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V.I. Code tit. 5, § 4002 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 339 - Prevention of Crimes; Security to Keep the Peace; Riots|Subchapter II - Security to Keep the Peace|§ 4002. Warrant of arrest

 If it appears to the judge that there is good reason to fear the commission of the crime threatened by the person complained of, he shall issue a warrant for the arrest of such person, which warrant shall be directed and executed as a warrant of arrest, and may be substantially in the same form except that instead of reciting the commission of a crime it shall recite the substance of the threat to commit one according to the information.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 4003 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 339 - Prevention of Crimes; Security to Keep the Peace; Riots|Subchapter II - Security to Keep the Peace|§ 4003. Preliminary examination

 (a) When the person complained of is brought before the judge, if the charge is controverted he shall take the testimony in relation thereto and the evidence shall be reduced to writing and subscribed by the witness. The judge shall issue subpoenas for witnesses for the complainant and for the person complained of. The person complained of is entitled, if he chooses, to make a statement concerning the charges against him. (b) The judge may adjourn the examination and commit the person complained of, or admit him as in other criminal actions.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 4004 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 339 - Prevention of Crimes; Security to Keep the Peace; Riots|Subchapter II - Security to Keep the Peace|§ 4004. Discharge of defendant

 If from the examination it appears that there is no good reason to fear the commission of the crime alleged to have been threatened, the person complained of shall be discharged. The order for the discharge shall be indorsed upon the warrant and signed by the judge with his title of office, and may be to the following effect:“There being no good reason shown to fear the commission of the crime within mentioned by the within named  I order him to be discharged.”
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 4005 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 339 - Prevention of Crimes; Security to Keep the Peace; Riots|Subchapter II - Security to Keep the Peace|§ 4005. Holding to answer in district court

 (a) If there is good reason to fear the commission of the crime, the person complained of shall be held to answer as in case of felony, and the judge may admit to bail to keep the peace in the same manner as in case of felony. (b) When a judge has held a person to answer as provided in this section, he shall return to the clerk of the district court within three days thereafter the complaint, warrant, statement and depositions of all witnesses that have appeared before him, the undertaking of bail if any, the commitment, and a fee bill of his costs whether collected or uncollected. (c) If bail is not given a commitment may be issued in substantially the following form:“In the name of the Government of the Virgin Islands of the United States.To the Commissioner of Public Safety.Greetings!An order having been this day made by me that ____ give an undertaking in the sum of ____ dollars, as security to appear before the District Court, at ____, on a charge of ____, and to abide the order of the said District Court, and the said ____ having failed to give such undertaking, you are therefore commanded to receive him into your custody, and detain him until legally discharged.Dated at ____, this ____ day of ____ hundred and ________”
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 4006 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 339 - Prevention of Crimes; Security to Keep the Peace; Riots|Subchapter II - Security to Keep the Peace|§ 4006. Proceedings in district court; undertaking to keep the peace and for good behavior

 (a) If the complainant does not appear at the district court when summoned, the person complained of may be discharged unless good cause to the contrary be shown. (b) If both parties appear, the district court shall hear the proofs and allegations transmitted by the judge of the Superior Court and such other evidence as the parties may produce and may either discharge the defendant, or require an undertaking to keep the peace for a time not exceeding a year, in an amount not exceeding two thousand dollars. (c) The sureties in an undertaking to keep the peace are entitled to the rights and authority of bail, as provided in Rule 46 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and may be exonerated from their undertaking in the manner prescribed therein. (d) An undertaking to keep the peace shall be taken and deemed to be an undertaking to be of good behavior, and cannot be required except as provided in this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 4007 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 339 - Prevention of Crimes; Security to Keep the Peace; Riots|Subchapter II - Security to Keep the Peace|§ 4007. Breach of peace in presence of court

 A person who, in the presence of any court, assaults or threatens to assault another, or to commit an offense against his property, or who contends with another with angry words to the disturbance of the peace may be ordered by the court without warrant or other proof to give security to keep the peace in an amount not exceeding two thousand dollars.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 4008 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 339 - Prevention of Crimes; Security to Keep the Peace; Riots|Subchapter II - Security to Keep the Peace|§ 4008. Security to keep the peace after conviction

 The court before which any person is convicted of a crime, which by the judgment of such court is punished otherwise than by imprisonment for more than one year, may require such person to enter into an undertaking to keep the peace, as provided in section 4005(a) of this title, for a period not exceeding one year and in default thereof may commit him until the undertaking be given or the period expired.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 4021 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 339 - Prevention of Crimes; Security to Keep the Peace; Riots|Subchapter III - Suppression of Riots|§ 4021. Unlawful assembly; command to disperse

