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V.I. Code tit. 19, § 686 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 29 - Controlled Substances|Subchapter V - Civil Commitment of Persons Not Charged With Any Criminal Offense|§ 686. Period of commitment to care and custody of Commissioner of Health; patient subject to posthospitalization program; release from confinement

 Any patient committed to the care and custody of the Commissioner of Health pursuant to section 685 of this title shall be committed for a period of six months, and shall be subject to such posthospitalization program as may be established pursuant to section 687 of this title; except that such patient may be released from confinement by the Commissioner of Health at any time prior to the expiration of such six-month period if the Commissioner of Health determines and certifies in writing that the patient has been cured of his drug addiction and rehabilitated, or that his continued confinement is no longer necessary or desirable.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 687 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 29 - Controlled Substances|Subchapter V - Civil Commitment of Persons Not Charged With Any Criminal Offense|§ 687. Release from confinement—Notice and return to committing court; placing patient under care and custody of Commissioner of Health for posthospitalization treatment; recommendations of Commissioner of Health

 (a) Whenever any patient under the care and custody of the Commissioner of Health pursuant to this subchapter is to be released from confinement in accordance with the provisions thereof, the Commissioner of Health shall give written notice of such pending release to the committing court within ten days prior thereto and shall, at the time of the patient's release, promptly return him to that court. The court, after considering the recommendations of the Commissioner of Health with respect to posthospitalization treatment for any such patient so returned, may place such patient under the care and custody of the Commissioner of Health for the three-year period immediately following the patient's release for treatment and supervision under such posthospitalization program as the Commissioner of Health may direct. Return to committing court for recommitment and submission to posthospitalization treatment  (b) If, at any time during such three-year period, any patient (1) fails or refuses to comply with the directions and orders of the Commissioner of Health in connection with such patient's posthospitalization treatment and supervision, or (2) is determined by the Commissioner of Health to be again using narcotic drugs, the Commissioner of Health may order such patient's immediate return to the committing court which may after hearing and for good cause recommit such patient to a hospital of the Service for additional treatment for a period not to exceed six months, and may require such patient thereafter to submit to a posthospitalization program in accordance with subsection (a) of this section.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 688 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 29 - Controlled Substances|Subchapter V - Civil Commitment of Persons Not Charged With Any Criminal Offense|§ 688. Petition for inquiry into health and general condition and necessity for continuation of confinement; order for release from confinement and return to court; placing patient under posthospitalization treatment

 The court, upon the petition of any patient after his confinement pursuant to this subchapter for a period in excess of three months, shall inquire into the health and general condition of the patient and as to the necessity, if any, for his continued confinement. If the court finds, with or without a hearing, that his continued confinement is no longer necessary or desirable, it shall order the patient released from confinement and returned to the court. The court may, with respect to any such patient so returned, place such patient under a posthospitalization program in accordance with the provisions of section 687(a) of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 689 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 29 - Controlled Substances|Subchapter V - Civil Commitment of Persons Not Charged With Any Criminal Offense|§ 689. Criminal conviction or criminal appellation from determination of being narcotic addict; criminal proceedings prohibited from using information gained in addiction inquiry

 Any determination by the court pursuant to this subchapter that a patient is a narcotic addict shall not be deemed a criminal conviction, nor shall such patient be denominated a criminal by reason of that determination. The results of any hearing, examination, test, or procedure to determine narcotic addiction of any patient under this subchapter shall not be used against such patient in any criminal proceeding.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 690 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 29 - Controlled Substances|Subchapter V - Civil Commitment of Persons Not Charged With Any Criminal Offense|§ 690. Evidence; examining physician a competent and compellable witness; physician-patient privilege

 Any physician conducting an examination under this subchapter shall be a competent and compellable witness at any hearing or other proceeding conducted pursuant to this subchapter and the physician-patient privilege shall not be applicable.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 691 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 29 - Controlled Substances|Subchapter V - Civil Commitment of Persons Not Charged With Any Criminal Offense|§ 691. Subchapter inapplicable to persons with criminal charge pending, on probation or with sentence unserved; consent to commitment of such persons by authority with power over their custody

