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V.I. Code tit. 18, § 852 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter V - Miscellaneous Offenses|§ 852. Undue influence of election official

 Whoever, by force, threat, intimidation, or offers of reward, induces or attempts to induce any election official to fail in his duty, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 853 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter V - Miscellaneous Offenses|§ 853. Destruction, removal or alteration of documents or records; unlawful entries

 Whoever: (1) being a member of a board of elections or an employee of such a board, or any other person, unlawfully destroys or attempts to destroy any register, registration card, book, paper, affidavit or other document or record of the board, or unlawfully removes or attempts to remove same from the office of the board; or (2) inserts, or intentionally permits to be inserted, any name or material entry in any registration card, list, affidavit, petition, subpoena, certificate, report, or other record, authorized or required by this title to be made or prepared by boards of elections for any purpose mentioned in this title, except in accordance with this title; or (3) except as may be provided in this title, materially alters or destroys any entry which has been duly made in any card or other document or record mentioned in paragraph (2) of this section; or (4) takes and removes any card or other document or record mentioned in paragraph (2) of this section from the custody of any person having lawful charge thereof in order to prevent the same from being used or inspected or copied as may be provided in this title — shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 854 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter V - Miscellaneous Offenses|§ 854. Neglect or refusal to perform duty

 Whoever, being an election official or other person, upon whom a duty is laid by this title, willfully delays, neglects or refuses to perform such duty, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 855 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter V - Miscellaneous Offenses|§ 855. Interfering with, or hindering, person in performance of duty

 Whoever intentionally interferes with, hinders, or delays any other person in the performance of any act or duty authorized or imposed by this title shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 856 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter V - Miscellaneous Offenses|§ 856. Refusal or failure of police officer to give assistance when demanded; hindering or delaying election officer

 Whoever, being a police or peace officer: (1) refuses or fails, upon demand of any member of a board of elections, or inspector of registration, to render such aid and assistance to him as he shall demand in the maintenance of peace and in the making of arrests without warrants as provided by this title; or (2) refuses or fails, upon the reasonable demand of an election officer or three qualified electors, as authorized by section 557 of this title, to clear an avenue to the door of the polling place or to preserve or attempt to preserve the peace at the polling place; or (3) willfully hinders or delays, or attempts to hinder or delay, any election official in the performance of his duty—shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 857 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter V - Miscellaneous Offenses|§ 857. Voting outside the Territory by elected officials

 It is unlawful for any person while being elected to the Office of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor or to the Legislature of the Virgin Islands to vote in any election for public office outside of the Territory. Any elected official found guilty of this offense forfeits his office and is subject to a fine of not more than $5,000, but not less than $500.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - Communicable Diseases Generally|§ 1. Communicable diseases

 (a) The Commissioner of Health may by regulation declare any disease to be a communicable disease, and may prescribe the procedure which is to be followed by the patient or person suffering therefrom, the parents of the patient, the householder, the physician attending the patient, or any individual brought into contact with or responsible for the care or maintenance of the patient, in order that the transference of the disease to other individuals may be prevented. The regulations shall become effective upon approval by the Governor. (b) Regulations in force on the effective date of this Code, covering the subject matter for which regulations are authorized under subsection (a) of this section, shall continue in force and effect until amended or superseded by regulations promulgated thereunder.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - Communicable Diseases Generally|§ 2. Regulation of communicable diseases; quarantine

 The regulations authorized in section 1 of this title may provide— (1) quarantine or isolation of the patient, of any persons who have been exposed to the patient and therefore liable to have contracted the disease, or of any carrier of the disease; (2) placarding by a suitable sign intended to be recognizable by the public, the premises, house, tenement or room in which the person ill of, or exposed to, the disease may be; (3) any other matter relating to the care of and due to the illness of the patient from such a communicable disease while the patient is living and ill from the disease, or to the disposal of his body when dead; (4) removal of the patient from, and his return to, school; and (5) any other matter or procedure of interest in the protection of the public.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 71 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Hansen's Disease|§ 71. Duties of Commissioner of Health

 The control of Hansen's disease in the Virgin Islands shall be vested in the Commissioner of Health who shall be responsible for carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 72 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Hansen's Disease|§ 72. Duties of certain persons to report

 All physicians, midwives, nurses, members of the police force, sanitary inspectors and others, shall report in writing by name to the Commissioner of Health any person known to be suffering from Hansen's disease, or showing symptoms thereof.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 73 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Hansen's Disease|§ 73. Examination for Hansen's disease

 Any person reported as provided in section 72 of this title shall submit to examination by the Commissioner of Health. The examination shall be made at the time and place designated by the Commissioner of Health and in the presence of any person whom the patient may designate.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 74 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Hansen's Disease|§ 74. Treatment of patients with open Hansen's disease

 All cases of open Hansen's disease, that is, cases in which acid-fast bacilli can be found by ordinary method of skin scrapings and nasal smears shall be treated in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Health.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 76 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Hansen's Disease|§ 76. Restrictions governing paroled persons afflicted with Hansen's disease