 When three or more persons, whether armed or not, are unlawfully or riotously assembled in any town, village or settlement or in any other place in the Virgin Islands, any marshal, deputy marshal, or any police officer or other peace officer of the Virgin Islands shall go among the persons assembled or as near to them as he can with safety and command them in the name of the Government of the Virgin Islands to disperse.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 4022 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 339 - Prevention of Crimes; Security to Keep the Peace; Riots|Subchapter III - Suppression of Riots|§ 4022. Arrests; aid of private persons; other measures

 (a) If the persons assembled do not immediately disperse, the officers must arrest them or cause them to be arrested, that they may be punished according to law, and for the purpose may command the aid of all persons present. (b) If the persons assembled and commanded to disperse do not immediately disperse, any two of the officers mentioned in section 4021 of this title, may command the aid of a sufficient number of persons, armed or otherwise, as may be necessary, and may proceed in such manner as in their judgment may be most expedient to disperse the assembly and arrest the offenders.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 4023 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 339 - Prevention of Crimes; Security to Keep the Peace; Riots|Subchapter III - Suppression of Riots|§ 4023. Killing or wounding

 If, in the effort to suppress or disperse any unlawful or riotous assembly, or to arrest or detain any of the persons engaged therein, any such rioters or other persons then present as spectators or otherwise are killed or wounded, the officers, and persons acting in their aid, are guiltless thereof. If any such officers or persons acting in their aid are killed or wounded, all persons engaged in such assembly are guilty thereof.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 432 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article F - Enforcement and Modification of Support Order After Registration|Part 1 - Registration for Enforcement of Support Order|§ 432. Registration of order of enforcement

 A support order or income withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order may be registered in the Virgin Islands for enforcement.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 433 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article F - Enforcement and Modification of Support Order After Registration|Part 1 - Registration for Enforcement of Support Order|§ 433. Procedure to register order for enforcement

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in section 446e, a support order or income-withholding order of another state or a foreign support order may be registered in the Virgin Islands by sending the following records to the appropriate tribunal in the Virgin Islands: (1) a letter of transmittal to the tribunal requesting registration and enforcement; (2) two copies, including one certified copy, of the order to be registered, including any modification of the order; (3) a sworn statement by the person requesting registration or a certified statement by the custodian of the records showing the amount of any arrearage; (4) the name of the obligor and, if known: (A) the obligor’s address and social security number; (B) the name and address of the obligor’s employer and any other source of income of the obligor; and (C) a description and the location of property of the obligor in the Virgin Islands not exempt from execution; and (5) except as otherwise provided in section 412, the name and address of the obligee and, if applicable, the person to whom support payments are to be remitted. (b) On receipt of a request for registration, the registering tribunal shall cause the order to be filed as an order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign support order, together with one copy of the documents and information, regardless of their form. (c) A petition or comparable pleading seeking a remedy that must be affirmatively sought under other law of the Virgin Islands may be filed at the same time as the request for registration or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for the remedy sought. (d) If two or more orders are in effect, the person requesting registration shall: (1) furnish to the tribunal a copy of every support order asserted to be in effect in addition to the documents specified in this section; (2) specify the order alleged to be the controlling order, if any; and (3) specify the amount of consolidated arrears, if any. (e) A request for a determination of which is the controlling order may be filed separately or with a request for registration and enforcement or for registration and modification. The person requesting registration shall give notice of the request to each party whose rights may be affected by the determination.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 434 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article F - Enforcement and Modification of Support Order After Registration|Part 1 - Registration for Enforcement of Support Order|§ 434. Effect of registration for enforcement

 (a) A support order or income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order is registered when the order is filed in the registering tribunal of the Virgin Islands. (b) A registered support order issued in another state or a foreign country is enforceable in the same manner and is subject to the same procedures as an order issued by a tribunal of the Virgin Islands. (c) Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, a tribunal of the Virgin Islands shall recognize and enforce, but may not modify, a registered support order if the issuing tribunal had jurisdiction.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 435 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article F - Enforcement and Modification of Support Order After Registration|Part 1 - Registration for Enforcement of Support Order|§ 435. Choice of law

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), the law of the issuing state or foreign country governs: (1) the nature, extent, amount, and duration of current payments under a registered support order; (2) the computation and payment of arrearages and accrual of interest on the arrearages under the support order; and (3) the existence and satisfaction of other obligations under the support order. (b) In a proceeding for arrears under a registered support order, the statute of limitation of the Virgin Islands, or of the issuing state or foreign country, whichever is longer, applies. (c) A responding tribunal of the Virgin Islands shall apply the procedures and remedies of the Virgin Islands to enforce current support and collect arrears and interest due on a support order of another state or a foreign country registered in the Virgin Islands. (d) After a tribunal of the Virgin Islands or another state determines which is the controlling order and issues an order consolidating arrears, if any, a tribunal of the Virgin Islands shall prospectively apply the law of the state or foreign country issuing the controlling order, including its law on interest on arrears, on current and future support, and on consolidated arrears.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 436 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article F - Enforcement and Modification of Support Order After Registration|Part 2 - Context of Validity of Enforcement|§ 436. Notice of registration of order

