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V.I. Code tit. 34, § 170 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 34 - Welfare|Chapter 7 - Criminal Victims Compensation Act|Subchapter IV - Recovery of Compensation|§ 170. Recovery from the offender

 (a) In any case where a person is convicted of a crime which was the cause of the injury or death for which compensation has been awarded under this chapter, the Commission may institute an action against such person for the recovery of the whole or any specified part of such compensation actually paid to the applicant under this chapter in any court of competent jurisdiction in the Virgin Islands. Such court shall have jurisdiction to hear, determine, and render judgment in any such action. Any amount recovered and collected which exceeds the amount paid pursuant to the award shall be paid to the applicant. (b) In any case where payment is made to the Commission under section 169 of this subchapter, the Commission may recover under this section only the difference between such payment and the amount of the compensation awarded under this chapter. The balance of any amount recovered and collected shall be paid to the applicant.
V.I. Code tit. 34, § 171 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 34 - Welfare|Chapter 7 - Criminal Victims Compensation Act|Subchapter IV - Recovery of Compensation|§ 171. Criminal Victims Compensation Fund

 All payments made to the Commission under the provisions of section 169 of this subchapter and all payments made to the Commission on awards granted under the provisions of section 170 of this subchapter shall be covered by the Commission into the Criminal Victims Compensation Fund created and established as a special revolving fund in the Treasury of the Virgin Islands under section 3030 of Title 33 of the Code.
V.I. Code tit. 34, § 174 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 34 - Welfare|Chapter 7 - Criminal Victims Compensation Act|Subchapter V - Miscellaneous|§ 174. Rules and regulations

 The Commission, subject to the approval of the Governor and not inconsistent with law, may adopt, enforce, revise, amend, rescind, or repeal rules and regulations prescribing the administrative and procedural steps to be followed in the filing of applications and during the proceedings under this chapter, and governing other administrative functions and activities of the Commission, of the Executive Secretary, and of any staff members.
V.I. Code tit. 34, § 175 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 34 - Welfare|Chapter 7 - Criminal Victims Compensation Act|Subchapter V - Miscellaneous|§ 175. Personnel; budget

 Subject to the provisions of chapter 35 of Title 3 of this code, the Commission may employ such personnel as it determines necessary for the effective and efficient administration of its functions and responsibility. Budget needs of the Commission shall be submitted annually to the Legislature as a part of the budget of the Department of Human Services.
V.I. Code tit. 34, § 176 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 34 - Welfare|Chapter 7 - Criminal Victims Compensation Act|Subchapter V - Miscellaneous|§ 176. Reports to the Governor and to the Legislature

 The Commission shall prepare and transmit to the Governor and to the Legislature annually a report of its activities under this chapter including the name of each applicant, a brief description of the facts in each case, the amount, if any, of compensation awarded, recommendations for appropriate amendments to the law, and an accounting of revenues to and expenditures from the Criminal Victims Compensation Fund with estimates of needs during the next fiscal year.
V.I. Code tit. 34, § 177 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 34 - Welfare|Chapter 7 - Criminal Victims Compensation Act|Subchapter V - Miscellaneous|§ 177. Penalties

 The pertinent provisions of chapter 77 of Title 14 of this code shall apply to every application, statement and document and to all information presented to the Executive Secretary in the application or at the preliminary hearing, or presented to the Commission at the final consideration of an application for compensation under this chapter; and, in addition, whoever, in any matter during a preliminary hearing or a final consideration, knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact, or makes any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation or makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 34, § 178 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 34 - Welfare|Chapter 7 - Criminal Victims Compensation Act|Subchapter V - Miscellaneous|§ 178. Schedule of legal and attorney's fees

 (a) In all determinations, awards, or orders by the Commission wherein the sum or amount of the award to a victim or his dependent is less than $1,000.00, the legal or attorney's fees shall not exceed more than two percent (2%) of the amount of the award. (b) In all determinations, awards or orders by the Commission wherein the sum or amount of the award to a victim or his dependents, is more than $1,000.00, the legal or attorney's fees shall not exceed five percent (5%) of said award. (c) In all other determinations, awards or orders by the Commission not covered in the above subsections, the amount of the legal or attorney's fees shall be determined by either a majority of the members of the Commission or by the sole determination of the Commission's executive secretary.
V.I. Code tit. 34, § 179 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 34 - Welfare|Chapter 7 - Criminal Victims Compensation Act|Subchapter V - Miscellaneous|§ 179. Emergency compensation