 All paroled persons afflicted with Hansen's disease shall be subject to the following restrictions and regulations: (1) Change of address must be reported immediately to the Commissioner of Health by such paroled persons afflicted with Hansen's disease. (2) No person afflicted with Hansen's disease may leave the Virgin Islands without written permission of the Commissioner of Health. (3) Persons afflicted with Hansen's disease are prohibited from being occupied in the sale of articles of food or the preparation of such for others, or the serving of such to others, or the manufacture of tobacco products. They shall not serve as physicians, midwives, nurses, nursemaids, pharmacists, barbers, washers, household or personal servants or assistants to the same. (4) Paragraph (3) above shall not apply to persons in whom Hansen's disease has been arrested, that is, in whom the disease has been entirely quiescent for a period of not less than 5 years; such status to be proved by certificate from the Commissioner of Health. (5) The Commissioner of Health or a qualified physician appointed by him shall examine all persons afflicted with Hansen's disease who remain at large. Such examinations shall be at intervals of not more than 3 months when lesions are active and progressive, and at intervals of 6 months when the disease is classed as quiescent, that is, when there has been no evidence of activity for at least one year; and at intervals of one year when the disease has been arrested. Such examinations shall include skin scrapings and nasal smears when advisable.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 77 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Hansen's Disease|§ 77. Examination of persons having contact with those afflicted with Hansen's disease

 All known contacts with a person afflicted with Hansen's disease, including all family connections, by blood or marriage and all persons known to have Hansen's disease, resident in the Virgin Islands, shall submit to examinations by the Commissioner of Health or by a physician licensed to practice in the Virgin Islands at intervals not to exceed 12 months during the first 10 years following the last contact and thereafter at the discretion of the Commissioner of Health.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 79 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Hansen's Disease|§ 79. Violations and penalties

 Whoever fails to comply with the provisions of this chapter shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both. The payment of such fine or imprisonment or both shall not release any person from the examinations provided in this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 80 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Hansen's Disease|§ 80. Duty of Police Commissioner

 The Police Commissioner shall render to the Commissioner of Health such aid as may be requested for the enforcement of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 151 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 7 - Maternal, Child Health, Physical Disability and Intellectual Disability Children's Services|§ 151. Maternal and child health services

 The Department of Health, in addition to its other powers and duties, may establish and administer a program for promoting health services, including medical, dental and hospital care, of mothers, infants, pre-school and school age children, which shall provide for developing, extending, and improving such services for mothers and children. Under such program, the Department shall— (1) supervise the administration of those services included in the program which are not administered directly by it; (2) provide such methods of administration, including those necessary to establish and maintain a merit system of personnel administration, as are necessary for the efficient operation of the plan; (3) extend and improve local maternal and child health services throughout the islands; (4) cooperate with medical, nursing and welfare groups and organizations; (5) develop demonstration services in needy areas and among groups in special need; (6) cooperate with the Federal Government through its appropriate agency or instrumentality in developing, extending, and improving such services; and (7) receive and expend all funds made available to the Department of Health by the Federal Government, the government of the Virgin Islands or its political subdivisions, or from other sources, for such purposes.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 152 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 7 - Maternal, Child Health, Physical Disability and Intellectual Disability Children's Services|§ 152. Services for children with physical disabilities

 The Department of Health may establish and administer a program of services for children with physical disabilities or who are suffering from conditions which lead to physical disability, which shall provide for developing, extending, and improving services for locating such children, and for providing medical, surgical, corrective, and other services and care, and facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization, and aftercare. Under such program the Department shall— (1) supervise the administration of those services included in the program which are not administered directly by it; (2) provide such methods of administration, including those necessary to establish and maintain a merit system of personnel administration, as are necessary for the efficient operation of the plan; (3) extend and improve any such services; (4) cooperate with medical, health, nursing, and welfare groups and organizations, and with any agency of the Federal Government charged with the administration of laws providing for vocational rehabilitation of physically handicapped children; (5) cooperate with the Federal Government, through its appropriate agency or instrumentality, in developing, extending, and improving such services; and (6) receive and expend all funds made available to the Department by the Federal Government, the government of the Virgin Islands or its political subdivisions, or from other sources, for such purposes.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 153 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 7 - Maternal, Child Health, Physical Disability and Intellectual Disability Children's Services|§ 153. Education of children with intellectual disabilities

 The Director of the Division of Mental Health of the Department of Health is authorized to establish an educational program for children with intellectual disabilities of the Virgin Islands who are determined to be educable by the Director of Mental Health, who are accepted for enrollment in a specialized school for the intellectually disabled which is determined to be a qualified school by the Director of Mental Health, and whose parents or guardians are unable, in whole or in part, to provide the necessary specialized education.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 160 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 8 - The Electronic Health Records Act|§ 160. Short title

 This act may be cited as “The Electronic Health Records Act”.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 161 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 8 - The Electronic Health Records Act|§ 161. Purpose

