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V.I. Code tit. 13, § 290 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter X - Sale of Assets; Dissolution|§ 290. Wages; preferred liabilities

 In the administration, liquidation or distribution of the property of any corporation upon its voluntary or involuntary dissolution, or upon revocation of its articles of incorporation or forfeiture of its corporate existence, after payment of necessary costs and expenses of preserving its assets, wages or commissions earned by employees or salesmen of the corporation within six months before the date of such dissolution, revocation or forfeiture of its corporate existence, shall have priority over unsecured creditors. The terms “employees” or “salesmen” shall not be construed to include any of the officers of the corporation.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 313 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XI - Renewal, Revival, Extension and Restoration of Articles|§ 313. Status of corporation

 Any corporation desiring to renew, extend and continue its corporate existence shall, upon complying with the provisions of section 312 of this title, be and continue for the time stated in its certificate of renewal a corporation and shall, in addition to the rights, privileges and immunities conferred by its original articles of incorporation, possess and enjoy all the benefits of this chapter which are applicable to the nature of its business, and shall be subject to the restrictions and liabilities by this chapter imposed on such corporations.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 341 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XII - Suits Against Corporations, Directors, Officers or Stockholders|§ 341. Jurisdiction of District Court of the United States Virgin Islands

 The District Court of the United States Virgin Islands shall have jurisdiction over the directors, managers, trustees and other officers of a corporation organized under this chapter, and of any foreign corporation admitted to do business in the United States Virgin Islands, to— (1) compel such directors, managers, trustees and other officers to account for their official conduct in the management and disposition of the funds, property and business committed to their charge; (2) order, decree and compel payment by them to the corporation which they represent, and to its creditors of all sums of money and all the value of all property which they may have acquired to themselves, or transferred to others, or may have lost or wasted by any violation of their duties or abuse of their powers, by such directors, managers, trustees or other officers of such corporation; (3) enjoin any director, trustee, manager or other officer from exercising his office whensoever it shall appear that he has abused his trust; (4) remove any such director, trustee or other officer upon proof or conviction of gross misconduct; (5) direct, if necessary, new elections to be held by the body or board or stockholders, duly authorized for that purpose, to supply any vacancy created by such removal, and at such election no person so removed or suspended shall be eligible as a director, trustee or other officer of such corporation; and (6) restrain and prevent any alienation of property of the corporation by said directors, trustees or other officers in cases where it may be threatened, or there is good reason to apprehend that it is intended to be made in fraud of the rights and interests of such corporation.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 342 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XII - Suits Against Corporations, Directors, Officers or Stockholders|§ 342. Institution of actions under section 341

 An action as prescribed in section 341 of this title may be brought by the United States attorney in behalf of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands or by a creditor or stockholder of the corporation, or by a trustee, director, manager, or other officer of the corporation, having a general superintendence of its concerns.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 343 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XII - Suits Against Corporations, Directors, Officers or Stockholders|§ 343. Failure of corporation to obey court order; appointment of receiver

 Whenever any corporation refuses, fails, or neglects to obey any order or decree of a competent court within the time fixed by the court for its observance, such refusal, failure or neglect shall be a sufficient ground for the appointment of a receiver of the corporation. If the corporation be a foreign corporation, such refusal, failure or neglect shall be a sufficient ground for the appointment of a receiver of the assets of the corporation within the United States Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 344 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XII - Suits Against Corporations, Directors, Officers or Stockholders|§ 344. Actions against officers, directors or stockholders to enforce liability of corporation; unsatisfied judgment against corporation

 (a) When the officers, directors or stockholders of any corporation are liable to pay the debts of the corporation, or any part thereof, any action to enforce such liability shall be a class action for the benefit of all creditors to which the corporation if in existence shall be a party. (b) No suit shall be brought against any officer, director or stockholder for any debt or liability of a corporation, of which he is an officer, director or stockholder, until judgment be obtained therefor against the corporation, nor after three years from the date of such judgment and any such officer, director or stockholder may set up any defense which the corporation might have asserted against such debt or liability. The subsection does not apply to suits brought against officers or directors of a corporation in dissolution or liquidation for maladministration of their duties under subchapter X of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 345 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XII - Suits Against Corporations, Directors, Officers or Stockholders|§ 345. Liabilities of corporations; impairment by certain transactions