 The Executive Secretary may make an emergency award of compensation to the applicant pending a final decision in the case if it appears to the Commission that, prior to taking action on an application, the claim is one for which compensation is probable, and undue hardship will result to the applicant if immediate payment is not made. However, (1) the amount of the emergency compensation may not exceed $500.00; (2) the amount of the emergency compensation shall be deducted from the final compensation made to the applicant; and (3) the amount of such emergency award which is in excess of the final award, or the final amount of the emergency award if no final award is made, shall be repaid by the applicant to the Commission.
V.I. Code tit. 34, § 501 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 34 - Welfare|Chapter 16 - Silver Alert Community Response System|Subchapter I - Silver Alert System|§ 501. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, the following words, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: (1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of the Virgin Islands Department of Human Services. (2) “Department” means the Virgin Islands Department of Human Services. (3) “EMS first responder” means a person providing emergency medical services. (4) “First responder” means police officer, fire firefighter, or a volunteer fire fighter trained to administer first aid; but the term does not include a police officer, fire fighter, or person engaged in police or fire work whose duties are primarily clerical or administrative. (5) “Private safety organization” means an entity that provides emergency police, fire, ambulance or medical services, which is not a government agency. (6) “Public safety department” means a functional division of a department or agency of the Government of the Virgin Islands, which provides firefighting, law enforcement, and ambulance, medical or other emergency services. (7) “Silver Alert System” means the Silver Alert Community Response System established in section 502. (8) “VITEMA” means the Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency established under 23 V.I.C. § 1006. (9) “Director” means Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency.
V.I. Code tit. 34, § 502 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 34 - Welfare|Chapter 16 - Silver Alert Community Response System|Subchapter I - Silver Alert System|§ 502. Establishment and purpose

 (a) The Silver Alert System is established within the Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency. The Silver Alert System is used when appropriate to alert other public safety departments and private safety organizations when an adult with documented serious memory impairment, such as Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia, is reported to the Virgin Islands Police Department as a missing person. (b) The Silver Alert System shall direct and focus law enforcement and other key response resources in a cost-effective way within a geographic area consistent with the missing person’s last known location and in accordance with the best available research data related to activities of persons with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia.
V.I. Code tit. 34, § 503 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 34 - Welfare|Chapter 16 - Silver Alert Community Response System|Subchapter I - Silver Alert System|§ 503. Development and implementation

 The Director, with the assistance of the Commissioner of Police, the Attorney General and the Department of Human Services, shall develop and implement the Silver Alert System notification plan for the purpose of disseminating, as rapidly as possible, information about a missing person, so that the Police Department, other law enforcement agencies, public safety departments, private safety organizations and the citizens throughout the Virgin Islands may be aware and may assist law enforcement with the safe return of missing persons with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia. The notification plan must provide a procedure for notifying all appropriate public and private agencies and the media that a Silver Alert has been declared.
V.I. Code tit. 34, § 504 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 34 - Welfare|Chapter 16 - Silver Alert Community Response System|Subchapter I - Silver Alert System|§ 504. Consultation and training

 (a) In promulgating regulations to develop and implement the Silver Alert System, The VITEMA shall consult with the Virgin Islands Police Department, representatives of the Office of the Attorney General, the Department and any local chapter of the National Alzheimer’s Association. (b) All first responders, EMS first responders, 911 operators and other appropriate personnel, as determined by the Department, must be trained on the Silver Alert System application and protocols. Re-training must be included in the in-service training curriculum for such personnel. Training must include information relating to drivers whose memory impairments may put them at high risk for accidents or becoming lost while driving.
V.I. Code tit. 34, § 505 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 34 - Welfare|Chapter 16 - Silver Alert Community Response System|Subchapter I - Silver Alert System|§ 505. Alert system and database

 The Department, in conjunction with VITEMA, shall develop a plan to ensure that the Silver Alert System uses a localized mass alert notification system. The plan must include the creation of a data base to store information about individuals served under this chapter, including, height, weight, medical conditions, and recent photographs in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
V.I. Code tit. 34, § 506 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 34 - Welfare|Chapter 16 - Silver Alert Community Response System|Subchapter I - Silver Alert System|§ 506. Funding

