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V.I. Code tit. 29, § 953 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 29 - Public Planning and Development|Chapter 17 - Antiquities and Cultural Properties and Historic Government Collections|Subchapter I - Antiquities and Cultural Properties|§ 953. Powers and duties of State Historic Preservation Officer

 (a) The Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Natural Resources shall be the State Historic Preservation Officer, and the Director of the Division for Archaeology and Historic Preservation shall be the Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer for the Virgin Islands. The Division for Archaeology and Historic Preservation shall be the State Historic Preservation Office, which shall be administered by the State Historic Preservation Officer. (b) The State Historic Preservation Officer shall be responsible for implementing this subchapter and the National Historic Preservation Act (P.L. 89–665, as amended), and shall adhere to relevant federal and local rules, regulations and executive orders, including the “Standards and Guidelines for Archaeology and Historic Preservation”, established by the Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior. (c) The State Historic Preservation Officer shall implement a plan for the comprehensive survey and identification of all terrestrial and marine archaeological sites, structures, sacred sites, shipwrecks, cemeteries, unmarked human burial sites, ossuaries, objects, artifacts and areas of value in archaeology, history, architecture, engineering and culture of the Virgin Islands, both on land and sea; and maintain a listing of such sites to be referred to as the Virgin Islands Registry of Historic Places; and maintain collections appropriate for the requirements of this subchapter. (d) The State Historic Preservation Officer shall develop educational programs for the purpose of making available to the public information pertaining to historic, terrestrial and marine archaeological sites, buildings, shipwrecks, sacred sites, structures, cemeteries, unmarked human burial sites, ossuaries, objects, artifacts and other properties significant to the Virgin Islands. (e) The State Historic Preservation Officer shall have mandatory consultation among and between the government and all federally funded government agencies before any agency initiates alterations to or transferals of historic properties or archaeological sites. (f) The State Historic Preservation Officer shall receive proposals concerning terrestrial and submerged land undertakings by any person to determine whether there may be an adverse effect on public land. (g) The State Historic Preservation Officer shall issue or deny permits for use, access to, and development of property containing historic, cultural or archaeological resources, and for the excavation or removal of any archaeological specimen for cultural exchange, scientific identification or any other purpose. (h) The State Historic Preservation Officer shall employ or appoint professionally qualified staff who meet the criteria set forth in 36 CFR, Part 61 to assist in the performance of his duties under this subchapter.
V.I. Code tit. 29, § 954 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 29 - Public Planning and Development|Chapter 17 - Antiquities and Cultural Properties and Historic Government Collections|Subchapter I - Antiquities and Cultural Properties|§ 954. Permits; rules and regulations

 (a) All persons, except for archaeologists within the Division for Archaeology and Historic Preservation who wish to, or are required to conduct subsurface or underwater archaeological excavations, tests, probing, or other investigations which result in the removal or contextual disturbance of in situ materials or artifacts in Virgin Islands lands or coastal waters, will be required to obtain a permit from the State Historic Preservation Officer. All archaeological investigations must be conducted by professional archaeologists in conformity with standards set by the Society of Professional Archaeologists (SOPA) and outlined in Title 36 of the Code of Federal Regulations. (b) Before issuing a permit, the State Historic Preservation Officer shall determine whether: (1) The applicant meets the criteria set forth in the “Standards and Guidelines for Archaeology and Historic Preservation” established by the Secretary of the United States Department of Interior, guidelines established by the State Historic Preservation Officer, and any rules and regulations promulgated hereunder; whether the applicant is appropriately qualified, as evidenced by training, education and experience, and is willing to utilize appropriately qualified organizations in the Virgin Islands to complete the proposed work; and whether the applicant possesses demonstrable competence in theoretical and methodological design, and in the collection, handling, conservation, analysis, evaluation, and reporting of archaeological data, based on the type and scope of the work proposed; (2) The proposed work is to be undertaken for the purpose of furthering scientific and cultural knowledge in the public interest; (3) The proposed work, including time, scope, funding, location and purpose, is consistent with any management plan, regulation, rule or policy applicable to the property involved; (4) The permit is in the best interest of the Government. (c) Only institutions, organizations or corporations organized for scientific, research, or land-use planning purposes may be issued a permit under this subchapter, and only after submitting a research plan that meets the standards established by the State Historic Preservation Officer regarding professional qualifications, techniques and methodology for recovery, analysis and dissemination of data, and proper conservation and permanent storage and documentation of specimens and records. (d) Permits may be issued for such periods of time as the Territorial Historic Preservation Officer deems appropriate. (e) The State Historic Preservation Officer shall establish rules and regulations for the issuance of permits under this section, and formulate uniform requirements and specifications to be included in the permit applications.
V.I. Code tit. 29, § 955 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 29 - Public Planning and Development|Chapter 17 - Antiquities and Cultural Properties and Historic Government Collections|Subchapter I - Antiquities and Cultural Properties|§ 955. Rights of the Government of the Virgin Islands

