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V.I. Code tit. 27, § 312 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 27 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 9 - Licensing of Businesses and Occupations|Subchapter II - Traders in Gold, Silver and Other Valuable Items|§ 312. Requirement for record

 (a) Any trader doing business in the locations permitted in this subchapter shall record the purchase, barter, exchange, pledge, or other receipt by him of any item described in section 310 of this subchapter, and also any subsequent disposition of that item from his possession. Recording shall be on forms obtainable from the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (V.I.P.D.) and shall include: (1) The date of the transaction; (2) A comprehensive description of the item including any visible identification marks such as initials, name of manufacturer, model and serial numbers and owner-applied identification numbers; (3) Its estimated fair market value; (4) The name, address, and date of birth of the person from whom the item is received. The trade shall require proof of identification of that person by a driver's license or similar credentials. (5) The records required by this section must be kept for inspection for not less than five years. (b) The requirements imposed upon a trader by this section shall also be binding upon any employee or other person acting for the trader. (c) The completed form shall be transmitted by the trader to the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (V.I.P.D.) no later than 5 days after the date of any transaction listed on the form. (d) In addition to the requirements enumerated in subsections (a) (b) and (c) of this section, all transactions must be video recorded showing the faces of the consumer and the trader and the date and time of the transaction and the recording must be kept for inspection not less than 90 days from the time of the recording.
V.I. Code tit. 27, § 313 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 27 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 9 - Licensing of Businesses and Occupations|Subchapter II - Traders in Gold, Silver and Other Valuable Items|§ 313. Exceptions to recording requirements

 Notwithstanding subsection (a) of section 312 of this subchapter, no record is required in the case of new or unused merchandise received by a trader from an established, reputable manufacturer or wholesaler, with a fixed place of address, provided that the trader shall retain an invoice or other customary proof of origin of such merchandise.
V.I. Code tit. 27, § 314 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 27 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 9 - Licensing of Businesses and Occupations|Subchapter II - Traders in Gold, Silver and Other Valuable Items|§ 314. Prohibitions of trading with minors

 No trader shall purchase, barter, exchange, or otherwise receive any item described in section 310 of this subchapter from a minor under the age of eighteen (18).
V.I. Code tit. 27, § 315 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 27 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 9 - Licensing of Businesses and Occupations|Subchapter II - Traders in Gold, Silver and Other Valuable Items|§ 315. Retention of items

 (a) No trader and no employee or other person acting for the trader shall melt, vulcanize, or otherwise destroy or change the identity of or dispose of any item described in section 310 of this subchapter and received by the trader until a period of ten (10) days shall have elapsed after the date of submission of the report required by subsection (a) of section 312 of this subchapter. (b) Where the trader finds that the ten- (10-) day waiting period constitutes a burden, he may contact the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (V.I.P.D.) by telephone and notify an official designated by the Chief of Police of his need to act. Upon inspection of the item by a local police officer, or if a forty-eight- (48-) hour period has lapsed after such notification, the trader may dispose of or alter the item.
V.I. Code tit. 27, § 316 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 27 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 9 - Licensing of Businesses and Occupations|Subchapter II - Traders in Gold, Silver and Other Valuable Items|§ 316. Inspections by police

 When property has been reported as stolen to police authorities in the Virgin Islands and in order to seek the whereabouts of that stolen property, or when there is probable cause to believe that record entries are incorrect or that not all items required to be recorded have, in fact, been recorded, any member of the local police force where the trader has his business may, during normal business hours and in the presence of the trader or his representative and in pursuance of investigating the aforementioned theft, inspect at the trader's place of business the records required to be kept by this subchapter and any item of property listed in section 310 of this subchapter which corresponds to the report of theft. Where the trader refuses to produce the reported items for inspection, a search warrant shall be obtained forthwith by the police.
V.I. Code tit. 27, § 317 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 27 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 9 - Licensing of Businesses and Occupations|Subchapter II - Traders in Gold, Silver and Other Valuable Items|§ 317. Penalty

