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V.I. Code tit. 14, § 927 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 45 - Homicide|§ 927. Justifiable homicide defined

 Homicide is justifiable when committed by— (1) public officers and those acting by their command in their aid and assistance, (A) in obedience to any judgment of a competent court; (B) when necessarily committed in overcoming actual resistance to the execution of some legal process, or in the discharge of any other legal duty; or (C) when necessarily committed in retaking felons who have been rescued or have escaped, or when necessarily committed in arresting persons charged with felony, and who are fleeing from justice or resisting such arrest; (2) any person— (A) when resisting any attempt to murder any person, or to commit a felony, or to do some great bodily injury upon any person; (B) when committed in defense of habitation, property, or person, against one who manifestly intends or endeavors, by violence or surprise to commit a felony, or against one who manifestly intends and endeavors, in a violent, riotous or tumultuous manner, to enter the habitation of another for the purpose of offering violence to any person therein; (C) when committed in the lawful defense of such person, or of a wife or husband, parent, child, master, mistress, or servant of such person, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony, or to do some great bodily injury, and imminent danger of such design being accomplished; but such person, or the person on whose behalf the defense was made, if he was the assailant or engaged in mortal combat, must really and in good faith have endeavored to decline any further struggle before the homicide was committed; or (D) when necessarily committed in attempting by lawful ways and means to apprehend any person for any felony committed or in lawfully suppressing any riot, or in lawfully keeping or preserving the peace.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 928 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 45 - Homicide|§ 928. Acquittal on showing of justification or excuse

 Whenever a homicide appears to be justifiable or excusable, the person charged must, upon his trial, be acquitted and discharged.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 929 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 45 - Homicide|§ 929. Law enforcement officer defined

 For purposes of this chapter, the term “law enforcement officer” shall mean a police officer, probation officer, parole officer, correction officer, warden, prison guard and marshal.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 961 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 47 - Incest|§ 961. Incest defined; punishment

 Persons being within the degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are declared by law to be void, who knowingly intermarry with each other, or who commit fornication or adultery with each other shall each be imprisoned for not more than 10 years.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 991 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 49 - Incompetent Persons|§ 991. Cruelty toward incompetents

 Whoever treats harshly, cruelly, or unkindly, or neglects any duty towards, any idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane person, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1021 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 51 - Indecency|§ 1021. Definitions

 As used in this chapter: (a) “Obscene” means that to the average person, applying contemporary standards, the predominant appeal of the matter, taken as a whole, is to prurient interest, i.e., a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, which goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in description or representation of such matters and is matter which is utterly without redeeming social importance. (b) “Matter” means any book, magazine, newspaper, or other printed or written material or any picture, drawing, photograph, motion picture, or other pictorial representation or any statue or other figure, or any recording, transcription or mechanical, chemical or electrical production or any other articles, equipment, machines or materials. (c) “Person” means any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation or other legal entity. (d) “Distribute” means to transfer possession of, whether with or without consideration. (e) “Knowingly” means having knowledge that the matter is obscene.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1022 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 51 - Indecency|§ 1022. Obscene and indecent conduct

 Whoever— (a)  (1) exposes his person or the private parts thereof in any public place, or in any place where there are present other persons to be offended or annoyed thereby, or who exposes himself or takes part in any model artist exhibition, or makes any other exhibition of himself to public view or to the view of any number of persons, such as is offensive to decency, or is adapted to excite lewd or vicious thoughts or acts; or who shall appear upon any public street or thoroughfare within town limits of any town in the Virgin Islands in bathing costume or any similarly abbreviated attire such as to offend public decency; (2) procures, counsels, or assists any person so to expose himself, or to take part in any model artist exhibition, or to make any other exhibition of himself to public view or to the view of any number of persons, such as is offensive to decency, or is adapted to excite to lewd or vicious thoughts or acts; (3) writes, composes, stereotypes, prints, publishes, sells, distributes, keeps for sale, or exhibits any obscene or indecent writing, paper or books; or designs, copies, draws, engraves, paints, or otherwise prepares any obscene or indecent picture or print; or molds, cuts, casts, or likewise makes any obscene or indecent figure; (4) writes, composes, or publishes any notice or advertisement of any such writing, paper, book, picture, print, or figure; (5) sings any lewd or obscene song, ballad, or uses any lewd or obscene words over any radio station located in or operating within the Virgin Islands, or in any public place, or in any place where there are present other persons to be offended or annoyed thereby; (6) uses vile and obscene language in public streets or places or in private places so as to seriously disturb the peace; or (7) urinates or defecates in public places— shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than 90 days, or both. (b) For purposes of this section, a woman's breast-feeding a child in any public or private location where the woman's presence is otherwise authorized does not under any circumstance constitute obscene or indecent conduct.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1023 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 51 - Indecency|§ 1023. Public performances