 The provisions of this subchapter shall not be applicable with respect to any person against whom there is pending a criminal charge, whether by indictment or by information, which has not been fully determined or who is on probation or whose sentence following conviction on such a charge, including any time on parole or mandatory release, has not been fully served, except that such provision shall be applicable to any such person on probation, parole, or mandatory release if the authority authorized to require his return to custody consents to his commitment.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 692 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 29 - Controlled Substances|Subchapter V - Civil Commitment of Persons Not Charged With Any Criminal Offense|§ 692. Commitment to hospital of the Service dependent upon certification of availability of facilities or personnel for treatment

 Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, no patient shall be committed to a hospital of the Service under this subchapter if the Commissioner of Health certifies that adequate facilities or personnel for treatment of such patient are unavailable.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 693 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 29 - Controlled Substances|Subchapter V - Civil Commitment of Persons Not Charged With Any Criminal Offense|§ 693. Compensation of physicians and counsel; source of funds

 Physicians appointed by the court to examine any person pursuant to this subchapter and counsel assigned by the court to represent any person in compensation proceedings under this subchapter shall be entitled to reasonable compensation, in an amount to be determined by the court, to be paid, upon order of the court, out of such funds as may be provided by law.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 694 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 29 - Controlled Substances|Subchapter V - Civil Commitment of Persons Not Charged With Any Criminal Offense|§ 694. Authority of Commissioner of Health—Delegation of functions

 (a) The Commissioner of Health may from time to time make such provisions as he deems appropriate authorizing the performance of any of his functions under this subchapter by any other officer or employee of the Department of Health. Arrangements making available, on a reimbursable basis or otherwise facilities or services of agencies or persons for examination or treatment  (b) The Commissioner of Health is authorized to enter into arrangements with any public or private agency or any person under which appropriate facilities or services of such agency or person will be made available, on a reimbursable basis or otherwise, for the examination or treatment of individuals pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 695 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 29 - Controlled Substances|Subchapter V - Civil Commitment of Persons Not Charged With Any Criminal Offense|§ 695. Penalties; escape or rescue from custody

 Any person who escapes or attempts to escape while committed to institutional custody for examination or treatment under this subchapter, or any person who rescues or attempts to rescue or instigates, aids, or assists the escape or attempts to assist the escape of such a person, shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 661 of Title 14 of the Virgin Islands Code.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 696 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 29 - Controlled Substances|Subchapter V - Civil Commitment of Persons Not Charged With Any Criminal Offense|§ 696. Same; false statements

 Any person who knowingly makes any false statement to the United States Attorney or Attorney General in any petition under section 682(a) of this title shall be subject to the penalty prescribed in section 843 of Title 14 of the Virgin Islands Code.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 801 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part IV - Vital Statistics|Chapter 37 - General Provisions|Subchapter I - Definitions; Administration; Registrations Generally|§ 801. Definitions

 The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Health for the Virgin Islands or any of his duly authorized representatives; (2) “delayed certificate” means a certificate filed after the time specified by law; (3) “foetal death” means death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy; the death is indicated by the fact that after such separation the foetus does not breathe or show any evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles; (4) “live birth” is the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached; and (5) “Registrar” means the Commissioner of Health or any local or deputy local registrar.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 802 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part IV - Vital Statistics|Chapter 37 - General Provisions|Subchapter I - Definitions; Administration; Registrations Generally|§ 802. Commissioner as Registrar; rules and regulations

 The Commissioner shall be the Registrar of Vital Statistics and shall have charge of the registration of births, deaths, and other vital statistics in the Virgin Islands. The Commissioner shall prepare the necessary instructions, forms, and blanks for obtaining and preserving such records and shall procure the faithful registration of the same. He shall recommend from time to time such additional legislation as may be necessary to that end and shall issue such rules and regulations, not in conflict with this chapter, as may be necessary to complement the provisions thereof. The rules and regulations after being approved by the Governor shall have the force of law.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 803 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part IV - Vital Statistics|Chapter 37 - General Provisions|Subchapter I - Definitions; Administration; Registrations Generally|§ 803. Appointment of local registrar

