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V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1135 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 57 - Letters and Messages|§ 1135. Disclosing information received during the course of employment

 Whoever— (1) by the payment or promise of any bribe, inducement or reward, procures or attempts to procure any telegraph, radio or cable agent, operator or employee to disclose any private message, or the contents, purport, substance, or meaning thereof; (2) offers to any such agent, operator or employee any bribe, compensation or reward for the disclosure of any private information received by him by reason of his trust as such agent, operator or employee; or (3) uses or attempts to use any such information so obtained— shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1136 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 57 - Letters and Messages|§ 1136. Disclosing contents of telegram

 Whoever willfully discloses the contents of any telegraphic, radio or cable message, or any part thereof, addressed to another person, without the permission of such person, unless directed so to do by lawful order of a court, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1137 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 57 - Letters and Messages|§ 1137. Altering telegrams

 Whoever willfully alters the purport, effect, or meaning of a telegraphic, radio or cable message to the injury of another, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1138 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 57 - Letters and Messages|§ 1138. Opening or reading telegrams

 Whoever, not being connected with any telegraph, radio, or cable office— (1) willfully opens any sealed envelope inclosing any telegraphic, radio or cable message, without authority or consent of the person to whom the same may be directed and with the purpose of learning the contents of such message; or (2) fraudulently personates any other person and thereby procures any telegraphic, radio or cable message addressed to such other person, with the intent to use, destroy or detain the same from the person entitled to receive such message— shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1171 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 59 - Libel and Slander|§ 1171. Libel defined

 A malicious publication, by writing, printing, picture, effigy, sign or otherwise than by mere speech, which exposes any living person, or the memory of any deceased person to hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy, or which causes or tends to cause any person to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure any person in his or their business or occupation, is a libel.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1172 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 59 - Libel and Slander|§ 1172. Punishment for libel

 Whoever willfully publishes or procures to be published any libel, or distributes or causes to be distributed any libelous matter in the form of leaflets, cards, or any other manner whatsoever, either printed or written, posting or causing them to be posted in any place, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1173 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 59 - Libel and Slander|§ 1173. Malice presumed

 An injurious publication is presumed to have been malicious if no justifiable motive for making it is shown.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1174 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 59 - Libel and Slander|§ 1174. Truth as a defense

 In all criminal prosecutions for libel, the truth may be given in evidence, and if it appears to the court that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1175 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 59 - Libel and Slander|§ 1175. Publication defined

 To sustain a charge of publishing a libel, it is not necessary that the words or things complained of should have been read or seen by another. It is enough that the accused knowingly parted with the immediate custody of the libel, under circumstances which exposed it to be read or seen by any other person than himself.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1176 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 59 - Libel and Slander|§ 1176. Liability of editors, proprietors and authors

 (a) Every editor or proprietor of a book, newspaper or serial publication and every manager of a partnership or incorporated association by which a book, newspaper or serial publication is issued, is chargeable with the publication of any matter contained in such book, newspaper or serial publication. But in every prosecution for libel the defendant may show in his defense that the matter complained of was published without his knowledge or fault and against his wishes, by another who had no authority from him to make the publication and whose act was disavowed by him as soon as known. (b) The author of a libel in all cases is equally guilty and shall be punished in the same manner as the publisher, owner, or proprietor of the newspaper or other printed publication in which the libelous article appears.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1177 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 59 - Libel and Slander|§ 1177. True reports of official proceedings as libel

 (a) A prosecution for libel cannot be maintained against any person for the publication of a fair and true report of any judicial, legislative or other public and official proceedings or for any heading of the report which is a fair and true headnote of the statement published. (b) Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to any libel contained in any other matter added by any person concerned in the publication; or in the report of anything said or done at the time and place of the public and official proceedings which was not a part thereof.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1178 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 59 - Libel and Slander|§ 1178. Privileged communications

 A communication made to a person interested in the communication, by one who was also interested or who stood in such relation to the former as to afford a reasonable ground for supposing his motive innocent, is not presumed to be malicious, and is a privileged communication.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1179 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 59 - Libel and Slander|§ 1179. Threatening to publish libel

