 1, Sess. L. 2001, p. 365
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31 V.I.C. § 2 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.
31 V.I.C. § 3 Submission to the Legislature [Repealed]
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31 V.I.C. § 3 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.
31 V.I.C. § 4 Legislative approval of naming government property required
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(a) Subject to subsection (b), no real or personal property of the Government of the Virgin Islands or any subdivision thereof as defined by Title 1, section 253, subsection (b), VIC, and specifically including the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority, Virgin Islands Port Aut…
31 V.I.C. § 151 Short title
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This chapter may be cited and shall be known as the “Government Motor Vehicle Management and Control Act”.
31 V.I.C. § 152 Legislative declaration of policy
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(a) The Legislature declares it to be the policy of the Government of the Virgin Islands and the purpose of this chapter to:(a) Achieve maximum cost-effectiveness of Government motor vehicles in support of the established missions and objectives of the various Government agencies…
31 V.I.C. § 153 Definitions
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(a) As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:(a) “Agency” means any agency, bureau, commission, department or subdivision of the executive branch of the Government, including independent instrumentalities, but specifically excluding the Virgin Islan…
31 V.I.C. § 154 Division of Transportation; duties and responsibilities
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(a) The Division of Transportation of the Department of Property and Procurement shall have as its chief executive officer, the Deputy Commissioner, whose duties and responsibilities shall be:(a) Establishment and operation of a central facility on the Islands of St. Croix, St. J…
31 V.I.C. § 155 Motor pool supervisors; duties and responsibilities
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(1) There shall be one Central Motor Pool facility on the Islands of St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas, each of which shall be headed by a Motor Pool Supervisor whose duties and responsibilities shall be:(1) Assignment on a daily basis of pool vehicles to Government employees re…
31 V.I.C. § 156 Computer-based system
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(1) The Division shall establish, operate and maintain a computer-based system which shall:(1) Record and control pool vehicle use, repair and maintenance, fuel consumption, repair costs and replacement scheduled;(2) Account for, control and maintain a perpetual inventory system;…
31 V.I.C. § 157 Acquisition and disposal of motor vehicles; title
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(a) No Government agency shall procure any motor vehicle of any type unless prior approval is first obtained from the Commissioner or his designee, the Deputy Commissioner and such approval is ratified by the Legislature's Committee on Finance; provided, however if the Committee …
31 V.I.C. § 158 Limitation on use of motor vehicles
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The pool vehicles under the jurisdiction of the Division shall be available and utilized only for official government business.
31 V.I.C. § 159 Assignment of motor vehicles
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Only the Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be provided a motor vehicle on the basis of their office. All other individuals assigned motor vehicles shall record all trips on a log provided by the Division, specifying beginning and ending mileage and job function performed. Ho…
31 V.I.C. § 160 Home storage; personal assignment
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Home storage or personal assignment of pool vehicle shall be permitted only upon individual case-by-case determinations in which the cost savings to the Government is substantiated, or in which the health, safety or welfare of the general public are essentially affected, or in wh…
31 V.I.C. § 161 Reimbursement for use of personally owned motor vehicles
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(a) Where Government employees are required upon the request of the chief executive officer of their agency to use their personally owned motor vehicle in the conduct of official government business which they are responsible for, they shall be reimbursed at the rate of sixty-fiv…
31 V.I.C. § 162 Territorial Motor Vehicle Maintenance Program
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(1) The Commissioner or his designee, the Deputy Commissioner shall study the cost-effectiveness of operating maintenance facilities as opposed to commercial alternatives and shall develop a plan for maximally cost-effective motor vehicle maintenance. The Commissioner or his desi…
31 V.I.C. § 163 Motor vehicle fuel
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(a) All motor vehicle fuels shall be purchased from the Division of Transportation, except where the Commissioner or his designee, the Deputy Commissioner determines in writing that it is not cost beneficial to the Government. (b) The Commissioner of Property and Procurement shal…
31 V.I.C. § 164 Plates and other identification requirements; exemptions
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The Commissioner or his designee, the Deputy Commissioner, shall ensure that all pool vehicles are identified as such through the use of permanent Government license plates and the Territorial Seal or an agency decal. No pool vehicle shall be exempt from the requirements of ident…
