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V.I. Code tit. 5, § 708 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 64 - Interstate Compact for Juveniles|§ 708. Finance

 (a) The Interstate Commission shall pay or provide for the payment of the reasonable expenses of its establishment, organization and ongoing activities. (b) The Interstate Commission shall levy on and collect an annual assessment from each compacting state to cover the cost of the internal operations and activities of the Interstate Commission and its staff which must be in a total amount sufficient to cover the Interstate Commission's annual budget as approved each year. The aggregate annual assessment amount must be allocated based upon a formula to be determined by the Interstate Commission, taking into consideration the population of each compacting state and the volume of interstate movement of juveniles in each compacting state and shall promulgate a rule binding upon all compacting states which governs said assessment. (c) The Interstate Commission may not incur any obligations of any kind prior to securing the funds adequate to meet the same; nor may the Interstate Commission pledge the credit of any of the compacting states, except by and with the authority of the compacting state. (d) The Interstate Commission shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements. The receipts and disbursements of the Interstate Commission are subject to the audit and accounting procedures established under its by-laws. However, all receipts and disbursements of funds handled by the Interstate Commission must be audited yearly by a certified or licensed public accountant, and the report of the audit must be included in and become part of the annual report of the Interstate Commission.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 709 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 64 - Interstate Compact for Juveniles|§ 709. The State Council

 (a) Each member state shall establish a State Council for Interstate Juvenile Supervision. While each state may determine the membership of its own State Council, its membership must include at least one representative from the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of government, victims groups, and the Compact Administrator, Deputy Compact Administrator or designee. (b) Each compacting state retains the right to determine the qualifications of the Compact Administrator or Deputy Administrator. Each State Council shall advise and may exercise oversight and advocacy concerning that state's participation in Interstate Commission activities and other duties as may be determined by that state, including but not limited to, development of policy concerning operations and procedures of the Compact within that state.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 710 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 64 - Interstate Compact for Juveniles|§ 710. Compacting states, effective date and amendment

 (a) Any state, the District of Columbia or its designee, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Marianas Islands as defined in section 702 is eligible to become a compacting state. (b) The Compact becomes effective and binding upon legislative enactment of the Compact into law by no less than 35 of the states. This Compact becomes effective and binding as to any other compacting state upon enactment of the Compact into law by that state. The governors of non-member states or their designees may participate in the activities of the Interstate Commission on a non-voting basis prior to adoption of the Compact by all states and territories of the United States. (c) The Interstate Commission may propose amendments to the Compact for enactment by the compacting states. No amendment may become effective and binding upon the Interstate Commission and the compacting states unless it is enacted into law by unanimous consent of the compacting states.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 712 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 64 - Interstate Compact for Juveniles|§ 712. Severability and construction

 (a) The provisions of this Compact are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision is adjudged unenforceable, the remaining provisions of the Compact are enforceable. (b) The provisions of this Compact must be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 713 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 64 - Interstate Compact for Juveniles|§ 713. Binding effect of Compact and other laws

 (a) Other Laws. (1) Nothing in this Compact prevents the enforcement of any other law of a compacting state which is not inconsistent with this Compact. (2) All compacting states' laws other than state Constitutions and other interstate Compacts conflicting with this Compact are superseded to the extent of the conflict. (b) Binding Effect of the Compact. (1) All lawful actions of the Interstate Commission, including all rules and by-laws promulgated by the Interstate Commission, are binding upon the compacting states. (2) All agreements between the Interstate Commission and the compacting states are binding in accordance with their terms. (3) Upon the request of a party to a conflict over meaning or interpretation of Interstate Commission actions, and upon a majority vote of the compacting states, the Interstate Commission may issue advisory opinions regarding such meaning or interpretation. (c) If any provision of this Compact exceeds the constitutional limits imposed on the legislature of any compacting state, the obligations, duties, powers or jurisdiction sought to be conferred by such provision upon the Interstate Commission are ineffective and such obligations, duties, powers or jurisdiction remain in the compacting state and may be exercised by the agency thereof to which such obligations, duties, powers or jurisdiction are delegated by law in effect at the time this Compact becomes effective.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 731 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 65 - Procedure for Presentation of Evidence|§ 731. Order of proof

 The order of proof shall be regulated by the sound discretion of the court. Ordinarily the party beginning the case shall exhaust his evidence before the other begins.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 732 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 65 - Procedure for Presentation of Evidence|§ 732. Scope of examination generally

 The court may exercise a reasonable control over the mode of interrogation, so as to make it as rapid, as distinct, as little annoying to the witness, and as effective for the extraction of the truth as may be; but, subject to this rule, the parties may put such legal and pertinent questions as they see fit. The court, however, may stop the production of further evidence, upon any particular point, when the evidence upon it is already so full as to preclude reasonable doubt.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 733 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 65 - Procedure for Presentation of Evidence|§ 733. Direct examination and cross-examination

 The examination of a witness by the party producing him is denominated the direct examination; the examination of the same witness upon the same matter by the adverse party, the cross-examination. The direct examination must be completed before the cross-examination begins, unless the court otherwise directs.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 734 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 65 - Procedure for Presentation of Evidence|§ 734. Leading questions