 Whoever— (1) threatens another with the publication of a libel concerning him, or any parent, husband, wife, child or other member of his family; or (2) offers to prevent the publication of a libel upon another person upon condition of the payment of, or with intent to extort, money or other valuable consideration from any person— shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1180 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 59 - Libel and Slander|§ 1180. Slander defined

 Slander is a— (1) false and malicious utterance made by word of mouth in a public manner against a person, whereby such person is charged with the commission of a deed punishable by law; or (2) a tale, or report maliciously made tending to injure the honor, reputation or worthiness of any person or any religious denomination or organization.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1181 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 59 - Libel and Slander|§ 1181. Malice presumed

 Any slanderous statement made whether in the presence of the injured person or in his absence, is presumed to be malicious and shall constitute the crime of slander.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1182 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 59 - Libel and Slander|§ 1182. Punishment for slander

 Whoever commits slander shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1183 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 59 - Libel and Slander|§ 1183. Reporting official statements as slander

 No oral, impartial and accurate account or exposition of judicial, legislative or of any other official act, nor of the statements made while in the discussion, argumentation and debating of said acts shall be considered slander.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1191 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 60 - Loitering|§ 1191. Prohibition; penalty

 Whoever— (1) loiters, remains or wanders in or about a place without apparent reason and under circumstances which reasonably justify suspicion that he may be engaged or about to engage in crime, and, upon inquiring by a police officer, refuses to identify himself or fails to give a reasonably credible account of his conduct and purposes; or (2) loiters in or about public toilets in public places; or (3) loiters or remains on or about a school or college building or grounds, not having any reason or relationship involving custody of or responsibility for a pupil or student, or any other specific, legitimate reason for being there, and not having written permission from anyone authorized to grant the same; or (4) loiters or remains in any place with one or more persons for the purpose of unlawfully using or possessing a dangerous drug; or (5) loiters or remains in a public place for the purposes of gambling with cards, dice or other gambling paraphernalia; or (6) being masked or in any manner disguised by unusual attire or facial alteration, loiters, remains or congregates in a public place with other persons so masked or disguised, or knowingly permits or aids persons so masked or disguised to congregate in a public place (except that such conduct is not unlawful when it occurs in connection with a masquerade party, public parade or theatrical or other presentation, and such police or other regulations as may be applicable have been complied with); or (7) loiters, remains or wanders about in a public place, street, wharf, court or passage in order to beg or gather alms, or to cause, procure or encourage any minor to do so— shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than 90 days or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1221 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 61 - Lotteries, Gambling, and Betting|§ 1221. Lottery defined

 A lottery is any scheme for the disposal or distribution of money or property by chance, among persons who have paid or promised to pay any valuable consideration for the chance of obtaining such property or a portion of it, or for any share or interest in such money or property, upon any agreement, understanding, or expectation that it is to be distributed or disposed of by lot or chance, whether called a lottery, raffle, gift, enterprise or by whatever name the same may be known.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1222 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 61 - Lotteries, Gambling, and Betting|§ 1222. Conducting a lottery

 (a) Whoever contrives, prepares, sets up, proposes or draws any lottery, other than an official lottery of the Virgin Islands of the United States, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the Police Commissioner may permit raffles in good faith.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1223 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 61 - Lotteries, Gambling, and Betting|§ 1223. Selling lottery tickets

 Whoever sells, gives or in any manner whatsoever furnishes or transfers to or for any other person— (1) any ticket, chance, share or interest; or (2) any paper, certificate or instrument purporting or understood to be or represent any ticket, chance, share or interest— in or depending upon the event of any lottery, other than an official lottery of the Virgin Islands of the United States, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1224 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 61 - Lotteries, Gambling, and Betting|§ 1224. Gambling