 The liability of corporations created under the laws of the United States Virgin Islands or of the stockholders, directors or officers thereof, or the rights or remedies of the creditors thereof, or of persons doing or transacting business with the corporation, shall not in any way be lessened or impaired by the sale of the control or assets thereof, or by the increase or decrease in the capital stock of any such corporation, or by the consolidation or merger of two or more corporations, or by any change or amendment in the articles of incorporation except, with respect to the liability of directors for any change or amendment to add provisions authorized by section 2(b)(4) of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 346 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XII - Suits Against Corporations, Directors, Officers or Stockholders|§ 346. Defective organization as a defense

 (a) No corporation organized under the laws of the United States Virgin Islands shall be permitted to set up, or rely upon the want of legal organization as a defense to any action against it, and no person transacting business with the corporation, or sued for injury done to its property, shall be permitted to rely upon such want of legal organization as a defense. (b) This section shall not be construed to prevent judicial inquiry into the regularity or validity of the organization of the corporation or its lawful possession of any corporate power it may undertake to assert in any other action or proceeding where its corporate existence or the power to exercise the corporate rights it asserts is challenged, and evidence tending to sustain the challenge shall be admissible in any such action or proceeding.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 347 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XII - Suits Against Corporations, Directors, Officers or Stockholders|§ 347. Usury as a defense

 No corporation or general or limited partnership shall plead any law against usury in any court as a defense in any action instituted to enforce the payment of any bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness issued or assumed by such entity.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 348 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XII - Suits Against Corporations, Directors, Officers or Stockholders|§ 348. Service of process on corporations

 In case legal process against a corporation cannot by due diligence be served upon any person authorized to receive it, such process, including the complaint, may be served in duplicate upon the Lieutenant Governor, which service shall be effectual for all purposes of law. Within two days after service upon the Lieutenant Governor, he shall notify the corporation thereof by letter directed to the corporation at its last registered office, in which letter shall be enclosed a copy of the process, the complaint or other papers served. In any action in which the process shall be so served the plaintiff shall pay to the Lieutenant Governor the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00), which sum shall be taxed as a part of the costs in the action if the plaintiff shall prevail therein. The Lieutenant Governor shall enter alphabetically in a process book, kept for that purpose, the name of plaintiff and defendant, the title and number, if any, of the cause in which process has been served upon him, and day and hour when the service was made.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 371 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XIII - Annual Reports to Be Filed by Domestic and Foreign Corporations|§ 371. Domestic corporations; annual reports

 (a) Every corporation created under the laws of the United States Virgin Islands shall file annually in the office of the Lieutenant Governor, a report authenticated by the signature of the president or the vice-president and of the treasurer or the assistant treasurer. The report shall contain— (1) a true and exact statement of the amount of the corporation's capital which is used in conducting business within the United States Virgin Islands; (2) a true and exact general balance sheet showing the financial condition of the corporation at the close of its last fiscal year; (3) a profit and loss statement for the last fiscal year of the corporation; and (4) such other information relating thereto as may be required by the Lieutenant Governor. There shall be included in the report a list of the names and addresses of all the directors and officers of the corporation and the expiration of their terms of office. The reporting requirements of paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection shall not apply to a VIFSC as defined in chapter 12 of this title. (b) Every corporation required to file an annual report pursuant to this section shall submit such report as prescribed by the provisions of section 531(b) of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 372 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XIII - Annual Reports to Be Filed by Domestic and Foreign Corporations|§ 372. Penalties for failure to file report

