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V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1402 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53 - Sanitation|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 1402. Prohibitions

 No person shall allow water or any liquid to run from a building or premises across a sidewalk or street except by a passage constructed under the sidewalk or street and leading to the sanitary sewer or public gutter, which passage shall be kept adequate and in repair at all times. No person shall be allowed to discharge waste water from kitchen or bath into the public gutter from a building or premises which is connected to the sanitary sewer; nor shall the contents of a cesspool or septic tank be allowed to flow into the public gutters. All plumbing equipment and materials used in connection to the sanitary sewer shall be in accordance with the standards prescribed by the Building Code contained in Title 29.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1403 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53 - Sanitation|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 1403. Sale of ice; inspection of water

 No person shall sell or distribute in the Virgin Islands ice made from impure, contaminated or polluted water. The Commissioner of Health shall inspect periodically the ice manufacturing plants and the water supply of all public places and take for analysis samples of the water from which ice is made or which is used in the preparation of food or drink for sale. When water is found to be contaminated, the Commissioner of Health may order the water chlorinated, or have the water chlorinated at the expense of the ice manufacturer or other party concerned.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1404 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53 - Sanitation|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 1404. Rules and regulations

 The Commissioner of Health shall make rules and regulations, subject to the approval of the Governor, for the purpose of implementing and enforcing any or all of the provisions of subchapters I and II of this chapter. Such rules and regulations, when approved by the Governor, shall have the full force and effect of law.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1431 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53 - Sanitation|Subchapter II - Regulation of Business Establishments|§ 1431. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise— “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Health or any of his duly authorized representatives; “frozen dessert” means any clean frozen or partially frozen combination of two or more of the following: Milk products, eggs or egg products, sugar, water, fruit or fruit juices, candy, nut meats, or other harmless and wholesome food products, flavors, color, or harmless stabilizer, and shall be deemed to include ice cream, frozen custard, ice milk, milk sherbets, ices, and other similar products; “itinerant restaurant” means a restaurant, as defined above, operated for a temporary period in connection with a fair, carnival, circus, public exhibition, or other similar gathering; “mix” means the unfrozen combination of all ingredients of a frozen dessert with or without fruits, fruit juices, candy, nut meats, flavor or harmless color; “restaurant” means any restaurant, coffee shop, cafeteria, shortorder cafe, luncheonette, tavern, sandwich stand, soda fountain, and all other eating or drinking establishments selling food or drink of any kind, whether cooked, prepared, or frozen, as well as kitchens or other places in which food or drink is prepared for sale elsewhere; and “utensils” means all kitchenware, tableware, glassware, cutlery, utensils, containers, or other equipment with which food or drink, whether cooked or frozen, comes in contact during storage, preparation or serving. “Waste Management Authority” means the Virgin Islands Waste Management Authority established pursuant to Title 29, Chapter 8, Virgin Islands Code, section 496.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1432 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53 - Sanitation|Subchapter II - Regulation of Business Establishments|§ 1432. Right of entrance and inspection

 No person shall interfere with or obstruct the entrance, during ordinary business hours, of the Commissioner to any house, building, or other premises being used as a place of business which is subject to the provisions of this chapter, while in the discharge of his duties. No person shall interfere with or obstruct the Commissioner in the posting of any placard, in accordance with the requirements of this chapter, in or on any place or premises being used as a place of business subject to the provisions of this chapter, nor shall any person conceal, mutilate, or remove any such placard, except by direction of the Commissioner.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1433 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53 - Sanitation|Subchapter II - Regulation of Business Establishments|§ 1433. Health permit

 In addition to a license to do business, all persons who operate restaurants or itinerant restaurants, who serve or manufacture frozen desserts, soft drinks or ice, who introduce for sale, offer for sale, sell or have in storage meat or meat products, or who operate meat or poultry packing or canning establishments, shall obtain from the Commissioner a health permit in order to carry on such business. The Department of Health may not require a person who holds a valid, annual health permit for a mobile food service to obtain additional health permits for operating a mobile food service at multiple locations during Carnival, festivals and other public events, if within at least five business days before the event, the person notifies the Department in writing, of the dates and the location of the sites at which he intends to operate. Such health permit shall be posted in a conspicuous place within the business establishment.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1434 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53 - Sanitation|Subchapter II - Regulation of Business Establishments|§ 1434. Suspension or revocation of health permit