 The Governor may— (1) designate and define local registration districts in the Virgin Islands; (2) appoint local registrars or designate public officials to act as local registrars as may be necessary or desirable; and (3) similarly appoint or designate deputy local registrars.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 804 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part IV - Vital Statistics|Chapter 37 - General Provisions|Subchapter I - Definitions; Administration; Registrations Generally|§ 804. Maintenance of records

 (a) Unless supplied from other sources, the Commissioner shall prepare, print, and supply to all local registrars all blanks and forms used in registering, recording and preserving the returns, or in otherwise carrying out the purpose of this chapter; and shall prepare and issue such detailed instructions as may be required to procure the uniform observance of its provisions and the maintenance of a perfect system of registration; and no other blanks shall be used than those supplied by the registrar. He shall carefully examine the certificates received monthly from the local registrars, and if any such are incomplete or unsatisfactory, he shall require such information to be supplied as may be necessary to make the record complete and satisfactory. (b) All physicians, midwives, informants, or undertakers, and all other persons having knowledge of the facts, are required to supply the same, upon a form provided by the registrar, in person, by mail or through the local registrars. No certificate of birth, death or foetal death after its acceptance by the local registrar for registration, and no other record made in pursuance of this chapter, shall be altered or changed in any respect otherwise than by amendments properly dated, signed and witnessed, and that the word “amended” be stamped and signed by the registrar on the face of the document. (c) The Commissioner shall arrange, bind and permanently preserve the certificates in a systematic manner, and shall prepare and maintain a comprehensive and continuous card index of all births and deaths registered, said index to be arranged alphabetically, in the case of deaths by names of decedents, and in the case of births, by the names of the children. (d) The Commissioner shall inform all local registrars what diseases are to be considered infectious, contagious, or communicable and dangerous to the public health, in order that when deaths occur from such diseases proper precautions may be taken to prevent their spread. (e) If any cemetery company or association, or any church or historical society or association, or any other company, society, or association, or any individual, is in possession of any record of births or deaths which may be of value in establishing the genealogy of any resident of the Virgin Islands, such company, society, association or individual may file such record or a duly authenticated transcript thereof with the registrar, and it shall be the duty of the registrar to preserve such record or transcript and to make a record and index thereof in such form as to facilitate the finding of any information contained therein. The contents of such record and index shall be available to the public subject to any such reasonable conditions as the registrar may prescribe.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 806 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part IV - Vital Statistics|Chapter 37 - General Provisions|Subchapter I - Definitions; Administration; Registrations Generally|§ 806. Certified copies of records

 The registrar shall, upon request, supply to any applicant, who has a legitimate interest, a certified copy of the record of any birth, foetal death or death registered under provisions of this chapter, for the making and certification of which the applicant shall be charged a fee in accordance with Rules and Regulations promulgated by the Commissioner of Health pursuant to the provisions of Title 3, chapter 35, Virgin Islands Code. All such fees shall be remitted by the Commissioner of Health to the Commissioner of Finance and covered into the General Fund of the treasury. Any such copy of the record of birth, foetal death or death, when properly certified by the registrar, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of the facts therein stated. The registrar shall, upon request of any parent or guardian, supply without fee, a certificate limited to a statement as to the date of birth and name of any child when the same shall be necessary for baptism, for admission to school or for the purpose of securing employment. The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare or the head of any other Federal agency, and any office or official of these islands, may, in the discretion of the Governor, be furnished, for official use only, the transcript of certified copies of birth, foetal deaths and death, without payment of the fee herein prescribed.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 807 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part IV - Vital Statistics|Chapter 37 - General Provisions|Subchapter I - Definitions; Administration; Registrations Generally|§ 807. Records of hospitals and other institutions

 The director, superintendent, or other person in charge of each hospital, sanitarium, asylum, or other public or private institution in the Virgin Islands to which people report for treatment of diseases or for cases of maternity or are confined voluntarily or by process of law, shall make and keep a register of all persons admitted thereto. This register shall contain all personal and statistical data regarding the inmates. In the case of any person admitted for treatment of any disease the physician in charge shall specify in the record the nature of the disease and the place where in his opinion it was contracted.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 808 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part IV - Vital Statistics|Chapter 37 - General Provisions|Subchapter I - Definitions; Administration; Registrations Generally|§ 808. Annual report

