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V.I. Code tit. 14, § 551 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Conspiracy|§ 551. Conspiracy

 If two or more persons conspire to— (1) commit any crime; (2) falsely and maliciously complain against another for any crime, or procure another to be charged or arrested for any crime; (3) falsely move or maintain any action or proceeding; (4) cheat and defraud any person of property by any means which are in themselves criminal, or to obtain money or property by false pretenses; or (5) commit any crime injurious to the public health, the public morals, or for the perversion or obstruction of justice or due administration of the laws— each shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both. If, however, the offense, the commission of which is the object of the conspiracy, is a misdemeanor only, the punishment for such conspiracy shall not exceed the maximum punishment provided by law for such misdemeanor.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 552 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Conspiracy|§ 552. Overt act necessary

 No agreement, except to commit a felony upon the person of another, or to commit arson, or burglary, amounts to conspiracy, unless some act, besides such agreement, be done to effect the object thereof, by one or more of the parties to such agreement.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 581 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 29 - Contempts|§ 581. Power of court to punish for contempt

 Every court of the Virgin Islands shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment, at its discretion, such contempt of its authority, and none other as— (1) misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice; (2) misbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions; or (3) disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 582 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 29 - Contempts|§ 582. Contempts constituting crimes

 (a) Whoever willfully disobeys any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree or command of any court of the Virgin Islands by doing any act therein, or thereby forbidden, if the act or thing done be of such character as to constitute also a criminal offense under any statute of the United States or under the laws of the Virgin Islands shall be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both. (b) Any fine imposed under subsection (a) of this section shall be paid to the Government of the Virgin Islands or to the complainant or other party injured by the act constituting the contempt, or may, where more than one is so damaged, be divided or apportioned among them as the court may direct, but in no case shall the fine to be paid to the Government of the Virgin Islands exceed, in case the accused is a natural person, the sum of $1,000, nor shall such imprisonment exceed the term of 180 days.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 582a (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 29 - Contempts|§ 582a. Contempt constituting the crime of domestic violence

 (1) Whoever willfully disobeys any lawful order issued pursuant to section 97(b)(2) or section 98 of Title 16 is guilty of a crime. (2) If the order disobeyed was issued where the judge determined that a deadly weapon was used or displayed by the defendant, the sentence must be not less than 6 months and not more than 5 years and a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000 must be imposed. (3) A person charged with an offense under subsection (a) of this section shall be detained and retained in custody until such time as the person appears before a judicial officer, or a judicial officer orders otherwise; provided that the person charged shall appear before a judicial officer within 48 hours from the time of arrest.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 583 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 29 - Contempts|§ 583. Jury trial of contempts constituting crimes

 Whenever a contempt is charged under section 582 of this title, and the criminal offense referred to in subsection (a) of such section is one in the trial of which the accused would be entitled by existing law to a trial by jury, and such contempt is prosecuted in the District Court of the Virgin Islands, the accused, upon demand therefor, shall be entitled to trial by jury, which shall conform as near as may be with the practice in other criminal cases.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 584 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 29 - Contempts|§ 584. Inapplicability of sections 582 and 583 to certain contempts

 Sections 582 and 583 of this title shall not apply to— (1) contempts committed in the presence of the court, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice; or (2) contempts committed in disobedience of any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command entered in any action or proceeding brought or prosecuted in the name of, or on behalf of, the United States or the Government of the Virgin Islands—but the same, and all other cases of contempt not specifically embraced in such sections may be punished in conformity with the prevailing usages at law.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 585 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 29 - Contempts|§ 585. Contempt of other officers or official bodies

 Whoever willfully— (1) disobeys any subpoena issued by any officer, board, commission or other agency within the executive branch of the Government of the Virgin Islands, authorized by law to issue subpoenas for witnesses; or (2) having appeared, refuses to be sworn or to answer as a witness before such officer or body, or to produce any documents, records or papers requested to be produced— shall be guilty of contempt and shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 30 days, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 586 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 29 - Contempts|§ 586. Judicial compulsion