 A health permit may be temporarily suspended by the Commissioner upon violation by the holder of any of the provisions of this chapter or of the rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter. A health permit may be revoked by the Commissioner for serious or repeated violations after the violator has had an opportunity to be heard. A person operating a restaurant, the health permit of which has been suspended, may at any time make application for the reinstatement of the permit. A health permit shall only be reinstated when the unhealthy or unsanitary cause or causes for which it was suspended have been corrected.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1435 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53 - Sanitation|Subchapter II - Regulation of Business Establishments|§ 1435. Appeals from suspension or revocation of permit

 Any person aggrieved by any decision of the Commissioner suspending or revoking any health permit is entitled to a review of the same by the district court upon appeal made within 30 days from the date of the decision.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1436 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53 - Sanitation|Subchapter II - Regulation of Business Establishments|§ 1436. Examination of food or drink

 Samples of food or drink, and other substances, including frozen desserts and soft drinks, may be taken from any restaurant or itinerant restaurant and examined by the health officer as often as may be necessary for the detection of unwholesomeness or adulteration. The Commissioner may condemn and forbid the sale of, or cause to be removed or destroyed, any food, drink, or other substance which may be unwholesome or adulterated.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1437 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53 - Sanitation|Subchapter II - Regulation of Business Establishments|§ 1437. Health and cleanliness of employees

 No person suffering from a communicable disease transmissible through food or drink, or who resides in a household with a case of such disease, or who is known to be a carrier of the organisms causing such disease, and no person suffering from a local infection transmissible through food or drink shall be employed in any restaurant or itinerant restaurant. All employees of restaurants shall be subject to periodic health examinations for the purpose of detecting any communicable diseases transmissible through food or drink. All employees shall wear clean garments and shall keep their hands clean at all times while on duty in a restaurant.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1438 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53 - Sanitation|Subchapter II - Regulation of Business Establishments|§ 1438. Use of poisonous materials in restaurants

 No article, polish or other substance containing any cyanide preparation shall be used for the cleansing or polishing of eating or cooking utensils in any restaurant or itinerant restaurant. The storage, keeping or use of any insecticide, exterminator or other substances containing a fluoride or other poison in refrigerators, on shelves or in other places where they may contaminate foods or beverages, is prohibited.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1439 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53 - Sanitation|Subchapter II - Regulation of Business Establishments|§ 1439. Toilet facilities

 Every restaurant shall provide for its employees adequate toilet and lavatory facilities conveniently located and properly constructed and maintained.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1440 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53 - Sanitation|Subchapter II - Regulation of Business Establishments|§ 1440. Bread

 The manufacture and sale of bread shall be controlled by the Commissioner who shall set the required sanitary standards in accordance with the rules and regulations provided for in subchapter I of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1481 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53 - Sanitation|Subchapter IV - Violations and Penalties|§ 1481. Penalties for violations of chapter

 Whoever violates any provisions of this chapter shall be fined, for the first offense, not more than $30, and, for any subsequent or repeated offense, not more than $50, or shall be imprisoned for such subsequent or repeated offense for not more than 30 days.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2001 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 59B - Cemeteries|Subchapter I - Public Cemeteries|§ 2001. Management of cemeteries

 The Commissioner of Public Works shall have jurisdiction over all public cemeteries. He shall appoint personnel of the Department of Public Works to supervise, manage and maintain all such cemeteries. The Commissioner shall cause to be installed in all public cemeteries an electrical lighting system. Telephones shall be installed in all public cemeteries for the use of supervisory and maintenance personnel.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2002 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 59B - Cemeteries|Subchapter I - Public Cemeteries|§ 2002. Regulation of public cemeteries