31 V.I.C. § 165 Motor vehicles exempted
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The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to motor vehicles assigned to the Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
31 V.I.C. § 166 Motor Pool Safety Program
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(a) The Commissioner or his designee, the Deputy Commissioner shall develop and implement a Territory-wide Motor Pool Safety Program for operators of Government motor vehicles which shall serve to reduce the number of accidents involving such motor vehicles. (b) The Commissioner …
31 V.I.C. § 167 Penalties; financial responsibility
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(a) Any official or employee of the Government who violates any statute, rule, regulation or executive order pertaining to the acquisition, assignment, disposal, identification, operation, maintenance, repair, storage, supervision, control or regulation of any Government motor ve…
31 V.I.C. § 168 Maintenance of motor vehicles of the Virgin Islands Police Department
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(a) The Commissioner of the Virgin Islands Police Department shall establish a maintenance division within the Virgin Islands Police Department, in both districts, to repair, maintain and equip police vehicles. (b) The Commissioner shall hire all personnel, and establish rules, r…
31 V.I.C. § 169 Disposal of worn, unusable or obsolete motor vehicles
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(a) The Deputy Commissioner of the Department may sell by public auction or otherwise dispose of any motor vehicles that are worn gut, unusable or obsolete to the extent that the motor vehicles are no longer economical or safe for continued use by the Government. (b) The Deputy C…
31 V.I.C. § 201 Government property; jurisdiction
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(a) The Commissioner of Property and Procurement shall manage and control government property and shall have authority over the disposition and use of such property, including inventorying and establishing forms and procedures for sale, rental or other disposition of such propert…
31 V.I.C. § 202 Management of rental properties
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(a) The Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority shall manage residential rental properties of all kinds owned or controlled by the government, except as limited by Federal law, hotels and housing development programs or projects any tenant of public housing who is displaced by f…
31 V.I.C. § 203 Management of Government Printing Office
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The Commissioner of Property and Procurement shall manage and supervise the operation of the Government Printing Office.
31 V.I.C. § 204 Repealed. Nov. 13, 1968, No. 2353, § 3, Sess. L. 1968, Pt. II, p. 351
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31 V.I.C. § 204 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.
31 V.I.C. § 205 Sale, lease or other disposition of government real property
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(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), no real property including improvements thereon owned by the Government of the Virgin Islands (which property is hereafter referred to in this section as “government real estate”) shall be sold, leased, or otherwise disposed of …
31 V.I.C. § 209 Government contracts
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Any private watchman, guard or patrol agency or contractor, as defined by Title 23, section 1301, Virgin Islands Code, doing business with the Government of the Virgin Islands, its agencies, departments or independent instrumentalities shall submit a surety bond to the Commission…
31 V.I.C. § 210 Definitions
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(a) For purposes of this chapter:(a) “Building” means any building, structure or facility to be used in whole or in part by the Government of the Virgin Islands but shall not include residential buildings or buildings subject to the provisions of subchapter III, chapter 3, Title …
31 V.I.C. § 211 Issuance of standards
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(a) Not later than 120 days from March 30, 1984, the Commissioner of Public Works shall develop and issue standards to ensure that buildings of the Government of the Virgin Islands utilize, to the maximum extent practicable, natural sunlight for illumination and natural wind ener…
31 V.I.C. § 212 Application
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Thirty days after the issuance of, or revisions to, any standards pursuant to the provisions of section 211 of this chapter, no department, office, commission, agency or other instrumentality of the Government of the Virgin Islands may construct, purchase, lease or otherwise acqu…
31 V.I.C. § 213 Buildings under construction
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(a) Buildings under construction by the Department of Public Works on the date specified in section 212 of this chapter shall be modified to conform to the standards issued pursuant to section 211 of this chapter if (1) in the opinion of the Commissioner of Public Works, such mod…
31 V.I.C. § 231 Efficient system of procurement and supply
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The Commissioner of Property and Procurement, in accordance with law, shall provide for an economic and efficient system for the procurement and supply of all property and non-personal services, and all related functions, such as controlling, inspection, storage, issue, specifica…
