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V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2616b (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VII - Veterinary and Related Services|Chapter 66 - Animal Protection and Control|Subchapter III - Animals Running at Large|§ 2616b. Seizure and detention; notice to owners; branding or marking

 (a) Any animal found running at large, or tied on public property, or on private property without the consent of the owner of the property, shall be taken up by animal wardens and impounded in an animal shelter, and shall be confined for disposition in accordance with the further provisions of this subchapter. (b) Notice shall be given to the owner of any licensed or registered animal by the best available means as to where it is impounded, and that it shall be impounded for a period of five (5) days and thereafter disposed of in accordance with law unless the animal is claimed within that period. If the animal is unlicensed or unregistered, or if the owner thereof is unknown and cannot be located within the Virgin Islands, notice to the effect specified above shall be posted for at least three (3) days in at least four (4) commonly frequented places on the island where the animal was found. (c) Any animal found running at large, if not already branded, tagged, or tattooed, shall be branded, tagged or tattooed on a conspicuous part of its body with an identification or marking at the discretion of the Commissioner, or his designated agent. For these purposes, such an action by the Commissioner or his authorized representative, shall not be deemed a violation of Title 14, section 2191, Virgin Islands Code.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2617 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VII - Veterinary and Related Services|Chapter 66 - Animal Protection and Control|Subchapter III - Animals Running at Large|§ 2617. Reclaiming by owner; impounded fees

 (a) The first time any animal, except a horse, donkey, mule or cattle, is impounded, it may be reclaimed upon payment by the owner to the Commissioner, or his designated agent, the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25) and the additional sum of ten dollars ($10) for each day the animal is kept. The first time any horse, donkey, mule or cattle is impounded it may be reclaimed upon payment by the owner to the Commissioner, or his designated agent, the sum of fifty dollars ($50), and the additional sum of twenty-five dollars ($25) for each day the horse is kept. (b) If any animal, except a horse, donkey, mule or cattle is impounded more than once, it may be reclaimed upon payment by the owner to the Commissioner, or his designated agent, the sum of thirty dollars ($30) each time it is impounded and the additional sum of twenty dollars ($20) for each day such animal is kept. If any horse, donkey, mule or cattle is impounded more than once, it may be reclaimed upon payment by the owner to the Commissioner, or his designated agent, the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) each time it is impounded and the additional sum of fifty dollars ($50) for each day the horse is kept. (c) If such animal has been reported stolen, and the Commissioner is satisfied of such fact, he may waive payment of the fees herein provided.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2618 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VII - Veterinary and Related Services|Chapter 66 - Animal Protection and Control|Subchapter III - Animals Running at Large|§ 2618. Disposition of unclaimed animals

 Animals not claimed by the owner as hereinabove provided may be disposed of by the Commissioner or his designated agent by sale or gift to a responsible and suitable person, by transfer to a humane society or by destruction in a humane manner.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2619 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VII - Veterinary and Related Services|Chapter 66 - Animal Protection and Control|Subchapter III - Animals Running at Large|§ 2619. Destruction of injured, disabled or diseased animals

 The Commissioner or his designated agent may cause to be destroyed any animal when, in his judgment, such animal appears to be so injured, disabled or diseased as to be past recovery or unfit for any useful purpose.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2622 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VII - Veterinary and Related Services|Chapter 66 - Animal Protection and Control|Subchapter IV - Enforcement and Penalties|§ 2622. Interference with administration of law

 (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with any officer or agent in the enforcement of this law. (b) It shall be unlawful for any person to take an animal away from such officer or agent having it in his possession or from the premises where it is impounded. (c) It shall be unlawful for any person to whom a license certificate has been issued to fail or refuse to produce the license certificate for such dog upon demand of any police officer or animal warden.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2623 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VII - Veterinary and Related Services|Chapter 66 - Animal Protection and Control|Subchapter IV - Enforcement and Penalties|§ 2623. Penalties

