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V.I. Code tit. 3, § 804 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 29 - Notaries Public|Subchapter II - Special Notaries Public|§ 804. Notarial seal

 (a) Notaries public appointed and commissioned under section 801 of this title shall keep an official impression seal which shall be furnished by the respective department. (b) Chief clerks of the United States District Court for the Virgin Islands and the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands shall submit, at least once a year, to and for the information of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, a list of all persons authorized as ex officio notaries public.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 805 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 29 - Notaries Public|Subchapter II - Special Notaries Public|§ 805. Restriction on powers; exception

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, notaries public appointed and commissioned under section 801 of this title, shall not be permitted to take acknowledgments of deeds and administer oaths and affirmations except on matters of official business of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands or the Government of the United States, and no fees for such acknowledgments and oaths or affirmations shall be charged. (b) Not to exceed four of the notaries public commissioned under subsection (a) of section 801 of this title for the Island of St. John, two for the area of Cruz Bay and two for the area of Coral Bay, shall be permitted, in addition to the powers granted in that section, to take acknowledgments of deeds, and administer oaths and affirmations in matters not connected with official business of the Government of the Virgin Islands, in which cases the regular fees for such acknowledgments, oaths and affirmations shall be charged and deposited in the General Fund of the Treasury.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 911 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 911. Definitions

 In this chapter, unless specifically otherwise indicated: (a) “agency” means any officer, department, bureau, division, board, authority, agency, commission or institution of the Virgin Islands of the United States except the judicial and legislative branches. (b) “Regulation” means every rule, regulation or order, amendments thereto or revocations thereof, made by any agency, except a rule, regulation or order which— (1) relates only to the organization or internal management of the agency; or (2) relates to the use of public works, including streets and highways, under the jurisdiction of any agency when the effect of such order is indicated to the public by means of signs or signals; or (3) is directed to a specifically named person or group of persons and does not apply generally throughout the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 912 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 912. Authority to adopt regulations

 Except as provided in section 934 of this title, nothing in this chapter confers authority upon or augments the authority of any agency to adopt, administer or enforce any regulation. Each regulation adopted, to be effective, must be within the scope of authority conferred and in accordance with standards prescribed by other provisions of law.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 913 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 913. Approval by the Governor; review by the Legislature; public notice

 (a) On and after July 1, 1968, no executive or administrative regulation, duly promulgated and issued in accordance with authority granted by law, may have the force and effect of law unless it is approved by the Governor, filed and published as required by section 933 of this chapter, submitted to the Legislature as provided by subsection (b) of this section, and notice of the promulgation of the regulation, including a brief description of the subject matter thereof, has been published in at least one newspaper of general circulation. (b) At the time of filing of any executive or administrative regulation described in subsection (a) of this section, or of any amendment or revision thereof, the Governor shall submit the same to the Legislature, or to the Committee on Rules of the Legislature if the Legislature is recessed or adjourned. Upon such submission by the Governor and upon compliance with the other provisions of this chapter, any such regulation shall have the force and effect of law, unless a later effective date is specified by law. The Legislature may at any time thereafter by Act modify, amend, or revise any such regulation, or amendment or revision thereof, and such modification, amendment or revision by the Legislature shall be filed and published as in the case of other regulations under section 933 of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 931 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter II - Filing Regulations|§ 931. Prior regulations

 Within three months after June 24, 1958, every agency shall prepare and file with the Government Secretary an original and two duplicate copies of every regulation adopted by it and which is still in force and effect, together with a citation of the statutory authority pursuant to which such regulation or part thereof was adopted. Reference to the particular provision of law which each regulation construes, implements or interprets shall also be included, if such is the case.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 932 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter II - Filing Regulations|§ 932. Invalidity of unfiled prior regulations

