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V.I. Code tit. 4, § 283 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 17 - Judicial Officers|§ 283. Power to administer oaths and take acknowledgments

 Every judicial officer and every clerk of court and his deputies shall have power to administer oaths and to take acknowledgments of deeds and other written instruments.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 284 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 17 - Judicial Officers|§ 284. Disqualifications of judge

 No judge or justice shall sit or act as such in any action or proceeding: (1) To which he is a party or in which he is primarily interested; (2) When he is related to either party, or to an officer of a corporation which is a party, by blood or marriage within the third degree; (3) When in the action or proceeding or in any prior action or proceeding involving the same issues, he has been of counsel for any party to the action or proceeding; or (4) When it is made to appear probable that, by reason of bias or prejudice of such judge, a fair and impartial trial cannot be had before him.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 285 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 17 - Judicial Officers|§ 285. Duty to disclose disqualification

 Whenever a judge shall have knowledge of any fact which, under the provisions of section 284 of this title, disqualifies him to sit or act as such in any action or proceeding pending before him, it shall be his duty to declare the same in open court and cause a memorandum thereof to be entered in the minutes. It shall thereupon be the duty of the clerk to transmit forthwith a copy of such memorandum to each party or his attorney who shall have appeared in such action or proceeding, except such parties as are present in person or by attorney when the declaration is made.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 286 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 17 - Judicial Officers|§ 286. Objection to competency; decision

 No challenge as to the competency of any judge shall be received or allowed; but if it is plain that the judge is disqualified under the provisions of section 284 of this title, the party objecting to competency may, in writing, file with the judge his objection, stating the grounds therefor and the judge shall thereupon proceed with the trial or withdraw therefrom, in accordance with his determination of the question of his disqualification. His decision shall be reduced to writing and filed with the papers in the case, but no appeal or stay shall be allowed from, or by reason of, his decision in favor of his own competency until after final judgment in his court.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 287 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 17 - Judicial Officers|§ 287. Proceedings when judge disqualified

 Whenever the judge of the district court is disqualified under the provision of section 284 of this title to sit in any action or proceeding he shall immediately notify the chief judge of the Third Judicial Circuit of his disqualification. Whenever a judge of the Superior Court is disqualified he shall immediately notify the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of his disqualification.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 288 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 17 - Judicial Officers|§ 288. Restrictions on activities of judges and court officers

 (a) No justice, judge, clerk of court, deputy, assistant or other officer or employee of a court shall practice law during his continuance in office or be in partnership with a practicing attorney. (b) Justices of the Supreme Court and Judges of the Superior Court shall devote all their time exclusively to the court and shall hold no other official position in the government of the Virgin Islands, whether compensatory or otherwise.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 321 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 19 - Miscellaneous Provisions Respecting Courts and Judicial Officers|§ 321. Proceedings not affected by vacancy in office

 No proceeding pending in any court of justice shall be affected by a vacancy in the office of the judge thereof.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 322 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 19 - Miscellaneous Provisions Respecting Courts and Judicial Officers|§ 322. Proceedings to be in English language

 Every written proceeding in a court of justice of the Virgin Islands shall be in the English language and judicial proceedings shall be conducted, preserved and published in no other language.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 323 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 19 - Miscellaneous Provisions Respecting Courts and Judicial Officers|§ 323. Interpreters

 Whenever the services of an interpreter are deemed by the judge presiding in a court of justice in this territory to be required in a trial or other proceeding in such court the judge may appoint a qualified person to act temporarily as an interpreter in such court. Any interpreter so appointed shall receive not to exceed $20 for each day's attendance required by the judge and for the time necessarily occupied in going to and returning from the court and, if required to serve in a judicial division other than that of his residence, his necessary expenses of transportation and an allowance of $5 per day for subsistence.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 324 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 19 - Miscellaneous Provisions Respecting Courts and Judicial Officers|§ 324. Means to carry jurisdiction into effect

 When jurisdiction is by law conferred on a court or judicial officer, all the means necessary to carry it into effect are also given; and in the exercise of this jurisdiction, if the course of the proceedings is not specially pointed out by law or by rules of procedure adopted pursuant to law, any suitable process or mode of proceeding may be adopted which may appear most conformable to the spirit of the law.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 351 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 21 - Marshal of Superior Court|§ 351. Office of the Marshal of the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands

 (a) There is established in the judicial branch the Office of the Virgin Islands Marshal. At the head of the Office of the Virgin Islands Marshal is a Chief Marshal who shall administer the Office of the Virgin Islands Marshal, subject to the supervision, control and direction of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The Chief Justice shall appoint the Chief Marshal and such assistant and deputy marshals as the Chief Justice considers necessary for the proper administration and performance of duties and functions. (b) The Chief Marshal of the Office of the Virgin Islands Marshal, shall personally, or by the Assistant Marshal or the deputies, attend the sessions of the Superior Court, preserve order therein, execute all writs, processes and orders of the Superior Court, and perform such other duties incident to the Office of the Virgin Islands Marshal. Sufficient marshals must be assigned to ensure the orderly operations of proceedings in both the Superior Court and the Supreme Court. (c) The Office of the Virgin Islands Marshal is under the supervision, direction and control of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. However, the deputy marshals are under the immediate direction of the particular judge or magistrate judge of the Superior Court or justice of the Supreme Court for whom they are performing specific duties at any particular time. (d) The Marshal may, with the approval of the Police Commissioner, deputize or have deputized officers of the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (V.I.P.D.) to assist in the discharge of official duties of the Office of the Marshal.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 352 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 21 - Marshal of Superior Court|§ 352. Payment of costs of storage of personal property

 The Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands may issue and promulgate rules for the payments of costs incurred by the office of the Virgin Islands marshal in the storage of items of personal property taken into custody by the office of the Virgin Islands marshal pursuant to court order.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 381 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 23 - Clerks of Superior Court|§ 381. Duties generally

 The clerk of the Superior Court shall: (1) Take charge of and safely keep, or dispose of according to law, all books, papers and records which may be filed and deposited in his office; (2) Supervise and direct the work of his deputies and assistants; (3) Attend in person or by deputy each session of the court; (4) Issue all process and notices required to be issued, and keep a docket for each division of the court in which he shall enter the title of each cause, with date of its commencement, and a memorandum of every subsequent proceeding therein, with the date thereof, and a record of all the fees charged; (5) Keep such other indices and records and make such reports as may be necessary in the performance of the duties of his office and as may be required by law or by the Judicial Council; and (6) Exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by the court.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 382 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 23 - Clerks of Superior Court|§ 382. Oath and bond

 The clerk of the Superior Court, before entering upon his duties, shall take the oath or affirmation prescribed by section 951 of Title 28 of the United States Code and shall give bond to the Territory in an amount fixed by the Judicial Council, and with sureties approved by the court, conditioned on the faithful discharge of the duties of his office. The bond shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 411 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 25 - Probation Officers|§ 411. Appointment of probation officers

 There is established as a division within the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands subject to the powers of the Chief Justice, the Territorial Probation Office, which shall be headed by a Chief Probation Officer. The Presiding Judge of the Superior Court may appoint one or more qualified persons to serve as probation officers of the Superior Court.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 412 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 25 - Probation Officers|§ 412. Duties of probation officers

 (a) A probation officer shall furnish to each probationer under his supervision a written statement of the conditions of probation and shall instruct him regarding the same. He shall keep informed concerning the conduct and condition of each probationer under his supervision and shall report thereon to the proper court. He shall use all suitable methods, not inconsistent with the conditions imposed by the court to aid probationers and to bring about improvements in their conduct and condition. He shall keep records of his work; shall keep accurate and complete accounts of all monies collected from persons under his supervision; shall give receipts therefor, and shall make at least monthly returns thereof; shall make such reports to the courts as they may at any time require, shall make presentence investigations when directed by the Supreme Court or the Superior Court, and shall perform such other duties as the courts may direct. (b) Each probation officer shall perform such duties with respect to persons on parole as the Board of Parole shall request.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 442 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 27 - Attorneys at Law; Law Libraries|§ 442. The Judicial Council Imprest Account