 The purpose of the Electronic Health Records Act is to provide for the use, disclosure and protection of electronic health records.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 163 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 8 - The Electronic Health Records Act|§ 163. Electronic health records; electronic signatures; legal recognition

 If a law or rule requires a health record to be in writing, or if a law or rule requires a signature pertaining to a health record, an electronic health record or an electronic signature satisfies that law or rule except where excluded by court rules.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 164 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 8 - The Electronic Health Records Act|§ 164. Retention of health records

 (a) If a law or rule requires that a health record be retained, the requirement is satisfied by retaining an electronic record that: (1) accurately reflects the health record after it was first generated and in its final form as an electronic health record or otherwise; and (2) remains accessible and is capable of being accurately reproduced for later reference. (b) If a law or rule requires a health record to be presented or retained in its original form or provides consequences if the health record is not presented or retained in its original form, that law or rule is satisfied by an electronic health record retained in accordance with subsection (a) of this section. A health record retained as an electronic health record in accordance with subsection (a) of this section satisfies a law or rule requiring a person to retain a health record for evidentiary, audit or other purposes. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any health care provider or facility licensed, certified, or registered under the laws of this territory may create and maintain health records in an electronic format. The health care provider, facility, or governmental unit shall not be required to maintain a separate paper copy of the health record; however, when a consent for treatment or authorization to disclose health record information is contained in a paper writing, the writing shall be preserved in a durable medium, and its existence and location shall be noted in the electronic record. A health care provider, facility, or governmental unit shall maintain electronic health records in legible and retrievable form, including adequate data backup. (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any health care provider or facility licensed, certified or registered under the laws of this territory may permit authorized individuals to authenticate orders and other health records entries by written signature, or by electronic or digital signature in lieu of a signature in ink. Health record entries shall be authenticated by the individual who made or authorized the entry. For purposes of this section, “authenticating” means identification of the author of an entry by that author and confirmation that the contents of the entry are what the author intended. (e) The legal rights and responsibilities of patients, health care providers, facilities and governmental units shall apply to records created or maintained in electronic form to the same extent as those rights and responsibilities apply to medial records embodied in paper or other media. This subsection applies with respect to the security, confidentiality, accuracy, integrity, access to, and disclosure of medical records.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 166 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 8 - The Electronic Health Records Act|§ 166. Liability

 If an individual requests to exclude all of the individual's information from the record locator service pursuant to subsection (e) of § 165 of the Electronic Health Records Act, the record locator service, health information exchange, health care institution or provider shall not be liable for any harm to the individual caused by the exclusion of the individual's information.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 167 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 8 - The Electronic Health Records Act|§ 167. Out-of-territory disclosures

 A disclosure otherwise permissible under the Electronic Health Records Act may be made to providers, health care group purchasers, health care institutions, health information exchanges or record locator services located or operating outside of the territory.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 168 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 8 - The Electronic Health Records Act|§ 168. Exclusion of certain insurers

 Nothing in the Electronic Health Records Act may be construed to apply to a person operating as a property and casualty insurer, workers' compensation insurer, life insurer, long-term care insurer or disability income insurer.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 185 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 10 - Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act|§ 185. Short title

 This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 186 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 10 - Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act|§ 186. Definitions

 The definitions as used in this chapter have the following meaning unless the context requires otherwise: (a) “Attending physician” means the physician who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of the patient. (b) “Declaration” means a writing executed in accordance with the requirements of section 187(a) of this title. (c) “Health-care provider” means a person who is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by the laws of this Territory to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession. (d) “Life-sustaining treatment” means any medical procedure or intervention that, when administered to a qualified patient, will serve only to prolong the process of dying. (e) “Permanently unconscious” means a condition lasting indefinitely, without change in which thought, feelings, sensations and awareness of self and environment are absent. (f) “Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision or agency, or any other legal or commercial entity. (g) “Physician” means an individual licensed to practice medicine in this Territory. (h) “Qualified patient” means a patient 18 or more years of age who has executed a declaration and who has been determined by the attending physician to be in a terminal condition or in a permanently unconscious state. (i) “State” means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. (j) “Terminal condition” means an incurable and irreversible condition that, without the administration of life-sustaining treatment, will, in the opinion of the attending physician, result in death within a relatively short time.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 188 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 10 - Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act|§ 188. When declaration operative

 A declaration becomes operative when (i) it is communicated to the attending physician and (ii) the declarant is determined by the attending physician to be in a terminal condition and no longer able to make decisions regarding administration of life-sustaining treatment. When the declaration becomes operative, the attending physician and other health care providers shall act in accordance with its provisions and with the instructions of a designee under section 187(a) of this title or comply with the transfer provisions of section 193 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 189 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 10 - Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act|§ 189. Revocation of declaration

 (a) A declaration may be revoked at any time and in any manner by the declarant, without regard to the declarant's mental or physical condition. A revocation is effective upon communication to the attending physician or other health-care provider by the declarant or a witness to the revocation. (b) The attending physician or other health-care provider shall make the revocation a part of the declarant's medical record.