 (a) The Government retains the exclusive right to and control over all historical, cultural and archaeological properties and archaeological specimens located on public lands and waters, including submerged lands. (b) The Government retains the exclusive right to and control over all historical, cultural and archaeological properties located on public lands leased to others. In all cases where such property is leased, it shall be subjected by covenant or otherwise to such rights of access for inspection, and other conditions or restrictions of operations, maintenance, repairs or restoration, alterations, or modifications as the State Historic Preservation Officer may prescribe for the purpose of protection and preservation of the property. (c) The Government reserves to itself the exclusive right and privilege to conduct or to permit qualified professional archaeologists to conduct field archaeological operations on properties owned by the Government in order to protect and preserve historical, cultural, and archaeological sites and objects, and scientific and educational information, and to retain to itself artifacts recovered under such permits. (d) Title to all objects, artifacts or specimens recovered under a valid permit from lands owned by the Government shall be in the Government.
V.I. Code tit. 29, § 956 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 29 - Public Planning and Development|Chapter 17 - Antiquities and Cultural Properties and Historic Government Collections|Subchapter I - Antiquities and Cultural Properties|§ 956. Excavation

 (a) No excavation or other similar activity may be undertaken until a permit is first obtained from the State Historic Preservation Officer. (b) All excavations, scientific investigations, recovery operations or data recording techniques shall be conducted under the general supervision of the State Historic Preservation Officer, and in such a manner as to maximize the historical, cultural, archaeological, architectural, scientific and educational information recovered and preserved.
V.I. Code tit. 29, § 957 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 29 - Public Planning and Development|Chapter 17 - Antiquities and Cultural Properties and Historic Government Collections|Subchapter I - Antiquities and Cultural Properties|§ 957. Responsibility of government agencies

 (a) Each Government agency having direct or indirect jurisdiction over a proposed governmental or government assisted or approved undertaking shall, in accordance with government policy and prior to the approval of the expenditure of any state funds for the undertaking, consider the effects of the undertaking on any historical, cultural or archaeological property that is included in, or eligible for inclusion in the Virgin Islands Registry of Historic Places. Each such agency shall afford the State Historic Preservation Office fifteen (15) working days to comment and make recommendations with regard to such an undertaking, and shall cooperate with the State Historic Preservation Office in the investigation, recording preservation, or mitigation of adverse impact upon such properties. Each Government agency shall, as early in the planning process as possible, consult with the State Historic Preservation Office to determine if its proposed undertaking will adversely affect any property listed in or eligible for listing in the Virgin Islands Registry or National Register. (b) Each Government agency shall immediately present to the State Historic Preservation Officer, both verbally and in writing, a full professional report citing the finding of any historical, cultural or archaeological property (including human burial sites or remains) discovered on lands belonging to the Government. (c) Each Government agency shall assume financial and administrative responsibility for the preservation of all historical, cultural and archaeological properties under its control, including appropriate regular maintenance, and shall exercise caution to ensure than any historic, cultural or archaeological property under its control is not advertently or inadvertently transferred, sold, significantly degraded, substantially altered, or destroyed. (d) All Government agencies shall comply in full with the requirements of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, and the “Standards and Guidelines for Historic Preservation,” established by the Secretary of the United States Department of Interior, whenever they engage in any undertaking for which there is federal involvement.
V.I. Code tit. 29, § 958 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 29 - Public Planning and Development|Chapter 17 - Antiquities and Cultural Properties and Historic Government Collections|Subchapter I - Antiquities and Cultural Properties|§ 958. Temporary classification pending investigation

 A historical, cultural or archaeological property which the State Historic Preservation Office has reason to believe may be worthy of preservation may be included in the Virgin Islands Registry of Historic Places on a temporary basis for not more than one (1) year, during which time the office shall investigate the property and make a determination as to whether it may be placed in the Registry permanently. If the property is on private land, the owner shall be immediately notified of the temporary classification. If at the expiration of one (1) year from the time the temporary classification was imposed, the owner is not notified of the office's decision, the temporary classification shall lapse, and shall not be renewed for at least five (5) years.
V.I. Code tit. 29, § 960 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 29 - Public Planning and Development|Chapter 17 - Antiquities and Cultural Properties and Historic Government Collections|Subchapter I - Antiquities and Cultural Properties|§ 960. Procedures upon discovery of human burial sites