 The District Court of the Virgin Islands may compel the attendance of witnesses, the giving of testimony, and the production of books, papers, documents, and accounts, as required by a subpoena issued by any officer, chairman or other head of a board, commission or other agency referred to in section 585 of this title, on the filing, by such officer or chairman or other head, as the case may be, of a petition to the court asking that the witness be so compelled.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 587 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 29 - Contempts|§ 587. Procedure for prosecution under section 585

 Whenever a person, having been summoned by subpoena to appear before any officer, board, commission or other agency within the executive branch of the Government of the Virgin Islands, authorized by law to issue subpoenas for witnesses, violates section 585 of this title, such officer, or the chairman or other presiding officer of such board, commission, or agency, as the case may be, shall certify a statement of the facts constituting such violation to the United States attorney for prosecution. In all such cases, the proceedings shall be brought in the District Court of the Virgin Islands in the name of the Government of the Virgin Islands, and shall conform as near as may be to those prescribed by rules of court for contempts not committed in the immediate view and presence of the court.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 600 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 30 - Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act|§ 600. Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act”.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 601 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 30 - Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act|§ 601. Purpose

 The purpose of this chapter is to curtail criminal activity and lessen its economic and political power in the Territory of the Virgin Islands by establishing new penal prohibitions and providing to law enforcement and the victims of criminal activity new civil sanctions and remedies.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 602 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 30 - Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act|§ 602. Construction

 The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed to achieve its remedial purpose.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 603 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 30 - Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act|§ 603. Legislative findings

 (a) Sophisticated criminal activity is diversified and diverts substantial sums from the Territory of the Virgin Islands' legitimate markets through fraud and corruption. (b) In addition to the more traditional criminal offenses, sophisticated criminal activity can involve the illegal manipulation of legitimate business and other enterprises by the use of fraudulent schemes and practices. (c) The money and power generated by sophisticated criminal activity can also be used to infiltrate legitimate business, to invest in real and personal property through trusts, alien corporations and fictitious names, and to subvert democratic and law enforcement processes in the Territory of the Virgin Islands and elsewhere. (d) Sophisticated criminal activity develops and flourishes when the criminal and other sanctions available to combat it are unnecessarily limited in scope and impact. (e) Traditional law enforcement strategies and techniques that concentrate on bringing criminal penalties to bear on individual offenders for the commission of specific offenses, and that do not focus on offenders involved in sophisticated criminal activity, and on their influence on various legal and illegal organizations and patterns of such sophisticated criminal activity, and that do not enlist the assistance of private enforcement through the use of civil sanctions are inadequate to control such sophisticated criminal activity. Comprehensive strategies must be developed, evidentiary, procedural and substantive laws must be strengthened, and criminal penalties and civil sanctions must be enhanced.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 605 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 30 - Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act|§ 605. Violations

 (a) It is unlawful for any person employed by, or associated with, any enterprise, as that term is defined herein, to conduct or participate in, directly or indirectly, the affairs of the enterprise through a pattern of criminal activity. (b) It is unlawful for any person, through a pattern of criminal activity, to acquire or maintain, directly or indirectly, any interest in, or control of, any enterprise or real property. (c) It is unlawful for any person who has received any proceeds derived, directly or indirectly, from a pattern of criminal activity in which he participated as a principal, to use or invest, directly or indirectly, any part of the proceeds thereof, or any proceeds derived from the investment or use of any of those proceeds, in the acquisition of any title to, or any right, interest, or equity in, real property, or in the establishment or operation of any enterprise. A purchase of securities on the open market with intent to make an investment, and without the intent of controlling or participating in the control of the issuer, or of assisting another to do so, shall not be unlawful under this section, if the securities of the issuer held by the purchaser, the members of his immediate family, and his or their accomplices in any pattern of criminal activity do not amount in the aggregate to one percent (1%) of the outstanding securities of any one class and do not confer, either in law or in fact, the power to elect one or more directors of the issuer of said securities. (d) It is unlawful for any person to conspire or attempt to violate, either directly or through another or others, the provisions of section 605, subsections (a), (b), and (c).
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 608 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 30 - Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act|§ 608. Forfeiture procedures

