V.I. Code tit. 19, § 805 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part IV - Vital Statistics|Chapter 37 - General Provisions|Subchapter I - Definitions; Administration; Registrations Generally|§ 805. Duties of local registrars

 (a) Each local registrar shall supply blank forms of certificates to such persons as require them. Each local registrar shall carefully examine each certificate of birth, foetal death or death when presented for record in order to ascertain whether or not it has been made out in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the instructions of the Commissioner, and if any certificate of death is incomplete or unsatisfactory, he shall call attention to the defects in the return, and withhold the burial or removal permit until such defects are corrected. If the registrar is satisfied or has reason to believe that the required information to cure the defects in the return is not readily available, the registrar may issue a removal or burial permit despite the presence of such defects. (b) All certificates, either of birth, foetal death or death, shall be written legibly, in durable black ink, or typewritten, and no certificate shall be held to be complete and correct that does not supply all the items of information called for therein, or satisfactorily account for their omission. If the certificate of death or foetal death is properly executed and complete, the registrar shall then issue a burial or removal permit to the undertaker; provided, that in case the death occurred from some disease which is held by the Commissioner to be infectious, contagious or communicable and dangerous to the public health, no permit for the removal or other disposition of the body shall be issued by the registrar, except under such conditions as may be prescribed by the Commissioner. If a certificate of birth is incomplete, the local registrar shall immediately notify the informant, and require him to supply the missing items of information if they can be obtained. (c) The registrar shall number consecutively the certificates of birth, foetal death and death, in three separate series, beginning with number one for the first birth, the first foetal death, and the first death in each calendar year and sign his name as local registrar in attest of the date of filing in his office. He shall also make a complete and accurate copy of each birth, each foetal death, and each death certificate registered by him, to be preserved permanently in his office as the local record, in such manner as directed by the Commissioner. (d) The registrar shall on the fifteenth day of each month transmit to the Commissioner all original certificates or copies, as directed by the Commissioner, registered by him for the preceding month. If no births, foetal deaths or deaths occurred in any month, he shall, on the fifteenth day of the following month, report that fact to the Commissioner on a card provided for such purpose. (e) The registrar shall document and submit a report to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Office of the Recorder of Deeds, the Division of Personnel, the Government Employees Retirement System and the Office of the Tax Assessor on a bi-annual basis of all death certificates issued.