 (a) Each human burial in the Territory, interred in any marked or unmarked site, is accorded the protection of law and shall receive appropriate and respectful treatment and disposition. (b) Any person who discovers a human burial site shall immediately cease any activity that may disturb that site or any object or artifact associated with it, and shall immediately report the discovery to the State Historic Preservation Office. The remains, objects, or artifacts discovered shall not be disturbed further without a permit from the State Historic Preservation Officer. (c) Upon notification of the discovery of a human burial site, the State Historic Preservation Officer shall notify the medical examiner responsible for the appropriate administrative jurisdiction in a timely manner. (d) It shall be a violation of this subchapter for any person to knowingly, willfully, and intentionally disturb, excavate, remove or destroy any human remains buried, entombed or sepulchered in the Territory, or knowingly, willfully and intentionally procure, direct or employ any other person to disturb, excavate, remove or destroy any human remains buried, entombed or sepulchered in the Territory; except by authority of a written permit issued by the State Historic Preservation Officer. (e) Within one (1) year after the effective date of this section, the State Historic Preservation Office shall adopt uniform and comprehensive rules relating to the reporting procedures, procedures to request permission to disturb human remains, and the standards to accompany the granting of permission to disturb human remains and burial sites. (f) If the human remains are on private property, and (1) The State Historic Preservation Office does not respond to a request for permission to disturb in a timely manner; or (2) The property owner rejects the response submitted by the State Historic Preservation Office; the property owner shall, at his own expense, re-inter with appropriate dignity all human remains, objects, and artifacts associated with the site in a location not subject to further disturbance, pending the approval and verification by the State Historic Preservation Office. (g) If the burial site is located on public land and action is necessary to protect the burial site from immediate destruction, the State Historic Preservation Officer may cause a professional archaeologist to excavate the site and remove all objects, artifacts and human remains associated with the site for subsequent re-interment, following scientific study, at the expense of the applicant. (h) Re-interment shall be made within one (1) year of discovery, unless additional time is needed for scientific analysis. Approval for delay in re-interment must be granted in writing by the State Historic Preservation Officer.
V.I. Code tit. 29, § 961 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 29 - Public Planning and Development|Chapter 17 - Antiquities and Cultural Properties and Historic Government Collections|Subchapter I - Antiquities and Cultural Properties|§ 961. Confidentiality of site location

 Any information in the custody of a public official concerning the location of archaeological resources, the preservation of which is in the interest of the Territory, shall remain confidential unless the State Historic Preservation Officer certifies in writing that the dissemination of such information will further the purpose of this subchapter, and will not create a risk of loss of archaeological resources.
V.I. Code tit. 29, § 962 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 29 - Public Planning and Development|Chapter 17 - Antiquities and Cultural Properties and Historic Government Collections|Subchapter I - Antiquities and Cultural Properties|§ 962. Special permit required for excavation on private land

 (a) It shall be a violation of this subchapter for any person to excavate with the use of mechanical earth-moving equipment or by manual means an archaeological site for the purpose of collecting or removing archaeological specimens when such archaeological site is on private land, including privately owned submerged land, in the Territory, unless such person has first obtained a permit for such excavation issued by the State Historic Preservation Officer pursuant to this section. (b) A permit may be issued under this section when: (1) The applicant submits written authorization for the excavation from the owner of the land; (2) The applicant furnishes satisfactory evidence of being qualified to perform such archaeological excavation by experience, training and knowledge as defined in this subchapter; (3) The applicant submits a satisfactory plan of excavation for the archaeological site and states therein the method by which such excavation shall be undertaken; and (4) The applicant agrees in writing that upon completion of the excavation, he will submit to the State Historic Preservation Office a complete report of the excavation, which shall contain relevant maps, documents, drawings, and photographs, together with a detailed description of the archaeological specimens removed as a result of such excavation. Failure to file the complete report shall be grounds for refusing the issuance of a future permit to such person. (c) All archaeological specimens collected or removed from the archaeological site as a result of the excavation shall be maintained according to the conditions outlined in the permit.
V.I. Code tit. 29, § 963 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 29 - Public Planning and Development|Chapter 17 - Antiquities and Cultural Properties and Historic Government Collections|Subchapter I - Antiquities and Cultural Properties|§ 963. Enforcement