 Whoever— (a) fails to obtain the proper license tags as provided herein, or (b) violates any provision of this chapter or any regulation or order issued under this chapter for which a penalty is not otherwise provided, shall be fined not less than $10 and not more than $100.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2624 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VII - Veterinary and Related Services|Chapter 66 - Animal Protection and Control|Subchapter V - Animal Fund|§ 2624. Animal Fund; use of

 (a) There is hereby created a special fund in the treasury of the Virgin Islands to be known as the Animal Fund into which all moneys collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid, and from which expenses necessary in the carrying into effect the provisions of this chapter shall be paid. All moneys in the “Animal Fund” from time to time are hereby specifically appropriated to the Department of Agriculture for the carrying into effect the provisions of this chapter. (b) The Animal Fund shall be comprised of all license fees and fines collected under the provisions of this chapter, and all such funds, donations, gifts, devises, bequests and all other kinds of contributions of real or personal property, from persons, corporations, partnerships, trust funds, charitable or other eleemosynary organizations, domestic or otherwise, as may be made to the said Fund from time to time as well as any contributions to the said Fund as may be appropriated by the Legislature.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 4101 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VIII - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers Construction Act|Chapter 73 - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 4101. Definitions

 As used in this chapter: (a) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Health of the Virgin Islands. (b) “The Federal Act” means the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers Construction Act of 1963 (P.L. 88–164), as now and hereafter amended. (c) “The Secretary” means the Secretary of Health and Human Services of the United States, or his delegate to administer the Federal Act. (d) “Facility for the mentally retarded” means a facility specially designed for the diagnosis, treatment, education, training or custodial care of the mentally retarded, including facilities for training specialists and sheltered workshops for the mentally retarded, but only if such workshops are part of facilities which provide or will provide comprehensive services for the mentally retarded. (e) “Community mental health center” means a facility providing services for the prevention, or diagnosis of mental illness, or care and treatment of mentally ill patients, or rehabilitation of such persons, which services are provided principally for persons residing in a particular community or communities in or near where the facility is situated. (f) “Nonprofit facility for the mentally retarded”, and “nonprofit community mental health center” mean, respectively, a facility for the mentally retarded, and a community mental health center which is owned and operated by one or more nonprofit corporations or associations no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 4102 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VIII - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers Construction Act|Chapter 73 - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 4102. Administration

 The Department of Health, through the Commissioner thereof, shall constitute the sole agency of the Government of the Virgin Islands for the purpose of: (1) making inventories of existing facilities, surveying the need for construction of facilities for the mentally retarded and community mental health centers, and developing programs of construction as provided in subchapter II of this chapter, and (2) developing and administering a State plan for the construction of public and other nonprofit facilities for the mentally retarded, and a State plan for the construction of public and other nonprofit community mental health centers, as provided in subchapter II of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 4103 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VIII - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers Construction Act|Chapter 73 - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 4103. General powers and duties

 In carrying out the purposes of this chapter the Commissioner is authorized, subject to the approval of the Governor: (a) To require such reports, make such inspections and investigations and prescribe such regulations as he deems necessary; (b) To provide such methods of administration, and take such other action as may be necessary to comply with the requirements of the Federal Act and regulations thereunder; (c) To procure in his discretion the temporary or intermittent services of experts or consultants or organizations thereof, by contract, when such services are to be performed on a part time or fee for service basis and do not involve the performance of administrative duties; (d) To the extent that he considers desirable to effectuate the purposes of this chapter, to enter into agreements for the utilization of facilities and services of other departments, agencies, and institutions, public or private; (e) To accept on behalf of the Government of the Virgin Islands and to deposit with the Commissioner of Finance any grant, gift or contribution made to assist in meeting the cost of carrying out the purposes of this chapter, and to expend the same for such purposes; (f) If the Virgin Islands participate in this program, to make an annual report to the Governor on activities and expenditures pursuant to this chapter, including recommendations for additional legislation as the Commissioner considers appropriate to furnish adequate facilities for the mentally retarded and community mental health centers to the people of the Virgin Islands; (g) To do all other things on behalf of the Government of the Virgin Islands necessary to obtain full benefits under the Federal Act as now and hereafter amended.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 4105 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VIII - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers Construction Act|Chapter 73 - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 4105. Administrative appropriations

