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V.I. Code tit. 14, § 194 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 7 - Animals and Birds|§ 194. Dogs or horses used by peace officers; willful or malicious harm or interference; penalty; restitution [Renumbered]

 (a) Any person who willfully and maliciously and with no legal justification strikes, beats, kicks, stabs, shoots with a firearm, administers any poison or other harmful or stupefying substance to, or throws, hurls, or projects at, or places any rock, object, or other substance which is used in such a manner as to be capable of producing injury and is likely to produce injury, on or in the path of, any dog, under the supervision of, or any horse being used by, any peace officer in the discharge or attempted discharge of his duties, is guilty of a felony and shall be subject to a fine of not more than $2000 or imprisonment for not more than 2 years, or both. (b) Any person who willfully and maliciously and with no legal justification interferes with or obstructs any dog or horse being used by a peace officer in the discharge or attempted discharge of his duties by frightening, teasing, agitating, harassing, or hindering the dog or horse shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine of not more than $1000 or imprisonment for not more than 1 year, or both. (c) Any person who, in violation of this section, and with intent to inflict such injury or death, causes the death, destruction, or serious physical injury, including but not limited to, bone fracture, loss or impairment of function of any bodily member, wounds requiring extensive suturing, or crippling, of any dog or horse, shall upon conviction of a felony under subsection (a) of this section be subject to a term of imprisonment of one (1) year in addition and consecutive to the punishment prescribed for such felony. (d) In any case in which a defendant is convicted of a violation of this section, the defendant shall be ordered to make restitution to the agency, department, independent instrumentality or subdivision of the Government of the Virgin Islands owning the animal or employing the peace officer for any veterinary bills, replacement costs of the animal if it is disabled or killed, and the salary of the peace officer for the period of time his services are lost to the Government.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 221 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 9 - Arrests, Searches, and Seizures|§ 221. Malicious procurement of warrants

 Whoever, maliciously and without probable cause, procures a search warrant or warrant of arrest to be issued and executed, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 222 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 9 - Arrests, Searches, and Seizures|§ 222. False arrest or seizure

 Whoever, being a public officer, under pretense or color of any process or other legal authority— (1) arrests any person or detains him against his will; (2) seizes or levies upon any property; or (3) dispossesses any one of any lands or property— without a regular process or other lawful authority therefor, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 223 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 9 - Arrests, Searches, and Seizures|§ 223. Refusal to aid in arrest

 Whoever, being a male person over eighteen years of age, willfully neglects or refuses to aid and assist in— (1) taking or arresting any person against whom there may be issued any process; (2) retaking any person who, after being arrested or confined, may have escaped from such arrest or confinement; or (3) preventing any breach of peace, or the commission of any crime— being thereto lawfully required by any marshal or other officer concerned with the administration of justice, shall be fined not more than $200.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 251 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 11 - Arson and Other Burning of Property|§ 251. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning— “arson” means the willful and malicious burning of a building of another with intent to destroy it; “bomb” means any explosive, incendiary or poison gas device that may be detonated under specified conditions. “building” means any vehicle, house, edifice, structure, vessel, or other erection, capable of affording shelter to human beings, or appurtenant to or connected with an erection so adapted; “building of another” means a building, or any part thereof, which at the time of the burning, was rightfully in the possession of, or was actually occupied by, a person other than the accused, and does not mean that a person other than the accused shall have had ownership in the building; “burns” means applying fire so as to take effect upon any part of the substance of the building and does not mean that the building shall have been destroyed; and “chemical, biological or radioactive substance” means any such substance which by its composition or use may be harmful to human life. “inhabited building” means any building which has usually been occupied by any person lodging therein at night.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 252 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 11 - Arson and Other Burning of Property|§ 252. Arson in the first degree

