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V.I. Code tit. 13, § 1906 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 15 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act|Subchapter IX - Conversions and Mergers|§ 1906. Effect of merger

 (a) When a merger takes effect: (1) the separate existence of each limited liability company and other entity that is a party to the merger, other than the surviving entity, terminates; (2) all property owned by each of the limited liability companies and other entities that are party to the merger vests in the surviving entity; (3) all debts, liabilities, and other obligations of each limited liability company and other entity that is party to the merger become the obligations of the surviving entity; (4) an action or proceeding pending by or against a limited liability company or other party to a merger may be continued as if the merger had not occurred or the surviving entity may be substituted as a party to the action or proceeding; and (5) except as prohibited by other law, all the rights, privileges, immunities, powers, and purposes of every limited liability company and other entity that is a party to a merger vest in the surviving entity. (b) The Lieutenant Governor shall be an agent for service of process in an action or proceeding against the surviving foreign entity to enforce an obligation of any party to a merger if the surviving foreign entity fails to appoint or maintain an agent designated for service of process within the Virgin Islands or the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the designated office. Upon receipt of process, the Lieutenant Governor shall send a copy of the process by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the surviving entity at the address set forth in the articles of merger. Service is effected under this subsection at the earliest of: (1) the date the company receives the process, notice, or demand; (2) the date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the company; or (3) five days after its deposit in the mail, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed. (c) A member of the surviving limited liability company is liable for all obligations of a party to the merger for which the member was personally liable before the merger. (d) Unless otherwise agreed, a merger of a limited liability company that is not the surviving entity in the merger does not require the limited liability company to wind up its business under this chapter or pay its liabilities and distribute its assets pursuant to this chapter. (e) Articles of merger serve as articles of dissolution for a limited liability company that is not the surviving entity in the merger.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 1907 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 15 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act|Subchapter IX - Conversions and Mergers|§ 1907. Subchapter not exclusive

 This subchapter does not preclude an entity from being converted or merged under other law.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 2001 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 15 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act|Subchapter X - Foreign Limited Liability Companies|§ 2001. Law governing foreign limited liability companies

 (a) The laws of the state or other jurisdiction under which a foreign limited liability company is organized govern its organization and internal affairs and the liability of its managers, members, and their transferees. (b) A foreign limited liability company may not be denied a certificate of authority by reason of any difference between the laws of another jurisdiction under which the foreign company is organized and the laws of the Virgin Islands. (c) A certificate of authority does not authorize a foreign limited liability company to engage in any business or exercise any power that a limited liability company may not engage in or exercise in the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 2002 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 15 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act|Subchapter X - Foreign Limited Liability Companies|§ 2002. Application for certificate of authority

 (a) A foreign limited liability company may apply for a certificate of authority to transact business in the Virgin Islands by delivering an application to the office of the Lieutenant Governor for filing. The application must set forth: (1) the name of the foreign company or, if its name is unavailable for use in the Virgin Islands, a name that satisfies the requirements of section 2005 of this chapter; (2) the name of the state or country under whose law it is organized; (3) the physical address of its principal office; (4) the address of its initial designated office in the Virgin Islands; (5) the name and physical address of its initial agent for service of process within the Virgin Islands; (6) the minimum amount of capital with which the company will conduct business in the Virgin Islands, which shall not be less than $1,000; (7) whether the duration of the company is for a specified term and, if so, the period specified; (8) whether the company is manager-managed, and, if so, the name and address of each initial manager; and (9) whether the members of the company are to be liable for its debts and obligations under a provision similar to section 1303, subsection (c) of this chapter. (b) A foreign limited liability company shall deliver with the completed application a certificate of existence or a record of similar import authenticated by the secretary of state or other official having custody of company records in the state or country under whose law it is organized.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 2003 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 15 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act|Subchapter X - Foreign Limited Liability Companies|§ 2003. Activities not constituting doing business

 (a) Activities of a foreign limited liability company that do not constitute transacting business in the Virgin Islands within the meaning of this subchapter include: (1) maintaining, defending, or settling an action or proceeding; (2) holding meetings of its members or managers or carrying on any other activity concerning its internal affairs; (3) maintaining bank accounts; (4) maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the foreign company's own securities or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities; (5) selling through independent contractors; (6) soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside the Virgin Islands before they become contracts; (7) creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, or security interests in real or personal property; (8) securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or other security interests in property securing the debts, and holding, protecting, and maintaining property so acquired; (9) conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within 30 days and is not one in the course of similar transactions of a like manner; and (10) transacting business in interstate commerce. (b) For purposes of this subchapter, the ownership in the Virgin Islands of income-producing real property or tangible personal property, other than property excluded under subsection (a) of this section, constitutes transacting business in the Virgin Islands. (c) This section does not apply in determining the contacts or activities that may subject a foreign limited liability company to personal jurisdiction, including the jurisdiction of the courts in the Virgin Islands under section 4903 of Title 5, Virgin Islands Code, service of process, taxation, or regulation under any other law of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 2004 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 15 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act|Subchapter X - Foreign Limited Liability Companies|§ 2004. Issuance of certificate of authority