 Any regulation made by an agency of the Virgin Islands prior to June 24, 1958, and not filed in the office of the Government Secretary within three months after June 24, 1958, as required by section 931 of this title, shall be void and of no effect. The Government Secretary may, in his discretion, extend the filing date provided for in this section to any date prior to the actual publication of the Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 933 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter II - Filing Regulations|§ 933. Filing of new regulations; publication in Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations

 In addition to the requirements of section 913 of this chapter, no regulation hereafter made by an agency of the Virgin Islands shall become effective until an original and two duplicates, have been filed in the office of the Lieutenant Governor, and until it has been published in the Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 934 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter II - Filing Regulations|§ 934. Regulations as to preparation and form; statutory references

 The Lieutenant Governor shall prescribe by regulations, the style in which regulations filed pursuant to section 933 of this title shall be prepared. His regulations shall prescribe a standard size form to be used in filing regulations pursuant to that section and shall provide that each regulation be accompanied by the citation of the statutory authority pursuant to which it, or any part of it, was adopted, as well as a reference to the particular statutory provisions it implements, construes or interprets, if such is the case. The regulations shall also require all amendments to regulations to refer to the original regulation.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 935 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter II - Filing Regulations|§ 935. Indorsement of time of filing; public inspection

 The Lieutenant Governor shall indorse on all copies of the regulations presented for filing in his office the time and date of filing. He shall maintain a permanent file of such regulations in his office for public inspection.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 936 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter II - Filing Regulations|§ 936. Approval by Lieutenant Governor

 The Lieutenant Government Secretary shall examine each regulation filed with him pursuant to section 933 of this title to determine whether it complies with the regulations issued by him pursuant to section 934 of this title. If he approves, he shall indorse his approval on each copy of the regulation, and the regulation is then considered to have been filed as required by this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 937 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter II - Filing Regulations|§ 937. Correction of regulations

 If upon examination the Lieutenant Governor determines that a regulation does not comply with the regulations issued pursuant to section 934 of this title, he may— (a) return it to the issuing agency, with notice of his objections, for correction and conformance; or (b) make such corrections and changes as are necessary to bring the regulation into conformance. In either case, the regulation will not be considered as filed for purposes of this chapter until the issuing agency has either made the indicated changes and had the new version approved by the Lieutenant Governor, or indicated its approval of the changes made by the Lieutenant Governor.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 938 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter II - Filing Regulations|§ 938. Circumstances requiring effectiveness prior to publication

 The provisions of section 933 of this subchapter requiring publication of regulations in the Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations may be dispensed with in all cases in which the regulations have been approved by the Governor and he certifies that because of emergency or other compelling circumstances, including a lengthy delay before publication, the public interest requires that the regulation become effective without the delay of prior publication. In all such cases the Governor shall file a copy of the certification with the Lieutenant Governor. Said certification and regulation shall be published in the next Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 939 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter II - Filing Regulations|§ 939. Presumption of correctness of published regulation; judicial notice

 (a) The publication of a regulation in the Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations or the Virgin Islands Register raises a rebuttable presumption that the text of the regulation so published is the text of the regulation adopted. (b) The courts of the Virgin Islands shall take judicial notice of the contents of each regulation printed in the Virgin Islands Rules and Regulation or the Virgin Islands Register.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 940 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter II - Filing Regulations|§ 940. Regulations of federal agency

 Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 933 and 934 of this subchapter, an agency of the Virgin Islands may in a regulation incorporate by reference regulations promulgated by an agency of the United States as set forth in the Federal Register, without publishing such regulations in full, by filing and publishing the adopting regulations as specified in this subchapter; Provided, That such regulations shall be clearly identified in the adopting regulation, and that copies of the Federal Register containing such regulations shall be maintained in the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, available for inspection by the public.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 941 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter II - Filing Regulations|§ 941. Distribution of new regulations