 A question which suggests to the witness the answer which the examining party desires is denominated a leading or suggestive question. On a direct examination, leading questions are not allowed, unless merely formal or preliminary, except in the sound discretion of the court under special circumstances, making it appear that the interests of justice require it, and except as provided by Rule 43(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 735 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 65 - Procedure for Presentation of Evidence|§ 735. Scope of cross-examination

 The adverse party may cross-examine the witness as to any matter stated in his direct examination or connected therewith, and in so doing may put leading questions; but if he examines him as to other matters, such examination is subject to the same rules as a direct examination.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 736 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 65 - Procedure for Presentation of Evidence|§ 736. Reexamination of witness

 A witness once examined shall not be reexamined as to the same matter without leave of the court; but he may be reexamined as to any new matter upon which he has been examined by the adverse party. After the examinations on both sides are concluded the witness shall not be recalled without leave of the court. Leave is granted or withheld in the exercise of a sound discretion.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 737 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 65 - Procedure for Presentation of Evidence|§ 737. Refreshing memory of witness

 A witness is allowed to refresh his memory, respecting a fact, by anything written by himself, or under his direction, at the time when the fact occurred or immediately thereafter, or at any other time when the fact was fresh in his memory and he knew that the same was correctly stated in the writing. In either case the writing must be produced, and may be inspected by the adverse party, who may cross-examine the witness upon it. A witness may testify from such a writing, though he retains no recollection of the particular facts; but such evidence shall be received with caution.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 738 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 65 - Procedure for Presentation of Evidence|§ 738. Exclusion of witnesses

 If either party requires it, the judge may exclude from the court room any witness of the adverse party not at the time under examination, so that he may not hear the testimony of other witnesses.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 739 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 65 - Procedure for Presentation of Evidence|§ 739. Postponement for absence of evidence

 A motion to postpone a trial on the ground of the absence of evidence shall only be made upon affidavit showing the materiality of the evidence expected to be obtained, and a statement of facts showing that due diligence has been used to procure it, and also the name and residence of the witness or witnesses. The court may also require the moving party to state upon affidavit the evidence which he expects to obtain, and if the adverse party thereupon admits that such evidence would be given, and that it be considered as actually given on the trial, or offered and overruled as improper, the trial shall not be postponed. The court, when it allows the motion, may impose such conditions or terms upon the moving party as may be just.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 740 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 65 - Procedure for Presentation of Evidence|§ 740. Instructions to jury as to effect of evidence

 The jury, subject to the control of the court in the cases specified in this title, are the judges of the effect and value of evidence addressed to them, except when it is thereby declared to be conclusive. They are, however, to be instructed by the court on all proper occasions that: (1) Their power of judging the effect of evidence is not arbitrary, but to be exercised with discretion and in subordination to the rules of evidence as declared by the court. (2) They are not bound to find in conformity with the declarations of any number of witnesses which do not produce conviction in their minds against a less number, or against a presumption or other evidence satisfying their minds. (3) A witness wilfully false in one part of his testimony may be distrusted in others. (4) The testimony of an accomplice ought to be viewed with distrust and the evidence of the oral admissions of a party with caution. (5) In civil cases the affirmative of the issue shall be proved, and when the evidence is contradictory the finding shall be according to the preponderance of evidence; that in criminal cases guilt shall be established beyond reasonable doubt. (6) Evidence is to be estimated not only by its own intrinsic weight, but also according to the evidence which it is in the power of one side to produce and of the other to contradict; and, therefore, if the weaker and less satisfactory evidence is offered when it appears that stronger and more satisfactory evidence was within the power of the party, the evidence offered should be viewed with distrust. No party may assign as error the failure to give any such instruction unless he has requested the court to give it before the jury retires to consider its verdict.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 741 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 65 - Procedure for Presentation of Evidence|§ 741. Receipt for payment or delivery

 Whoever pays money, or delivers an instrument or property, is entitled to a receipt therefor from the person to whom the payment or delivery is made, and may demand a proper signature to such receipt as a condition of the payment or delivery.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 742 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 65 - Procedure for Presentation of Evidence|§ 742. Tender, objections to

 The person to whom a tender is made shall at the time specify any objection he may have to the money, instrument, or property, or he shall be deemed to have waived it. If the objection is to the amount of money, the terms of the instrument or the amount or kind of property, he shall specify the amount, terms, or kind which he requires, or be precluded from objecting afterwards.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 743 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 65 - Procedure for Presentation of Evidence|§ 743. Private seals and scrolls

 Private seals and scrolls as a substitute are abolished and are not required to any instrument, but the effect thereof, when used, shall remain unchanged.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1101 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 81 - Official Bonds; Fines and Forfeitures|§ 1101. Official bond of public officer; scope of security

 The official undertaking or other security of a public officer of the Virgin Islands or a public corporation therein shall be deemed a security to all persons severally for the official delinquency against which it is intended to provide.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1102 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 81 - Official Bonds; Fines and Forfeitures|§ 1102. Action by person injured