 Unless the Lieutenant Governor determines that an application for a certificate of authority fails to comply as to form with the filing requirements of this chapter, the office of the Lieutenant Governor, upon payment of all filing fees, shall file the application and send a receipt for it and the fees to the limited liability company or its representative.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 2006 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 15 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act|Subchapter X - Foreign Limited Liability Companies|§ 2006. Revocation of certificate of authority

 (a) A certificate of authority of a foreign limited liability company to transact business in the Virgin Islands may be revoked by the Lieutenant Governor in the manner provided in subsection (b) of this section if: (1) the company fails to: (i) pay any fees, taxes, and penalties owed to the Government of the Virgin Islands; (ii) deliver its annual report required under section 1211 of this chapter to the office of the Lieutenant Governor within 60 days after it is due; (iii) appoint and maintain an agent for service of process as required by this subchapter; or (iv) file a statement of a change in the name or business address of the agent as required by this subchapter; or (2) a misrepresentation has been made of any material matter in any application, report, affidavit, or other record submitted by the company pursuant to this subchapter. (b) The Lieutenant Governor may not revoke a certificate of authority of a foreign limited liability company unless the Lieutenant Governor sends the company notice of the revocation, at least 60 days before its effective date, by a record addressed to its agent for service of process in the Virgin Islands, or if the company fails to appoint and maintain a proper agent in the Virgin Islands, addressed to the office required to be maintained by section 1109 of this chapter. The notice must specify the cause for the revocation of the certificate of authority. The authority of the company to transact business in the Virgin Islands ceases on the effective date of the revocation unless the foreign limited liability company cures the failure before that date.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 2007 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 15 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act|Subchapter X - Foreign Limited Liability Companies|§ 2007. Cancellation of authority

 A foreign limited liability company may cancel its authority to transact business in the Virgin Islands by filing in the office of the Lieutenant Governor a certificate of cancellation. Cancellation does not terminate the authority of the Lieutenant Governor to accept service of process on the company for claims for relief arising out of the transactions of business in the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 2008 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 15 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act|Subchapter X - Foreign Limited Liability Companies|§ 2008. Effect of failure to obtain certificate of authority

 (a) A foreign limited liability company transacting business in the Virgin Islands may not maintain an action or proceeding in the Virgin Islands unless it has a certificate of authority to transact business in the Virgin Islands. (b) The failure of a foreign limited liability company to have a certificate of authority to transact business in the Virgin Islands does not impair the validity of a contract or act of the company or prevent the foreign limited liability company from defending an action or proceeding in the Virgin Islands. (c) Limitations on personal liability of managers, members, and their transferees are not waived solely by transacting business in the Virgin Islands without a certificate of authority. (d) If a foreign limited liability company transacts business in the Virgin Islands without a certificate of authority, it appoints the Lieutenant Governor as its agent for service of process for claims for relief arising out of the transaction of business in the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 2009 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 15 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act|Subchapter X - Foreign Limited Liability Companies|§ 2009. Action by Attorney General

 The Attorney General may maintain an action to restrain a foreign limited liability company from transacting business in the Virgin Islands in violation of this subchapter.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 2101 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 15 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act|Subchapter XI - Derivative Action|§ 2101. Right of action

 A member of a limited liability company may maintain an action in the right of the company if the members or managers having authority to do so have refused to commence the action or an effort to cause those members or managers to commence the action is not likely to succeed.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 2102 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 15 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act|Subchapter XI - Derivative Action|§ 2102. Proper plaintiff

 In a derivative action for a limited liability company, the plaintiff must be a member of the company when the action is commenced, and: (1) must have been a member at the time of the transaction of which the plaintiff complains; or (2) the plaintiff's status as a member must have devolved upon the plaintiff by operation of law or pursuant to the terms of the operating agreement from a person who was a member at the time of the transaction.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 2103 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 15 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act|Subchapter XI - Derivative Action|§ 2103. Pleading

 In a derivative action for a limited liability company, the complaint must set forth with particularity the effort of the plaintiff to secure initiation of the action by a member or manager or the reasons for not making the effort.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 2104 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 15 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act|Subchapter XI - Derivative Action|§ 2104. Expenses

 If a derivative action for a limited liability company is successful, in whole or in part, or if anything is received by the plaintiff as a result of a judgment, compromise, or settlement of an action or claim, the court may award the plaintiff reasonable expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees, and shall direct the plaintiff to remit to the limited liability company the remainder of the proceeds received.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 2201 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 15 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act|Subchapter XII - Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 2201. Uniformity of application and construction

 This chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among jurisdictions enacting it.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 2202 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 15 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act|Subchapter XII - Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 2202. Governing law; conflict of law

 (a) The liability of members, managers, employees and agents of a limited liability company organized under this chapter shall at all times be determined solely and exclusively by this chapter and the laws of the United States Virgin Islands. (b) If a conflict arises between the law of this Territory and the laws of any other jurisdiction with regard to the liability of a member, manager employee or agent of a limited liability company organized and existing under this chapter for the debts, obligations and liabilities of the limited liability company, or for the acts or omissions of another member, manager or employee, or agent of the limited liability company, this chapter and the laws of the United States Virgin Islands shall govern in determining such liability.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 2203 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 15 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act|Subchapter XII - Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 2203. Severability clause