 The Lieutenant Governor shall distribute, within five weekdays after approval by the Governor, at least two copies of any regulation hereafter made by any agency of the Government of the Virgin Islands to each of the following libraries: (1) the Enid M. Baa Library, St. Thomas, (2) the St. Thomas Campus Library of the University of the Virgin Islands, (3) the Law Library of the District Court, St. Thomas, (4) the Law Library of the Legislature, St. Thomas, (5) the Law Library of the Attorney General's Office, St. Thomas, (6) the Florence Williams Public Library, St. Croix, (7) the St. Croix Campus Library of the University of the Virgin Islands, (8) the Law Library of the District Court, St. Croix, (9) the Law Library of the Attorney General's Office, St. Croix, (10) the Cruz Bay Public Library, St. John, (11) the Frederiksted Public Library, St. Croix, (12) the Law Library of the Superior Court, St. Thomas, (13) the Law Library of the Superior Court, St. Croix, (14) the Legislation Activities Center in the Office of the Governor, and (15) any additional libraries designated as depository libraries under section 883 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 942 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter II - Filing Regulations|§ 942. Distribution of documents other than regulations

 The Lieutenant Governor shall distribute or cause to be distributed within five weekdays after issuance of any document required to be published in accordance with section 982, subsection (a) of this title and immediately after issuance by the Attorney General of any written opinion of legal and general significance, at least two copies thereof to each of the libraries designated in section 941 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 943 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter II - Filing Regulations|§ 943. Repeal and mandatory update of rules and regulations

 (a) Any Board or Commission, Department, Division or Agency, mandated by statute to promulgate rules and regulations as may be reasonably necessary for the administration of their Board, Commission, Department, Division or Agency, shall review every five years their rules and regulations, using a calendar year beginning January 1. (b) An electronic copy of the rules and regulations, dated with the review, shall be submitted within thirty (30) days of the enactment of this Act to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, pursuant to Title 3, chapter 3, section 34(a), to the Legislature of the Virgin Islands' Office of the Code Revisor, and to the Legislature of the Virgin Islands' Legal Counsel's Office. (c) Within thirty (30) days of the enactment of this Act, an electronic copy of all Rules and Regulations as they exist shall be submitted to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, pursuant to Title 3, chapter 3, section 34(a), to the Legislature of the Virgin Islands' Office of the Code Revisor, and to the Legislature of the Virgin Islands Legal Counsel's Office. (d) Any Board or Commission, Department, Division or Agency, mandated by statute to promulgate rules and regulations which does not have rules and regulations in effect shall report this finding within thirty (30) days of the enactment of this Act to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, pursuant to Title 3, chapter 3, section 34(a), to the Legislature of the Virgin Islands' Office of the Code Revisor, and to the Legislature of the Virgin Islands' Legal Counsel's Office.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 961 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter III - Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations|§ 961. Preparation and publication

 The Lieutenant Governor is authorized to— (a) Contract for the compilation, codification and publication of all regulations filed with him pursuant to section 931 of this title. The publication of compiled regulations shall be known as the Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations. (b) Determine the manner and form in which the regulations, compilations and codifications shall be prepared, printed, and indexed so that all regulations, compilations and codifications shall be prepared and published in a uniform manner at the earliest practical date.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 981 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter IV - Virgin Islands Register|§ 981. Supplements to Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations

 The Lieutenant Secretary, at the time he contracts pursuant to section 961 of this title, is authorized to— (a) Contract for the continuing upkeep of the “Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations” through the preparation, compilation and publication of periodic supplements designed to incorporate into the “Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations” all new regulations and changes in old regulations which have been filed in his office since the publication of the next preceding supplement. These supplements are to be in the form of loose-leaf insert pages so that the new and changed material may be inserted directly into the compilation at their proper place. Instructions suitable for this purpose shall be included with the supplements but shall not be considered a part of it. This supplement service shall be known as the “Virgin Islands Register.” (b) Determine the manner and form in which new or amended regulations shall be prepared and indexed so as to make the Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations a uniform and consistent work, and so as to provide the flexibility needed to avoid unnecessary reprinting of materials.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 982 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter IV - Virgin Islands Register|§ 982. Documents other than regulations to be contained in Register