 Any person or corporation who violates or fails to comply with any provision of this subchapter or who makes any false statement in connection therewith or who gives false identification shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000) or imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or both and the person shall be subject to forfeiture of his business license. If, however, the value of the property is in excess of five thousand dollars ($5,000), the penalty shall be a fine of not less than five thousand dollars ($5,000) or imprisonment of not less than one year and not more than five years, or both and upon conviction of a second or subsequent offense within three years of the first offense, not less than $2,000 nor more than $4,000.
V.I. Code tit. 27, § 318 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 27 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 9 - Licensing of Businesses and Occupations|Subchapter II - Traders in Gold, Silver and Other Valuable Items|§ 318. Licensing

 (a) No trader shall dedicate himself or herself to the purchase of precious metals, precious stones or watches without having beforehand obtained a valid license issued by the Commissioner of Licensing and Consumer Affairs in compliance with the disposition of this law. (b) The application to obtain said license shall be on such forms as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner, and shall include the business address of the applicant, or the location where such applicant contemplates he or she will be doing business. Said application shall be sworn to before an official authorized to take oaths, and shall be accompanied by a Certificate of Prior Police Record issued by the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (V.I.P.D.), along with two (2) recent photographs, size 2 inches x 2 inches. Any trader applying for said license shall have been a Virgin Islands resident for not less than sixty (60) days. This license shall be nontransferable, and shall not be issued to any trader who has been convicted of a felony or of a crime involving moral turpitude. (c) The Commissioner of Licensing and Consumer Affairs shall collect a fee in the amount of $4,000 for each license issued according to the provisions of this section. The license fee shall be for one year. In cases of renewal of said license, the fee shall be payable not later than the 31st day of January of each year. Late payment after the 31st day of January of each year will carry an extra charge of $75 payable before obtaining said license renewal. No license or renewal thereof shall be issued without payment of the license fee.
V.I. Code tit. 27, § 319 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 27 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 9 - Licensing of Businesses and Occupations|Subchapter II - Traders in Gold, Silver and Other Valuable Items|§ 319. Severability

 The provisions of this subchapter are severable and if any of its provisions or any sentence, clause or paragraph shall be held invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, the decision of such court shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions hereof.
V.I. Code tit. 27, § 320 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 27 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 9 - Licensing of Businesses and Occupations|Subchapter II - Traders in Gold, Silver and Other Valuable Items|§ 320. Effective date

 This subchapter shall become effective 120 days after January 29, 1982.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 251 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 12 - Construction Liens|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 251. Definitions

 Whenever used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) “Claimant” means any person having a lien or right to a lien upon real estate under this chapter and includes his successor in interest. (b) “Contract price” means the amount agreed upon by the contracting parties for performing services and furnishing materials covered by the contract, increased or diminished, as the case may be, by the price of any extras or change orders, or by any amounts attributable to altered specifications, defects in workmanship or materials or any other breaches of the contract. No liquidated damages between the owner and a prime contractor shall diminish the contract price as to any other lienor. If no price is agreed upon by the contracting parties “contract price” means a reasonable price for all labor, services or materials covered by the contract, with any increases and diminutions, as above provided. (c) “Furnish materials” means (1) supply materials which are: (A) incorporated in the improvement including normal wastage in construction operations; or (B) specially fabricated for incorporation in the improvements and not readily resaleable in the ordinary course of the fabricator's business even though not actually incorporated in the improvements; or (C) used for the construction or for the operation of machinery or equipment used in the construction and not remaining in the improvement, subject to diminution by the salvage value of such materials; and (2) also includes supplying tools, appliances, or machinery used on the particular improvement to the extent of the reasonable rental value for the period of actual use and any reasonable periods of non-use taken into account in the rental contract. The delivery of materials to the site of the improvement, whether or not by the claimant, creates a presumption that the materials were used in the improvement. (d) “Owner” means the owner of any interest in the real estate being improved. (e) “Perform or furnish” when used in connection with the word “services” or “materials” means performance or furnishing by the claimant or by another for him. (f) “Services” does not include financing or activities in connection with financing.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 252 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 12 - Construction Liens|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 252. Real estate improvement contract; “prime contractor”; “subcontractor”; “subsubcontractor”