 The Commissioner of Public Works shall by regulations approved by the Governor, not inconsistent with any laws, provide for the establishment, maintenance, and improvement of public cemeteries in the Virgin Islands, and for the procedure governing their operation. Such regulations shall govern the— (1) laying out of grave plots, and the digging and making up of graves; (2) interment in graves and vaults; (3) maintenance of graves; (4) fees, charges, and means of defraying expenses for grave plots, burials, and maintenance of graves; (5) keeping of records of burials and maps of graves and grave plots; and (6) such other matters as may be incident to the operation and maintenance of cemeteries.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2003 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 59B - Cemeteries|Subchapter I - Public Cemeteries|§ 2003. Public Cemetery Revolving Fund

 (a) There is established in the Treasury of the Virgin Islands a special fund designated the “Public Cemetery Revolving Fund” and a separate and distinct fund administered by the Commissioner of Finance. The Fund consists of all monies collected from fees paid for the burial of persons in the territory's public cemeteries. (b) Money in the Fund is disbursed at the request of the Commissioner of the Department of Public Works, and must be used for the purchasing of burial placards, tomb construction, operation and maintenance of the public cemeteries by the Department of Public Works.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2005 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 59B - Cemeteries|Subchapter II - Private Cemeteries|§ 2005. Short title

 This subchapter may be cited as “Virgin Islands Cemetery Act”.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2006 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 59B - Cemeteries|Subchapter II - Private Cemeteries|§ 2006. Scope

 The provisions of this subchapter shall apply to all persons engaged in the business of operating a cemetery as defined herein, except cemeteries owned and operated by governmental agencies or churches.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2007 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 59B - Cemeteries|Subchapter II - Private Cemeteries|§ 2007. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter: (1) “Persons” means an individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, or association. (2) “Human remains” or “remains” means the bodies of deceased persons, and includes the bodies in any stage of decomposition, and cremated remains. (3) “Cemetery” means any one or a combination of more than one, of the following, in a place used or to be used, and dedicated or designated, for cemetery purposes: (a) A burial park, for earth interment. (b) A mausoleum. (c) A columbarium. (4) “Mausoleum” means a structure or building substantially exposed above ground intended to be used for the entombment of remains of a deceased person. (5) “Columbarium” means a structure or building substantially exposed above ground intended to be used for the inurnment of the cremated remains of a deceased person. (6) “Cemetery company” means an individual, partnership, corporation, or association, now or hereafter organized, owning and controlling cemetery lands or property and conducting the business of a cemetery. (7) “Grave space” means a space of ground in a cemetery intended to be used for the interment in the ground of the remains of a deceased person. (8) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Public Works.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2008 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 59B - Cemeteries|Subchapter II - Private Cemeteries|§ 2008. Application to organize; filing fee

 (a) No person shall engage in the business of operating a cemetery company except as authorized by this subchapter, and without first obtaining a license from the Commissioner. (b) A written application for authority to organize a cemetery shall be filed with the Commissioner and said application shall be in such form and contain such information as the Commissioner shall reasonably require, and shall be accompanied by an initial filing fee of $100.00.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2009 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 59B - Cemeteries|Subchapter II - Private Cemeteries|§ 2009. Application for change of control; filing fee

 In any case where a person, a group of persons, or a corporation proposes to purchase or acquire control of an existing cemetery company either by purchasing the outstanding capital stock of any cemetery company, or the interest of the owner or owners, and thereby to change the control of said cemetery company, such person shall first make application to the Commissioner for a certificate of approval of such proposed change of control of said cemetery company and said application shall contain the name and address of the proposed new owners and the Commissioner shall issue said certificate of approval only after he has become satisfied that the proposed new owners are qualified by character, experience and financial responsibility to control and operate the said cemetery company in a legal and proper manner, and that the interest of the public generally will not be jeopardized by the proposed change in ownership and management. Such application for a purchase or change of control must be accompanied by an initial filing or investigation fee of $50.00.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2011 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 59B - Cemeteries|Subchapter II - Private Cemeteries|§ 2011. Records

 A record shall be kept of every burial in the cemetery of a cemetery company, showing the date of burial, name of the person buried, together with lot, plot, and space in which such burial was made therein. All sales, trust fund, accounting records, and all other accounting records of the licensee shall be available at the licensee's principal place of business in the Virgin Islands and shall be readily available at all reasonable times for examination by an authorized representative of the Commissioner.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2012 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 59B - Cemeteries|Subchapter II - Private Cemeteries|§ 2012. Investigation of applications