 Whoever— (1) deals, plays, carries on, opens or conducts, either as owner or employee, either for hire or not, any game of chance played with dice, cards, slot machines, video gaming devices or machines, any electrically or mechanically operated device or machine or any other device, for money, checks, credit or other representative of value; or (2) plays or bets at or against any such game; or (3) is willfully present where any such game is being played— shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1225 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 61 - Lotteries, Gambling, and Betting|§ 1225. Maintaining gambling establishment

 Whoever knowingly permits any game of chance, as described in section 1224 of this title, to be played, conducted or dealt in any house rented or owned, in whole or part, by him, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1226 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 61 - Lotteries, Gambling, and Betting|§ 1226. Seizure of gambling apparatus

 Any person who is required or authorized to arrest any person for a violation of the provisions of this chapter, is also authorized and required to seize any table, cards, dice or other apparatus or article suitable for gambling purposes, found in the possession or under the control of the person so arrested, and to deliver the same to the judicial officer before whom the person arrested is required to be taken.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1261 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 63 - Malicious Mischief|§ 1261. Destroying written instruments

 Whoever maliciously mutilates, tears, defaces, obliterates or destroys any written instrument, the property of another, the false making of which would be forgery, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1262 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 63 - Malicious Mischief|§ 1262. Destruction of bridges, roads, highways, etc.

 Whoever maliciously digs up, removes, displaces, breaks or otherwise injures, obstructs or destroys— (1) any public highway or bridge; (2) any private way laid out by authority of law; or (3) any bridge upon such highway or private way— shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1264 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 63 - Malicious Mischief|§ 1264. Taking water without authority; injury to canal, etc.

 Whoever— (1) without authority of the owner or managing agent and with intent to defraud, takes water from any canal, well, cistern, ditch, flume or reservoir used for the purpose of holding or conveying water for manufacturing, agriculture, irrigation, generation of power or domestic uses; (2) without like authority, raises, lowers or otherwise disturbs any gate or other apparatus used for the control or measurement of water; or (3) empties or places into any such canal, well, cistern, ditch, flume or reservoir, any rubbish, filth or obstruction to the free flow of the water— shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1265 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 63 - Malicious Mischief|§ 1265. Destroying or defacing tombstones or cemetery grounds

 Whoever— (1) willfully and maliciously defaces, breaks, destroys or removes any— (A) tomb, monument or gravestone erected to any deceased person; (B) memento or memorial; or (C) ornamental plant, tree or shrub appertaining to the place of burial of a human being; or (2) marks, defaces, injures, destroys or removes any fence, post, rail or wall of any cemetery or graveyard— shall be fined not more than $1000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1265a (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 63 - Malicious Mischief|§ 1265a. Destruction of public school property

 (a) Whoever willfully and without lawful authority defaces, damages, destroys or otherwise injures, in any way, any property, real or personal, of the Government of the Virgin Islands on the premises or grounds of a public school shall be fined not less than $5,000 nor more than $10,000, plus the actual costs of repairing the damages; and be imprisoned for a mandatory minimum term of five years. Notwithstanding any other provision of law with respect to any person sixteen years of age or over who is found to have violated this section, adjudication of guilt or imposition of sentence 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 section. The court may provide at the time of sentencing of any person convicted under this subsection that such person shall, if granted a work release assignment during his confinement, perform manual labor on the premises vandalized. (b) In cases where a person under 16 years of age is found to have violated this section, the sentencing court may, in addition to such other disposition as it may order, require the violator to perform manual labor on the premises vandalized, which labor may include grasscutting, painting, litter gathering, janitorial and other duties, for such period of time as the court deems appropriate. (c) The fines and costs charged and collected in accordance with subsection (a) of this section must be deposited into an imprest account of the school vandalized and must be used to defray the costs associated with the damages that occurred and for any other school-related damage. (d) The parents, guardians, or other persons having legal custody of a person younger than 18 years of age who is found to have violated this section shall be responsible for the fine imposed under subsection (a).
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1265b (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 63 - Malicious Mischief|§ 1265b. Liability of parents