 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Judicial Council of the Virgin Islands (the “Judicial Council”) is authorized to establish a separate operating bank account to be known as the “Judicial Council Imprest Account”. The account shall consist of all eligible federal funds, all donations, gifts and bequests, and other revenues designated to the Imprest Account. The Judicial Council and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall provide for the administration of the account and shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the expenditure of funds consistent with the provisions of this section. (b) All monies received by the Judicial Council shall be deposited into the Imprest Account, provided however, that of the $500.00 annual licensing fee required to be paid by each practicing attorney pursuant to title 27, section 302, of this Code, the sum of $200.00 shall be made payable to the Judicial Council for deposit into the Imprest Fund. The remaining $300.00 of the licensing fee shall be covered into the General Fund of the Treasury of the Government of the Virgin Islands. (c) Payments shall be made from the Judicial Council Imprest Account only for the purchase of books, periodicals, other necessary expenses of the law libraries maintained by the Supreme and Superior Courts, and for the expenses of the Virgin Islands Bar Association's Committee on Ethics and Grievances, and its Legal Education and Admission to the Bar Committee, associated with the investigation, discipline and education of attorneys admitted to practice before the courts of the Territory, all upon vouchers approved by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and/or the Judicial Council of the Virgin Islands. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, may appoint a librarian in each judicial division. The compensation of each librarian shall be payable by the Territory. The law libraries of the courts shall be kept open during reasonable hours for the use of the respective courts, the members of the bar, the members of the Legislature, officers and employees of the Government of the Virgin Islands and the public.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 471 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 29 - Jurors|§ 471. Qualifications

 Any citizen of the United States who has attained the age of 18 years and has resided within the Territory for six months or more is competent to serve as a juror unless: (1) He has been convicted in a state, territorial or federal court of record of a crime punishable by imprisonment for more than one year and his civil rights have not been restored by pardon or amnesty. (2) He is unable to read, write, speak and understand the English language. (3) He is incapable by reason of mental or physical infirmities to render efficient jury service.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 472 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 29 - Jurors|§ 472. Exemptions

 The following persons are exempt from jury service: (1) Members in active service of the armed forces of the United States. (2) Members of the fire and police departments of the Territory. (3) Attorneys at law, ministers of the gospel or priests of any religious denomination, and practicing physicians and dentists. (4) Public officers in the legislative, executive or judicial branches of the Government of the United States or the government of the Virgin Islands who are actively engaged in the performance of official duties. (5) Persons who have served as jurors within the preceding year.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 473 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 29 - Jurors|§ 473. Exclusion or excuse from service

 (a) The judge of the district court for good cause may excuse or exclude from jury service any person called as a juror. (b) Any class or group of persons may, for the public interest, be excluded from the jury panel or excused from service as jurors by order of the judge of the district court based on a finding that such jury service would entail undue hardship, extreme inconvenience or serious obstruction or delay in the fair and impartial administration of justice. (c) No citizen shall be excluded from service as a juror on account of race, color or religious belief.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 474 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 29 - Jurors|§ 474. Jury commissioners

 The judge of the district court shall appoint four jury commissioners for each judicial division of the Territory, who shall be residents of the division of good standing and who, with the clerk of the district court or his deputy, shall constitute the jury commission of the judicial division.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 475 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 29 - Jurors|§ 475. Orders for jury panel

 Prior to each session of the district court at which a new panel of jurors will be required the court shall issue an order to the jury commission of the proper judicial division directing it to draw such a panel of jurors, specifying in the order the number of jurors to be drawn and, in the case of the division of Saint Croix, the place where the session of the court is to be held at which they are to serve.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 476 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 29 - Jurors|§ 476. Manner of drawing jurors

 The names of jurors shall be publicly drawn by the jury commission from a jury box containing the names of not less than 100 qualified persons at the time of each drawing. The jury box shall be filled and from time to time refilled by the jury commission. The jury commissioners and the clerk, or his deputy, shall alternately select and place in the jury box the names of qualified persons of intelligence, sobriety and integrity, and without reference to their political affiliations or opinions, until the jury box contains the names of at least 100 persons or such larger number as the court determines.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 477 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 29 - Jurors|§ 477. Jurors for Christiansted and Frederiksted