 (a) When a support order or income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order is registered, the registering tribunal of the Virgin Islands shall notify the nonregistering party. The notice must be accompanied by a copy of the registered order and the documents and relevant information accompanying the order. (b) A notice must inform the nonregistering party: (1) that a registered support order is enforceable as of the date of registration in the same manner as an order issued by a tribunal of the Virgin Islands; (2) that a hearing to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order must be requested within 20 days after notice unless the registered order is under section 446f of this subchapter; (3) that failure to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order in a timely manner will result in confirmation of the order and enforcement of the order and the alleged arrearages; and (4) of the amount of any alleged arrearages. (c) If the registering party asserts that two or more orders are in effect, a notice must also: (1) identify the two or more orders and the order alleged by the registering party to be the controlling order and the consolidated arrears, if any; (2) notify the nonregistering party of the right to a determination of which is the controlling order; (3) state that the procedures provided in subsection (b) apply to the determination of which is the controlling order; and (4) state that failure to contest the validity or enforcement of the order alleged to be the controlling order in a timely manner may result in confirmation that the order is the controlling order. (d) Upon registration of an income-withholding order for enforcement, the support enforcement agency or the registering tribunal shall notify the obligor’s employer pursuant to the subchapter I of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 437 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article F - Enforcement and Modification of Support Order After Registration|Part 2 - Context of Validity of Enforcement|§ 437. Procedure to contest validity of enforcement of registered support order

 (a) A nonregistering party seeking to contest the validity or enforcement of a registered support order in the Virgin Islands shall request a hearing within the time required by section 436(b)(2). The nonregistering party may seek to vacate the registration, to assert any defense to an allegation of noncompliance with the registered order, or to contest the remedies being sought or the amount of any alleged arrearages pursuant to section 438. (b) If the nonregistering party fails to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered support order in a timely manner, the order is confirmed by operation of law. (c) If a nonregistering party requests a hearing to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered support order, the registering tribunal shall schedule the matter for hearing and give notice to the parties of the date, time, and place of the hearing.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 438 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article F - Enforcement and Modification of Support Order After Registration|Part 2 - Context of Validity of Enforcement|§ 438. Contest of registration or enforcement

 (a) A party contesting the validity or enforcement of a registered support order or seeking to vacate the registration has the burden of proving one or more of the following defenses: (1) the issuing tribunal lacked personal jurisdiction over the contesting party; (2) the order was obtained by fraud; (3) the order has; been vacated, suspended, or modified by a later order; (4) the issuing tribunal has stayed the order pending appeal; (5) there is a defense under the law of the Virgin Islands to the remedy sought; (6) full or partial payment has been made; (7) the statute of limitation under section 436(b)(2) precludes enforcement of some or all of the alleged arrearages; or (8) the alleged controlling order is not the controlling order. (b) If a party presents evidence establishing a full or partial defense under subsection (a), a tribunal may stay enforcement of a registered support order, continue the proceeding to permit production of additional relevant evidence, and issue other appropriate orders. An uncontested portion of the registered support order may be enforced by all remedies available under the law of the Virgin Islands. (c) If the contesting party does not establish a defense under subsection (a) to the validity or enforcement of a registered support order, the registering tribunal shall issue an order confirming the order.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 439 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article F - Enforcement and Modification of Support Order After Registration|Part 2 - Context of Validity of Enforcement|§ 439. Confirmed order

 Confirmation of a registered support order, whether by operation of law or after notice and hearing, precludes further contest of the order with respect to any matter that could have been asserted at the time of registration.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 440 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article F - Enforcement and Modification of Support Order After Registration|Part 3 - Registration and Modification of Child-Support Order of Another State|§ 440. Procedure to register child-support order of another state for modification

 A party or a support enforcement agency seeking to modify or to enforce a child-support order issued in another state shall register that order in the Virgin Islands in the same manner provided in sections 432 through 439.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 441 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article F - Enforcement and Modification of Support Order After Registration|Part 3 - Registration and Modification of Child-Support Order of Another State|§ 441. Effect of registration for modification

 A tribunal of the Virgin Islands may enforce a child-support order of another state registered for purposes of modification, in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of the Virgin Islands, but the registered support order may be modified only if the requirements of section 442 or 444 have been met.