 (a) The Attorney General or United States Attorney, as the case may be, shall dispose of all property ordered forfeited in any criminal proceeding under this chapter as soon as feasible, making due provisions for the rights of innocent persons, by: (1) public sale; (2) transfer to a Territorial governmental agency for official use; (3) sale or transfer to an innocent person; (4) destruction, if the property is not needed for evidence in any pending criminal or civil proceeding. (b) Any interest in personal or real property not exercisable by, or transferable for value by, the Government of the Territory of the Virgin Islands, shall expire and shall not revert to the defendant. No defendant or any person acting in concert with him or on his behalf shall be eligible to purchase the subject forfeited property from the Government of the Territory of the Virgin Islands. (c) With respect to property ordered forfeited, a fine imposed, or a civil penalty imposed in any criminal or civil proceeding under this chapter, the Superior Court or the United States District Court may, upon petition of the Attorney General or the United States Attorney or any other person authorize: (1) the compromise of claims; (2) the awarding of compensation to persons providing information resulting in a forfeiture under this chapter; (3) the granting of petitions to restore forfeited property or imposed fines to victims of a violation of section 605 [Violations] of this chapter; or (4) the taking of any other action to protect the rights of innocent persons that is in the interest of justice and that is consistent with the purposes of this chapter. (d) The proceeds of any sale or other disposition of forfeited property imposed under this chapter, whether by final judgment, settlement or otherwise, shall be applied as follows: (1) to the fees and costs of the forfeiture and sale, including expenses of seizure, maintenance and custody of the property pending its disposition, advertising, and court costs; (2) to all costs and expenses of investigation and prosecution, including costs of resources and personnel incurred in investigation and prosecution; and (3) the balance to the credit of the Virgin Islands Department of Justice for the costs and expenses of investigation and prosecution in the Criminal Activity Investigation and Prosecution Fund established by section 609 [Criminal Activity Investigation and Prosecution Fund] of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 609 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 30 - Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act|§ 609. Criminal Activity Investigation and Prosecution Fund

 (a) The proceeds of all forfeitures ordered, fines imposed, or civil penalties imposed under this chapter shall be transmitted to the Treasury of the Government of the Territory of the Virgin Islands and deposited in a special fund, hereby created, to be known as the “Criminal Activity Investigation and Prosecution Fund”. No monies shall be available for expenditure from said fund except as provided by law. (b) The maximum amount of monies to be deposited in the Criminal Activity Investigation and Prosecution Fund by the Commissioner of Finance shall not exceed $750,000.00. Any additional monies over that amount shall be disbursed as follows: (1) forty percent (40%) to the Virgin Islands Police Department; (2) twenty percent (20%) to the Drug Treatment Center on the Island of St. Croix; (3) twenty percent (20%) to the Virgin Islands Drug Education Program; and (4) twenty percent (20%) to the Virgin Islands Drug Enforcement Bureau.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 611 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 30 - Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act|§ 611. Registration of alien corporations

 (a) Each alien corporation desiring to acquire of record any personal or real property in the Territory of the Virgin Islands shall have, prior to acquisition, and shall maintain continuously in this Territory during any year thereafter in which the personal or real property is owned by the alien corporation: (1) a registered office; and (2) a registered agent, which agent may be either: (A) an individual resident in the Territory of the Virgin Islands whose business office is identical with the registered office; or (B) another corporation authorized to transact business in the Territory of the United States Virgin Islands having a business office identical with the registered office. (b) Each registered agent appointed under this section, on whom process may be served, shall file a statement in writing with the Lieutenant Governor's office accepting the appointment as registered agent simultaneously with being designated. (c) Each alien corporation shall file with the Lieutenant Governor no earlier than January 1 and no later than March 1 of each year, a sworn report on such forms as the Lieutenant Governor shall prescribe setting forth: (1) the name of the alien corporation; (2) the street address of the principal office of the alien corporation; (3) the name and street address of each officer and each director of the alien corporation; (4) the name and street address of the registered agent and registered office of the alien corporation; and (5) the signature of the corporate president, vice president, secretary, assistant secretary, or treasurer attesting to the accuracy of the report as of the day immediately preceding filing of said report. (d) The Lieutenant Governor shall record the status of any alien corporation that fails to comply with the requirements of this section [Registration of alien corporations]. (e) No alien corporation that fails to file a report as required by this section or fails to maintain a registered office and a registered agent as required by this section shall be entitled to own, purchase, or sell any personal or real property in the Territory of the Virgin Islands nor shall it be entitled to sue or defend in the courts of this Territory until the requirements of this section have been complied with. (f) The filing of a report by a corporation as required by this section shall be solely for the purposes of this chapter and shall not otherwise be used as a determination of whether a corporation is actually doing business in the Territory of the Virgin Islands. (g) The Lieutenant Governor shall charge and collect, for the use of the Government of the Virgin Islands, the following fees upon the receipt for filing of certain documents relating to alien corporations: (1) For filing an acceptance of an appointment as a registered agent pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, a fee of $25.00 for each appointment shall be paid. (2) For filing the annual report mandated by subsection (c) of this section, the fee shall be $400.00.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 613 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 30 - Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act|§ 613. Granting of immunity