 (a) The Silver Alert Community Response System Fund is established in the Treasury of the Government of the Virgin Islands. The Commissioner of Finance shall administer this Fund as a separate and distinct fund in the Treasury of the Virgin Islands. (b) The Fund consists of all sums appropriated by the Legislature, all public and private grants, gifts, donations, bequests and devises. The Commissioner of Finance shall disburse money from the Fund at the direction of the Commissioner of Human Services exclusively to implement and maintain the Silver Alert Community Response System.
V.I. Code tit. 34, § 521 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 34 - Welfare|Chapter 16 - Silver Alert Community Response System|Subchapter II - Elder, Dependent Adult, and Disabled Persons Disaster Registry|§ 521. Maintenance of registry

 (a) The Department of Human Services shall maintain a registry of persons 60 years and older who live alone and persons with disabilities who live alone. (b) The Department of Human Services, the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the Virgin Islands Elections System shall post signs in conspicuous places throughout their respective establishments notifying the public that all persons who are 60 years and older and persons with disabilities may enter their names on a registry with the respective entity so that they may be contacted to determine if they need emergency assistance during a manmade or natural disaster. (c) The Department of Human Services shall issue forms to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the Virgin Islands Elections System to be used to collect the information for the registry. The form, at a minimum, must provide for the entry of the person’s: (1) name; (2) telephone number; (3) address, directions to the address; and (4) an emergency contact person, and that person’s telephone number and address. (d) Throughout the year, the Department of Human Services shall also conduct periodic registration drives.
V.I. Code tit. 34, § 522 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 34 - Welfare|Chapter 16 - Silver Alert Community Response System|Subchapter II - Elder, Dependent Adult, and Disabled Persons Disaster Registry|§ 522. Periodic reporting of registry information

 (a) The Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the Virgin Islands Elections System must remit the contact information to the Department of Human Services on a monthly basis. (b) The Department of Human Services shall submit the registry to the Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency, the National Guard of the Virgin Islands, the Virgin Islands Fire Service and any other first responders on a quarterly basis.
V.I. Code tit. 34, § 523 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 34 - Welfare|Chapter 16 - Silver Alert Community Response System|Subchapter II - Elder, Dependent Adult, and Disabled Persons Disaster Registry|§ 523. Confidentiality of registry information

 The information collected for the registry is confidential and may not be disclosed other than to assist the person on the registry in time of a manmade or natural disaster or if there is a medical or some other emergency. Disclosure of the information under any other circumstance subjects the person who discloses the information to a fine of not more than $500 or to imprisonment for less than one year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 1 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1. Application of subtitle

 (a) This subtitle applies to the suits of a civil nature whether cognizable as cases at law or in equity described in Rule 1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and which are brought in one form of action known as “civil action” pursuant to Rule 2 thereof. (b) This subtitle applies to proceedings in the Supreme Court. It also applies to proceedings in the Superior Court unless otherwise provided in this subtitle or in rules adopted by the Supreme Court applicable to the Superior Court.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 5 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 5. Pleading of specific sum in ad damnum clause prohibited

 Notwithstanding any provision of law, in any cause of action based on tort, contract law, or otherwise to recover damages for injury or death to the person or for harm to the plaintiff resulting from the defendant's wrongful conduct, no complaint or cross-complaint shall specify the amount of damages but shall contain a prayer for general relief and shall state that the damages are within the jurisdictional limits of the court to which the pleading is addressed. Nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing a party from asking for a specific amount of damages at the trial.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 31 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 3 - Limitation of Actions|§ 31. Time for commencement of various actions