 Whoever as owner, manager or operator of a place of public entertainment shall present a public performance or exhibition, open to the public, which violates any provisions of section 1021 of this title shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than 30 days, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1024 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 51 - Indecency|§ 1024. Distribution; printing, exhibiting, distributing or possessing

 (a) Every person who knowingly, sends or causes to be sent, or brings or causes to be brought, into the Virgin Islands for sale or distribution, or in the Virgin Islands prepares, publishes, prints, exhibits, distributes, or offers to distribute, or has in his possession with intent to distribute or to exhibit or offer to distribute, any obscene matter is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) Every person who (i) sends or causes to be sent, or brings or causes to be brought into the Virgin Islands for sale or distribution, or (ii) in the Virgin Islands possesses, prepares, publishes or prints, with the intent to distribute or to exhibit to others for commercial consideration, or (iii) who offers to distribute, distributes or exhibits to others for commercial consideration, any obscene matter, knowing that such matter depicts a minor engaging in or simulating sexual intercourse, masturbation, anal-oral copulation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, sexual sadism, sexual masochism, any lewd or lascivious sexual activity, or excretory functions performed in a lewd or lascivious manner is guilty of a felony and shall be fined not less than $25,000 and not more than $50,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. (c) The provisions of this section with respect to the exhibition of, or the possession with intent to exhibit, any obscene matter shall not apply to a motion picture operator, projectionist or salesperson who is employed by a person licensed in accordance with Virgin Islands law and who is acting within the scope of his employment; Provided That such operator, projectionist or salesperson has no financial interest in the place wherein he is so employed.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1025 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 51 - Indecency|§ 1025. Distribution or exhibition to minor under 18

 (a) Every person who, with knowledge that a person is a minor under 18 years of age, or who, while in possession of such facts that he should reasonably know that such person is a minor under 18 years of age, knowingly distributes to, or sends or causes to be sent to, or exhibits to, or offers to distribute any obscene matter to a minor under 18 years of age, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) Any parent, guardian or adult who in the company of a minor under his or her control permits, allows or otherwise causes said minor to enter any premises engaged in any activities prohibited by this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1026 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 51 - Indecency|§ 1026. Drive-in theater exhibitions visible to non-patrons

 Any person who owns, operates or manages a drive-in theater at which is exhibited any motion picture, slide or other exhibit in which the human male or female bare buttocks, human female bare breasts, or human male or female bare pubic areas are shown in an erotic and/or sexually explicit manner or context, if such motion picture, slide or other exhibit is visible from any public street, other public place, private home or other private property outside the confines of said drive-in theater, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Conviction for second or subsequent offenses shall be cause for revocation of the license or licenses to operate said drive-in theater.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1027 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 51 - Indecency|§ 1027. Employment of minor to perform prohibited acts

 (a) Every person who (i) with knowledge that a person is a minor, or (ii) while in possession of such facts that he should reasonably know that such person is a minor, or (iii) any parent or guardian who has a minor under his or her control, knowingly permits, promotes, employs, uses, persuades, induces, or coerces such minor to engage in or assist others to engage in either posing or modeling alone or with others for purposes of preparing a film, photograph, negative, slide, or live performance involving sexual conduct by a minor, alone or with other persons or animals, for commercial purposes, is guilty of a felony and shall be fined not less than $50,000 and be imprisoned for not less than three years and not more than six years. (b) As used in subsection (a) of this section, “sexual conduct” means any of the following, whether actual or simulated: sexual intercourse, oral copulation, sodomy, anal-oral copulation, masturbation, bestiality, sexual sadism, sexual masochism, any lewd or lascivious sexual activity, or excretory functions performed in a lewd or lascivious manner, whether or not any of the above conduct is performed alone or between members of the same or opposite sex or between humans and animals. An act is simulated when it gives the appearance of being actual sexual conduct.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1051 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 53 - Kidnapping|§ 1051. False imprisonment and kidnapping