 (a) A person is guilty of arson in the first degree when, with intent to destroy or damage a building, or while in the commission of any felony, he starts a fire or causes an explosion, and: (1) the building is inhabited or occupied, or the person has a reason to believe the building may be inhabited or occupied; or (2) it is a structure where persons are normally present, such as: jails, prisons or detention centers; hospitals, nursing homes or other health care facilities; department stores, office buildings, business establishments, churches or educational institutions during normal hours of occupancy; or other similar structures; or (3) any other person sustains serious physical injury as a result of the fire or explosion or the firefighting as a result thereof. (b) A person guilty of arson in the first degree shall be imprisoned not more than twenty (20) years. (c) If the offender is a juvenile, the sentence shall be not less than two years of community service, or incarceration in a juvenile detention center for such time as the sentencing authority shall deem appropriate if, in the opinion of such authority, a suitable juvenile detention center is available in the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 253 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 11 - Arson and Other Burning of Property|§ 253. Arson in the second degree

 Whoever maliciously burns any building of another with intent to destroy it under circumstances not amounting to arson in the first degree, shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 254 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 11 - Arson and Other Burning of Property|§ 254. Incendiarism

 (a) Whoever willfully and maliciously burns any bridge exceeding $50 in value, or any building or vessel, not the subject of arson, or any growing or standing crop, grass or tree, or any fence not the property of such person, shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years. (b) Whoever wilfully and unlawfully burns or damages or destroys or injures any person or any real or personal property by the use of any explosives shall be guilty of a felony and shall be imprisoned for not less than five (5) years and not more than ten (10) years.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 255 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 11 - Arson and Other Burning of Property|§ 255. Setting on fire goods, grasses, or other property on lands

 Whoever willfully and maliciously or negligently sets on fire any goods, grasses or shrubbery or other property, on any lands, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 256 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 11 - Arson and Other Burning of Property|§ 256. Placing and detonating of bombs

 Whoever willfully and maliciously or negligently causes a bomb to be placed on any property which causes fire or concussion damage leading to a fire on property has committed arson in the first degree and shall be fined $50,000 and imprisoned for 20 years.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 291 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Assault and Battery|§ 291. Assault defined

 Whoever— (1) attempts to commit a battery; or (2) makes a threatening gesture showing in itself an immediate intention coupled with an ability to commit a battery—commits an assault.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 292 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Assault and Battery|§ 292. Assault and battery defined

 Whoever uses any unlawful violence upon the person of another with intent to injure him, whatever be the means or the degree of violence used, commits an assault and battery.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 293 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Assault and Battery|§ 293. Lawful violence, what constitutes

 (a) Violence used to the person does not amount to an assault or an assault and battery— (1) in the exercise of the right of moderate restraint or correction given by the law to the parents over the child, the guardian over the ward, the master over his apprentice or minor servant, whenever the former be authorized by the parent or guardian of the latter so to do; (2) for the preservation of order in a meeting for religious or other lawful purposes, in case of obstinate resistance to the person charged with the preservation of order; (3) the preservation of peace, or to prevent the commission of offenses; (4) in preventing or interrupting an intrusion upon the lawful possession of property, against the will of the owner or person in charge thereof; (5) in making a lawful arrest and detaining the party arrested, in obedience to the lawful orders of a magistrate judge or court, and in overcoming resistance to such lawful order; or (6) in self defense or in defense of another against unlawful violence offered to his person or property. (b) In all cases mentioned in subsection (a) of this section, where violence is permitted to effect a lawful purpose, only that degree of force must be used which is necessary to effect such purpose.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 294 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Assault and Battery|§ 294. Provocation, effect of

 No verbal provocation justifies an assault and battery, but insulting and abusive words may be given in evidence in mitigation of the punishment affixed to the offense.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 295 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Assault and Battery|§ 295. Assault in the first degree

 Whoever— (1) with intent to commit murder, assaults another; (2) with intent to kill, administers or causes to be administered to another, any poison or other noxious or destructive substance or liquid, and death does not result; (3) with intent to commit rape, sodomy, mayhem, robbery or larceny, assaults another; or shall be imprisoned not more than 15 years; (4) commits an act under paragraphs (1) or (2) or (3) of this section in an act of domestic violence as defined in Title 16 Virgin Islands Code, chapter 2, section 91(b) shall be sentenced to not less than 2 years and not more than 20 years and shall be fined not less than $1,000.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 296 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Assault and Battery|§ 296. Assault in the second degree