 The Commissioner shall include in his annual report to the Governor a report on the number of births, deaths, foetal deaths, marriages, divorces and annulments of marriages registered in the Virgin Islands during the preceding calendar year and such additional information about vital statistics in the Virgin Islands as he may deem necessary for operation, evaluation, and planning a sound program of public health and welfare, or that the Governor may require.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 832 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part IV - Vital Statistics|Chapter 37 - General Provisions|Subchapter II - Births|§ 832. Child Born Out-Of-Wedlock

 In the case of a child born out-of-wedlock the name of the father or reputed father and information about the father shall be entered upon the birth certificate or birth record of such child only if a notarized affidavit of paternity, completed pursuant to Title 16, chapter 11, section 292 of this code or a certified copy of a court or hearing officer order, issued pursuant to Title 16, chapter 11, section 293 of this code establishing paternity is presented. The Registrar of Vital Statistics shall give full faith and credit to all adjudications of paternity pursuant to the procedures set out at Title 16, chapter 13, section 370 of this code.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 833 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part IV - Vital Statistics|Chapter 37 - General Provisions|Subchapter II - Births|§ 833. Presumption of legitimacy

 (a) A child born to a mother who is legally married is considered legitimate unless evidence to the contrary is presented. It is presumed that the husband is the father of the child and should be so stated unless the mother gives information to the contrary or unless paternity has been established through court action or through an affidavit of paternity. (b) In a case where the natural parents of a child marry subsequent to the birth of the child, such a child is considered legitimate. In order to correct the record a certified copy of the marriage license and an affidavit of paternity shall be submitted to the Registrar of Vital Statistics by any interested person. Upon receipt the Registrar will prepare a new record covering the birth which will show the correct information regarding the father and mother, provided that if an affidavit of paternity had been filed previously, a new affidavit will not be required. The original certificate together with the certified copy of the marriage license and the affidavit of paternity shall be placed in a sealed file and shall be made available only to the parents, the courts, and to the child when he reaches maturity.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 834 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part IV - Vital Statistics|Chapter 37 - General Provisions|Subchapter II - Births|§ 834. Children of unknown parentage

 In the case of a newly-born, abandoned or exposed child of unknown parentage the child shall be brought to the Commissioner or his deputy, in the registration district where such newly-born, abandoned or exposed child of unknown parentage is found, who shall examine the child to determine approximate age and date of birth. The Commissioner, or a qualified physician designated by him, shall assign a name to the child and prepare a standard birth certificate for such child. In order to preserve all identity possible, a personal description and all facts relative to the discovery of the child shall be placed on a note attached to the birth certificate or on the reverse side of the certificate.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 835 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part IV - Vital Statistics|Chapter 37 - General Provisions|Subchapter II - Births|§ 835. Naming of child

 When any certificate of birth of a living child is presented without the statement of the given name, the local registrar shall make out and deliver to the parents of the child a special blank for the supplemental report of the given name of the child, which shall be filled out as directed, and returned to the local registrar as soon as the child has been named and not later than six months after the birth. No minister authorized by the Government to perform the ceremony of baptism shall baptize a child unless a certified copy of the record of birth stating the name of the child has been produced, except that such minister, in any case where there is reason to believe that a child might die before the certificate can be obtained, may baptize the child without the certificate. In such a case, the minister shall report within 24 hours to the office of the local registrar the name with which the child was baptized.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 836 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part IV - Vital Statistics|Chapter 37 - General Provisions|Subchapter II - Births|§ 836. Adopted children

 A certified decree of every adoption for every child born in the Virgin Islands shall be forwarded by the clerk of the court to the Registrar of Vital Statistics in the judicial division in which the adoption takes place. Upon receipt of the certified copy of the decree of adoption the local registrar shall prepare a new certificate of birth of the child showing the adoptive name and the names of the adoptive parents. This shall be filed with the original record. A copy of the new certificate shall be sent to the office of the Commissioner where it shall be filed with the copy of the birth certificate originally submitted to that office. On the back of the new certificate shall be entered the date of filing of the certificate of adoption.