 (a) If a person is or may be called to produce evidence at a hearing or trial under this chapter or at an investigation brought by the Attorney General under section 612 [Investigation by Attorney General] of this chapter the court for the judicial subdivision in which the hearing, trial, or investigation is or may be held, upon a request of the Attorney General or United States Attorney, as the case may be, which request is certified in writing, shall issue an order, ex parte or after a hearing, requiring the person to produce evidence, notwithstanding his refusal to do so on the basis of the privilege against self-incrimination. (b) The Attorney General or United States Attorney may certify and request an ex parte order under this section if in his judgment: (1) The production of the evidence is necessary to the public interest; and (2) The person has refused or is likely to refuse to produce evidence on the basis of his privilege against self-incrimination. (c) If a person refuses, on the basis of his privilege against self-incrimination, to produce evidence in any proceeding described in this section, and the presiding officer informs the person of an order issued under this section, the person may not refuse to comply with the order on the basis of his privilege against self-incrimination. If the person refuses to comply with the order, he shall be punished by the Superior Court or United States District Court for contempt. (d) The production of evidence compelled by order issued under this section, and any information directly or indirectly derived from it, may not be used against the person in a subsequent criminal case, arising out of the same facts or circumstances, except in a prosecution for perjury, false swearing, or an offense otherwise involving a failure to comply with the order.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 614 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 30 - Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act|§ 614. Savings provision

 If any provision of this chapter or the application of it to any person or circumstances is held to be invalid, the invalidation shall not affect any other provisions or applications of the chapter and to this end the provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 621 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Disorderly Conduct|§ 621. Brandishing, exhibiting, or using deadly weapons

 Whoever— (1) not in necessary self-defense, and in the presence of two or more persons, draws or exhibits any deadly weapon in a rude, angry, and threatening manner; or (2) in any manner unlawfully uses the same in any fight or quarrel— shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 622 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Disorderly Conduct|§ 622. Disturbing the peace; fighting

 Whoever maliciously and willfully— (1) disturbs the peace or quiet of any village, town, neighborhood or person, by loud or unusual noise, or by tumultuous offensive conduct, or threatening, traducing, quarreling, challenging to fight or fighting; or (2) on the public streets, or upon the public highways, or within hearing of such streets or highways, uses any vulgar, profane, or indecent language in a loud and boisterous manner— shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than 90 days, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 623 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Disorderly Conduct|§ 623. Instigating or aiding a fight

 Whoever engages in, instigates, aids, encourages, or does any act to further a contention or a fight, between two or more persons shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than 90 days, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 624 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Disorderly Conduct|§ 624. Disturbing or breaking-up meetings

 Whoever— (1) willfully disturbs or disquiets any assemblage of people met for religious worship or any other purpose not unlawful in character, by noise, profane discourse, rude or indecent behaviour or any unnecessary noise, either within the place where the meeting is held, or so near as to disturb the order and solemnity of the meeting; or (2) without authority of law, willfully disturbs or breaks up any assembly or meeting not unlawful in its character— shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.