 The Virgin Islands Register shall also contain: (1) All gubernatorial proclamations, Executive Orders and Reorganization Plans except such as have no general applicability and legal effect or are effective only against Virgin Islands agencies or persons in their capacity as officer, agents or employees thereof; (2) such documents or classes of documents as the Governor shall determine from time to time to have general applicability and legal effect; and (3) such documents or classes of documents as may be required to be so published by the Legislature.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 983 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter IV - Virgin Islands Register|§ 983. Filing of other documents; periodic publication of Register

 Material which, pursuant to section 982 of this title, should be printed in the Virgin Islands Register shall be filed in triplicate in the office of the Lieutenant Governor before the last day of each month in order to be printed in the Register appearing in the following monthly period.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 984 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter IV - Virgin Islands Register|§ 984. Notice section of Register; separate classification and distribution of other documents

 The material which, pursuant to section 982 of this title, is to be printed in the Virgin Islands Register, shall, as far as practicable, be grouped into a separate section of the Register so that this material will form a separate notice register which may be sold by the Lieutenant Governor separately and independently of the Virgin Islands Rules and Regulations.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 1011 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter V - Distribution of Rules and Regulations and Register; Binders|§ 1011. Sale by Government Secretary; prices; deposit of moneys

 The Lieutenant Governor may sell the publications provided for in this chapter at such prices as may be fair to the Government of the United States Virgin Islands. All moneys received from such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury and credited to the General Fund.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 1012 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter V - Distribution of Rules and Regulations and Register; Binders|§ 1012. Purchase of binders for Register

 (a) The Lieutenant Governor is authorized to negotiate for and purchase, from time to time, loose-leaf binders in such form and quantities as he directs, to be used for the purpose of containing copies of the Virgin Islands Register provided for in subchapter IV of this chapter. (b) The Governor of the Virgin Islands shall prescribe the manner in which the loose-leaf binders provided for in this section shall be distributed free of charge to the Legislature and to the Executive and Judicial Branches of the Government, and shall fix the prices at which they may be sold to the general public. The proceeds from such sales shall be remitted to the Commissioner of Finance and covered by him into the General Fund of the Treasury.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 1031 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 35 - Filing and Publication of Regulations|Subchapter VI - Appropriations|§ 1031. Authorization of appropriations

 There is authorized to be appropriated to the Lieutenant Governor such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 21 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands|Subchapter IIA - Establishment of Supreme Court and Appointment of Justices|§ 21. Establishment; composition; sessions; seal

 The Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands is established pursuant to section 21(a) of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands, as amended, as the highest court of the Virgin Islands and in it shall be reposed the supreme judicial power of the Territory. As used in this chapter, “Supreme Court” or “Court” means the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands established under this section. (a) The Supreme Court shall consist of a Chief Justice of the Virgin Islands and no fewer than two but no more than four associate justices. Any decision must be concurred in by a majority of the justices of the Court, but one of the justices may adjourn the Court from day to day or to a day certain. (b)  (1) The Supreme Court shall hold one term annually, commencing at such time and continuing for such period as it may by rule determine. (2) The Supreme Court shall hold regular sessions on the island of St. Croix, commencing at such times and continuing for such periods as the Court from time to time directs. (3) The Court may hold special sessions from time to time in any location throughout the Territory, as the Chief Justice considers appropriate. (4) The offices or chambers of the respective justices need not be in St. Thomas, but may be located in the island where the justices respectively reside. (c) The Supreme Court may transact business at any time. Adjournments from day to day, or from time to time, are construed as recesses in the sessions, and do not prevent the Supreme Court from sitting at any time. (d) The seal of the Supreme Court shall be the Great Seal of the Government of the Virgin Islands, as set forth in Title 1 Virgin Islands Code, chapter 7, section 108(b), substituting the words “Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands” around the vignette of the seal.