 The parents, guardians or other person having legal custody of a minor less than 18 years of age who shall injure any public or private school property shall be liable to (i) in the case of public school property, the Government of the Virgin Islands, or (ii) in the case of private school property, the person or entity legally responsible for the control or operation of such property, for damages for the amount of the injury in any court of competent jurisdiction, together with costs of suit.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1265c (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 63 - Malicious Mischief|§ 1265c. Willful or negligent destruction or damage of public fire hydrants

 (a) Whoever willfully destroys or damages in any manner a public fire hydrant shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, shall be fined not less than $100 and not more than $500, or imprisoned not less than one month and not more than nine months or both, and shall pay to the Government of the Virgin Islands a sum equal to the total cost of repairing or replacing the destroyed or damaged public fire hydrants, such total cost to include a reasonable allowance for labor costs. (b) Whoever negligently destroys or damages in any manner a public fire hydrant shall pay to the Government of the Virgin Islands a sum equal to the total cost of repairing or replacing the destroyed or damaged public fire hydrants, such total cost to include a reasonable allowance for labor costs.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1266 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 63 - Malicious Mischief|§ 1266. Destruction of other property

 Whoever maliciously injures or destroys any real or personal property not his own, in cases not otherwise specified in this Code, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1267 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 63 - Malicious Mischief|§ 1267. Institutional vandalism

 (a) Whoever willfully defaces, breaks, destroys, removes or otherwise damages: (1) any church, synagogue or other building, structure or place used primarily for religious worship or for other religious purposes; (2) any cemetery, mortuary or other facility used for the purpose of burial or memorializing the dead not otherwise provided for under section 1265 of this chapter; (3) any private school, educational facility or community center; (4) the grounds adjacent to, and owned or rented by, any institution, facility, building, structure or place described in paragraphs (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection and sections 1265 and 1265a of this chapter; or (5) any personal property contained in any institution, facility, building structure or place described in paragraphs (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection and sections 1265 and 1265a of this chapter; shall be fined $1,000 and imprisoned one (1) year if the amount of damage does not exceed $500 and fined $5,000 and imprisoned for five (5) years if the amount of damage exceeds $500. (b) In determining the amount of damage to or loss of property under subsection (a) of this section, damage includes the cost of repair or replacement of the property that was damaged or lost. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the parent(s) or legal guardian(s) of any unemancipated minor shall be liable for any judgment rendered against such minor in any civil action irrespective of any criminal prosecution or the result thereof under this section.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1301 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 65 - Marriage|§ 1301. Forcible marriage; defilement

 Whoever takes any woman unlawfully, against her will, and by force, menace or duress, compels her— (1) to marry him; (2) to marry any other person; or (3) to be defiled— shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1302 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 65 - Marriage|§ 1302. Solemnizing forbidden marriages

 Whoever, being authorized to solemnize marriages, willfully and knowingly solemnizes any marriage forbidden by law, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1303 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 65 - Marriage|§ 1303. Falsely recording marriages

 Whoever— (1) being authorized to solemnize any marriage, willfully makes a false return of any marriage or pretended marriage to the court; (2) contracts such a marriage; (3) knowingly takes part in the celebration of such a marriage; or (4) makes a false record of any marriage return— shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1341 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 67 - Mayhem|§ 1341. Mayhem defined

 (a) Whoever willfully and with intent to commit a felony or to injure, disfigure or disable, inflicts upon the person of another any injury which— (1) seriously disfigures his person by any mutilation thereof; (2) destroys or disables any member or organ of his body; or (3) seriously diminishes his physical vigor by the injury of any member or organ— shall be imprisoned not more than 15 years. (b) Deleted.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1342 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 67 - Mayhem|§ 1342. Manner of inflicting the injury, relevance of

 To constitute mayhem, it is immaterial by what means or instrument, or in what manner, the injury was inflicted.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 1343 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 67 - Mayhem|§ 1343. Disabling self to escape performance of duty

 Whoever, with design to disable himself from performing a legal duty, existing or anticipated, inflicts upon himself an injury, whereby he is so disabled, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.