V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2715 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VII - Veterinary and Related Services|Chapter 67 - Animal Diseases|§ 2715. Regulations of Commissioner of Agriculture; scope

 The Commissioner of Agriculture may make and enforce such regulations for any of the following purposes as in his opinion are necessary; such regulations shall have the force and effect of law until amended or repealed: (1) The prevention of the importation of animals from a nonaccredited area as regards tuberculosis. (2) The causing of animals to be slaughtered upon their arrival in the Virgin Islands, or the destroying of any hay, straw, fodder or other articles by which in his opinion infection or contagion may be conveyed, and generally the regulation of the importation or introduction into the Virgin Islands of animals in such a manner as to prevent the introduction of any infectious or contagious disease into the Virgin Islands. (3) The keeping separate, treatment and disposal of, and dealing generally with animals infected with infectious or contagious disease. (4) The segregating and confining of animals within certain limits, the establishing of quarantine, and the prohibiting of regulating of the removal to or from other parts or places in the Virgin Islands as he may designate in such regulations of animals, or of their meat, skin, hide, horns, hoofs or other articles likely to propagate infection or disease. (5) The purifying of any yard, stable, outhouse or other place, or any wagon, cart, carriage or other vehicle, or of any vessel, and the directing of how any animals dying in a diseased state, or any animals or parts of animals or other things seized under the provisions of this chapter are to be destroyed or otherwise disposed of. (6) The posting of notices to be given of the appearance of any disease among animals. (7) The requiring of notice of the appearance of any disease among animals. (8) The declaring that any market, yard, stockyard, wharf, steamship, steam or other vessel or any other vehicle, on or in which animals are exposed for sale, or placed for the purpose of transportation, is infected and that the same shall be disinfected and shall not be used until he has declared such disinfection to have been accomplished. (9) The slaughtering of animals as provided for by this chapter. (10) The requiring of proof of the fact that animals imported into or passing through the Virgin Islands have not at any time prior to their embarkation been brought from any place or locality where any infectious or contagious disease was at said time in existence. (11) The exempting of certain infectious and contagious diseases from the operation of certain specified provisions of this chapter. (12) The taking of all of the necessary steps for the better execution of this chapter and the carrying out to the fullest possible extent of the purposes of this chapter to prevent the spread of infectious and contagious diseases among animals and the extirpation of such diseases as may be found to exist. Every regulation shall be published at least twice in one or more newspapers of general circulation in Saint Thomas and also in Saint Croix.