 If any provision of this Chapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this Chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this Chapter are severable.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Subchapter I - Types of Crimes or Offenses|§ 1. Definition of crime or offense

 A “crime” or “offense” is an act committed or omitted in violation of a law of the Virgin Islands and punishable by— (1) imprisonment; or (2) fine; or (3) removal from office; or (4) disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 2 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Subchapter I - Types of Crimes or Offenses|§ 2. Classification of crimes or offenses

 (a) Crimes or offenses are divided into felonies and misdemeanors. (b) Notwithstanding any Act of the Legislature to the contrary— (1) a felony is a crime or offense which is punishable by imprisonment for more than one year; and (2) every other crime or offense is a misdemeanor.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 3 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Subchapter I - Types of Crimes or Offenses|§ 3. Penalties where penalties not otherwise prescribed

 (a) Except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by law— (1) every crime or offense declared to be a felony is punishable by imprisonment not exceeding five years; and (2) every crime or offense declared to be a misdemeanor is punishable by a fine not exceeding $200 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both. (b) When— (1) an act or omission is declared by this Code or other law to be a crime or public offense, but without designation thereof as either a felony or a misdemeanor; and (2) no penalty therefor is prescribed by this Code or other law— the act or omission is punishable as a misdemeanor.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 4 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Subchapter I - Types of Crimes or Offenses|§ 4. Discretionary powers of judges in misdemeanor cases

 In misdemeanor cases only, trial judges are authorized to limit the term of imprisonment to six months in prison; in which event, the defendant may be tried by the court, except in cases where a mandatory sentence is imposed.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 11 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Subchapter II - Parties to Crimes or Offenses|§ 11. Principals

 (a) Whoever commits a crime or offense or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal. (b) Whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another person would be a crime or offense, is punishable as a principal. (c) Persons within this section shall be prosecuted and tried as principals, and no fact need be alleged in the information against them other than is required in the information against the principal. (d) Whoever, being sixteen years of age or older, aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures the commission of the crime of first or second degree robbery, first or second degree burglary, or first or second degree arson by a person under the age of sixteen shall be tried as an adult principal for the crime and punishable under the sentencing provisions prescribed for such crime, provided that such adult principal shall be imprisoned for a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of not less than two years, or the mandatory minimum sentence provided at law for such crime, whichever is greater. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, adjudication of guilt or imposition of sentence under this subsection shall not be suspended, deferred, or withheld, nor shall such person be eligible for parole prior to serving the mandatory minimum term of imprisonment prescribed by this subsection.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 12 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Subchapter II - Parties to Crimes or Offenses|§ 12. Accessory after the fact

 (a) Whoever, knowing that a crime or offense has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact. (b) Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Code or any Act of the Legislature, an accessory after the fact shall be imprisoned not more than one-half the maximum term of imprisonment or fined not more than one-half the maximum fine prescribed by law for the punishment of the principal, or both; or if the principal is punishable by imprisonment for life, the accessory shall be imprisoned not more than ten years. (c) An accessory to the commission of a felony may be prosecuted, tried and punished though the principal may be neither prosecuted nor tried, or though the principal may have been tried and acquitted.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 13 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Subchapter II - Parties to Crimes or Offenses|§ 13. Misprision of felony

 Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony, willfully conceals it from the proper authorities, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 3 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 14 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Subchapter II - Parties to Crimes or Offenses|§ 14. Capacity to commit crimes or offenses

 All persons are capable of committing crimes or offenses except— (1) children under the age of seven years; (2) children over the age of seven years and under the age of fourteen years, in the absence of clear proof that at the time of committing the act charged against them they knew its wrongfulness; (3) idiots; (4) persons who are mentally ill and who committed the act charged against them in consequence of such mental illness; and (5) persons who committed the act or made the omission charged under an ignorance or mistake of fact, which disproves any criminal intent.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 15 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Subchapter II - Parties to Crimes or Offenses|§ 15. Omissions not punishable

 No person shall be punished for omitting to perform an act, where such act has been performed by another person acting in his behalf, and competent by law to perform it.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 16 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Subchapter II - Parties to Crimes or Offenses|§ 16. Intoxication

 No act committed while in a state of voluntary intoxication is less criminal because committed while in such state. However, the court or jury may take into consideration the fact that the accused was intoxicated at the time in determining the purpose, motive or intent with which he committed the act whenever the actual existence of any particular purpose, motive, or intent is a necessary element to constitute any particular species or degree of crime or offense.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 18 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Subchapter IIA - Special Evidentiary Rules|§ 18. Admissibility of evidence obtained pursuant to warrant

 Evidence obtained as a direct or indirect result of a search or seizure conducted pursuant to a lawfully issued order or warrant of a court shall be admissible in any trial, hearing or other proceeding before any court in the Virgin Islands, provided the evidence is competent, relevant and material.