 For the purposes of administering the provisions of this chapter, there is hereby appropriated such funds as may be received from the Federal Government and other sources for such purposes which shall be expended upon proper certification by the Commissioner.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 4110 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VIII - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers Construction Act|Chapter 73 - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers|Subchapter II - State Plans and Construction Program|§ 4110. Construction program

 The Commissioner is authorized to develop construction programs for facilities for the mentally retarded and community mental health centers for the mentally ill, which shall be based respectively on Insular-wide inventories of existing facilities for the mentally retarded and the mentally ill and surveys of need, and which shall provide in accordance with regulations prescribed under the Federal Act, for facilities which will provide adequate service for the mentally retarded and adequate community mental health services for the people residing in this territory and for furnishing needed services to persons unable to pay therefor.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 4111 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VIII - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers Construction Act|Chapter 73 - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers|Subchapter II - State Plans and Construction Program|§ 4111. State plans

 The Commissioner is authorized to prepare and submit to the Secretary, State plans which shall include the programs for construction of facilities developed under section 4110 of this chapter and which shall provide for the establishment, administration and operation of such construction activities in accordance with the requirements of the Federal Act and regulations thereunder. The Commissioner shall from time to time, but not less often than annually, review the State plans and submit to the Secretary any modifications thereof which he considers necessary and may submit to the Secretary such modifications of the State plan not inconsistent with the requirements of the Federal Act, as he may deem advisable.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 4112 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VIII - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers Construction Act|Chapter 73 - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers|Subchapter II - State Plans and Construction Program|§ 4112. Standards for maintenance and operation

 The Commissioner shall by regulation prescribe, and shall be authorized to enforce, standards for the maintenance and operation of facilities for the mentally retarded and community mental health centers which receive Federal aid for construction under the State plans.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 4113 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VIII - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers Construction Act|Chapter 73 - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers|Subchapter II - State Plans and Construction Program|§ 4113. Priority of projects

 The State plans shall set forth the relative need for the several projects included in the construction programs determined in accordance with the regulations prescribed pursuant to the Federal Act, and shall provide for the construction insofar as financial resources available therefor and for maintenance and operation make possible, in the order of such relative need.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 4114 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VIII - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers Construction Act|Chapter 73 - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers|Subchapter II - State Plans and Construction Program|§ 4114. Applications

 Applications for mental retardation facility or community mental health center construction projects for which Federal funds are requested shall be submitted to the Commissioner by the Government of the Virgin Islands, a political subdivision thereof or by a public or other nonprofit agency. Each application for a construction project shall conform to Federal and territorial requirements.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 4115 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VIII - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers Construction Act|Chapter 73 - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers|Subchapter II - State Plans and Construction Program|§ 4115. Hearing; forwarding of applications

 The Commissioner shall afford to every applicant for a construction project an opportunity for a fair hearing. If the Commissioner, after affording reasonable opportunity for development and submission of applications, finds that a project application complies with the requirements of section 4114 of this title and is otherwise in conformity with the State plan, he shall approve such application and shall recommend and forward it to the Secretary.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 4116 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VIII - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers Construction Act|Chapter 73 - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers|Subchapter II - State Plans and Construction Program|§ 4116. Inspection of projects

 From time to time the Commissioner, or his duly authorized agents, shall inspect each construction project approved by the Secretary, and if the inspection so warrants, the Commissioner shall certify to the Secretary that work has been performed upon the project, or purchases have been made, in accordance with the approved plans and specifications, and that payment of an installment of Federal fund is due to the applicant.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 4117 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VIII - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers Construction Act|Chapter 73 - Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers|Subchapter II - State Plans and Construction Program|§ 4117. Mental Retardation Facilities Fund and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Fund