 Upon receipt of application for authority under sections 2008 and 2009 of this subchapter, the Commissioner shall investigate the following: (1) Character, reputation, financial standing, business qualifications, and motives of the proponents. (2) The need for a cemetery in the area to be located, giving consideration to the adequacy of existing facilities and the need for further facilities in the area to be served. (3) The proposed financial structure. (4) Zoning approval. This requirement extends to include extensions of boundaries. (5) Suitability of property for cemetery use.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2013 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 59B - Cemeteries|Subchapter II - Private Cemeteries|§ 2013. Issuance of certificate of authorization

 If the Commissioner finds that the proposed cemetery company has in good faith complied with all lawful requirements, he shall, within thirty (30) days, issue a certificate of authorization to transact a cemetery business. This authorization shall be valid for a period of six (6) months and if said cemetery company has not begun operations within that time, shall become null and void. Provisions for an additional period of not to exceed six (6) months may be obtained upon written application to the Commissioner, showing good cause for extension. The six (6) months authorization or additional period, shall begin as of the date the Commissioner issues the certificate of authorization or the extension of this authorization.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2014 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 59B - Cemeteries|Subchapter II - Private Cemeteries|§ 2014. Required trust fund for care and maintenance; remedy of Commissioner for noncompliance

 No cemetery company shall be permitted to establish, or operate if already established, a cemetery without providing for the future care and maintenance of such cemetery, for which a trust fund shall be established, to be known as the “care and maintenance trust fund of  (here use name of licensee).” Such trust fund shall be established with a territorial or national bank holding trust powers under the provisions of the Banking Law provided, that the cemetery company may appoint an individual or committee of two (2) or more individuals to act in an advisory capacity with the trustee in the investment of the trust fund, and provided further, that a cemetery company, with the consent of the Commissioner may change trustee of trust fund. If any cemetery company refuses or otherwise fails to provide or maintain an adequate care and maintenance trust fund in accordance with the provisions of this part, the Commissioner after reasonable notice, shall proceed to enforce compliance under the powers vested in him under this subchapter. The trust fund agreement shall contain and include the following: name, location, and address of both the licensee and the trustee showing the date of agreement together with the percentages required deposited as stated in section 2015. No person shall withdraw or transfer any portion of the corpus of the care and maintenance trust fund without first obtaining written consent from the Commissioner.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2015 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 59B - Cemeteries|Subchapter II - Private Cemeteries|§ 2015. Individual contracts for care and maintenance

 At the time of making a sale or receiving the initial deposit hereunder, the cemetery company shall deliver to the person to whom such sale is made, or who makes such deposit, an instrument in writing which shall specifically state that the net income of the care and maintenance trust fund shall be used solely for the care and maintenance of the cemetery, for reasonable costs of administering such care and maintenance and for reasonable costs of administering the trust fund.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2016 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 59B - Cemeteries|Subchapter II - Private Cemeteries|§ 2016. Trust fund, percentage of payments for burial rights to be deposited

 (a) There shall be set aside and deposited in the care and maintenance trust fund by the cemetery company, the following percentages for all burial rights sold, which percentage shall apply to: (1) All such payments received until such time as the amount of the corpus of such trust fund equals the sum of $15,000.00 and thereafter. (2) All such sums received from completed sales only exclusive of such sums on which deposits had previously been made (1) of this subsection: A For graves ten (10) percent of all payments received; Provided, however, That no such deposit shall be less than $10.00. B For mausoleum or columbarium, ten (10) percent of payments received. C For general endowments care and maintenance of the cemetery, the full amount of sums received. D For special endowments for a specific lot, grave, or a family mausoleum, memorial marker, or monument, the cemetery may set aside the full amounts received for this individual special care in a separate trust or by a deposit to a savings account in a bank or savings and loan association located within and authorized to do business in the Virgin Islands, provided, however, if the licensee does not set up a separate trust or savings account for the special endowment the full amount thereof shall be deposited into the care and maintenance trust fund as required of general endowments.