 Jurors for the sessions of the district court at Christiansted and Frederiksted shall be residents of the Christiansted and Frederiksted jurisdictions, respectively, of the judicial division of Saint Croix. The jury commission of the judicial division of Saint Croix shall maintain separate jury boxes for the Christiansted and Frederiksted jurisdictions from which the names of such jurors may be drawn.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 478 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 29 - Jurors|§ 478. Summoning jurors

 When a panel of jurors has been drawn by the jury commission for service at a session of the district court the clerk shall issue summons directing each person so drawn to attend the court at the time and place designated and shall deliver them to the marshal for service.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 479 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 29 - Jurors|§ 479. Length of service

 Jurors summoned for service in the district court shall serve for such period of time and at such session or sessions of the court as the court may direct, but no juror shall be required to serve for a longer period than three months unless actually engaged as a trial juror in a particular case.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 480 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 29 - Jurors|§ 480. Talesmen from citizens

 Whenever the panel of jurors has been exhausted at a session of the district court the court may order the jury commission to draw a supplemental panel of jurors in such number as may be specified in the order or may direct the marshal to summon a sufficient number of talesmen from the citizens resident in the judicial division.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 481 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 29 - Jurors|§ 481. Trial jury

 Only one jury panel shall be summoned for the trial of both civil and criminal actions at each session of the district court. Trial juries in civil actions shall be constituted as provided in subtitle 1 of Title 5. Trial juries in criminal actions shall be constituted as provided in subtitle 3 of Title 5.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 482 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 29 - Jurors|§ 482. Fees of jury commissioners and jurors

 The jury commissioners shall receive the compensation, and the jurors of the district court of the Virgin Islands shall receive the fees and travel and subsistence allowances now or hereafter fixed by sections 1864 and 1871 of Title 28 of the United States Code.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 483 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 29 - Jurors|§ 483. Protection of juror's employment

 (a) No employer shall discharge, threaten to discharge, intimidate, or coerce any permanent employee by reason of such employee's jury service, or the attendance or scheduled attendance in connection with such service, in any court of the Territory of the Virgin Islands provided that such employee presents written evidence from the court indicating that such jury duty was served. (b) Any employer who violates the provisions of this section— (1) shall be liable for damages for any loss of wages or other benefits suffered by an employee by reason of such violation; (2) may be enjoined from further violations of this section and ordered to provide other appropriate relief, including but not limited to the reinstatement of any employee discharged by reason of his jury service; and (3) shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 for each violation as to each employee. (c) Any individual who is reinstated to a position of employment in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be considered as having been on furlough or leave-of-absence during his period of jury service, shall be reinstated to his position of employment without loss of seniority and shall be entitled to participate in insurance or other benefits offered by the employer pursuant to established rules and practices relating to employees on furlough or leave-of-absence in effect with the employer at the time such individual entered upon jury service. (d) An individual claiming that his employer has violated the provisions of this section may make application to the Superior Court and the Court shall, upon finding probable merit in such claim, appoint counsel to represent such individual in any action in the Court necessary to the resolution of such claim. Such counsel shall be compensated and necessary expenses repaid from appropriations made for payments to attorneys and pursuant to the procedures of Title 5, section 3503 of this code, to the extent found reasonable by the Court. (e) In any action or proceeding under this section, the court may award a prevailing employee who brings such action by retained counsel a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs. The court may award a prevailing employer a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs if the court determines that the action is frivolous, vexatious, or brought in bad faith.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 511 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 31 - Fees|§ 511. Payment of fees

 Except as provided in section 512 of this title, all fees under this chapter shall be paid in advance. These fees do not include the stamp tax.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 512 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 31 - Fees|§ 512. Security for payment of fees

 (a) Every officer, or other persons required to do or perform any act or service for any party to any action or proceeding, except a witness, shall be entitled to demand and receive from the party the compensation which the law allows therefor in advance; but a party to any action or proceeding in any court may, at his option, pay the fees of the officers thereof in advance or give the officers an undertaking with sufficient sureties therefor. (b) The fees secured to any officer of the court, by any party to the judgment may be collected by an execution against the property of the party and that of his sureties in the undertaking therefor. The officers' execution may issue in the name of the clerk as plaintiff in the writ and for the benefit of all officers of the court to whom fees are so due and secured whenever an execution might issue to enforce the judgment at the instance of the prevailing party therein.