 (a) A “real estate improvement contract” means an agreement to perform services, or to furnish materials for the purpose of producing a change in the physical condition of land or of a structure including: (1) alteration of the surface by excavation, fill, change in grade, or change in a shoreline, beach, stream, salt pond, impounding reservoir, marsh, watercourse, watergut or waterway; (2) construction or installation on, above, or below the surface of land; (3) demolition, repair, remodeling, or removal of a structure previously constructed or installed; (4) seeding, sodding, or other landscaping operation; and (5) preparation of plans, surveys, architectural or engineering plan or drawings for any change in the physical condition of land or structures. (b) A person who has entered into a real estate improvement contract is: (1) a “prime contractor” if he has contracted with the owner, (2) a “subcontractor” if he has contracted with a prime contractor, or (3) a “subsubcontractor” if he has contracted with a subcontractor. (c) A contract for the mining or removal of coral, minerals, soil, sod, or things growing on land or other similar contracts in which the activity is primarily for the purpose of realizing upon the disposal or removal of the objects removed is not a “real estate improvement contract”.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 253 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 12 - Construction Liens|Subchapter II - Existence and Priority of Liens|§ 253. Existence of a construction lien

 Except as provided in section 254 of this title, even though the owner has not made an agreement giving a real estate security interest, a prime contractor, subcontractor or subsubcontractor, upon compliance with section 264 of this title has to the extent provided in this chapter a lien to secure payment of the contract price on the contracting owner's real estate which is being improved. He also has a lien on an interest in the real estate being improved of any owner, other than the contracting owner, who, in writing, has either requested that the improvement be made or agreed specifically that his interest may be bound by the lien.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 254 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 12 - Construction Liens|Subchapter II - Existence and Priority of Liens|§ 254. Exclusion from lien

 Notwithstanding section 253 of this title, a person making an improvement pursuant to a real estate improvement contract with the Government of the United States Virgin Islands is not entitled to a lien under this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 255 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 12 - Construction Liens|Subchapter II - Existence and Priority of Liens|§ 255. Limitation of lien for materials supplied

 (a) A lien for supplying materials arises only if they are furnished with the intent, evidenced by the contract of sale, the delivery order, or by the claimant's delivery to the site, that they be used in the construction or incorporated in the improvement on the particular real estate against which the lien is asserted. (b) If separate lots, parcels or tracts of real estate are being improved under a single notice of commencement (see section 262 of this title) and the real estate improvement contract does not specifically apportion the materials among the lots, parcels or tracts, an intent, evidenced in a manner specified in subsection (a), that the materials be used generally on the separate lots, parcels or tracts is sufficient to enable the supplier to secure a lien against all lots, parcels or tracts on which the materials were actually used or in which they were incorporated. Delivery by the claimant to any one of the separate lots, parcels or tracts shall be sufficient delivery under subsection (a) to give a lien on all the lots, parcels, or tracts. Delivery to any one of the separate lots, parcels or tracts, whether or not by the claimant, creates a presumption that the materials were used in the construction or incorporated into all the separate lots, parcels or tracts being improved in the same percentages of claimant's claim as the cost to the owner of the improvements on each separate lot, parcel or tract bears to the total cost to the owner of all improvements being made under the single notice of commencement, and the claimant has a lien on each separate lot, parcel or tract for that percentage of his claim unless the owner or other adverse party accounts for all materials for which the claim is asserted, showing the particular lots, parcels or tracts into which they were incorporated or in connection with which they were used.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 256 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 12 - Construction Liens|Subchapter II - Existence and Priority of Liens|§ 256. Amount of lien; notice of claim of lien