 Whoever without lawful authority confines or imprisons another person within this Territory against his will, or confines or inveigles or kidnaps another person, with intent to cause him to be confined or imprisoned in this Territory against his will, or to cause him to be sent out of this Territory against his will; and whoever willfully and knowingly sells, or in any manner transfers, for any term, the services or labor of any other person who has been unlawfully seized, taken, inveigled or kidnapped from this Territory to any other state, territory or country, is guilty of kidnapping and shall be imprisoned for not less than one and not more than 20 years. This action shall not apply in any case when a parent abducts his own child.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1052 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 53 - Kidnapping|§ 1052. Kidnapping for ransom, extortion, robbery or rape

 (a) Any person who seizes, confines, inveigles, entices, decoys, abducts, conceals, kidnaps or carries away any individual by any means whatsoever with intent to hold or detain, or who holds or detains, such individual for ransom, reward or to commit extortion or to exact from any person or entity any money or valuable thing, or any person who kidnaps or carries away any individual to commit robbery, or any person who aids or abets any such act, is guilty of kidnapping for ransom and shall be imprisoned for life. (b) Whoever abducts, takes or carries away any person by force or threat with the intent to commit rape is guilty of kidnapping and shall be imprisoned for not less than 15 years and shall not be eligible for parole until he has served at least one-half of sentence imposed.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1081 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 55 - Larceny and Embezzlement|§ 1081. Larceny defined and classified

 (a) Larceny is the unlawful taking, stealing, carrying, leading, or driving away the personal property of another. (b) Larceny is divided into two degrees, grand larceny and petit larceny.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1082 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 55 - Larceny and Embezzlement|§ 1082. Appropriating lost property

 Whoever finds lost property, and appropriates such property to his own use, or to the use of another person not entitled thereto, is guilty of larceny.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1083 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 55 - Larceny and Embezzlement|§ 1083. Grand larceny

 (a) Whoever takes property— (1) which is of $500 or more in value; or (2) from the person of another— commits grand larceny and shall be imprisoned for not more than 10 years. (b) Whoever is convicted of grand larceny shall be required to pay mandatory restitution.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1084 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 55 - Larceny and Embezzlement|§ 1084. Petit larceny

 (a) Whoever commits larceny under any other circumstances is guilty of petit larceny and shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both. (b) Whoever is convicted of petit larceny shall be required to pay mandatory restitution.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1085 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 55 - Larceny and Embezzlement|§ 1085. Severance of fixture from realty as larceny

 The provisions of this chapter apply where the thing taken is any fixture or part of the realty, and is severed at the time of the taking, in the same manner as if the thing had been severed by another person at a previous time.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1086 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 55 - Larceny and Embezzlement|§ 1086. Valuation of evidences of debt

 If the thing stolen consists of any evidence of debt, or other written instrument, the amount of money due thereupon, or secured to be paid thereby, and remaining unsatisfied, or which in any contingency might be collected thereon, or the value of the property the title to which is shown thereby, or the sum which might be recovered in the absence thereof, is the value of the thing stolen.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1087 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 55 - Larceny and Embezzlement|§ 1087. Embezzlement defined

 Embezzlement is the fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been entrusted.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1088 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 55 - Larceny and Embezzlement|§ 1088. Undelivered negotiable instruments as property

 Any evidence of debt, negotiable by delivery only, and actually executed, is the subject of embezzlement, whether it has been delivered or issued as a valid instrument or not.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1089 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 55 - Larceny and Embezzlement|§ 1089. Embezzlement by public and private officers

 Whoever, being an officer of the Virgin Islands or a subdivision thereof, or a deputy, clerk, or servant of such officer, or an officer, director, trustee, clerk, servant, attorney, or agent of any association, society, or corporation (public or private), fraudulently appropriates to any use or purpose not in the due and lawful execution of his trust, any property which he has in his possession or under his control by virtue of his trust, or secretes it with a fraudulent intent to appropriate it to such use or purpose, is guilty of embezzlement.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1090 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 55 - Larceny and Embezzlement|§ 1090. Embezzlement by carriers