 Whoever willfully— (1) mingles any poison with any food, drink, or medicine, with intent that the same shall be taken by any human being, to his injury; or (2) poisons any spring, well, or reservoir of water; or (3) strangle or attempts to strangle any person in an act of domestic violence; or (4) places or throws, or causes to be placed or thrown, upon the person of another, any vitriol, corrosive acid, pepper, hot water, or chemical of any nature with intent to injure the flesh or disfigure the body or clothes of such person— shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years and if the conviction results from an act of domestic violence, the person shall be fined no less than $1,000 and shall successfully complete certified mandatory Batters Intervention Program.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 296a (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Assault and Battery|§ 296a. Assault of school personnel

 (a) Whoever, under circumstances not amounting to an assault in the first or second degree assaults a principal, assistant principal, superintendent, assistant superintendent, counselor, teacher, substitute teacher, paraprofessional, aide or monitor of the Department of Education, or program manager or director of education programs in a career academy, alternative education institution, or other educational institution, in the lawful discharge of the duties of such person’s office, if it was known or declared to the defendant that the person assaulted was an employee of the Department of Education or other career, or educational institution, discharging an official duty, shall be fined not less than $2,000 and not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both. (b) This subsection does not apply to students enrolled in any program in which the Department of Education is involved, unless the program is an adult education program and the student is eighteen years of age or older.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 297 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Assault and Battery|§ 297. Assault in the third degree

 (a) Whoever, under circumstances not amounting to an assault in the first or second degree— (1) assaults another person with intent to commit a felony; (2) assaults another with a deadly weapon; (3) assaults another with premeditated design and by use of means calculated to inflict great bodily harm; (4) assaults another and inflicts serious bodily injury upon the person assaulted; or whoever under any circumstances; (5) [Deleted.] shall be fined not less than $500 and not more than $3,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years or both. (b) Whoever, under circumstances not amounting to an assault in the first or second degree assaults a peace officer in the lawful discharge of the duties of his office with a weapon of any kind, if it was known or declared to the defendant that the person assaulted was a peace officer discharging an official duty, shall be fined not less than $2,000 and not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 298 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Assault and Battery|§ 298. Aggravated assault and battery

 Whoever commits an assault and battery— (1) upon an officer in the lawful discharge of the duties of his office, if it was known or declared to the offender that the person assaulted was an officer discharging an official duty; (2) in a court of justice or in any place of religious worship, or in any place where persons are assembled for the purpose of innocent amusement; (3) after having gone into the house of a private family and there commits the assault and battery; (4) being a person of robust health, upon one who is aged or decrepit; (5) being an adult male, upon the person of a female or child, or being an adult female, upon the person of a child; (6) by an instrument or means which inflicts disgrace upon the person assaulted, such as a whip, cowhide or cane; (7) while being in disguise; (8) and knows the individual assaulted to be a teacher or other person employed in any school and such teacher or other person employed by the school and such teacher or other employee is upon grounds of a school or grounds adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building used for school purposes; or (9) and knows the individual assaulted to be a caseworker, investigator, or other person employed by the Department of Health, Human Services or any agency providing outreach services and such caseworker, investigator, or other person is upon the grounds of a public aid office or grounds adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building used for public aid purposes, or upon the grounds of a home of a public aid applicant, recipient or any other person being interviewed or investigated in the employee’s discharge of his duties, or on grounds adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building in which the applicant, recipient, or other such person resides or is located— shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both or if during an act of domestic violence, as defined in 16 V.I.C. § 91(b), be fined not less than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years. Provided, that whoever, whether under the laws of the Virgin Islands, or of any other jurisdiction, or of the United States, has been once convicted of an assault and battery with deadly weapons under circumstances not amounting to an intent to kill or maim shall, upon conviction of the same offense in the Virgin Islands and upon proof of such former conviction, be imprisoned for a term of not less than 30 days.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 299 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Assault and Battery|§ 299. Simple assault and battery

 Whoever commits— (1) a simple assault; or (2) an assault or battery unattended with circumstances of aggravation— shall be fined not more than $250 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both the imprisoned and fined.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 300 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Assault and Battery|§ 300. Administration of narcotic with intent to commit a felony