 (a) The amount secured by the lien of a prime contractor is the unpaid part of the prime contract price less the aggregate amount secured by the liens of all subcontractors and subcontractors. (b) Except as modified by subsection (c) and by section 258 of this title, the lien of a subcontractor is for the lesser of: (1) the amount unpaid under his contract, or (2) the part of the contract price (A) remaining unpaid under the prime contract at the time the owner receives notification under section 256(e) of this title of the subcontractor's right to claim a lien, and (B) any additional part of the prime contract price paid prior to filing of a notice of commencement under section 262 of this title. (c) The lien of a subcontractor is reduced by the amounts owed by him to his subcontractor if the subcontractor has claimed a lien for the amounts. (d) Except as modified by section 258 of this title, the lien of a subcontractor is for the amount unpaid under his contract, but not more than the lesser of: (1) the part of the contract price (i) remaining unpaid under the prime contract at the time the owner receives notification of the subcontractor's right to claim a lien, and (ii) any additional part of the prime contract price paid prior to filing of a notice of commencement, or (2) the part of the contract price remaining unpaid under the subcontract at the time the prime contractor received notification of the subcontractor's right to claim a lien. (e) The notification to the owner or the prime contractor of a right to claim a lien may be given at any time after a subcontractor or subcontractor has entered into the contract pursuant to which his lien may arise. To be effective under subsections (b) and (d) the notice must be in writing and must be either delivered personally to or sent by registered or certified mail to the last known address of the person specified in the notice of commencement (see section 262 of this title) and must contain (1) the name of the claimant, (2) the name of the person with whom he contracted, (3) a general description of the services and materials provided or to be provided (4) the amount unpaid, whether or not due, to the claimant for the services or materials (if no amount is fixed by the contract, a good faith estimate of the amount shall be made), (5) a statement that any payments to the prime contractor after the receipt of the notification will not reduce the amount of the claimant's lien; and, if the claimant is a subcontractor, a statement that any payments to the subcontractor after the notification has been received by both the owner and the prime contractor will not reduce the amount of the claimant's lien.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 257 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 12 - Construction Liens|Subchapter II - Existence and Priority of Liens|§ 257. Notice to owner

 A notice given to the owner who made the contract for the improvement is also effective against any other owner against whom the person giving notice can acquire a lien under this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 258 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 12 - Construction Liens|Subchapter II - Existence and Priority of Liens|§ 258. Attachment and priority of lien

 (a) If the claimant records a notice of lien as provided in section 264 of this title, while a notice of commencement is effective, the claimant's lien attaches as of the time the notice of commencement was recorded as provided in section 262 of this title. (b) If the claimant records a notice of lien when there is no effective notice of commencement covering the improvement, the claimant's lien attaches at the time he records his notice of lien. (c) Except as provided in subsection (d), a construction lien takes priority over a conveyance, security interest, another construction lien, judgment, or other claim against the real estate which was not recorded as provided in chapter 7 of this title or this chapter or perfected as provided in Title 11A. (d) All liens which attach as of the time of recording the notice of commencement (subsection a) have equal priority and share the funds available in the same ratio as the ratio of the particular claimant's lien bears to the total of all liens. (e) “Funds available” in the case of subcontractors, means the total of: (1) sums paid by the owner to the prime contractor prior to recording of a notice of commencement; (2) sums paid by the owner in disregard of any notice of right to claim a lien; and (3) sums unpaid under the prime contract. (f) “Funds available” in the case of subsubcontractors, means funds available as defined in subsection (e) but not more than the amount to which their subcontractor is entitled. (g) An owner pays in disregard of a notice to claim a lien if he fails, after receipt of notification of a right to claim a lien, to withhold from the prime contractor an amount sufficient to pay the amount of lien of a subcontractor or subsubcontractor provided for in subsections (b), (c) and (d) of section 256 of this title or pays a subcontractor amounts to which the subcontractor is not entitled because of receipt by the owner of notification of a right to claim a lien from subsubcontractors who have contracted with that subcontractor. (h) Except as provided in subsection (i), the lien takes priority over subsequent advances made under a prior recorded security interest if the subsequent advances are made after the notice of lien has been recorded. (i) Notwithstanding notice that the lien has attached, subsequent advances made under a prior recorded security interest take priority over the lien if the advance (1) was made under a “construction security interest”, or (2) was applied to payment of the cost of the real estate improvement, or to payment of any lien or encumbrance which is prior to the lien given by this chapter, or to maintenance or preservation of the real estate or of the secured creditor's interest therein. (j) A security interest is a “construction security interest” if the instrument recorded to perfect the interest so denominates it, and the debtor incurs the obligation for the purpose of making the improvement, whether or not the proceeds are in fact so used.