 (a) Criminal penalties. Any person who knowingly, willfully and intentionally: (1) appropriates, excavates, injures or destroys or cause to be appropriated, excavated, injured or destroyed any historical, cultural or archaeological site, object, specimen, artifact, ruin, or feature situated in lands owned by the Government without a valid permit issued by the State Historic Preservation Officer, or who (2) violates any condition or provision of a valid permit issued by the State Historic Preservation Officer, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $500 or more than $10,000 per day per violation, or be imprisoned for no more than one (1) year, or both, and shall forfeit to the Government all specimens, objects, material, vehicles and equipment associated with the violation. (b) Injunctive relief. The State Historic Preservation Officer, or any resident of the Virgin Islands, is authorized to commence a civil action for appropriate relief, including a permanent or temporary restraining injunction, for any violation or threatened violation of this subchapter. It shall not be necessary to first revoke any permit prior to seeking injunctive relief. Such action shall be brought in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands, which shall have jurisdiction to restrain the violation and to order compliance. (c) Civil penalties.  (1) Any person who violates any provision of this subchapter, or of any permit, rule, regulation, standard or order issued or promulgated hereunder, shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $100 nor more than $500 per day per violation. (2) Civil penalties charged pursuant to this subsection may be assessed administratively by the State Historic Preservation Officer if the person charged has been given an opportunity to have a hearing, and the State Historic Preservation Officer made findings of fact and conclusions of law in making the civil assessment. The State Historic Preservation Officer may promulgate rules and regulations to implement this section. (d) All funds, fines or proceeds from forfeitures collected under this section shall be deposited in the Archaeological Preservation Fund, established in section 963 of this subchapter.
V.I. Code tit. 29, § 964 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 29 - Public Planning and Development|Chapter 17 - Antiquities and Cultural Properties and Historic Government Collections|Subchapter I - Antiquities and Cultural Properties|§ 964. Archaeological Preservation Fund

 (a) There is hereby established as a separate and distinct fund within the Treasury of the Virgin Islands, a special fund designated “The Archaeological Preservation Fund.” The Commissioner of Finance shall maintain and provide for the administration of this fund, and no monies shall be made available for expenditure therefrom except as provided in this section. (b) The Archaeological Preservation Fund shall be composed of: (1) Fees and fines collected pursuant to this subchapter; (2) Public or private monetary grants, gifts, donations, or bequests; and (3) All sums appropriated thereto, from time to time, by the Legislature. (c) Monies shall be disbursed from the Archaeological Preservation Fund by the Commissioner of Finance, upon authorization by the State Historic Preservation Officer, to carry out the duties and mandate of this subchapter.
V.I. Code tit. 29, § 971 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 29 - Public Planning and Development|Chapter 17 - Antiquities and Cultural Properties and Historic Government Collections|Subchapter II - Preservation of Historic Government Collections|§ 971. Short title

 This subchapter may be cited as “The Preservation of Historic Government Collections Act.”
V.I. Code tit. 29, § 972 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 29 - Public Planning and Development|Chapter 17 - Antiquities and Cultural Properties and Historic Government Collections|Subchapter II - Preservation of Historic Government Collections|§ 972. Curator of Government Collections

 There is established within the Department of Planning and Natural Resources, the position of Curator of Government Collections. The Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Natural Resources shall consult with the Virgin Islands State Historic Preservation Office (“Historic Preservation Office”) to determine the qualifications of the individual before hiring. The Curator must at all times comply with the Code of Ethics for Curators as adopted by the American Alliance of Museums. The Curator shall assemble, catalog, manage, and present fine and decorative art collections and the manuscripts and documentary materials housed in government owned and operated museums, and Government Houses of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 29, § 973 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 29 - Public Planning and Development|Chapter 17 - Antiquities and Cultural Properties and Historic Government Collections|Subchapter II - Preservation of Historic Government Collections|§ 973. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter: “Decorative arts” means superior examples of furniture, silver, ceramics, glass, textiles, and miscellaneous domestic works that represent the changing styles and fashions preferred by the various first families during their occupancy of Government House. “Fine Arts” means superior examples of Virgin Islands paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and watercolors that portray the life, the times, the beauty and wonders of the Virgin Islands, the cultural heritage, and the individuals who have guided the history of our Virgin Islands. “Government House” means the official residence of the Governor, as provided in § 11 of the Revised Organic Act of Virgin Islands, and other government buildings assigned as a residence for the Governor or Lieutenant Governor, including those at Estate Catherineberg, St. Thomas and Sion Farm, St. Croix. “Works” or “Works of art” means fine arts, decorative arts or manuscripts and documentary materials, individually, collectively, or any combination depending on the context.