 Whoever administers to another person any chloroform, ether, laudanum or other narcotic, anesthetic or intoxicating agent, with intent thereby to enable or assist himself or any other person to commit a felony shall be imprisoned not more than 5 years.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 301 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Assault and Battery|§ 301. Assault and battery upon a judge

 In addition to any other penalty that may be prescribed by this chapter, whoever commits an assault and battery upon a judge of any court of the Virgin Islands if the offender knows the person assaulted to be a judge shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than two years or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 302 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Assault and Battery|§ 302. Throwing bodily fluid or waste at a person

 (a) Any person who is housed in any correctional facility in the Virgin Islands or who is being detained, arrested, transported or supervised by a correctional officer, police officer, marshal, or any other peace officer whether such person is a sentenced prisoner, a pretrial detainee or an arrestee, who knowingly throws any bodily fluids or bodily waste at a correctional officer, staff member, private contractor or employee of any correctional facility or court of the Virgin Islands, police officer or authorized visitor to a correctional facility or court, or (b) Any person who knowingly throws any bodily fluids or bodily waste at any other person when the person throwing the waste knows he has a communicable disease shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years and subject to a fine of up to $5,000. (c) Any person who knowingly and maliciously throws any bodily fluids or bodily waste at any other person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months and subject to a fine of up to $1,000.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 303 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Assault and Battery|§ 303. Introducing bodily fluid or waste into food or drink

 (a) Any person who knowingly introduces any bodily fluid or bodily waste into the food or drink of a correctional officer, staff member, private contractor or employee of any correctional facility or court of the Virgin Islands, police officer or authorized visitor to a correctional facility or court shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years and subject to a fine of up to $5,000. Such sentence must be served consecutively to any sentence currently being served and does not preclude the imposition of any additional administrative penalty of the correctional facility. (b) Any person who knowingly introduces any bodily fluid or bodily waste into the food or drink of a person not listed in subsection (a) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months and subject to a fine of up to $1,000.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 331 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Attempts to Commit Offenses|§ 331. Penalties for attempts

 Whoever unsuccessfully attempts to commit an offense, shall, unless otherwise specially prescribed by this Code or other law, be punished by— (1) imprisonment for not more than 25 years, if the offense attempted is punishable by imprisonment for life; or (2) in any other case, imprisonment for not more than one-half of the maximum term, or fine of not more than one-half of the maximum sum prescribed by law for the commission of the offense attempted, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 332 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Attempts to Commit Offenses|§ 332. Commission of offense in attempt to commit another

 Whoever attempts unsuccessfully to commit an offense and accomplishes the commission of another and different offense, whether greater or lesser in guilt, shall be punished as prescribed by law for the offense committed, notwithstanding the provisions of section 331 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 361 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 17 - Bigamy|§ 361. Definition and punishment of bigamy

 Whoever, having a husband or wife, marries any other person, commits bigamy and shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than 3 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 362 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 17 - Bigamy|§ 362. Exceptions

 Section 361 of this title does not extend to— (1) any person by reason of any former marriage, whose husband or wife by such marriage has been absent for 5 successive years, without being known to such person within that time to be living; or (2) any person by reason of any former marriage which has been pronounced void, annulled or dissolved by judgment of a competent court.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 363 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 17 - Bigamy|§ 363. Punishment of consort

 Whoever knowingly and willfully marries the husband or wife of another, in any case in which the husband or wife would be punishable under the provisions of this chapter, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than 3 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 401 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 19 - Bribery and Graft|§ 401. Offering or giving bribes to judicial officers

 Whoever gives or offers to give a bribe to any judicial officer, juror, commissioner, referee, arbitrator, or to any person who may be authorized by law to hear or determine any question or controversy, with intent to influence his vote, opinion, or decision upon any matter or question which is or may be brought before him for decision, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 402 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 19 - Bribery and Graft|§ 402. Acceptance of bribe by judicial officer

 Whoever, being a judicial officer, juror, commissioner, referee, arbitrator or person authorized by law to hear or determine any question or controversy, asks, receives, or agrees to receive any bribe, upon any agreement or understanding that his vote, opinion, or decision upon any matter or question which is or may be brought before him for decision, will be influenced thereby, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.