 Civil actions shall only be commenced within the periods prescribed below after the cause of action shall have accrued, except when, in special cases, a different limitation is prescribed by statute: (1) Twenty years—  (A) Actions for the recovery of real property, or for the recovery of the possession thereof; and no action shall be maintained for such recovery unless it shall appear that the plaintiff, his ancestor, predecessor, or grantor was seized or possessed of the property in question within twenty years before the commencement of the action. (B) An action upon a judgment or decree of any court of the United States, or of any State, Commonwealth, or Territory within the United States. (C) An action upon a sealed instrument. (2) Ten years—  (A) An action for any cause not otherwise provided for in this section. (3) Six years —  (A) An action upon a contract or liability, express or implied, excepting those mentioned in paragraph (1)(C) of this section. (B) An action upon a liability created by statute, other than a penalty or forfeiture. (C) An action for waste or trespass upon real property. (D) An action for taking, detaining, or injuring personal property, including an action for the specific recovery thereof. (4) Three years—  (A) An action against a marshal, peace officer or coroner, upon a liability incurred by the doing of an act in his official capacity or in virtue of his office; or by the omission of an official duty, including the nonpayment of money collected upon an execution; but this provision shall not apply to an action for an escape. (B) An action upon a statute for penalty or forfeiture, where the action is given to the party aggrieved, or to such party and the Government of the Virgin Islands, except where the statute imposing it prescribes a different limitation. (5) Two years—  (A) An action for libel, slander, assault, battery, seduction, false imprisonment, or for any injury to the person or rights of another not arising on contract and not herein especially enumerated, or to set aside a sale of real property for non-payment of real property taxes pursuant to Title 33, chapter 89, subchapter III of this Code. (B) An action upon a statute for a forfeiture or penalty. (6) One year —  (A) An action against the sheriff, peace officer, or other officer for the escape of a person arrested or imprisoned on civil process.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 32 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 3 - Limitation of Actions|§ 32. Actions of equitable nature; real property; new promise, fraud, or mistake

 (a) An action of an equitable nature shall only be commenced within the time limited to commence an action as provided in this chapter. (b) An action for the determination of any right or claim to or interest in real property shall be deemed within the limitations provided for actions for the recovery of the possession of real property. This section does not bar an equitable owner in possession of real property from defending his possession by means of his equitable title. The right of such equitable owner to defend his possession shall not be barred by lapse of time while an action for the possession of such real property is not barred by the provisions of this chapter. (c) In an action upon a new promise, fraud, or mistake, the limitation shall be deemed to commence only from the making of the new promise or the discovery of the fraud or mistake.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 32a (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 3 - Limitation of Actions|§ 32a. Definitions

 As used in this section 32b: (1) “action” includes an action for contribution or indemnity brought against a person or entity arising out of that person's or entity's performance or furnishing of services or materials referred to in section 32b; (2) “patent deficiency” means a deficiency that is apparent by reasonable inspection; (3) “latent deficiency” means a deficiency that is not apparent by reasonable inspection; and (4) “date of substantial completion” means the date when construction is sufficiently completed to allow the owner or a person authorized by the owner to occupy the improvement or to use the improvement in the manner for which it was intended. In the case of a phased project with more than one substantial completion date, the limitation period for actions involving systems designed to serve the entire project shall begin at the substantial completion of the earliest phase. The date of substantial completion relates specifically to the performance or furnishing design, specifications, surveying, planning, supervision, testing, observation of construction services by each profession or trade rendering services to the improvement.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 32b (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part I - General Provisions; Procedure Before Trial|Chapter 3 - Limitation of Actions|§ 32b. Construction of improvement to real property; action for damages prohibited

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no action may be brought to recover damages from any person or entity performing or furnishing the design, specifications, surveying, planning, supervision or observation of construction or construction of an improvement to real property more than 7 years after the substantial completion of such improvement for any patent deficiency and not more than 14 years for any latent deficiency in the design, specifications, surveying, planning, supervision or observation of construction or construction of an improvement to, or survey of, real property for any injury to property, real or personal, arising out of such patent or latent deficiency; or to the person or for wrongful death arising out of any such patent or latent deficiency. (b) If, by reason of such patent or latent deficiency, an injury to property or person or an injury causing wrongful death occurs during the 7th or 14th year, respectively, after such substantial completion, an action in tort to recover damages for such an injury or wrongful death may be brought within one year after the date on which such injury occurred, irrespective of the date of death, but in no event may such an action be brought more than the 8 or 15 years, respectively, after the substantial completion of construction of such improvement. (c) The limitation periods specified in subsection (b) shall commence upon substantial completion of the improvement, but not later than the date of the following, whichever first occurs: (1) The date of final inspection by the Department of Planning and Natural Resources; (2) The date of recordation of a valid notice of completion; (3) The date of use or occupation of the improvement; (4) One year after termination or cessation of work on the improvement. (d) The limitation prescribed by this section may not be asserted by way of defense by any person in actual possession or the control, as owner, tenant or otherwise, of such an improvement at the time any deficiency in the improvement constitutes the proximate cause of the injury or death for which it is proposed to bring an action.