 When a public officer, by official misconduct or neglect of duty, shall forfeit his official undertaking or other security, or render his sureties therein liable upon such undertaking or other security, any person injured by such misconduct or neglect, or who is by law entitled to the benefit of the security, may maintain an action thereon in his own name against the officer and his sureties to recover the amount to which he may be entitled by reason thereof.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1103 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 81 - Official Bonds; Fines and Forfeitures|§ 1103. Leave of court

 Before such action can be commenced by a plaintiff other than the government of the Virgin Islands or public corporation, leave shall be obtained of the court where the action is triable. Such leave shall be granted upon the production of a certified copy of the undertaking or other security and an affidavit of the plaintiff, or some person in his behalf, showing the delinquency. If the matters set forth in the affidavit are such that, if true, the party applying would clearly not be entitled to recover in the action, the leave shall not be granted. If it does not appear from the complaint that the leave herein provided for has been granted, the defendant on motion shall be entitled to judgment for nonsuit; if it does, the defendant may controvert the allegation, and if the issue is found in his favor judgment may be given accordingly.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1104 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 81 - Official Bonds; Fines and Forfeitures|§ 1104. Actions for several delinquencies

 A judgment in favor of a party for one delinquency shall not preclude the same or another party from maintaining another action on the same undertaking, or other security, for another delinquency.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1105 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 81 - Official Bonds; Fines and Forfeitures|§ 1105. Limit on liability of surety

 In an action upon an official undertaking or other security, if judgment has already been recovered against the surety therein, other than by confession, equal in the aggregate to the penalty or any part thereof of such undertaking or other security, and if such recovery is established on the trial, judgment shall not be given against such surety for an amount exceeding such penalty, or such portion thereof as is not already recovered against him.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1106 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 81 - Official Bonds; Fines and Forfeitures|§ 1106. Actions for fines and forfeitures

 Fines and forfeitures may be recovered by an action in the name of the officer or person to whom they are by law given, or in the name of the officer who by law is authorized to prosecute for them.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1107 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 81 - Official Bonds; Fines and Forfeitures|§ 1107. Amount of penalty

 When an action is commenced for a penalty which by law is not to exceed a certain amount, the action may be commenced for that amount, and if judgment is given for the plaintiff, it may be for such amount or less, in the discretion of the court, in proportion to the offense.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1108 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 81 - Official Bonds; Fines and Forfeitures|§ 1108. Recovery of penalty or forfeiture by collusion

 A recovery of a judgment for a penalty or forfeiture by collusion between the plaintiff and defendant, with intent to save the defendant, wholly or partially, from the consequences contemplated by law, in case where the penalty or forfeiture is given, wholly or partly, to the person who prosecutes, shall not bar the recovery of the same by another person.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1109 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 81 - Official Bonds; Fines and Forfeitures|§ 1109. Disposition of fines and forfeitures; venue of action for forfeited property

 Fines and forfeitures not specially granted or otherwise appropriated by law, when recovered shall be paid to the clerk of the district court. Whenever, by the provisions of law, any property, real or personal, shall be forfeited to the government of the Virgin Islands or to any officer for its use, the action for the recovery of such property may be commenced wherever the defendant may be found, or wherever such property may be.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1141 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 83 - Government and Public Corporations as Parties|§ 1141. Government exempt from bonds, undertakings, and security

 (a) As used in this section, “government of the Virgin Islands” includes any officer, board, commission, or other instrumentality of the government of the Virgin Islands acting in an official capacity on behalf of such government. (b) In any civil action in which the government of the Virgin Islands is a party, no bond, written undertaking, or security shall be required of the government of the Virgin Islands. Upon complying with other requirements, the government of the Virgin Islands has the same rights, remedies, and benefits as if the bond, undertaking, or security had been given and approved.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1142 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 83 - Government and Public Corporations as Parties|§ 1142. Public corporations as parties

 (a) An action may be maintained by any public corporation in the Virgin Islands upon a cause of action accruing to it, in any of the following cases: (1) Upon a contract made with such public corporation; (2) Upon a liability prescribed by law in favor of such public corporation; (3) To recover a penalty or forfeiture given to such public corporation; or (4) To recover damages for an injury to the corporate rights or property of such public corporation. (b) An action may be maintained against any public corporation in the Virgin Islands within the scope of its authority, or for an injury to the rights of the plaintiff arising from some act or omission of such public corporation. (c) In actions under this section the pleadings of the public corporation shall be signed or verified, if required, by the chief officer representing it in its corporate capacity or by such other officer, agent, or attorney as he may designate, in the same manner as if such officer were a party to the action.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1171 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part VI - Particular Actions|Chapter 85 - Actions to Prevent Usurpation of Office or Franchise; Actions for Forfeiture of Office|§ 1171. Quo warranto and scire facias abolished; actions to dissolve corporations

 (a) The writ of scire facias, the writ of quo warranto, and proceedings by information in the nature of quo warranto shall not apply in the Virgin Islands but the remedies formerly obtainable under those forms may be obtained by an action as prescribed in this chapter. (b) An action to dissolve a corporation and to forfeit its corporate rights and franchises shall be brought as provided in sections 288 and 289 of Title 13.