 If the corporation fails to render such report, or to amend it whenever the Lieutenant Governor finds the report incomplete or unsatisfactory and requires that it be amended, the Lieutenant Governor shall refer the matter to the United States attorney who may institute a criminal action against the corporation. If convicted, the corporation shall be fined not more than $500 and costs; and the court shall order the directors and the officers of the corporation to file or amend the report or the copy, as the case may be, within the time specified in such order. Failure to obey the order shall be punished as contempt of court.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 373 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XIII - Annual Reports to Be Filed by Domestic and Foreign Corporations|§ 373. Foreign corporations; annual reports

 Every foreign corporation which has qualified to do business in the United States Virgin Islands shall file annually in the office of the Lieutenant Governor, not later than April 15, a report authenticated by the signature of the president or the vice-president and of the treasurer or the assistant treasurer. The report shall contain— (1) a true and exact statement of the amount of the corporation's capital which is used in conducting business within the United States Virgin Islands; (2) a true and exact general balance sheet showing the financial condition of the corporation at the close of its last fiscal year; (3) a profit and loss statement for the last fiscal year of the corporation; and (4) such other information related thereto as may be required by the Lieutenant Governor. There shall be included in the report a list of the names and addresses of all the directors and officers of the corporation and the expiration dates of their terms of office.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 374 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XIII - Annual Reports to Be Filed by Domestic and Foreign Corporations|§ 374. Penalties; revocation of authorization

 If any foreign corporation fails to file the report required by section 373 of this title, or refuses to file or to amend such report whenever the Lieutenant Governor finds the report incomplete or unsatisfactory and requires that it be amended, the Lieutenant Governor shall refer the matter to the United States attorney, who may institute a criminal action against the corporation. If convicted, the corporation shall be fined not more than $500 and costs. The court shall also suspend the authorization of the corporation to do business in the United States Virgin Islands, and shall order the corporation to file or amend the report or the copy, as the case may be, within the time specified in the order. Failure to obey such order shall be cause for revocation of the authorization granted to the corporation to do business in the United States Virgin Islands. Any corporation doing business in the United States Virgin Islands after the suspension or revocation of such authorization shall be subject to the penalties prescribed by section 406 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 375 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XIII - Annual Reports to Be Filed by Domestic and Foreign Corporations|§ 375. Extensions

 The Lieutenant Governor may, in special cases, grant an extension of time that shall not exceed thirty days from the date fixed for the filing of the annual reports of domestic or foreign corporations doing business in the United States Virgin Islands. The extension will be granted only after it has been determined, upon application filed on time, that the corporation will not be able, for good and sufficient reasons, to file its annual report within the time fixed by law. The provisions of section 372 or 374 of this title, whichever is applicable, shall be applied to any corporation that has been granted an extension of time but has failed to file its annual report within such extended time.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 401 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XIV - Foreign Corporations|§ 401. Qualification to do business in the United States Virgin Islands

 (a) No corporation created by the laws of any foreign country or any state of the United States, or the laws of the United States, shall do any business in the United States Virgin Islands through or by branch offices, agents or representatives located in the United States Virgin Islands until it shall have filed in the office of the Lieutenant Governor a certified copy of its charter or certificate of incorporation, a certificate signed by its president or vice president and under its corporate seal, attested by its secretary or assistant secretary, stating the name of its authorized agent in the United States Virgin Islands upon whom service of legal process against it may be made, and a sworn statement of the assets, liabilities and capital stock (both authorized and paid up) of the corporation at the close of its last fiscal year. For filing said documents the Lieutenant Governor shall charge the fees prescribed in section 431(a)(8) of this title. (b) The certificate of the Lieutenant Governor under his seal of office, of the filing of the charter or certificate of incorporation and other documents required shall be delivered to the agent of the corporation upon the payment to the Lieutenant Governor of the usual fees for making certified copies, and the certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the right of the corporation to do business in the United States Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 402 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XIV - Foreign Corporations|§ 402. Additional requirements upon amendment of charter, certificate of incorporation, merger, etc.

