V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1301 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 17 - Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|Subchapter I - Licensing of Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|§ 1301. Definitions

 The following term shall, unless the context otherwise indicates, have the following respective meanings; (a) Private investigative agency means and includes any person, firm, company, partnership or corporation, engaged in the business of furnishing for hire private investigations and which employs one or more full-time or part-time private investigators. (b) Watchman, guard or patrol agency means and includes any person, firm, company, partnership or corporation, engaged in the business of furnishing for hire watchman, guard or patrolman services and which employs one or more full-time or part-time watchmen, guards or patrolmen. (c) Private detective means and includes any person engaged in the business of private investigations but who does not employ any full-time or part-time private investigators. (d) Watchman, guard, or patrol contractor means and includes any person, who as an independent contractor, and not as an employee, engages in the business of furnishing for hire watchman, guard or patrol service which is performed by himself and who does not hire any full-time or part-time watchman, guard or patrolman. (e) Private investigator means and includes anyone who performs the services of private investigation, or who directly supervises others in the performance of such services. (f) Private investigation means and includes investigation by a person or persons for the purpose of obtaining information with reference to any of the following matters: (1) Crime or wrongs done or threatened against the United States or any state or territory of the United States; (2) The identity, habits, conduct, movement, whereabouts, affiliations, associations, transactions, reputation or character of any person, group or persons, association, organization, society, other group of persons or partnership or corporation; (3) The credibility of witnesses or other persons; (4) The whereabouts of missing persons; (5) The location or recovery of lost or stolen property, including the business of repossessing or finance adjusting; (6) The causes and origin of, or responsibility for fires, or libels, or slanders, or losses, or accidents, or damage, or injuries to real or personal property; (7) The affiliation, connection or relation of any person, partnership or corporation with any union organization, society or association or with any official member representative hereof; (8) With reference to any person seeking employment in the place of any person who has quit work by reason of any strike; (9) With reference to the conduct, honesty, efficiency, loyalty of activities of employees, agency, contractors and subcontractors; (10) The business of securing evidence to be used before investigating committees, boards of award, or arbitration; or in the trial of civil or criminal cases and the preparation therefor; (11) The conducting of studies or surveys to determine methods and means of providing security for the person requesting the studies or surveys; (12) The giving of detection of deception examinations. (g) Watchman, guard or patrolman mean and include persons who directly supervise others, or who themselves, separately or collectively, guard persons or property or attempt to prevent theft or unlawful taking of goods, wares and merchandise, or attempt to prevent the misappropriation or concealment of goods, wares or merchandise, money, bonds, stocks, choses in action, notes, or other valuable documents, papers and articles of value, or to procure the return thereof, or who perform the services of such watchman, guard or patrolman, or other person for any of said purposes, but exempting armored car services when such armored car services are regulated in any manner by the Police Commissioner. (h) Licensee means and includes any person, firm, company, partnership or corporation licensed under this chapter. (i) The personal pronoun he implies the impersonal pronoun it. (j) The word Commissioner means the Police Commissioner.