31 V.I.C. § 231a Government acquisition of real property
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(a) In all cases where the Government of the Virgin Islands is authorized to acquire real property by purchase or exchange for any public use, other than by condemnation, and the Governor shall express in writing his opinion that said real property is needed for a specific public…
31 V.I.C. § 232 Duties of Commissioner of Property and Procurement
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(1) purchase or contract for all supplies, materials, equipment and contractual services, in the manner described in this chapter, required by any and all departments, offices, boards, institutions, and other agencies of the Government of the Virgin Islands, but not for the legis…
31 V.I.C. § 233 Certification of appropriation balance
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The Commissioner of Property and Procurement shall not issue any order for delivery on a contract or open market purchase unless the request for purchase bears certification that there is to the credit of the department, office, board, institution or other agency concerned a suff…
31 V.I.C. § 234 Approval of purchase order; penalties
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(a) No purchase shall be made by any department or agency of the government or by any employee of the government for any agency of the government except by written order approved by the Commissioner of Property and Procurement and issued in accordance with section 233 of this tit…
31 V.I.C. § 235 Competition
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All purchases of and contracts for supplies, materials equipment and contractual services must be conducted in a manner providing for full and open competition consistent with the standards of this chapter. All procurement transactions must be conducted through competitive bids o…
31 V.I.C. § 236 Contract procedure
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(a) Except as provided for in section 239, all purchases of and contracts for supplies, materials, equipment, and contractual services and for all sales of obsolete and unusable personal property must be based on competitive bids, or competitive proposals. All expenditures made p…
31 V.I.C. § 236a Preferred bidders
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(a) For the purposes of this section “preferred bidder” means (1) a person who has been a bona fide continuous resident of the Virgin Islands for at least 8 years or was born in the Virgin Islands; or (2) a firm, partnership or corporation in which at least fifty-one (51%) percen…
31 V.I.C. § 236b Repealed. June 20, 1986, No. 5174, § 2(b), Sess. L. 1986, p. 168
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31 V.I.C. § 236b 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.
31 V.I.C. § 237 Standards and specifications
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(a) The Commissioner of Property and Procurement, with the cooperation of the Lieutenant Governor and the Commissioner of Public Works, shall—(1) classify all the supplies, materials and equipment used by the various agencies of the government;(2) adopt as standards the minimum n…
31 V.I.C. § 238 Estimates of requirements
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All agencies of the government shall file with the Commissioner of Property and Procurement detailed estimates of their requirements in supplies, materials, equipment and contractual services in such manner, and at such periods as the Commissioner shall prescribe. This shall not …
31 V.I.C. § 239 Open market purchases
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(a) Supplies, material and equipment may be purchased and contractual services negotiated for, in the open market without observing the provisions of section 236 of this title provided—(1) the Governor declares, in the public interest by Proclamation that a State of Emergency exi…
31 V.I.C. § 240 Repealed. July 16, 1968, No. 2284, § 3
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31 V.I.C. § 240 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.
31 V.I.C. § 241 Inspection
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The Commissioner of Property and Procurement may require the inspection or supervision of all deliveries of supplies, materials, equipment or contractual services to determine their conformance with the specifications set forth in the order or contract. Any department having the …
31 V.I.C. § 242 Surplus stock
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All agencies shall submit to the Commissioner of Property and Procurement, at such times and in such form as he shall prescribe, reports showing stocks of all supplies, materials, and equipment which are no longer used or which have become obsolete, worn out or scrapped. The Comm…
31 V.I.C. § 243 Inter-governmental transactions
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In the interest of efficiency and economy, one department, agency, or fund, may supply services, materials, or equipment to another department, agency, or fund upon request; and an amount equalling the cost of such services or materials, depreciated value of equipment or reasonab…
31 V.I.C. § 244 Storerooms and warehouses
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(a) The Commissioner of Property and Procurement shall control and supervise any and all existing storerooms and warehouses and any which may hereafter be established. (b) Appropriations shall be made by the Legislature to provide a stores revolving fund of sufficient amount to f…