 Every foreign corporation admitted to do business in the United States Virgin Islands which shall amend its charter or articles of incorporation from time to time or shall be a party to a merger or consolidation permitted by the laws of the state under which it is organized, shall, within 30 days after the time the amendment or merger or consolidation becomes effective, file with the Lieutenant Governor duplicate copies of the amendment or a copy of the articles of merger or consolidation, duly certified by the proper officer of the country or state of the United States by which the corporation shall have been incorporated or under the laws of which the merger or consolidation was effected.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 403 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XIV - Foreign Corporations|§ 403. Exceptions to requirements

 No corporation created by the laws of any foreign country or any State of the United States, or the laws of the United States shall be deemed to be doing business in the United States Virgin Islands, nor shall the corporation be required to comply with the provisions of sections 401 and 402 of this title under the following conditions, or any of them, namely if— (1) it is in the mail order or a similar business, merely receiving orders by mail or otherwise in pursuance of letters, circulars, catalogs, or other forms of advertising, or solicitation, accepting the orders outside the United States Virgin Islands and filling them with goods shipped into the United States Virgin Islands from without same; (2) it sells, by contract consummated outside the United States Virgin Islands, and agrees, by the contract, to deliver into from without the United States Virgin Islands machinery, plants or equipment, the construction, erection or installation of which within the United States Virgin Islands requires the supervision of technical engineers or skilled employees performing services not generally available, and as a part of the contract of sale agrees to furnish such services, and such services only, to the vendee at the time of construction, erection or installation.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 404 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XIV - Foreign Corporations|§ 404. Service of process on foreign corporation

 All process issued out of any court of the United States Virgin Islands against any corporation which has qualified to do business in the United States Virgin Islands, all orders made by any court of the United States Virgin Islands, all rules and notices of any kind required to be served on or given to any corporation, may be served on or given to the agent of the corporation designated in accordance with section 401 or 405 of this title or if at the time such corporation shall have no such agent, then on or to the Lieutenant Governor or an official designated by him to receive such service or notice, and such service or notice shall be as effectual and shall operate as if it had been served on or given to the corporation.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 405 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XIV - Foreign Corporations|§ 405. Change of agent upon whom process may be served

 (a) Any foreign corporation, which has qualified to do business in the United States Virgin Islands by filing a certificate of the same kind and nature, and executed as required by section 401 of this title, may change its agent and substitute another agent for the purposes of this chapter. Every agent shall at the time of his appointment be an individual resident in the United States Virgin Islands or a corporation located in the United States Virgin Islands. (b) Any individual or corporation that has been designated by a foreign corporation as its authorized agent for service of process may resign by filing with the Lieutenant Governor a signed statement that he or it is unwilling to continue to act as the agent of the corporation for service of process, including in the statement the post-office address of the corporation. Upon the expiration of 30 days after the filing of the statement with the Lieutenant Governor, the capacity of the individual or corporation, as agent, shall terminate. Upon the filing of the statement, the Lieutenant Governor forthwith shall give written notice, by mail to the corporation of the filing of the statement, which notice shall be addressed to the corporation at the post-office address given in the statement. (c) If any agent designated and certified as required by section 401 of this title dies or removes from the United States Virgin Islands, or resigns, then the foreign corporation for which the agent had been so designated and certified shall, within ten days after the death, removal or resignation of its agent, substitute, designate and certify to the Lieutenant Governor the name of another agent for the purposes of this chapter and all process, orders, rules and notices mentioned in section 404 of this title may be served on or given to the substituted agent with like effect as is prescribed in said section.
V.I. Code tit. 13, § 406 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 13 - Corporations and Associations|Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law|Subchapter XIV - Foreign Corporations|§ 406. Violations and penalties

 Any foreign corporation engaged in, prosecuting, or transacting any business of any kind within the United States Virgin Islands without first having complied with sections 401–405 of this title shall be fined not more than $500 for each such offense. Any agent of any foreign corporation that shall transact any business with the United States Virgin Islands for any foreign corporation before the foreign corporation has complied with all of said sections, shall be fined not more than $500 for each such offense.