 Whoever, being a carrier or other person having under his control personal property for the purpose of transportation for hire, fraudulently appropriates it to any use or purpose, inconsistent with the safekeeping of such property and its transportation according to his trust is guilty of embezzlement, whether he has broken the package in which such property is contained or has otherwise separated the items thereof, or not.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1091 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 55 - Larceny and Embezzlement|§ 1091. Embezzlement by fiduciaries

 Whoever, being a trustee, banker, merchant, broker, attorney, agent, assignee in trust, executor, administrator, or collector, or person otherwise intrusted with or having in his control property for the use of any other person, fraudulently appropriates it to any use or purpose not in the due and lawful execution of his trust, or secretes it with a fraudulent intent to appropriate it to such use or purpose, is guilty of embezzlement.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1092 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 55 - Larceny and Embezzlement|§ 1092. Embezzlement by bailee

 Whoever, being intrusted with any property as bailee, tenant, or lodger, or with any power of attorney for the sale or transfer thereof, fraudulently converts the same or the proceeds thereof to his own use, or secretes it or them with a fraudulent intent to convert to his own use, is guilty of embezzlement.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1093 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 55 - Larceny and Embezzlement|§ 1093. Embezzlement by clerks, agents, employees, etc.

 Whoever, being a clerk, agent, or servant of any person, fraudulently appropriates to his own use, or secretes with a fraudulent intent to appropriate to his own use, any property of another which has come into his control or care by virtue of his employment as such clerk, agent or servant, is guilty of embezzlement.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1094 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 55 - Larceny and Embezzlement|§ 1094. Punishment for embezzlement

 (a) Whoever is guilty of embezzlement shall— (1) if the property or money embezzled was less than $100 in value, be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both; or (2) if the property or money embezzled was $100 or more in value, be imprisoned not more than 10 years. (b) Where the property embezzled is an evidence of debt or right of action the sum due upon it or secured to be paid shall be taken as its value.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1131 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 57 - Letters and Messages|§ 1131. Opening or reading letters of another

 Whoever— (1) willfully opens or reads, or causes to be read, any sealed letter not addressed to himself, without being authorized to do so, either by the writer of such letter or by the person to whom it is addressed; or (2) without the like authority, publishes any of the contents of such letter, knowing the same to have been unlawfully opened— shall be fined not more than $50 or imprisoned not more than 30 days, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1132 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 57 - Letters and Messages|§ 1132. Refusal or neglect to send or deliver message

 (a) Whoever, being an agent, operator or employee of any telegraph, cable, telephone or radio office, willfully— (1) refuses or neglects to send any message received at such office for transmission; or (2) postpones the same out of its order; or (3) refuses or neglects to deliver any message received by telegraph, cable or telephone— shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both. (b) Subsection (a) of this section shall not be construed to require any message to be received, transmitted or delivered unless the charges thereon have been paid or tendered, nor to require the sending, receiving or delivery of any message, counseling, aiding, abetting, or encouraging treason, or other resistance to the lawful authority, or any message calculated to further any fraudulent plan or purpose, or to instigate or encourage the perpetration of any unlawful act, or to facilitate the escape of any criminal or person accused of crime.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1133 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 57 - Letters and Messages|§ 1133. Misuse of information obtained during course of employment

 Whoever, being an agent, operator, or employee of any radio, telephone, telegraph or cable office— (1) uses or appropriates in any way, any information derived by him from any private message passing through his hands, and addressed to any other person, or in any other manner acquired by him by reason of his trust as such agent, operator or employee; (2) trades or speculates upon such information so obtained; or (3) in any manner turns, or attempts to turn the same to his own account, profit or advantage— shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1134 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 57 - Letters and Messages|§ 1134. Reading telegraphic messages; misuse of information so obtained

 Whoever— (1) by means of any machine, instrument, or contrivance, or in any other manner, willfully and fraudulently reads or attempts to read any message, or to learn the contents thereof, while the same is being sent by radio or over any telegraph line; (2) willfully and fraudulently or clandestinely, learns or attempts to learn the contents or meaning of any message, while the same is in any telegraph, radio or cable office, or being received thereat or sent therefrom; or (3) uses or attempts to use or communicate to others, any information so obtained— shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.