 The Commissioner is hereby authorized to receive federal funds in behalf of, and transmit them to, such applicant. There is hereby established, separate and apart from all public monies of this territory, a Mental Retardation Facilities Construction Fund and a Community Mental Health Centers Construction Fund. Money received from the Federal Government for a construction project under this chapter approved by the Secretary shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriate fund and shall be used solely for payments to applicants for work performed, or purchases made, in carrying out approved projects. Warrants for all payments from these Funds shall bear the signature of the Commissioner or his duly authorized agent for such purpose.
V.I. Code tit. 20, § 201 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 20 - Highways and Motor Vehicles|Part II - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 32 - Certificates of Title|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 201. Short title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Motor Vehicle Certificate of Title Act”.
V.I. Code tit. 20, § 202 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 20 - Highways and Motor Vehicles|Part II - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 32 - Certificates of Title|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 202. Legislative intent

 It is the intention of the legislature that the purposes of the “Motor Vehicle Certificate of Title Act” are: 1. To facilitate vehicle sales and sales financing within the Virgin Islands by simplifying procedures for transfers and the creation and perfection of liens; 2. To curtail losses by buyers, both consumers and dealers, from purchases of stolen vehicles and vehicles subject to defects in title and undisclosed liens; 3. To provide the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and other law enforcement with adequate legal tools to combat the trafficking of stolen vehicles; 4. To furnish convenient evidence of vehicle ownership and lien status and to make easier not only the transfer of vehicles but also their use by the Virgin Islands consumer as collateral for lower cost loans for emergency purposes; 5. To permit the combined advantages of centralized issuance of certificates of title for vehicles by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the decentralized filing, with local officials on St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas, of applications relating to certificates; 6. To prevent the invasion by the Federal Government into the regulation of motor vehicle certificates of title in the Virgin Islands and the other states and territories as threatened by proposed federal legislation; 7. To establish uniformity of state and territorial laws governing certificates of title for vehicles and their meaning and effect and to remove existing impediments to the free transfer of vehicles from one jurisdiction to another; and 8. To accomplish the above objectives with due consideration for the convenience of buyers and owners of vehicles and the administrative problems of motor vehicle administrators, dealers and manufacturers and of lending and financing agencies.
V.I. Code tit. 20, § 204 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 20 - Highways and Motor Vehicles|Part II - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 32 - Certificates of Title|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 204. Certificate of title required

 (a) Except as provided in section 205 of this chapter, every owner of a vehicle which is in the Virgin Islands and for which no certificate of title has been issued by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles shall make application to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles for a certificate of title of the vehicle. (b) The Bureau of Motor Vehicles shall not register or renew the registration of a vehicle unless a certificate of title has been issued by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to the owner or an application therefor has been delivered by the owner to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
V.I. Code tit. 20, § 205 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 20 - Highways and Motor Vehicles|Part II - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 32 - Certificates of Title|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 205. Exclusion

 No certificate of title need be obtained for: 1. A vehicle owned by the Government of the United States unless it is registered in the Virgin Islands; 2. A vehicle owned by a manufacturer or dealer and held for sale, even though incidentally moved on the highway or used for purposes of testing or demonstration; or a vehicle used by a manufacturer solely for testing; 3. A vehicle owned by a nonresident of the Virgin Islands and not required by law to be registered in this Territory; 4. A vehicle moved solely by human or animal power; 5. An implement of husbandry; 6. Special mobile equipment; 7. A self-propelled wheelchair or tricycle used by a handicapped person; 8. A pole trailer.
V.I. Code tit. 20, § 206 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 20 - Highways and Motor Vehicles|Part II - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 32 - Certificates of Title|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 206. Optional certificate of title

 The owner of an implement of husbandry or special mobile equipment may apply for and obtain a certificate of title on it. All of the provisions of this chapter are applicable to be certificate of title so issued, except that a person who receives a transfer of an interest in the vehicle without knowledge of the certificate of title is not prejudiced by reason of the existence of the certificate, and the perfection of a security interest under this chapter is not effective until the lienholder has complied with the provisions of applicable law which otherwise relate to the perfection of security interests in personal property.